The history of college football has consisted of greatly different eras; some that were typified by exciting and colorful teams, games, and players, while others were relatively devoid of many notable memories or events of lasting significance. For those decades in the game’s history relegated to the latter category above, the result has been that […]
It was nearly seven years ago that we had an article in these pages on the great running back Claude (Buddy) Young and the Illinois football team of 1944. After an early graduation from Wendell Phillips High in Chicago, Young soon entered Illinois and in the spring of 1944 was a member of the Illinois […]
In 1944, a bombastic speech-laden movie about Woodrow Wilson—our president just a century ago–opened with a moment’s look at a mythical Yale/Princeton game set in 1910. It is possibly the most startling view of football of any era in a feature film. Bareheaded unpadded stallions charge the field, some wearing early, rather otherworldly headgear; one […]
CARLISLE VS BROWN NOVEMBER 27, 1912 After Jim Thorpe had compiled a football career at Carlisle filled with memorable performances, perhaps the greatest of all his outings there came in 1912 against Brown University in the final game of his college gridiron days. Yet this game has been virtually forgotten by college football’s […]
In the long history of college football there have been many games that media and fans at the time of the event — and often since then — called the “greatest game” ever in the annals of the sport. Many of these occurrences eventually are forgotten about as time passes. However, one game — the […]
The history of college football is filled with what the sport’s followers at the time referred to as one of the “greatest games of all-time.” While many factors would have to be present to set up a “greatest game,” the reality is that in all the gridiron game’s approximately 150 seasons there have probably been […]
NOTRE DAME VS ARMY OCTOBER 30, 1920 The annals of college football history are littered with tales of legendary games, teams, and players, and standing among the tallest of the sport’s mythical characters is halfback George Gipp of Notre Dame. Perhaps no single player has come down through the years as the subject of […]
ILLINOIS VS PENNSYLVANIA OCTOBER 31, 1925 By the 1925 football season there was essentially no doubt whatever throughout most of the land about the gridiron greatness of Red Grange from Illinois. Yet despite two brilliant seasons that had featured plenty of thrills and dazzling performances, the always superior sounding Eastern media apparently harbored doubts about […]
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