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Vanity: Wackiest Moments in College Football History
Vanity ^ | August 14, 2019 | Me

Posted on 08/14/2019 10:12:54 AM PDT by C19fan

SI has a bunch of Top 10 lists commemorating 2019 being the 150 the anniversary of college football. They did not bother having a list of the wackiest, and head scratching moments in the sport. It is these moments that make the sport special.


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To: Servant of the Cross
Several things about that California-Stanford episode really add to its legendary status:

1. The announcer's crazed, shrieking call on TV added to the excitement. "The band is out on the field! He's going to go all the way!!"

2. That was John Elway's last game at Stanford.

3. The guy who scored the touchdown spiked the ball and decked a Stanford band member -- who was facing the stands behind the end zone, oblivious to what was happening behind him -- at the same time. Cal was having a poor season with nothing to show for it, but I read somewhere that the Cal athletic department found an old trombone somewhere, beat the crap out of it with a hammer, and put it in their trophy case so this remarkable finish would go down in Cal football's history. LOL.

21 posted on 08/14/2019 12:37:02 PM PDT by Alberta's Child ("Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave." -- Frederick Douglass)
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To: C19fan

“On January 1, 1929, the Golden Bears faced the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California, USA. Midway through the second quarter, Riegels, who played center on both offensive and defensive lines and who was then playing in a role similar to that of the modern defensive nose guard or nose tackle, picked up a fumble by Tech’s Jack “Stumpy” Thomason. Just 30 yards away from the Yellow Jackets’ end zone, Riegels was somehow turned around and ran 69 yards in the wrong direction.”

Georgia Tech won the game 8 to 7 the 2 point safety being the difference.


22 posted on 08/14/2019 12:37:25 PM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: Servant of the Cross
This photo from the end of the California-Stanford game should have won a Pulitzer, LOL:


23 posted on 08/14/2019 12:43:48 PM PDT by Alberta's Child ("Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave." -- Frederick Douglass)
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To: Alberta's Child

I saw that game. I couldn’t believe they allowed that play to stand. I was happy.


24 posted on 08/14/2019 12:53:29 PM PDT by RinaseaofDs
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To: C19fan
Best ever:

Woody Hayes takes on Michigan.

25 posted on 08/14/2019 12:54:25 PM PDT by budj (combat vet, 2nd of 3 generations)
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To: budj

That’s Clemson


26 posted on 08/14/2019 2:44:56 PM PDT by gr8eman (Only the mediocre are always at their best)
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To: gr8eman
Of course, in the heat of the moment Woody probably mistook those tiger footprints for Wolverine stripes and thought he was going to win the BigTen Championship if he punched that guys lights out.

We all lost something when Woody retired himself. Nobody knows what that is.

27 posted on 08/14/2019 6:00:33 PM PDT by WhoisAlanGreenspan? (# of takeoffs = # of landings)
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To: WhoisAlanGreenspan?

That’s funny...not a big college football fan so I never got what would motivate a coach to want to start punching a college kid wearing a helmet in the head. I guess that’s part of what we all lost LOL!!


28 posted on 08/15/2019 4:26:51 AM PDT by gr8eman (Only the mediocre are always at their best)
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