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re: Fun Fact: Alabama football's worst loss EVER?
Posted on 10/21/16 at 8:50 am to DoreonthePlains
Posted on 10/21/16 at 8:50 am to DoreonthePlains
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It was 110 years ago today to VANDY! The final score was 78-0!
yeah, but we still won our first National Championship that year because they were awarded before the Vandy game in 1906.
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Posted on 10/21/16 at 8:57 am to Cheese Grits
Man if a time machine ever gets invented one of the things I would want to do is go back and watch a football game around the turn of the century. Watching a game in the Big House in 1906 would be something to see..
Posted on 10/21/16 at 9:04 am to CCTider
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We need all the help we can get to raise the collective is of the rant.
Well, that depends on what your definition of 'is' is.
Posted on 10/21/16 at 10:16 am to GIbson05
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Man if a time machine ever gets invented one of the things I would want to do is go back and watch a football game around the turn of the century. Watching a game in the Big House in 1906 would be something to see..
Not so sure. I mean, the time travel bit would be badass. However, the game would be nearly unwatchable. Vandy's base offense was essentially the same as it is now. The scheme was called the short punt.
Posted on 10/21/16 at 10:21 am to Garfield
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That game still pisses me off.
If I recall, Bama was coming off a pretty rough stretch and Vandy had a bye week before the game. Also, we had a ton of injuries and officiating was horrible. Vandy would probably still have won, but that Vandy team wasn't 78 points better than Bama.
GOLD.
Posted on 10/21/16 at 10:23 am to viceman
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Bryant then served off North Africa, seeing no combat action. However, his ship, the converted liner USAT Uruguay, was rammed by an oil tanker near Bermuda and ordered to be abandoned. Bryant disobeyed the order, saving the lives of his men.[5] Allen Barra claims that two hundred others died in the collision
Brings to perspective all those fans who want to call a war hero a "cheating drunk", huh?
Posted on 10/21/16 at 10:25 am to Cheese Grits
quote:Very much so.
11-22-1906 4-0 Carlisle Indian School (PA) these dudes were bas arse back in the day
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By 1907, the Carlisle Indians were the most dynamic team in college football. They had pioneered the forward pass, the overhand spiral and other trick plays that frustrated their opponents. The Carlisle Indians have been characterized as the “team that invented football."
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On November 9, 1912, Carlisle was to meet the U.S. Military Academy in a game at West Point, New York, between two of the top teams in the country. Pop Warner spoke to his team: “Your fathers and your grandfathers,” Warner began, “are the ones who fought their fathers. These men playing against you today are soldiers. They are the Long Knives. You are Indians. Tonight, we will know if you are warriors.”
That dramatic evening Carlisle routed Army 27-6. That game, played just 22 years after the last Army battle with the Lakota/Sioux at Wounded Knee, not only featured Jim Thorpe, but nine future generals including a linebacker named Dwight D. Eisenhower.
This post was edited on 10/21/16 at 10:46 am
Posted on 10/21/16 at 10:56 am to skrayper
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Brings to perspective all those fans who want to call a war hero a "cheating drunk", huh?
I intend to look for more information on Bryant's service record. I think I will start with Allen Bara's book, and see if anything else is documented on this.
Posted on 10/21/16 at 11:25 am to skrayper
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Brings to perspective all those fans who want to call a war hero a "cheating drunk", huh?
I did find the rest of the story from the reference.
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Bryant disobeyed the order, saving the lives of his men. Two hundred others died. He was later granted an honorable discharge to train recruits and coach the North Carolina Navy Pre-Flight football team. One of the players he coached for the Navy was the future Pro Football Hall of Fame quarterback Otto Graham. While in the Navy, Bryant attained the rank of Lieutenant Commander.
It turns out that the US Navy felt that the best way for Bryant to serve his country was to coach football.
Posted on 10/21/16 at 11:29 am to Weagle25
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Definitely needed when we have people that can't spell IQ
Goddamnit. I fricking hate Swype sometimes. But it's funny, so I'm leaving it.
Posted on 10/21/16 at 12:16 pm to DoreonthePlains
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