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Original published in the There were two basic forms of College Football Historical Society (CFHS) foot-ball being played during this Newsletter Vol. XXIII, #3, May 2010 time. Since we separate modern Used by permission of the author soccer, rugby and football games today, I will do the same here. In 1871/72 SEASONAL 1871, the kicking game was known as the association game of FOOT-BALL SUMMARY football (later soccer). Most rules written by the colleges were By Mel Smith using the 1863 London Football Association Code. The carrying There has always been a lack of game (later rugby) became known foot-ball activity reported for the as the Boston rules game during year 1871. Most listings of this season in the local Boston champions or historical articles newspapers. invariably jump from 1870 to 1872. This article tries to give a COLLEGES - ASSOCIATION fuller picture of actual foot-ball FOOTBALL activity for the August 1, 1871– 31 July 1872 seasonal period, At the varsity level, Princeton which includes the current College formed the Princeton accepted period of September Football Association on October 1871 to January 1872. Games of 15, 1871. Ten rules of play were foot-ball were still played every written. Rule #4 stated it would month of the year at this time. take four goals out of seven to For the bigger picture, all game win a game and #6 stated ‘no information found for colleges, player shall throw or carry the independent clubs and high ball’. The first outside game was schools are included. played October 21, 1871, with the Princeton Theological The College Football Historian-2- of these college teams played any outside games.

Seminary (PTS) and they had The Rutgers 1874 sophomore trouble winning. They must have team may have scored the been tied at 4 goals apiece before biggest win with a 6 goals to 1 Princeton secured a 6 goals-4 goal win over their 1875 goals’ victory (see the Princeton freshmen team. Students from Packet newspaper, 10/23/1871). Dartmouth College wrote their The game was played on College first set of seven rules for their Field on the Princeton campus. football play in the fall of 1871 Apparently, two other games (see Scott Meacham, ‘Old were won by Princeton College Division Football: The Indigenous over PTS scoring the 4 goals first. Mob Soccer of Dartmouth I do not have the actual scoring College’, 2006). The Cornell 1873 information for PTS. That college juniors won both games over has never condoned any sports’ their 1875 freshmen and 1874 activity in their entire history. sophomores’ class teams using They may or may not have scored their ‘best three out of five goals’ a goal. There may have been rule. more games played between these colleges. The Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute became a four-year Columbia College, Rutgers college and graduated their first College and Yale College never seniors in June 1871. They won followed through on proposed and lost foot-ball games played games with other outside with Adelphi Academy under the colleges. Rutgers declined a game name of ‘Mr. Dollard’s Team’. with Princeton in the fall. Adelphi Academy students Columbia and Yale could not played under the name of ‘Mr. agree on a field of play during the Brady’s Team’. These ice rink, spring of 1872. foot-ball games were played on Capitoline Lake in Prospect Park At the junior level, about nine in Brooklyn during December colleges have been found playing 1871 and January 1872. intramural games on their campuses. These colleges were The University of Pennsylvania Brown University, Cornell 1872 Seniors beat an All- University of New York, University of Pennsylvania team Dartmouth College, University of on February 22, 1872, by the Michigan, University of score of 3 goals to 0. Pennsylvania, Princeton College, Rutgers College, University of The Alumni of the defunct Vermont and Yale College. None Woodward College in Cincinnati, OH, played their annual kicking game on September 28, 1871. played on the Cambridge, MA, The score of the game has not Common and Henry R. Grant was captain of the all-victorious The College Football Historian-3- sophomore team. The local Boston newspapers began to call these carrying games the Boston been readily available for this Rules’ Game in the spring of season. 1872. It was done to differentiate the ball-handling game played in The University of Virginia had a Boston as opposed to the kicking new English professor teaching game of foot-ball being played the students how to play the elsewhere in America. association football game, and the State University of Iowa (now INDEPENDENT CLUBS - University of Iowa) formed a ASSOCIATION FOOTBALL student football association in February 1872. The New York Athletic Club of New York City was founded in COLLEGES - BOSTON RULES 1868. Games of foot-ball were GAME proposed this season, but any references to these games have Harvard had banished the mob, not been found. freshman-sophomore, carrying games of foot-ball on the campus In Ohio, the Dover Firebrick in July 1860. Several local Makers played a kicking game Boston high schools continued to with the Sandyville Fireclay play these carrying games on the Miners on August 19, 1871. The Boston Common through the game was played at the 1860s. A few ardent players Fairgrounds in New Philadelphia, entered Harvard in 1870 and OH. The score has not been 1871. They began to play found. impromptu carrying games of foot-ball on the Harvard campus A Hibernians team in the fall of 1871. The played a foot-ball game with administration did not stop this another team called ‘The Others’ activity so class teams were on the fourth of July, 1872. It formed in the spring and was played on the Oakland intramural games were played. Driving Course in New Orleans, The Harvard 1874 sophomore LA, and this score has also not team was the best and never lost been found. a game. They even beat an All- team on April HIGH SCHOOLS - 27, 1872, 2 goals to 0 (any ASSOCIATION FOOTBALL touches or touchdowns were not addressed). This game was As mentioned in the college carrying games of foot-ball on the section, the Adelphi Academy of Boston Common. No Long Island traded a win and a interscholastic games have been loss with the Brooklyn found for the 1871/72 season. Polytechnic Institute in two ice rink foot-ball games. Adelphi * * * The College Football Historian-4- [This article first appeared in the Ypsilanti Courier…and is used by students were identified as permission.] Laura is also a member of playing on Mr. Brady’s teams. IFRA. The first game was won by Adelphi, 2 goals to 1 goal. Smallpox at EMU in Adelphi lost the second game played in January 1872. The 1916 actual score has not been found. By Laura Bien

The Oakland High School in When the 1916 Normal College California formed a football club (EMU) football season was cut in October 1871. The San short in October, it wasn’t due to Francisco Industrial School injuries, or lack of funds, or played a foot-ball game on academic suspensions. Christmas Day in 1871. It was smallpox. The Charles Barnwell School of Charleston, SC, saw foot-ball The outbreak on campus made games played by their students news as far away as Connecticut. on their campus, and the The November 3, 1916 Toronto Freehold Military Institute of New World said, “Coach Mitchell and Jersey had a foot-ball team. No four members of the Ypsilanti other information is available as Normal College football eleven yet. were stricken with smallpox yesterday . . . The illness of the HIGH SCHOOLS - BOSTON athletes was diagnosed last night RULES GAME . . . Ypsilanti Normal played the University of Detroit last The Boston Public Latin School Saturday. Reports from Detroit and the Boston English High today said that none of the School were housed in the same university’s players were ill.” building during this time. Their entries and departures used two Headlines at home played down different doors, one on the east the danger. side and the other on the west side of the building. These “Smallpox Need Cause No schools were the two main high Alarm,” read an October 31, schools playing impromptu 1916 headline in the Daily Ypsilantian-Press. The article “Posters enjoining the University said, “That the extent of smallpox [of Michigan] students from in the city is confined to six making their weekend exodus to cases, none of which is severe, Ypsilanti this weekend are being and that all possible precautions plastered up around the Ann have been taken to prevent the Arbor area,” said the November spread of the disease throughout 14 Daily Ypsilantian-Press. U-M The College Football Historian-5- students would be suspended, said the paper, if they ventured the city was assured the public to Ypsi. today . . .” By mid-November, the number of The article continued, “Five of the cases had risen to 27. Homes six cases are isolated in the were quarantined. Normal Health Cottage at the Normal, College President McKenny which has been placed at the moved out of his own home so disposal of the smallpox that it could be converted into a patients.” The Health Cottage “detention home for undiagnosed was the campus clinic. cases of disease,” said the November 14 Press. The Health Normal College president Cottage was full. McKenny called a special assembly of the students said the The community was afraid. paper. He told them to get “Complaints stating that vaccinated immediately and show occupants in quarantined houses proof of vaccination before were seen upon the porch were leaving for Thanksgiving break. received last week and when questioned today as to how far He urged calm. the quarantine limited the Students expressed “a good deal actions of such persons, Dr. of indignation,” said the paper, at Westfall said that their presence having to pay for shots. upon the porch was well within Many didn’t get them. The their rights, but that they should November 9 Daily Ypsilantian- not leave the porch.” Press reported that 300 students had yet to be vaccinated, and Neither quarantines nor smallpox that the number of smallpox were new to Ypsilanti. In 1882, cases was rising. the city passed “An Ordinance Relative to the Prevention of Soon Ann Arborites were being Small-Pox.” told to stay out of Ypsi, and Normal College students from Part of it said, “It shall be the Ann Arbor were sent home. duty of the keeper of any hotel, tavern, boarding or public house, or the owner or occupant of any private residence, wherein any person may be sick with the The Commercial that day also small-pox or other infectious urged readers to get vaccinated. disease, to close said public “[G]o and have your family house or private residence, and physician scratch your arm, keep it closed as against all apply the little wafer-like, bony lodgers, customers and persons point that contains that horrid desiring to visit the same, [until] stuff, that in one week’s time all danger of communicating the with nearly every one that tried The College Football Historian-6- it, causes them to say, “Oh, my arm, don’t touch it” and “I ache disease from the said house or so hard and fast in one moment residence, or from any of the that I hardly know myself.” inmates thereof, shall have In 1916, the city held its breath. passed.” Vaccinations and quarantines began to have a good effect. The The ordinance gave an exception crisis slowly passed and by only to doctors and clergymen. spring the city was out of danger. When these ministers to the body and to the soul visited However, the experience left an quarantined homes to give hope impact on Normal College against death, they risked their students. own. Their 1917 yearbook, the Aurora, The ordinance helped. In 1889, mentions the experience. The city physician William Pattison football page says, “[Our] game gave a report to city council that with the University of Detroit was was printed in the May 17, 1889 the last game of the season, for Ypsilanti Commercial. After the epidemic of smallpox which noting that there had been 27 broke out at the school cases of scarlet fever that year, compelled Coach Mitchell to Pattison said, “Small pox, which cancel the better part of the has prevailed more or less over schedule.” the state, has not appeared in our midst.” In typical college fashion, students made light of the Other communities were less terrifying disease. One entire fortunate. The February 15, 1889 page of the 1917 Aurora Ypsilanti Commercial reported yearbook displays a smallpox that in nearby Azalia, Michigan, cartoon. “the small pox has so far abated that two of the houses will be The cartoon includes a depiction renovated this week, there being of a bedridden patient who is no new cases in the last two cheering, with the legend, “That weeks.” grand and glorious feelin’—when although a good team, wasn’t Doc decides it’s only typhoid.” given much of a chance against “the big bruising Bears,” The cartoon also includes a as Washington Post reporter rendering of the Health Cottage, Shirley Povich called them. But where many students endured the Redskins had a new powerful the disease. The cottage is shown weapon in the person of Sammy blazing with light at night, with Baugh, their 23-year-old rookie musical notes and song lyrics . streaming from its windows as residents whoop it up. Baugh had come out of the college ranks, an innovative The College Football Historian-7- “passing” back, still something of a rarity in professional football at This seeming flippancy belies the that time. In his college career at admirable grit and courage Texas Christian University (TCU), summoned by scared students Baugh was an All-American who stricken with the disease. had led the nation in passing in his junior and senior years and After staring Death in the eye, finished fourth in 1936 Heisman and staring him down, the Trophy voting. He had helped students of 1917, with their TCU to victories in the Sugar cartoon, put thumb to nose and Bowl and . But wiggled their fingers. ’s professional career – played entirely with the * * * Washington Redskins over 16 years – would be even better. In http://www/pophistorydig.com/?p=785 fact, he would change the way PopHistoryDig.com, December 21, 2008. pro-football was played. “The history of pro football simply Used by permission. cannot be written without the story of Slingin’ Sammy,” says “Slingin’ Sammy Washington Post sports columnist Baugh” 1930s-1950s Michael Wilbon. By Jack Doyle The It was December 1937 in In the late 1930s when . The Washington Sammy Baugh arrived in Redskins professional football Washington, throwing the ball in team had come to town to play football games – i.e., the forward the fearsome in pass – was still quite new, the especially in professional championship game at Wrigley football. Pro football was Field. It was a bitterly cold day then second fiddle to college with frozen turf. Washington, football, which was much more popular. In fact, the first time and , ). the passing technique had been After that game, the forward pass used in football was at the began to get more notice. A college level, dating to an 1895 variety of college coaches and game between North Carolina teams all experimented with University and the University of passing and new formations – Georgia – an illegal use, it turns among them: , who out, not then “approved” by the later became a coach at Notre rules of play. Dame; , who used it as a college coach; and the Carlisle Indians; Alonzo Stagg at the University of The College Football Historian-8- Chicago; Johnny Heisman at Georgia Tech; various Ivy League teams; and others. Passing began at the college level, and slowly made its way Still, passing then was also not to the pros, where it was used like the conventional drop-back only sparingly by the early passing of the modern game 1930s. today, centered on the quarterback. Passing came out But the first officially approved of the single wing formation, forward pass also occurred at the where play responsibility was college level – in September 1906 split between a separate play- when St. Louis University used it caller and another running back against Carroll College of who may have thrown the ball. Wisconsin. St. Louis University, Passing was also more of however, was in the Midwest, desperation measure then, not a and due to the nature of planned part of the offensive communication in those days — attack. At the professional level, primarily newspapers — not the first passing appears to have many other colleges “back East” been used in the late 1920s and had heard of or used the early 1930s, but then only technique, so its adoption by rarely. Professional football other schools was slow. But in games then could be very dull 1913 a then little-known minor and boring compared to today’s school named Notre Dame used games. They used the single- and the forward pass in a surprise double-wing offenses, and almost win over a highly-touted team always ran the ball — no sixty- from Army. The technique yard touchdown pass plays. But demonstrated how a smaller that more pedestrian style of Notre Dame team could use it to football play was about to change their advantage in beating the with the arrival of Sammy bigger Army team (Knute Rockne Baugh in Washington in 1937. then played for Notre Dame Baugh was one of the few experienced passers from the and help me through TCU if I’d college level, and he would soon come there and play and prove to be one of the best of the football and basketball – the new breed at the pro level. whole thing. So that’s where I went.” Swinging Tire At TCU, it was Sammy’s football Sammy Baugh was born in Texas play that would put him in the in 1914, and played three big time — although he sports in high school at remained a very good baseball Sweetwater, Texas — football, player at TCU as well. However, basketball and baseball. In in football as a college junior, he preparing to play for his high threw for 1,241 yards and 18 touchdowns. TCU only lost one The College Football Historian-9- game that year, to national school team, Baugh practiced champion SMU. As a senior, with an old tire strung from a Baugh threw for 1,196 yards, tree which he would try to throw completing 50.5 percent of his the ball trough while the tire was passes. He led the nation in both swinging and he was on the run. passing and punting his final two He developed a strong arm and seasons at TCU. Many believe pretty good accuracy. And that Baugh’s performance at TCU although he did well in high helped bring national press school football, Sammy had his notice to Texas football at a time heart set on becoming a when press coverage tilted to professional baseball player, and eastern sports teams. And that’s the sport where he would although Baugh did not win pick up the name “Slingin Heisman Trophy in 1936 –he Sammy.” A sportswriter finished fourth in the voting— impressed with his performance is believed to Sammy’s throwing arm as a have opened the door for his college third baseman is credited successor at TCU, Davey O’Brien, with giving him that nickname. who did win the Heisman two years later. After high school, Sammy had played semi-pro baseball for a Sammy Baugh at right in time, and had met a guy who was autographed photo during his going to arrange for a baseball short-lived baseball career with scholarship at Washington State the St. Louis Cardinals. University. But Sammy hurt his knee right before he was to Still, when Sammy completed attend, and the baseball college, his thought was to play scholarship fell through. But as professional baseball. Baugh Baugh would later recount, wasn’t convinced football was his “ [the football coach best sport. He also thought he at TCU] told me he’d get me a job might have a longer career in baseball. Baugh had been a star  CONGRATULATIONS ARE third baseman for TCU, and drew IN ORDER…as one of our the notice of a few scouts. subscriber; Vince Rogers Hornsby, the famous St. Thompson has a new title Louis Cardinals baseball Hall-of- with his work at the AFCA. Famer, was then a St. Louis Cardinals scout, and in the The spring/summer of 1937, he Coaches Association signed Baugh to play with the announced that Vince Cardinals. However, Baugh was Thompson has been named farmed out to the minor league Director of Media Relations. Columbus team after being Thompson moves up from converted to shortstop, and then Coordinator of Publications, a was sent even lower down in the position he held for the past six The College Football Historian-10- and a half years. Congratulations, Todd…we’re minor league system to happy to share in this with you. Rochester. There, Baugh still had to play behind Rochester’s  Also, another member has starting shortstop, Marty Marion, been selected to the All- who would go on to the major Time All-Ohio Football leagues and become a Cardinals Team as an honorable regular for 11 years. Baugh mention selection….Steve knew he would never be as good Strinko, who played for the as Marion. “The other [problem] University of Michigan, was I couldn’t hit that curve under legendary coach, Bo [ball] very well,” Baugh would Schembechler. later say. “So I left in August [1937] to play football, and after Congratulations, Steve as we are that I stuck with football.” proud of you. He played LB. 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Name change: A Case of over- Please note the following: The AP achieving Poll Archive has changed names “Wild man’ Jacobs benched in and has changed names to ‘59’’ College Poll Archive (http://www.collegepollarchive.co Brownwood, TX Bulletin (Aug, 8, 1972) m/). And you can start contacting me at This is about a former Howard [email protected]. Payne football player who holds the questionable distinction of being the only player in history able to play well on their knees in benched for over-achieving. muddy situations.”

The one-time Yellow Jacket is Another factor was involved in 300-pound Ray Jacobs, who HPC’s success. spent nine years in the National Football League as a lineman As mentioned previously, that after finishing his eligibility at factor was Ray Jacobs, who at the Brownwood school. the time was playing offensive and defensive line and who Jacobs, an East Texas rancher, later earn little All-America earned the unusual distinction of recognition as a Jacket. being benched for doing too good a job during a fascinating game Despite good things to for between Texas A&I and HPC 13 Jacobs, however, it’s doubtful he years ago in Lion Stadium. ever had a better day after that unforgettable one in October of The College Football Historian-11- ’59.

The date: Oct. 3, 1959. The “Jacobs was literally a wild man, conditions: miserable—a driving recalls Bob Havins, vice- rainstorm which turned the president of public relations and gridiron into a quagmire. development at HPC who was on hand for the contest. At the time, Howard Payne had not come too close to winning a “I’ve never seen anybody have a game before A&I came to town. better first half. He was all over On the other hand, the Javelinas the field. He tackled people. He were unbeaten. even threatened people. He even lay on people. The picture was soon to change. “In fact, it got so bad, that From the outset, it was Howard Jacobs was getting into A&I’s Payne’s ball game. For one thing, backfield before the ball. As a the mud-caked gridiron proved last resort—because of the favorable to the Yellow Jackets’ danger to himself and other big, plodding lineman. players—Howard Payne coach then, Bennie WiIllams, had to According to Royce Blackburn, a put him on the bench.” member of that 1959 HPC team, who now serves as an assistance Benched? For making tackles coach at Brownwood High and causing woes for the School, the Jackets had “a bunch opposition and doing who- of big old lineman who were in knows-what-all-else just hog heaven because they were coaches cry for and text Quite a story involving two teams specify?” with a lot of tradition.

Yep. That’s what happened. And just in case some of the edge may have been taken off A&I’s But that’s not the whole story. gridiron greatness in the narration, let it be known that Back to the game: A&I finished the Hoggies as members of the with minus 54 yards rushing, no have lost first downs, no complete passes, only two games in Kingsville no points. since 1966.

The score was 20-0. One of the teams that beat them was Southwest Texas—another And just for added flavor, maybe member of the LSC. this statistic ought to be noted: Howard Payne fumbled 10 during And the other team? the game, while the Hoggies recorded nine. You guessed it: Howard Payne, last season, by a score of 20-14. The College Football Historian-12- TCFH Editor’s Notes: Want more?  Jacobs was drafted in the Okay try this: A&I later became first round by the Houston national (NAIA) champion. In Oilers (7th overall) by the fact, that indelible loss to HPC on fledging AFL; and in the that strange day in October 17th round of the NFL Draft represented A&I’s only defeat of (228th selection), by the the season. .

And there’s still more:  Texas A&I eventually subsequent to the game, it was would win a total of 7 NAIA learned that Howard Payne had I Titles: (1959-69-70-74- used an ineligible player and 75-76-79; [2nd in 1968— was forced to forfeit. with its only NAIA Playoff Loss]); before moving up to So the real score—the one that NCAA II in 1980 and in went down in the record books— 1993 became known as was 1-0 in favor of A&I. Texas A&M-Kingsville.

This was sent to me by my friend and new subscriber Diann Prickett who is the Database/Gift Processing Coordinator for HPU. Thanks Diann. I went to Howard Payne University, The game this year will be the first 1983-84; we compiled a 2-8-0. The conference clash since the Jackets Link is our alumni newsletter. and Javelinas were Texas Conference cousins. [Both were long Reading in the September 2009 time members of the old Texas issue I noticed that this story had a Conference.] tie-in, to the above; so, I decided to include it. Though the Jackets will enter the game as decided underdogs . . . they Contributed by Dr. Robert could prove double-tough on the Mangrum, HPU Historian and Homecoming Day.” [They were IFRA member winning 14-7.]

The Link, (volume 8, number 1, published Editor’s Note: Don Newbury later in November 1957) became HPU’s 16th president; serving from 1985-97. According to Don Newbury, Sports Information Director, HPC became Please send in your stories on the accomplishments on your alma The College Football Historian-13- mater. * * * an official member of the Lone Star Conference with the start of the fall College Football Hall of 1957 football season. The Jackets were “having a tough time finding Famers: Dates of Birth the key to an LSC win.” The Jackets and Dates of Death were 1-5 going into the Homecoming game. By Bo Carter

The football team, under head coach Bennie Williams, was reported ready July for the 2:00 PM kick off against the 1 (1922) Don Whitmire, Giles County, Tenn. Javelinas. “Though it wasn’t the 1 (1953) Michael Haynes, Denison, Texas oldest series in the Howard Payne 1-(d – 1971) Jesse Harper, Sitka, Kan. record books, the visitors from Kingsville are far from being total 1-(d – 1984) Ziggy Czarobski, Aurora, Ill. strangers. 2 (1891) Gus Dorais, Chippewa Falls, Wis. 2 (1879) Bob Zuppke, Berlin, Germany The series began in 1946, with the 2 (1900) Ernie Vick, Toledo, Ohio Jackets scoring their greatest 2 (1937) John Cooper, Knoxville, Tenn. 2-(d - 1957) Leroy Mercer, Swarthmore, victory over the Hogs with a 27-0 Pa. whitewashing. The Jackets have 2-(d – 1987) Ellery Huntington, Alexandria accumulated a total of 128 points in City, Va. the 10-game series to Texas A&I’s 3 (1943) Steve DeLong, Norfolk, Va. 111 tallies, but the Javelinas hold 3 (1959) Frank Hawkins, Las Vegas, Nev. the edge in the win column, 6-4. 3 (1976) Grant Wistrom, Webb City, Mo. 3-(d – 1963) Tony Blazine, Richland, 13 (1912) Ed Sherman, Licking County, Wash. Ohio 3-(d – 1975) Elmer Oliphant, New Canaan, 13 (1922) Alex Sarkisian, Constantinople, Conn. Turkey 13-(d – 1992) Alex Wojociechowicz, 4 (1912) Edgar Manske, Nekoosa, Wis. Forked River, N.J. 4 (1942) , New Haven, Conn. 14 (1911) Riley Smith, Greenwood, Miss. 4 (1962) Willie Totten, Leflore, Miss. 14 (1922) Robin Olds, Honolulu, Hawai’i 5 (1923) John McKay, Everettsville, W.Va. 14 (1928) Brad Rowland, Hamlin, Texas 5 (1951) Johnny Rodgers, Omaha, Neb. 14-(d – 1982) Jackie Jensen, 5-(d – 1998) , No. Miami Charlottesville, Va. Beach, Fla. 14-(d – 1999) Hugh Gallarneau, 6 (1924) Darrell Royal, Hollis, Okla. Northbrook, Ill. 15 (1892) Ray Eichenlaub, Columbus, 6 (1946) Fred Dryer, Hawthorne, Calif. Ohio 6-(d – 1950) Harold Weekes, New York City 15 (1893) Orin Hollingbery, Hollister, Calif. 7 (1918) Bob Blackman, DeSoto, Iowa 15 (1935) Alex Karras, Gary, Ind. 7(d – 1942) Bob Fisher, Newton, Mass. 16 (1889) Percy Wendell, Roxbury, Mass. 7-(d – 1976) Bill Swiacki, Sturbridge, 16 (1951) Jerry Sisemore, Olton, Texas Mass. 16 (1968) , Wichita, Kan. The College Football Historian-14- 16-(d – 1980) Ernie Vick, Ann Arbor, Mich. 16-(d – 1992) Buck Buchanan, Kansas 7-(d – 1992) Clint Frank, Evanston, Ill. City, Mo. 16-(d – 1994) Tay Brown, Los Angeles, 8 (1890) Pete Mauthe, Turkey City, Pa. Calif. 8 (1935) John David Crow, Marion, La. 17 (1927) Thurman “Fum” McGraw, 8-(d – 1918) Gary Cochran, In Combat in Garden City, Kan. France 17-(d – 1978) Bill Fincher, Atlanta, Ga. 9 (1870) Ed Hall, Granville, Ill. 17-(d – 1980) Ralph “Shug” Jordan, Auburn, Ala. 9 (1874) George Brooke, Brookville, Md. 18 (1905) George Wilson, Glenside, Pa. 9 (1892) Elmer Oliphant, Bloomfield, Ind. 18-(d – 2005) Jim Parker, Columbia, Md. 9 (1912) Abe Mickal, Talia Lebanon 20 (1864) Pa Corbin, Hartford, Conn. 9 (1918) Nile Kinnick, Adel, Iowa 9 (1947) O.J. Simpson, San Francisco, 20 (1920) Frank Merritt, New York, N.Y. Calif. 20 (1920) Tommy Prothro, Dyersburg, Tenn. 9-(d – 1974) Jim Bausch, Hot Springs, Ark. 20-(d – 1994) George Munger, Villanova, 9-(d – 1995) Reds Bagnall, Philadelphia, Pa. Pa. 21 (1912) Bill Wallace, El Campo, Texas 9-(d – 2005) Al Sparlis, Porterville, Calif. 21-(d – 1979) Eddie Price, New Orleans, 11 (1876) , Staten Island, La. N.Y. 21-(d – 1999) Kurt Burris, Billings, Mont. 11 (1915) Cecil Isbell, Houston, Texas 22 (1913) Jim Tatum, McColl, S.C. 12 (1863) Hector Cowan, Hobart, N.Y. 22 (1966) Tim Brown, Dallas, Texas 12 (1878) Bob Torrey, Henrico County, Va. 22-(d – 1975) , Natick, Mass. 12 (1920) Glenn Dobbs, McKinney, Texas 22-(d – 1977) Jack O’Hearn, Brookline, 12 (1939) Bill Cooper, Carrollton, Ohio Mass. 12-(d – 1961) Steve Lach, Altoona, Pa. 23 (1935) John Robinson, Chicago, Ill. 12-(d -1975) , St. Louis, Mo. 23-(d – 1959) Jim Tatum, Chapel Hill, N.C. 12-(d – 1985) Gene McEver, Davidson, 24 (1875) Bennie Owen, Chicago, Ill. N.C. 24 (1876) Clarence “Bert” Herschberger, 13 (1903) Lloyd Yoder, Salem, Ohio Peoria, Ill. 24 (1894) , DeWitt, Ark. (Indicates date of death.) 24 (1962) Kevin Butler, Savannah, Ga. * * * 24-(d – 1978) Joel Hunt, Teague, Texas 24-(d – 2002) Gaynell “Gus” Tinsley, Baton  In Remembrance Rouge, La. of...East Carolina 25 (1900) Ed Tryon, Medford, Mass. assistant coach Thomas 25 (1936) Ron Burton, Springfield, Ohio "Rock" Roggeman; he 25 (1954) , Columbia, Miss. was 47...Les Richter, 26 (1869) Henry Williams, Hartford, Conn. 26 (1896) Everett Strupper, Columbus, Ga. California, 1949-51, he 26 (1934) Tommy McDonald, Roy, N.M. was 79... R.E. "Peppy" 26 (1939) Bob Lilly, Olney, Texas Blount, who played at the 26-(d – 1966) , Boston, Mass. University of 26-(d – 1981) John Beckett, LaJolla, Calif. Texas...Ernie Johnson, 27 (1910) Fred Crawford, Waynesville, N.C. 84, a UCLA football star 27 (d - 1941) Howard Jones, Toluca Lake, in the 1940's...South Calif. The College Football Historian-15- Alabama football player Anthony Mostella

2 27 (1950) Reggie McKenzie, Detroit, Mich. passed away at age 22... 27 (1959) Hugh Green, Natchez, Miss. Ike Peel, played for the 27-(d – 1964) Willie Gallimore, University of Tennessee; Rensselaer, Ind. 28 (1893) John “Jack” O’Hearn, Brookline, he was 91...Jack Cloud, Mass. William & Mary 28 (1943) , Brownwood, Texas 85...Kenneth Wayne 28-(d – 1930) John DeWitt, New York City 28-(d – 1979) Don Miller, Cleveland, Ohio Hudson, Howard Payne 29 (1879) Dan McGugin, Ringgold County, University, 39.... Iowa 29 (1902) Herbert Sturhahn, Far ACC associate Rockaway, N.Y. commissioner Fred 29-(d – 1986) Nello Falaschi, Oakland, Calif. Barakat, at age 30 (1894) Carl Snavely, Omaha, Neb. 71...Former Georgia Tech 30 (1903) Vic Hanson, Sacramento, Calif. lineman John Grantham 30 (1924) George Savitsky, New York City died last weekend at age 30 (1948) Jim Mandich, Cleveland, Ohio 33... Former Missouri 30-(d – 1989) Wes Fesler, Laguna Hills, Calif. Valley College star Bill 30-(d -1993) Darrell Lester, Temple, Texas Kleine passed away at 31 (1918) Gene Goodreault, Haverhill, Mass. age 81. He was a member 31 (1919) Forrest Behm, Lincoln, Neb. of the Missouri Sports 31 (1968) Andre Ware, Galveston, Texas Hall of Fame. 31-(d – 1986) Mal Aldrich, Southampton, N.Y. 31-(d – 2004) Ed Bock, St. Louis, Mo.  Halls of Fame...Harvey Martin, East Texas State, Lone Star team was ranked number one by the Conference...Mark Associated Press. "A football team at Carrier, Louisiana Sports a small college with an undergraduate enrollment below Hall of Fame... 3,000 no longer has a good chance of being ranked in the poll which is  Awards...Mike McCoy, now dominated by larger state former University of Notre schools." Dame All-America defensive lineman is the EDWARDS' PLAN would keep the major-college poll as it is. However, winner of the 2010 the college-division poll which includes over 400 teams would be "Legends" Award, which divided into two separate sections. recognizes the "best of the best" of defensive football The first section would be an "intermediate university," poll which would include the new influx of The College Football Historian-16- state schools and so called "middle colleges." The second section or  players from the past 40 "small college '' poll would include years. schools whose enrollment is below 3,000 undergraduate students. * * * "You only have to look at last week's [Sandusky Register, Oct. 18, 1967] AP poll to see that the only little schools with a chance at being Simple Matter Of ranked are colleges with teams who Reclassification: Edwards can score millions of points like Third Division In Grid Waynesburg or who have a winning tradition like Wittenberg," the Polls? college "coach of the year" in 1962 and 1963 pointed out. SPRINGFIELD – Although his Wittenberg University football team Edwards, who is a college division is ranked among the nation's top representative on the NCAA football small college teams for the sixth rules committee, also voiced hope straight year, Coach Bill (Doc) that the NCAA might make one of its Edwards has launched a drive to four post-season bowl games establish a third division in the available for a "small college" college football polls. championship.

"It's a simple matter of "A Wittenberg-Waynesburg meeting reclassification," said the would be a great match. But put distinguished coach whose 1964 either team up against a large state school like San Diego State with its By Bob (last name wasn’t bundle of football grants and a legible) possible mismatch could be created." Eliminate the Forward "WHEN A SCHOOL doesn't give Pass athletic free rides and your only aid to athletes is based on need and GLEN (sic) WARNER, THE academic ability such as we have at PITTSBURG FOOTBALL COACH, IS Wittenberg, there should be a way OPPOSED to the forward pass, and for its athletic program to receive has some very sensible things to say proper national recognition. on the subject, as follows: "The main thing a good football team is A third poll would at least be a start supposed to do is to be able to in the right direction," he said. retain the ball and carry it for Perhaps part of Edwards' feeling consecutive steady gains for comes from the fact that his 1967 considerable distances for team is undefeated and on paper is touchdown*, and it, therefore, statistically ahead of the 1964 seems logical that if a team can gain The College Football Historian-17- ground by its running- attack, it should not resort to the forward national championship team after pass unless the secondary defense four games. closes up so much as to make a successful pass almost assured. The The Tigers, who have outscored four danger of the forward pass being teams, 146 to 17, play John Carroll intercepted and the other side thus University on Saturday at 2 p.m. in securing possession of the ball is so Wittenberg's 1967 Homecoming great that even the most expert game. forward passing teams seldom use the play in their own territory, but In his 13th season' as head coach at on the other hand, when Hearing Wittenberg, Edwards' record now the opponents' goal, where losing stands at 88-16-4. Since 1960 the possession of the ball is not so Tigers have posted a 59-5-1 record disastrous, the opponents have the and are currently working on a 10- advantage of an extra secondary game winning streak. defense man, since there is no necessity of one back playing to be * * * in a position to catch punts. "Therefore, when in a position upon [The Syracuse Herald, Nov. 1, 1916/as is] the field where passing is more likely to be resorted to, it becomes 0N THE SPORT FIRING harder to make the passes LINE successful While I am convinced that no team should rely too much upon forward passing, it is of course, advisable to have in a team's repertoire of plays several [Waterloo Daily Courier Oct. 22, 1931] good passes, in order to take advantage of any weakness in the Metzger, Famed opponents' defenses for this style of play: because if it became apparent Irish Guard, Is to an opposing team that no forward Now a Milkman passes were being used against them, and that none was likely to Chicago—(INS)—Folks, the truth is out. be, they could bring their halfbacks up close to the line, where they Bert Metzger, Notre Dame's diminutive all- would aid greatly in stopping American guard on last year's national running plays. It would be better to championship football team, is not a bond surround the onside kick with the salesman. same provision as govern the forward pass, except that if the ball He doesn't even sell insurance. touched the ground before being Thursday he was discovered riding thru a touched by a player of either side, Chicago suburb on a horse-drawn milk the defending side should have first wagon. He's a milkman and determined to right to secure it, but players on learn the milk business from the bottom, he The College Football Historian-18- says. both sides should have equal rights * * * to secure the ball if it was touched on the fly by a player of either side. [American Golfer, 1920/as is]

"The onside kick I think might well be made to take the place of the The Greatest Football forward pass, and if the able men Team I Ever Saw upon the rules committee give the matter serious study and What a Critic of Twenty-Eight Years' consideration, they ought to be able Experience Thinks of Great Eastern to further improve the game by Elevens of the Past eliminating the forward pass without rendering the attack any less effective than it is now. The old By William B. Hanna idea, and the correct one, I believe, was that football is a game of kicking and rushing the ball, and we Fall the football elevens which have could carry out that idea and fallen under the observation of the improve the game by doing away writer, which covers a span of with the forward pass and revising twenty-eight years, the one which the rules regarding the handling of impressed him most was the Yale kicks. eleven of 1902. This was under the old rules. Football was overhauled * * * and radically revised in 1906, and the only way to deal with the No greater potential and actual question of "the best football team array of football talent than Yale of you ever saw" is to name one for the 1891 ever went on the barred field, old game and another for the new. but the writer had but one glimpse of that team and that in a game of The Yale team of 1902, of which minor importance. George Chadwick was captain, fills the bill quite well, in the writer's The line-up, however, is worth opinion, for the old game, the old mention, if, for no other reason, lest game of push and pull, of five yards we forget: Hinkey and Hartwell, in three downs and no such aerial ends; Winter and Wallis, tackles; business as the forward pass. The Heffelfinger and Morrison, guards; University of Pittsburg eleven of Sanford, centre; Barbour, 1916, coached and developed by the quarterback; Bliss and McClung, gifted Glen Warner, is his choice of halfbacks; McCormick, quarterback. teams under the modern rules. This team was not scored on, and That each of these would have been that wasn't because it met soft so adaptable as to play either style opposition either. of game in championship form there is no reason to doubt, for the Princeton had Riggs, Holly, The College Football Historian-19- Symmes, Wheeler, Poe and King on its eleven; Harvard had Waters, material was there. But since they Emmons, Trafford, Mackie and didn't have a chance at each style of Newell. All of these were first class, game, why try to change their play some stars, whose luster is to conditions which didn't exist? undimmed today.

Ergo, why not consider each by Yale, 1891, was a big team and fast. itself? They used to say that every man on the team could run a hundred yards The first string players on in 11 seconds in his football togs. Chadwick's 1902 eleven were: Shevlin and Rafferty, ends; Kinney Doubtless an exaggeration, but it and Hogan, tackles; Glass and Goss, was a wonderfully fast crowd just guards; Holt, centre; Rockwell, the same, and the greatest speed quarterback; Chadwick and Metcalf, was possessed by the three centre halfbacks; Bowman, fullback. men. It was a creative team and never extended. Prior to 1890 Yale had wonderful teams, but the field is confined to Another thing, it would have played personal observation, which the modern game as well if not dismisses teams prior to 1890. better than any modern team has done. So, too, would Chadwick's team of No better pair of ends than Shevlin 1902. and Rafferty are to be found in old or new football. Had the writer had more than a passing glimpse of the McClung's In fact the line was so big and team he might have placed it above powerful and fast that to go into Chadwick's as the best, in his details regarding the capabilities of opinion, of any he saw prior to the each is but to repeat. However, revised game. there was Ned Glass, Yale's best guard except Heffelfinger; Holt, Three other outfits have a strong Yale's best centre except "Pa" Corbin appeal. and Tim Callahan—a line impregnable on defense its whole One was Gordon Brown's Yale length, unequalled in offense, and eleven of 1900, on which were Coy with ends who were deadly down the and Gould, ends; Bloomer and field and in tackling. Stillman, tackles; Olcott, centre; Fincke, quarterback; Sharpe and Foster Rockwell was a field general Chadwick, halfbacks; Hale, fullback. in a thousand, fiery and a wonder in Another was Harvard of 1901, keeping his men up to their best whose players included, among work. Neither Chadwick nor Metcalf others, Campbell, one of the best was a big man, but both were very wing men of all time, and Hallowell, fast, keen on defense, slippery open ends; Cutts and Blagden, tackles; field runners, and could go through a line by piercing it if not by The College Football Historian-20- hammering it. Bowman was a first class kicker, good line breaker and strong defensive man. Greene, centre, and behind the line Carl Marshall and Bob Kernan. This team beat Princeton, 12 to 5, and won from Harvard, 23 to 0. It The third is Princeton of 1896, an was a first class eleven in every array of formidable, which included sense of the word, could do more Cochran and Brokaw, ends; Church things better than any other team of and Hillebrand, tackles; and if I the old game than we ever saw. Its remember correctly, Edwards, strength was admirably distributed guard; Balliet, centre, and Fred and its material exceptional, the Smith, Ad Kelly and Billy Bannard best, we really believe, ever back of the line. assembled on one team in the period from 1892 to 1905, inclusive. But we believe that for power, speed and versatility Chadwick's lot was In the matter of a high grade man the best. for every position the writer considers it superior to Yale 1900 or Harvard 1901. It had a wider scope of attack and was better at end powerful, if not as deceptive, offense running than most Yale teams, and and we believe could have beaten a line of forwards, which gave its Harvard of 1914. Few ends ever fast backs all sorts of openings for surpassed Hardwick, but as a pair line breaking. Carlson and Herron excelled Hardwick and Coolidge. Pennock, A rare crowd, individually, in team Trumbull, Wallace and Logan were performance and in possibilities. players of the first rank, and Pitt had no guard as efficient or as Two elevens under the new rules uncommonly steady as Pennock, stand out in a class by themselves, but Peck at centre surpassed and to choose between them is no Wallace, good as the latter was, and easy matter. One is the Pitt team of through his wonderful playing on 1916; Carlson and Herron, ends; defense was a shade more valuable Thornhill and Siedel, tackles; to Pitt than Pennock was to Sutherland and Sies, guards; Peck, Harvard, which is saying a good centre; Morrow, quarterback; deal. Hastings and De Hart, halfbacks; McLaren, fullback. The other is The Pitt line was well balanced and Harvard, 1914: Coolidge and even in its effective playing. Hardwick, ends; Parson and Trumbull, tackles; Weston and Morrow, at quarter, like Logan, was Pennock, guards; Wallace, centre; a first class general, and with the Logan, quarterback; Bradlee and exception of Mahan the Pitt Mahan, halfbacks; Francke, backfield was a better all around fullback. combination and faster. This Panther eleven played the modern The College Football Historian-21- game better than any other team. Its team work on offense was splendid, Harvard 1914 was in that wonderful the interference forming quickly and group of Haughton coached elevens, cleaning out the opposition noted for their precision, thoroughly—better than we've ever smoothness and resourceful, seen any other team do. deceptive attack. It was this team which beat Yale 36 to 0 in the Bowl, Herron was one of the best men the the year Charlie Brickley had game has produced at receiving the appendicitis and played only a few forward pass, and Hastings, one of minutes. the best we've had at throwing it.

Yet Pitt of 1916 had more But there were other men on the fundamental strength and a more team who could do both well, and The Yale team of 1902, of which game of push and pull, of five yards George Chadwick was captain, fills in three downs and no such aerial the bill quite well, in the writer's business as the forward pass. The opinion, for the old game, the old University of Pittsburg eleven of 1916, coached and developed by the gifted Glen Warner, is his choice of No team could stand before Pitt teams under the modern rules. when the Panthers had their full strength in action. Sturdy, One of the most effective features of formidable foemen, Syracuse, Penn Warner's attack that year was that State, W. & J. and Pennsylvania, each backfield man could do several among the best in the East, yet things well, and opponents never outclassed all of them. knew which one to watch, which might throw the ball, or which might * * * kick or carry it. Opponents Lighting-up the Scoreboard… McLaren hit the line hard, very hard, and was a pile driver. 37 College Football Teams have failed to score in a single-season… It was a fast operating team, while allowing their opponents to extraordinarily adept at the running score at least 200 points. game, expert, as all Warner's elevens are, at the criss-cross, with Season TEAM W-L-T PA a quick, hard hitting and shifty 1923 Kansas City 0-6 532 offense, composed of individuals all 1920 Daniel Baker 0-9 506 doing their fundamentals right up to 1922 Arkansas State 0-7 401 specifications. No team ever has 1916 Cumberland 0-3 378 1971 Maranatha Baptist 0-8 374 equalled it in skill, in running and 1919 Baldwin-Wallace 0-8 360 the aerial game, and no team ever 1937 Oakland City 0-7 332 has equaled it in combination of 1932 Cooper Union 0-7 322 1941 Arkansas State 0-7 308 The College Football Historian-22- 1931 Dubuque 0-6 306 1944 CC New York 0-7 303 diversified and well organised (sic) 1920 Lanier 0-3 302 attack. 1934 Western Union 0-8 289 1923 St. Francis PA 0-6 281 The Panthers that year beat 1921 Juniata 0-8 269 1937 Eureka 0-6 258 Westminster, 57 to 0; Syracuse, 30 1929 Southwest Baptist 0-6 252 to 0; Penn, 20 to 0; Allegheny, 46 to 1919 Marshall 0-8 249 9; W. & J., 37 to 0; Carnegie Tech., 1885 CCNY 0-2 248 14 to 6; Penn State, 31 to 0; the 1946 St. Paul's 0-7 248 Navy, 20 to 19. In the last 1945 Shaw 0-7 247 mentioned tussle Warner used 1913 New York Univ. 0-8 241 substitutes. This was to conceal the Florida State real strength of his aggregation, 1904 College 0-6 231 1935 Lawrence Tech 0-7 230 which was to play Syracuse the 1958 Montana Mines 0-5 230 following week. The Carnegie Tech. 1912 William & Mary 0-7 227 game also gave substitutes a 1914 Lincoln (Ill.) 0-5 226 chance. 1928 Florence Normal 0-3 226 1935 Edinboro 0-6 220 Teachers In Gridiron Records 1915 Platteville Normal 0-6-1 217 1942 Guilford 0-6 213 1924 Cooper Union 0-6 211 NEW YORK (AP) — Despite the rule 1932 Gallaudet 0-6 211 makers' efforts to give the customers 1941 Worcester Tech 0-6 209 1957 Gallaudet 0-6 201 more touchdowns to cheer about a 1904 Utah State 0-6 200 compilation today by The Associated 1945 Worcester Tech 0-5 200 Press of the season's records of 154 college football teams shows a * * * continuance in 1934 of the scoring  Kansas City University’s, decline which set in four years ago. 1923 Season: Each year since 1930 the average Sep 22 Haskell L 0-98 team and game score has dropped (Kansas City, Kans) until this year it is only 10.42 points a team and 12.19 a game. In 1930 the Oct 13 American School of figures were 139 and 16. Osteopath L 0-46 (Kirksville, Mo) One explanation for slackened scoring can be found in failure of several Oct 19 St Benedict's L 0-34 leading teams of 1933 to turn out (Atchison, Kans) touchdowns with equal rapidity this Nov 23 Ottawa L 0-114 fall, Michigan and Southern (Ottawa, Kans) California are examples. The College Football Historian-23- The Michigan Juggernaut last year scored 131 points. This year the creaking Ann Arbor Machine could Nov 29 St. Mary's L 0-131 (St. Mary's, Kans) total only 24. Southern California in 1933 rolled up 244 points against the Source: American College Football same class of opponents over which it Encyclopedia, compiled by Richard scored only 120 this year. Topp. The rise of several teams from poor * * * seasons in 1933 to top ranking in their [Daily Messenger Nov. 5, 1934] sections is shown in the figures.

Continued Scoring A few old reliable—Colgate, Centenary, Army, Columbia, Georgia, Decline Is Shown Louisiana State and Tulane — kept rollin' along, scoring almost this same scored 189 points last year and 188 number of points this year and last. this, a record approached only by California with 161 and 163, The gold footballs for consistency go respectively; Army with 227 and 215, to the Red Raiders of the Colgate who and Georgia with 148 and 141. * * *

[The Outing Magazine, 1897]

CAPTAINS FOR NEXT SEASON

Harvard selected Benjamin Dibblee; while Pennsylvania chose John

Outland, with Yale naming Burr C. Chamberlain.