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Alabama was shut out by Centre College
Posted on 9/20/17 at 10:29 pm
Posted on 9/20/17 at 10:29 pm
Of Danville, KY at Rickwood Field in Birmingham 17-0. Wonder if they are brave enough to ask for a rematch?? LINK
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Posted on 9/20/17 at 10:33 pm to BigBlue8Titles
1924 we had a ton of injuries. Anyone who followed that team closely knows they really overachieved.
Posted on 9/20/17 at 10:35 pm to BigBlue8Titles
That was a down year in college football.
Posted on 9/20/17 at 10:35 pm to BigBlue8Titles
The Praying Colonels? Holy shite, what a mascot. 
Posted on 9/20/17 at 10:47 pm to BigBlue8Titles
Do you even 78-0, bruh? #PartyLike1906
Posted on 9/20/17 at 10:50 pm to BigBlue8Titles
Centre is a tough out. They're no Mercer, mind you, but they'll give you a brawl nonetheless.
Posted on 9/20/17 at 10:54 pm to BigBlue8Titles
I watched that game on Youtube. The refs missed a half-dozen targeting calls and didn't call a single pass interference. Also, in clear contravention of uniform rules, both teams wore identical grey jerseys. You could tell it was causing a lot of confusion.
Posted on 9/20/17 at 10:55 pm to DoreonthePlains
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Do you even 78-0, bruh? #PartyLike1906
Yeah, but did you notice we only went up 2 spots in the next week's rankings? Guess the pollsters weren't impressed by us beating a cupcake.
Posted on 9/20/17 at 10:55 pm to TheTideMustRoll
My sister and brother in law are Centre alums. They're a not terrible D-III program (34th "also receiving votes" in the latest D3 rankings)
Posted on 9/20/17 at 11:11 pm to BigBlue8Titles
The officiating crew was made up of LSU grads.
Corrupt bastards.
Corrupt bastards.
Posted on 9/20/17 at 11:39 pm to Evolved Simian
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The officiating crew was made up of LSU grads.
Corrupt bastards.
Did you check the SEC website? The exact same crew is officiating our game this coming Saturday. Y'all screwed and I don't even feel bad about it, not after y'all stole the Bear from us. Yeah, he went to a few unimportant places in-between, but it was still a nasty trick to pull.
This post was edited on 9/20/17 at 11:41 pm
Posted on 9/20/17 at 11:40 pm to BigBlue8Titles
Bama beat themselves that day, I was there.
Posted on 9/20/17 at 11:46 pm to BigBlue8Titles
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Alabama was shut out by Centre College
Lots of respectable teams were shut out by Centre
One of the greatest games in CFB history involved a Centre Shutout C6H0
In other news, lots of respectable people have been hit by trains
Posted on 9/21/17 at 1:29 am to BigBlue8Titles
Centre College was actually power school at the time.
Charley Moran guided them to a 52-6-1 record from 1917-1923. Robert L. Myers took over for the 1924 season and led them to a 5-1-1 record. They also beat Kentucky 7-0 and Tennessee 32-0 that year.
On another note, Charley Moran was also the former HC of Texas A&M from 1909-1914 going 38-8-4. He was successful enough against Texas (3-1) that from 1911-1914 they refused to play A&M. They accused him of using ringers and underhanded tactics to win. As the story goes, when the SWC was being formed the AD at Texas who was heading up the creation of the conference gave the ultimatum that if A&M wanted in Moran had to be removed. Faced with the possibility of potentially being frozen out by all the larger schools in the region A&M bit the bullet and let him go. The rivalry was then renewed in 1915.
Moran had was part of Aggie lore one last time on January 2, 1922. His undefeated Centre team was invited to play in the Dixie Classic (forerunner to the Cotton Bowl) which was a new bowl game being played at Fair Park Stadium (site of current CB Stadium) in Dallas. They were 10-0 LINK and been scored on just once all season.
Their opponent was SWC champion Texas A&M. Coached by Dana X Bible and sporting a 5-1-2 record, the Aggies were heavy underdogs. This game is where the story of the 12th Man was born.
Centre was beating up A&M's players so badly that they were worried they wouldn't have enough players to field in the second half. E King Gill who had left the football team following the regular season to focus on basketball at A&M was in the press box helping identify players. He was asked to come down and suit up just in case he was needed. As it turns out, A&M scored a huge upset 22-14 and Gill was never needed remaining standing on the sidelines the entire second half. Thus the legend of the 12th Man was born. LINK
cue texashorn and other Randy Duke alts to now come and defend their precious 40 Acres.
Charley Moran guided them to a 52-6-1 record from 1917-1923. Robert L. Myers took over for the 1924 season and led them to a 5-1-1 record. They also beat Kentucky 7-0 and Tennessee 32-0 that year.
On another note, Charley Moran was also the former HC of Texas A&M from 1909-1914 going 38-8-4. He was successful enough against Texas (3-1) that from 1911-1914 they refused to play A&M. They accused him of using ringers and underhanded tactics to win. As the story goes, when the SWC was being formed the AD at Texas who was heading up the creation of the conference gave the ultimatum that if A&M wanted in Moran had to be removed. Faced with the possibility of potentially being frozen out by all the larger schools in the region A&M bit the bullet and let him go. The rivalry was then renewed in 1915.
Moran had was part of Aggie lore one last time on January 2, 1922. His undefeated Centre team was invited to play in the Dixie Classic (forerunner to the Cotton Bowl) which was a new bowl game being played at Fair Park Stadium (site of current CB Stadium) in Dallas. They were 10-0 LINK and been scored on just once all season.
Their opponent was SWC champion Texas A&M. Coached by Dana X Bible and sporting a 5-1-2 record, the Aggies were heavy underdogs. This game is where the story of the 12th Man was born.
Centre was beating up A&M's players so badly that they were worried they wouldn't have enough players to field in the second half. E King Gill who had left the football team following the regular season to focus on basketball at A&M was in the press box helping identify players. He was asked to come down and suit up just in case he was needed. As it turns out, A&M scored a huge upset 22-14 and Gill was never needed remaining standing on the sidelines the entire second half. Thus the legend of the 12th Man was born. LINK
cue texashorn and other Randy Duke alts to now come and defend their precious 40 Acres.
This post was edited on 9/21/17 at 1:31 am
Posted on 9/21/17 at 1:50 am to BigBlue8Titles
Bro, we followed it up with consecutive undefeated seasons and Rose Bowl National Titles in 1925 and 1926. Quit living in the past
Posted on 9/21/17 at 1:57 am to BigBlue8Titles
that bama team shutout themselves
Posted on 9/21/17 at 2:04 am to tWildcat
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The Praying Colonels?
Thankfully SJWs weren't around during this time...
Posted on 9/21/17 at 4:15 am to BigBlue8Titles
Jalen Hurts great great grandfather remembers the game, but had to "work" this day.
Posted on 9/21/17 at 5:21 am to Dr RC
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On another note, Charley Moran was also the former HC of Texas A&M from 1909-1914 going 38-8-4. He was successful enough against Texas (3-1) that from 1911-1914 they refused to play A&M. They accused him of using ringers and underhanded tactics to win. As the story goes, when the SWC was being formed the AD at Texas who was heading up the creation of the conference gave the ultimatum that if A&M wanted in Moran had to be removed. Faced with the possibility of potentially being frozen out by all the larger schools in the region A&M bit the bullet and let him go. The rivalry was then renewed in 1915.
Texas left the SIAA because they could not own it to form the SWC. TAMU stayed in for another few years and did pretty well until they let the 40 acres pull them into the SWC where they were relegated to stepchild for the next 100 years or so. Eventually TAMU came to their senses and joined the SEC, but if they had told texas to "kiss off" back then, they would have been a charter SEC school in 1932 and the balance of power in Texas from World War I to the War on Terror would have been much different.
(insert "The more you know" gif here)
Posted on 9/21/17 at 6:06 am to BigBlue8Titles
We beat ourselves way back then, too.
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