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The College Football Historian ™ INTERCOLLEGIATE FOOTBALL RESEARCHERS ASSOCIATION ™ The College Football Historian ™ Expanding the knowledge and information on college football’s unique past—today! ISSN: 1526-233x [November 2010 Vol. 3 No. 10] circa: Jan. 2008 Tex Noel, Editor ( [email protected] ) (Website) http://www.secsportsfan.com/college-football-association.html All content is protected by copyright© by the author. Ø First of all, Nov. 11 th was Veteran’s Day; IFRA would like to thank every member if he/she is currently serving or has served for defending our country; we’d also like to thank all members of the Military past and present for all you have done for us. Ø Next, I have had computer problems the past 3-4 weeks and I have lost a few files; but thankfully, I have the majority of my work. If you have sent in a story for the Nov. issue of The College Football Historian , at this time, I haven’t been able to find it—I apologize and would you please resend and it will appear in the December issue of TCFH. Thank you for understanding!!! First TV Football Game from 1939 to1940. A signal reaching an estimated 500 homes in a 50- • From Waynesburg mile radius broadcasted games from University site Ebbets Field, Madison Square Garden and Yankee Stadium. Those Waynesburg Plays in First who could afford a $600 television Televised Football Game set at the time witnessed television history. And it was the Waynesburg The inception of televised sports took place in the New York City area The College Football HistorianHistorian----2222 --- Cincinnati Reds in the first-ever televised professional baseball game, College Yellow Jackets that they first and five months after the Princeton watched play football. and Columbia baseball teams played the first televised sporting The Yellow Jackets visited Randall's event. On Oct. 22, 1939, the Island, N.Y., on Sept. 30, 1939 to Brooklyn Dodgers football team play in the first televised football defeated the Philadelphia Eagles, game when they battled Fordham 24-14, at Ebbets Field for the first- University at Triboro Stadium. ever televised professional football game. Within a year later, the New NBC broadcasted the game with one York Rangers played the Montreal camera, as announcer Bill Stern Canadiens in the first televised made the historic call. hockey game at Madison Square Fordham won the game, 34-7, over Garden, while the University of Waynesburg, guided by its all-time Pittsburgh visited Fordham for the winningest coach Frank Wolf, first televised basketball game. despite scoring the first touchdown What was once considered the in the televised football history when demise of attendance at games and Bobby Brooks reached the end zone the end of professional football, on a 63-yard run. television broadcast has since The historic journey to New York developed into a lucrative business took an entire weekend as a that has changed American culture. cavalcade of cars left Waynesburg And yet, it all started when a few on Thursday, Sept. 28. In all, 42 men from Waynesburg left town for players and the team's personnel the weekend to play a simple game made the 400-mile trip. Among the of football. players was John F. "Jack" Wiley, Other accounts recall this historic the namesake of the current event. Waynesburg football stadium. Wiley would move on to play for the • From The NCAA News, Oct. Pittsburgh Steelers before a 11, 2004, page coaching career at Waynesburg. The 3…Trimbrough Stadium, New Jackets finished the season 6-2-1, York City...heard on WNYC as did Fordham, a preseason pick radio...signal 50 mile for the national championship. radius....estimated 1000 tv sets in metropolitian The game came just one month after area....Bobby Brooks's 65 TD the Brooklyn Dodgers hosted the run on game's third The College Football HistorianHistorian---- One month later, on October 23, 1939, Kansas State's 333 --- homecoming contest against the University of Nebraska was the • play...Fordham rallied for a second to be broadcast. 34-7 win. The following season, on October 5, • From Wikipedia search…The 1940, what is described as the "first first televised college football commercially televised game" game occurred during the between the University of Maryland "experimental" era of and the University of Pennsylvania television's broadcasting was broadcast by Philco. history, when a game between Fordham University and * * * Waynesburg College was broadcast on September 30, 1939. • Wisconsin 1942, 8-1-1, AP 3 rd , league champion Ranked among the Top 3 was Ohio State teams…and not • Michigan State 1955, 8-1- Conference Champions 0, AP 2 nd , league champion was Ohio State By Bob Kirlin • Michigan State 1957, 8-1- In chronological order, twelve 0, AP 3 rd , league teams that finished in the top champion was Ohio State three in the final AP Poll but • Mississippi 1959, 10-1-0, did not win their own AP 2 nd , league champion conference championship. was Georgia • Oklahoma 1971, 11-1-0, • Minnesota 1936, 7-1-0 AP AP 2 nd , league champion 1st , league champion was was Nebraska Northwestern • Arkansas 1977, 11-1-0, • Michigan 1940, 7-1-0, AP AP 3 rd , league champion 3rd , league champion was was Texas Minnesota Committee submitted a report to the Council of the University Athletic The College Football HistorianHistorian----4444 --- Club in which they presented their reasons for urging the Colleges to • Washington 1984, 11-1- hold their annual contests on 0, AP 2 nd , league College grounds and not elsewhere. champion was USC After some interchange of views, the • Michigan 1985, 10-1-1, Council, by unanimous vote, AP 2 nd , league champion accepted the report of the Committee and adopted the was Iowa following resolutions: • Colorado 1994, 11-1-0, AP 3 rd , league champion Resolved, That the report of the was Nebraska members of the Club interested in the management of the annual Yale- • Tennessee 1995, 11-1-1, Princeton Foot-ball Game be AP 3 rd , league champion accepted and adopted as the views was Florida of the members of this Council; and * * * Further resolved, That the Secretary of the Club send a copy of the report Source: The Outing Magazine and a copy of these resolutions to the Presidents of the Yale and No more championship Princeton Foot-ball Associations and foot-ball for New to the Athletic Committees of the York…1886 Universities. This action makes it certain that the Those persons who hold at heart the intercollegiate championships best interests of intercollegiate hereafter will be decided on the sport, have for several years been grounds of one of the competing convinced that playing the annual colleges, and will thereby become game for the intercollegiate more of a collegiate affair and less of championship in New York City was a great public spectacle. not desirable, and the point has now been reached where a change seems certain. At a meeting of the Council of the University Athletic Club, held January 13th, the Foot-ball Because of this, the game was brutal in many The College Football HistorianHistorian----5555 --- aspects; causing then- From the beginning of scoring President of the United values in 1883 through the 1888 States, Theodore Roosevelt season, Yale compiled a 54-1-2 to issue a proclamation, record and scored an unbelievable 3,242 points while surrendering “Clean-up the brutality or I only just 39 including Rutgers 10 will ban the game.” This points on this day—the only Yale was in 1905. surrendered during its 1884 season. It was the most points Yale So, a year later, the Rules surrendered in any game from 1876 Committee issued the to 1888Yale’s Dominance initial forward passing * * * rules—with many restrictions. Pre-1937 career leaders in most passes caught As the game advanced teams were still leery about By Tex Noel, Editor, The tossing the ball forward. College Football Histori an Noted historian Parke H. Davis made this In early college football, the observation on early operative word was, foot; as passing: There were only a players advanced the ball small number of forward down the field by kicking passes and that for every it; or using both feet—on a forward pass that went rushing play of returning through for a touchdown in the previously kicked 1914, two forward passes football. were intercepted and ran back for a touchdown. The College Football HistorianHistorian----6666---- AFFAIRS in the world of football have been Player, College, Years Played, changing so rapidly of late Catches and era held the record that it is extremely difficult Bernie Kirk, Notre Dame, 1918-19 28 to get a clear view of the 1906-20 situation. Eddie Anderson, Notre Dame 1919-21 43 1919-28 In spite of all the shifts, Wear Schoonover, Arkansas 1927-29 however, the building up of 46 1927-35 weaker teams, and Walter Roach, TCU 1934-36 63 tumbling down of stronger 1934-36 ones, it seems fairly evident that the East this Source: Stars of an Earlier Autumn an unofficial College Football Records year outclasses the West. Book. ©1 st -N-Goal/2007 Even the Western papers * * * admitted when Michigan, the usual champion of the College America - In the Midst of the Football Season West, went down in defeat Baseball Magazine , by Donald before Cornell, that the Wilhelm. 1912 January Vol. VIII No. result demonstrated this 3 p. 85-89. [as is] superiority. Michigan is College America—In the always in the front rank of Midst of the Football Western universities, if not Season the very strongest, while Cornell this year is by no A Glimpse of Football Affairs at the means the leading Eastern Leading Universities With a Few university so far as football Words in Prophesy of Their Probable is concerned.
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