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INTERCOLLEGIATE FOOTBALL RESEARCHERS ASSOCIATION ™ The College Football Historian ™ Expanding the knowledge and information on college football’s unique past—today! ISSN: 1526-233x [Octber 2010 Vol. 3 No. 9] circa: Jan. 2008 Tex Noel, Editor ([email protected] ) http://www.secsportsfan.com/college-football-association.html All content is protected by copyright© by the author. Football Days post for a goal from the field. Years ago Lafayette and Pennsylvania Memories of the Game and of the State College were waging a close Men behind the Ball © 1900 game at Easton. Suddenly, and without being noticed, Morton F. Jones, Lafayette's famous center- By William H. Edwards rush in those days, left the field of play to change his head gear. The This anecdote will be a good one for ball was snapped in play and a fleet Parke Davis' friends to read, for how Penn State halfback broke through he ever stayed out of that talk-fest is Lafayette's line, and, armed with the a mystery—maybe he did. ball, dodged the second barriers and threatened by a dashing sprint to Now that Yost and Sanford have score in the extreme corner of the retired we will let Parke continue. field. As he reached the 10-yard line, to the amazement of all, Jones "A few years ago everybody except dashed out of the side line crowd Dartmouth men laughed at the upon the field between the 10-yard football which, bounding along the line and his goal, thereby ground at Princeton suddenly intercepting the State halfback, jumped over the cross bar and gave tackling him so sharply that the to Princeton a goal from the field latter dropped the ball. Jones picked which carried with it the victory. But it up and ran it back 40 yards. did you ever hear that in the There was no rule at that time preceding season, in a game which prevented the play, and so between two Southern Pennsylvania Penn-State ultimately was defeated. colleges, a ball went awry from a drop kick, striking in the chest a Jones not only was a hero, but his policeman who had strayed upon exploit long remained a mystery to the field? The ball rebounded and many who endeavored to figure out cleanly caromed between the goal how he could have been 25 yards The College Football HistorianHistorian----2222---- The book may be ordered from ahead of the ball and between the the University of Illinois Press: runner and his own goal line." Phone: 800-621-2736 [Project Gutenberg License] FAX: 800-621-8476 Online: www.press.ullinois.edu * * * Mail: Customer Service, Chicago Distribution Center, 110-30 South IFRA member Ron Smith’s latest Langley Avenue, Chicago, IL 60628 book (on college athletic reform), PAY FOR PLAY: A HISTORY OF * * * BIG-TIME COLLEGE ATHLETIC REFORM , will be published by the Thanks to IFRA member, Richard University of Illinois Press this fall. Topp for making us aware of this game. He sent a PDF of the game for The book traces attempts at college another reason and this event was athletic reform from 1855 through “discovered” when reading the the early twenty-first century, while paper’s dateline. analyzing the different roles played by students, faculty, conferences, THE MUSKOGEE TIMES – university presidents, the NCAA, the DEMOCRAT, OCTOBER 7 (1916) federal legislature, and the U.S. Supreme Court. BIGGEST SCORE YET PAY FOR PLAY tackles critically Edmond, Okla. Oct. 7. – Football important questions about authorities of Oklahoma Central eligibility, compensation, recruiting, Normal here believe the score rolled sponsorship, and rules up against Oklahoma Methodist enforcement. It discusses reasons university (sic) here yesterday 183 to for reform such as to combat 0 is the largest on record. During corruption, to level the playing field, the game twenty-seven touchdowns and to make sports more accessible were made by Central Normal. to minorities and women. TCFH Editor’s note: By the end of I have tried to explain why attempts the games played on the date shown at change have often failed as above; a new record for most point institutions and the NCAA have scored by as school in a game was difficulty balancing the principles of established by Georgia Tech in its amateurism with the need to draw defeated Cumberland, Tenn., 222-0. income from the various sports, especially football. Worth noting: Georgia Tech has 29 total touchdowns; Oklahoma The book also contains a lengthy Central Normal, 27 (source: Stars of timeline of major reform efforts an Earlier Autumn) since 1855. The College Football HistorianHistorian----3333---- schedule, the Christians vs. the lions was a tossup." * * * "I'll have to see the films." ("Who am [Sandusky Register, Oct. 18, 1967] I kidding? I don't even want to see that game in stills.")"We didn't win, JIM MURRAY but we weren't out-hit."—("Too bad it wasn't the Golden Gloves.") Truth Is Told "This team has a lot of desire." — On Flip Side ("What it desires is more ability.") "You can't single out any one boy Football coaches have a new wrinkle because it's hard to see the game — a recording. You dial a number down on the field."— ("Particularly if and get a lot of canned comments your team is flat on its back all on the hopes or performances of his day.") team. "We have to plug up some holes in We would like to bring you today our defense." — ("Eleven, to be the, so to speak, flip side of that exact.") record — what the quote really means. On the left is the quote; in "I know one thing — this is a hungry parenthesis is the common English team." — ("If you don't think so, ask meaning: "They sprang some new the chef. They ate a whole herd last offensive and defensive alignments week.") on us." — ("They blocked and tackled.") "We didn't recruit that boy because he didn’t fit our Image." — ("Besides, "We never lost our poise." — ("Our he broke the rope and got away. guys were nonchalant when we Anyway, for him to get our signals, started and still nonchalant when our quarterback would have to learn the score was 63-0 against us. What to growl.") we really never lost was our indifference.") "Our quarterback is exceptional at reading a defense." —("I'd feel better "He'll give you 150 per cent on every if he could read a book — it would play." — (" If you don't mind, I'd be easier to keep him eligible.") 'rather have Dick Bass giving 50 per cent — we'd come out way ahead.") "*I told our boys they put their pants on one leg at a time, same as "We made too many mistakes out there." — ("Like scheduling them in the first place. We got a good, game athletic director. Compared to our The College Football HistorianHistorian----4444---- handled the play-calling duties. But all that began to change in the 1940s when the Redskins and other we do." — ("No, they don't. They cut teams began to adopt the T- the back of them with a razor so formation. In this formation, the they'll fit over those 25-incb calves. quarterback became a more central What I should say about those studs figure, taking responsibility for both is they put their pants on one hoof play-calling and passing, giving the at a time.") quarterback full control of the offense. And this is where Baugh "Do we pay any attention to polls? excelled – making the forward pass Not any more than anyone else." — a more a designed-in part of the ("Not any more than President game, played from the line Johnson, for instance.") scrimmage. With the “T” formation and passing now part of the planned "I expect a clean, hard-fought attack, Baugh helped bring a more game." — ("Personally, I'd rather exciting form of play to the pro watch a broken beer-bottle fight. game. From 1940 to 1949, Sammy When you get down on their 5-yard- Baugh led the league in passing five line the most legal thing they do is times. Together with his passing bite.") championship from his rookie season, Baugh would claim six "May the better team win." — ("No, career passing titles; a feat only I'd much rather MY team won and if equaled by Steve Young of the San we're better than them, someone Francisco 49ers in the 1990s. slipped me the wrong set of Baugh would direct the team to four movies.”) * * * division titles and two NFL championships in1937 and 1942. In a career spanning 162 games, he http://www/pophistorydig.com/?p=785 threw 1,693 completed passes in 2,995 attempts, a 56.5 percent PopHistoryDig.com , December 21, 2008. completion rate. He totaled some 21,886 passing yards and 187 “Slingin’ Sammy touchdowns. At the time of Baugh’s Baugh” 1930s-1950s retirement, he held a number of NFL By Jack Doyle and Washington Redskin records, some of which still stand at this Passing From the “T” writing. Baugh played his entire 16-year Sammy Baugh began his career with career with the Washington the Redskins as a tailback, playing Redskins through the 1952 season. from the single-wing and double- But in Washington, he also had a wing formations. Baugh was few bad games, the most notorious responsible for passing and punting, of which was the 73-0 drubbing by while another back, Riley Smith, The College Football HistorianHistorian----5555---- tough, prairie strength,” says NFL historian Steve Sabol. “He was a the Chicago Bears for the 1940 leathery kind of guy.” championship.