INTERCOLLEGIATE FOOTBALL RESEARCHERS ASSOCIATION ™

The Historian ™

ISSN: 1526-233x Vol. 1 No. 12 Established: Jan. 2008

Tex Noel, Editor ([email protected] )

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With this issue of The College Football Historian, IFRA turns a year old—with 82 members –and going strong! Note: The following feature appeared in the 1966 He is the first All-America and Game Program and is used by Rose Bowl star to be voted an permission of the Rose Bowl Oscar, according to the Academy. Association. Warburton was a major OSCARS AND ROSES FOR contributor to Troy’s 35-0 victory COTTON over Pittsburgh on Jan. 2, 1933. With USC ahead 7-0 early in the With a sense of timing that could game, he made a great open-field only come from Hollywood, tackle to save a possible Pitt former Rose Bowl hero Cotton touchdown. Then, against a Warburton this year won himself tiring Panther team, he used his an Oscar just when his boss, fine speed dashing to two Walt Disney, was preparing to touchdowns in the fourth period serve as Grand Marshall of the to put the game out of reach. 1966 Tournament of Roses. Both of the six pointers were set Warburton, a USC All-America up by his own burst. quarterback from 1932-34, is now film editor at Walt Disney Cotton, who has “ballooned “ to Productions, and won the 155 pounds in his 30 years of Academy Award fro editing the film editing, didn’t find his size a delightful “Mary Poppins.” handicap. “I was big enough,” he says. “The worst I got was a Although he weighed but 145 broken nose.” pounds in his playing days, Cotton (named for his snow- There was a time, however, when white hair) starred in the Rose he tackled a 200-pounder in the of 1933 as just a open field and had to be carried sophomore and enjoyed two more from the field. He was placed fine seasons during the days of under a blanket in the dressing Howard Jones. room. Braven Dryer of the Los The College Football Historian-2- As a player “Cotton” rated ‘’a tremendous runner, a fine passer, and a great all-around Angles Times tells the story like ball player,” as one writer put it. this. As an editor, he finds it easy to “Warburton was so small he was put his football training to work overlooked as the team took the as he calls signals for the team field for the second half.” that puts together such hits as “Son of Flubber,” “The Absent “A student manager went back to Minded Professor,” Westward Ho the dressing room to find him the Wagons,” Moon Pilot,” The still covered with the blanket. Monkey’s Uncle,” and others. Warburton returned to the fray in the final quarter and raced 60 Today Irvine Eugene Warburton yards for a touchdown that won has lost much of the hair which the game. To this day he doesn’t earned him his nickname, but he remember that run.” retains, happily, the ability that won him the Oscar and Roses.

Editor’s Note: From the USC Boand, Azzi-Ratem ); Media Guide, the following Dunkel; the Football information is available on Thesaurus [actual Warburton’s career. selections]. With retroactive selections from Davis (co); • Born Oct. 8, 1911, San National Championship Diego; Died June 21, 1982, Foundation; Poling and Culver City. He wore No. Billingsley. 13 and was elected to the USC Hall of Fame in 1995, • Led the Trojans in rushing 20 years after being in 1932, 115-420 and inducted into the College 1933, 149-885; his passing Football Hall of Fame. stats show: 2-12-0 36 yards and 7-18-3, 106 • Unanimous 1933 All- yards, respectively; stats American; letter winner, for his senior season are 1932-33-34 unavailable, so no career stats are presented. • USC was 24-7-2 while he was there, member of the * * * 1932 National Two new members of IFRA, Chris Championship team Kelly and Jason Vick, have (selectors as listed in the combined forces and soon will media guide: Illustrated have a website, Football Annual (William OurFanBase.com. Texas A&M 14 1945 Tulsa OK 26 Georgia Tech 12 The College Football Historian-3- 1946 Miami FL 13 Holy Cross 6 It's gearing to become a mySpace 1947 Rice 8 for ALL sports fans, including a Tennessee 0 welcome addition to the net for 1948 Georgia Tech 20 fans of small colleges alongside Kansas 14 pro organizations. 1949 Texas 41 Georgia 28 Should you have any questions, 1950 Santa Clara 21 please contact: Kelly at Kentucky 13 [email protected] or Vick at 1951 Clemson 15 [email protected]. Miami FL 14 1952 Georgia Tech 17 * * * Baylor 14 Orange Bowl Scores 1953 Alabama 61 Syracuse 6 The historic Orange Bowl stadium 1954 Oklahoma 7 was demolished last year...as a Maryland 0 tribute to the many memorable 1955 Duke 34 games that were played in this Nebraska 7 historic venue, members of IFRA say 1956 Oklahoma 20 thank you and present the scores Maryland 6 from this annual post-season game. 1957 Colorado 27 Clemson 21 1935 Bucknell 26 1958 Oklahoma 48 Miami FL 0 Duke 21 1936 Catholic 20 1959 Oklahoma 21 Mississippi 19 Syracuse 6 1937 Duquesne 13 1960 Georgia 14 Mississippi St. 12 Missouri 0 1938 Auburn 6 1961 Missouri 21 Michigan St. 0 Navy 14 1939 Tennessee 17 1962 Louisiana St. 25 Oklahoma 0 Colorado 7 1940 Georgia Tech 21 1963 Alabama 17 Missouri 7 Oklahoma 0 1941 Mississippi St. 14 1964 Nebraska 13 Georgetown 7 Auburn 7 1942 Georgia 40 1965 Texas 21 Texas Christian 26 Alabama 17 1943 Alabama 37 1966 Alabama 39 Boston College 21 Nebraska 28 1944 Louisiana St. 19 The College Football Historian-4- 1987 Miami FL 20 Oklahoma 14 1988 Miami FL 23 1967 Florida 27 Nebraska 3 Georgia Tech 12 1989 Notre Dame 21 1968 Oklahoma 26 Colorado 6 Tennessee 24 1990 Colorado 10 1969 Penn St. 15 Notre Dame 9 Kansas 14 1991 Miami FL 22 1970 Penn St. 10 Nebraska 0 Missouri 3 1992 Florida St. 27 1971 Nebraska 17 Nebraska 14 Louisiana St. 12 1993 Florida St. 18 1972 Nebraska 38 Nebraska 16 Alabama 6 1994 Nebraska 24 1973 Nebraska 40 Miami FL 17 Notre Dame 6 1995 Florida St. 31 1974 Penn St. 16 Notre Dame 26 Louisiana St. 9 1996 Nebraska 41 1975 Notre Dame 13 Virginia Tech 21 Alabama 11 1997 Nebraska 42 1976 Oklahoma 14 Tennessee 17 Michigan 6 1998 Florida 31 1977 Ohio St. 27 Syracuse 10 Colorado 10 1999 Michigan 35 1978 Arkansas 31 Alabama 34 Oklahoma 6 2000 Oklahoma 13 1979 Oklahoma 31 Florida St. 2 Nebraska 24 2001 Florida 56 1980 Oklahoma 24 Maryland 23 Florida St. 7 2002 USC 38 1980 Oklahoma 18 Iowa 17 Florida St. 17 2003 Miami FL 16 1981 Clemson 22 Florida St. 14 Nebraska 15 2004 USC 55 1982 Nebraska 21 Oklahoma 19 Louisiana St. 20 2005 Penn St. 26 1983 Miami FL 31 Florida St. 23 Nebraska 30 2006 Louisville 24 1984 Washington 28 Wake Forest 13 Oklahoma 17 2007 Kansas 24 1985 Oklahoma 25 Virginia Tech 21 Penn St. 10 1986 Oklahoma 42 Arkansas 8

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NATIONAL CHAMPIONS THAT PLAYED IN THE ORANGE BOWL A special thank you to IFRA 1953 Maryland 1955 Oklahoma member, Bo Carter for 1964 Alabama editing this story. 1965 Alabama 1970 Nebraska This story is used with 1971 Nebraska permission of the 1975 Oklahoma Northwestern Magazine. 1981 Clemson 1983 Miami FL

1985 Oklahoma Return of the ’49ers 1987 Miami FL 1990 Colorado The story behind the 1948 1991 Miami FL football team’s memorable 1993 Florida State march to Rose Bowl 1994 Nebraska victory. 1997 Nebraska 2000 Oklahoma 2004 USC By William Weinbaum * * * A cloudless Indian summer Northwestern’s first bowl Saturday. Undefeated team and only bowl winner, Northwestern hosting returned to Evanston for a nationally ranked Michigan 60-year reunion and a State. halftime tribute.

The setting and the The 1948 Wildcats were circumstances were perfect predicted to be pretenders for minds to drift back six after finishing 3-6 and decades to when the eighth in the conference the stadium was still called year before under rookie Dyche, the Spartans weren’t head coach Bob Voigts, who yet in the same league and had succeeded his mentor, the Wildcats carried the Big Lynn “Pappy” Waldorf. Nine’s hopes to Pasadena. In October almost half of the Following the longest and 45-player roster from the winningest tenure in 1949 Rose Bowl team, Northwestern history — 12 The College Football Historian-6- Colorado district court judge. years and 49 victories — Waldorf became the head “We were in various services coach of the University of all over the world, really,” California, Berkeley. A says Ed Nemeth, a former All-America tackle for paratrooper for the 101st Northwestern, Voigts was 31 Airborne Division in years old when given the Germany who played guard job. for the Wildcats and still marvels at the group’s Voigts, a former officer in maturity and camaraderie. the U.S. Navy, had a squad “Our guys were so tightly anchored by veterans, not knit and so well-known to just of the gridiron but of each other, we were really World War II. Many of the like brothers at that time. ’Cats had been in combat and were older, wiser and “When we came to tougher than the typical Northwestern we connected student-athlete. As almost automatically. You Lawrence “Fatso” Day, a learned how to work WWII veteran and Wildcat together. It worked, believe lineman is quick to point me.” out, junior end Al Thomas was awarded a Silver Star, Early in the 1948 season the third-highest honor Northwestern confounded bestowed by the armed the prognosticators and forces. gained national respect. The ’Cats opened with a 19-0 Band of Brothers road victory over UCLA and then a second-straight “I understood leadership by shutout, 21-0 over Purdue being around those guys,” at Dyche. Then, after says Gaspar Perricone, a spotting visiting Minnesota fullback who went straight 16 points, Northwestern from high school to stormed back to win 19-16. Northwestern. Perricone As halfback Ed Tunnicliff later served in the U.S. recounted in a recent phone Army and became a interview, “Sarki [Wildcat The College Football Historian-7- ’Cats had a 6-2 record and a chance for their first Rose center Alex Sarkisian, a Bowl because conference future College Football Hall rules then prohibited teams of Fame inductee] rallied us. from going to Pasadena in He was not only a great back-to-back years. football player but also a Michigan was ineligible to great team captain, and we return in ’49 after its 49-0 were a team that was going romp for the roses over USC to accomplish things.” in 1948.

The following week, the now Rose Fever third-ranked Purple & White traveled to Ann Arbor to face On a frigid November day, mighty Michigan, defending before 48,000 fans, halfback Western Conference (later Frank Aschenbrenner led known as the Big Ten) and Northwestern to victory over Rose Bowl champion. It the Illini with 84 yards on turned into the only 11 carries, including a lopsided blemish on the touchdown. Charles Wildcats’ season, a 28-0 Bartlett’s flowery Chicago defeat. The Wolverines, in Tribune game story began the midst of a second with: “Northwestern’s consecutive perfect season, Wildcats, a feline football were the only team to score tribe, suddenly turned into more than 16 points against horticulturists, yesterday Northwestern. became posy fanciers of the Rose variety as they wrought The ’Cats rebounded with a a 20 to 7 victory over Illinois 48-0 thumping of Syracuse, in the final Western followed by triumphs of 21-7 Conference game of the over Ohio State and 16-7 at season.” Wisconsin. Northwestern then took on powerhouse Thousands of students Notre Dame in South Bend, paraded around the campus and the visitors fell, barely, and the streets of Evanston, 12-7. and a reported 500 more did a snake dance in front of With only a home game left Marshall Field’s in against archrival Illinois, the The College Football Historian-8- For the first two years of the Rose Bowl’s deal to downtown Chicago. The exclusively match teams giddiness climaxed in the from the Western and Pacific cancellation of classes that Coast conferences, the ensuing Thanksgiving week. Midwesterners ruled. Illinois Above the masthead on the whipped UCLA 45-14 in Daily Northwestern’s front 1947 before Michigan’s page was “No School! No resounding ’48 triumph. But School! No School!” and just New Year’s Day of 1949 below it was “Roses!” seemed to portend the end of the trend, as undefeated “Everybody was out of their and explosive California was dorms,” Day recalls. “We the opponent for a two-loss went down to the women’s team that got in on a quad, and they put us up on technicality. the balcony and had a great time. A lot of cheering, a lot “A lot of people didn’t think of fun...” we belonged in it,” Nemeth recalls. “Even the national Northwestern’s South Side media felt we didn’t have a collegiate neighbors, who prayer and were pretty upset had dropped football and left we were selected. But the the conference within the rules were the rules.” previous decade, apparently took a dim view of the “All the papers out there hoopla and traveled north to and everybody thought that show it. “University of Cal would win,” Chicago students came and Aschenbrenner said recently criticized us for being by phone. “And Cal had our athletes rather than old coach [Waldorf], so they students,” Perricone says. figured he knew our plays. “We weren’t in their eyes We were laughing among very intellectual, and they ourselves at how they were wanted to make sure we calling us so lousy.” knew that.” When the Wildcats opened Here Come the ’Cats their season with the blanking of UCLA, their The College Football Historian-9- “Onlookers were amazed by the speed, pep and roundtrip was by plane. This streamlined appearance of one, with school out of the Wildcats, who had session and a big entourage engaged in only five exam- to bring, was a two-day hampered drills since the journey via special train that closing of their regular departed Chicago on Dec. season.” 18. When the ’Cats arrived and conducted their first End of Part 1 of 3 practice before the watchful West Coast media, the Los Angeles Times reported * * * initial impressions: Mount Union: 1993-96-97-99-98- * * * 2000-01-02-05-06 The Intercollegiate Football Researchers Sioux Falls: 1996, NAIA II and 2006 Grambling: 1955-67-72-74-75-77- Association congratulates the 80-83-92-2001-02-05 2008 College Football’s Northwestern MN: 2000 National Butler County: (NJCAA) 1981-98- Champions….keeping with 99-2003-07*-08…(NJCAA/JC Grid The College Football Wire) 1981*98-99*-2003*-07*-08 the theme of {*Tied} Historian all years of previous titles won are also included. * * *

• Florida, Bowl SubDivision WHICH TEAM IS THE • Richmond, Championship BEST? SubDivision • Minnesota-Duluth, NCAA II MAJOR COLLEGE • Mount Union, NCAA III FOOTBALL (1883-2007) • Sioux Falls, NAIA PART II • Albany, Mid-Major • Grambling, HBCU By Patrick M. Premo • Northwestern College, NCCAA • Butler County JC, NJCAA • Brute College CA, JC Grid-Wire + In the last issue, I listed the +JC Grid-Wire covers all two-year college in the USA; 16 team fields for each of the NJCAA only its members the Major College (1883- Previous Titles won by 2008 2007) tournaments (the National Champions: winners of each tournament Florida: 1996-2006 will eventually play one The College Football Historian-10- 12. 1951 Maryland 5. 1994 Penn St. another to determine the best ever): 13. 1969 Ohio St. 4. 2005 Texas THE FIELD (1883-1936): 3. 1956 Oklahoma 1. 1886 Yale 14. 1959 Syracuse 16. 1923 California 6. 2001 Miami, FL 9. 1936 Minnesota 11. 1947 Michigan 8. 1929 Tulane 7. 1954 UCLA 12. 1926 Navy 10. 2005 USC 5. 1895 Penn 15. 1993 Florida St. 13. 1932 TCU 2. 1995 Nebraska 4. 1934 Alabama The results for the 1883- 3. 1917 Georgia Tech 1936 tournament were 14. 1935 SMU reported in the previous issue and, as you will recall, 6. 1916 Pittsburgh 1895 Penn won in a thriller 11. 1920 Notre Dame over 1917 Georgia Tech, 32- 28. 7. 1929 Colgate 10. 1898 Harvard This article will reveal the outcome of the 1936-2007 15. 1924 Dartmouth tournament. As I stated in 2. 1889 Princeton the past, I am using Tex Noel’s rankings to pair these THE FIELD (1936-2007): champions, with the proviso that no individual school is 1. 1944 Army represented more than once 16. 1951 Tennessee in each tournament.

9. 1996 Florida ROUND ONE: 8. 1991 Washington

The College Football Historian-11- FL, won a close game, 28- 24. A lot of points were put 1944 Army had little on the board before 1995 problem with 1951 Nebraska eliminated 2005 Tennessee, winning 40-21. USC, 52-42. 1991 Washington squeaked by 1996 Florida, 24-20. ROUND THREE: 1951 Maryland scored a minor upset of 1994 Penn 1944 Army was finally St., 35-33, as Penn St.’s defeated by 2005 Texas, 24- comeback attempt fell short. 31. 1995 Nebraska won 2005 Texas had a over 2001 Miami, FL, 27-19. surprisingly easy time over 1969 Ohio St., 40-18. In THIRD PLACE: the first real stunner of this tournament, 1959 Syracuse The number one seed, 1944 took down 1956 Oklahoma, Army, was determined to the number three seed, 33- redeem itself and won over 24. 2001 Miami, FL, won a 2001 Miami, FL, 24-14 to close battle over 1947 claim third place. Michigan, 21-18, scoring a last minute field goal to pull CHAMPIONSHIP: out the win. In another small upset, 2005 USC 2005 Texas put up 30 points handed 1954 UCLA a 40-24 against 1995 Nebraska, but loss. 1993 Florida St. could it wasn’t enough as the not handle 1995 Nebraska, Cornhuskers scored 47 of losing 15-31. their own. 1995 Nebraska is the winner of the 1936- ROUND TWO: 2007 Major College Tournament. 1944 Army continued on its winning ways, downing COMING UP: 1991 Washington, 38-30. 2005 Texas stopped 1951 Next month will see 1995 Maryland’s upset plans, but Nebraska , winner of the only barely, 31-24. 1959 1936-2007 tournament, Syracuse saw its upset take the field against 1895 dreams end as 2001 Miami, Penn , winner of the 1883- The College Football Historian-12- finisher. Thus we will have, in order, the eight best 1936 tournament. This teams in the history of Major game will crown the best College Football. Major College Football team in US history. In addition, And, of course, the Penn- there will be a little surprise Nebraska winner will then in store in that issue – I will take on 1996 Marshall to also stage contests between see which team is the all- the number two finishers, time best, regardless of the number three placed division. teams, and the number four

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This is a very detailed work and answers every question regarding the vital source weekly polls and interesting and informing compilation that George has created from them.

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