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Big Ten Countdown 41 - Nebraska's First Bowl Game Then 20 Years Of Losing
Taken from the Nebraska Veterans Memorial in North Platte, Nebraska honoring Nebraska veterans who fought in all wars. Nebraska's 1940 football season was a rousing success. The Cornhuskers won the Big Six, going 5-0 in conference, and finishing the regular season 8-1, the only loss...
Too Much Information: Georgia Bulldogs at Mississippi State Bulldogs
To the jaundiced eye of an outsider, tomorrow night’s contest between the Georgia Bulldogs and the Mississippi St. Bulldogs in Starkville might appear to be an inconsequential bout between combatants who each sport an 0-2 record in SEC play. This is, however, a critical contest for Mark Richt’s...
A Welcome College Football Comeback: The Restoration of the T Formation
This posting is a few days out of date, but I have been busy being contrary (and, to hear some people tell it, also running onstage at Britney Spears concerts), so I’m only just now getting to it. Recently, War Eagle Atlanta listed several things that should make a comeback in college football,...
Not Just Another Joe: In Which Former Georgia Quarterback's Footsteps Will Joe Cox Follow?
I'm beginning to wonder whether, after his comeback against Colorado, we shouldn't have just frozen Joe Cox in Carbonite and propped him up in a display case in Butts-Mehre Heritage Hall with a plaque reading "If we can't score two times, we don't deserve to wear Gs on our helmets." You have to...
Nazi Influence on Football?
Football has often been compared with war, which is especially noticeable when it comes to terminology. Touchdown passes are called bombs, the linemen are "in the trenches", quarterbacks are "field generals", and defensive backs blitz the quarterback. But how much of a role has military action...
Football History: Clark Shaughnessy and the T Formation
There are only two things I watch on TV with any consistency: sports and the History Channel. Lately I've been reading and reviewing books about college football history. A while back, I reviewed a book named 'The Wow Boys' about the 1940 Stanford Indians football team. In 1940, Coach Clark...
Review: The Wow Boys - The 1940 Stanford Indians and the T Formation
'The Wow Boys' tells the story of the 1940 Stanford Indians (Stanford's mascot was the 'Indian' until 1972) football team. Coach Clark Shaughnessy arrived at Stanford in 1940 and installed the "T" formation. The result was to change football forever. Most teams ran a single wing offense at the...
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