FReeper Canteen ~ Football Facts ~ 8 November 2007

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FOOTBALL FACTS

Thanks for joining us once again as we look at some football facts. This time we’ll look at "From a regional to a National sport. From 1930-1958"
In the early 1930s, the college game continued to grow, particularly in the south, bolstered by fierce rivalries such as the "Third Saturday in October"—a rivalry between Alabama and Tennessee. While prior to the mid-1920s most national powers came from the northeast or the midwest, the trend changed when Wallace Wade's 1925 Alabama team won the 1926 Rose Bowl en route to its first national title. Because the South lacked any professional major league sports presence, college football quickly became its most popular spectator sport.

As it grew beyond its regional affiliations in the 1930s, college football garnered increased national attention. Four new bowl games were created: the Orange Bowl, Sugar Bowl, the Sun Bowl in 1935, and the Cotton Bowl in 1937.
In 1935, New York City's Downtown Athletic Club awarded the first Heisman Trophy to Chicago halfback Jay Berwanger, who was also the first ever NFL Draft pick in 1936.

The 1950s saw the rise of yet more dynasties and power programs. Oklahoma, under coach Bud Wilkinson, won three national titles (1950, 1955, 1956) and all ten Big Eight Conference championships in the decade while building a record 47 game winning streak that still stands today.

Woody Hayes led Ohio State to two national titles, in 1954 and 1957, and dominated the Big Ten conference, winning three Big Ten titles—more than any other school.

Nine out of ten Heisman trophy winners in the 1950s were runners. Notre Dame, one of the biggest passing teams of the decade, saw a substantial decline in success; the 1950s were the only decade between 1920 and 1990 when the team did not win at least a share of the national title. Paul Hornung, Notre Dame quarterback, did however win the Heisman in 1956, becoming the only player from a losing team ever to do so.

(All information found on websites.)

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Maybe it’s girl thang! Piper’s cousin over in Tyler looks a whole lot like your Piper...blond curls, rosy cheeks...and she gets her way, too.

281 posted on 11/07/2007 7:37:57 PM PST by HiJinx (Marine to Gen Pace: "Sir, thanks for your service. We’ll take it from here.")

Well, YOU know we have our ways!

It’s genetic all right!

282 posted on 11/07/2007 7:39:20 PM PST by luvie (Friendship is neither a contest nor a race. What matters is the feeling involved. <3)

To: Tanniker Smith

I KNOW you’re still around...I FEEL it!

283 posted on 11/07/2007 7:42:20 PM PST by luvie (Friendship is neither a contest nor a race. What matters is the feeling involved. <3)

You bet I know it...my guy friends and I have a theory...little girls all get packed up and go to a summer camp between their 12th and 13th birthdays, where they all learn the same secrets. The poor guys are left out in the cold from that moment forward!

284 posted on 11/07/2007 7:42:54 PM PST by HiJinx (Marine to Gen Pace: "Sir, thanks for your service. We’ll take it from here.")

Well, ya know ya loves us anyway...even the liberal ones of us! :D

THere are liberal ones of us around here??
Oh, you meant ... her.

Well, I guess I'd say I haven't loved as many as I've tried ... but I have tried. Been slapped a few times ... but I tried ....

;-)

285 posted on 11/07/2007 7:43:07 PM PST by Tanniker Smith ("I got a rock." -- Charlie Brown. "I got Iraq." -- George W. Bush)

Oh, they learn it loooong before camp!

They watch and they see how clueless boys are from the
time they’re in diapers! LOL!

Girls are born grown up!

286 posted on 11/07/2007 7:44:31 PM PST by luvie (Friendship is neither a contest nor a race. What matters is the feeling involved. <3)

To: Tanniker Smith

Well, unless there's 14 more posts in the next two minutes, it doesn't look like I'll be getting a hat trick.

I'm getting up a little earlier tomorrow, so I'm hitting the hay in a couple.

287 posted on 11/07/2007 7:44:51 PM PST by Tanniker Smith ("I got a rock." -- Charlie Brown. "I got Iraq." -- George W. Bush)

I’m so glad this room is done. All the problems... It did come out nice. :)

288 posted on 11/07/2007 7:45:18 PM PST by GodBlessUSA (US Troops, Past, Present and Future, God Bless You and Thank You!. Prayers said for our Heroes!)

To: Tanniker Smith

You got slapped. Say it isn’t so! LOL!

289 posted on 11/07/2007 7:45:41 PM PST by luvie (Friendship is neither a contest nor a race. What matters is the feeling involved. <3)

To: Tanniker Smith

You are sooooo full of it! LOL!

290 posted on 11/07/2007 7:46:35 PM PST by luvie (Friendship is neither a contest nor a race. What matters is the feeling involved. <3)

Okay. Aint so. You see right through me.

Never had the nerve to be that upfront for the 1 time in 100 that's supposedly worth the 99 slaps.

291 posted on 11/07/2007 7:47:01 PM PST by Tanniker Smith ("I got a rock." -- Charlie Brown. "I got Iraq." -- George W. Bush)

To: Tanniker Smith

LOL

Good night Tanniker

292 posted on 11/07/2007 7:47:18 PM PST by GodBlessUSA (US Troops, Past, Present and Future, God Bless You and Thank You!. Prayers said for our Heroes!)

To: Tanniker Smith

293 posted on 11/07/2007 7:47:37 PM PST by GodBlessUSA (US Troops, Past, Present and Future, God Bless You and Thank You!. Prayers said for our Heroes!)

You are sooooo full of it! LOL!

Just egging on the conversation...

but I am turning in soon. Books on the nightstand. Alarm is set.

294 posted on 11/07/2007 7:47:46 PM PST by Tanniker Smith ("I got a rock." -- Charlie Brown. "I got Iraq." -- George W. Bush)