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The 1st orange bowl was played in 1935 between the university of miami and manhattan college

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to save money the manhattan college team took a three day boat ride to miami

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Irvin \" cotton\" warburton is th eonly member of the college football hall of fame to recieve an academy award

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he won for his film editing work on 1964 mary poppins

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Chief osceola, the folardia state mascot who rides out and plant a flaming spear at the midefield before each home game

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has been approved by florida seminole indian tribe

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in 190s, college bowels include

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rasin, salad and oil bowl

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michgian holds th erecord for the most bowl appearances

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31

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during the 1990d prairie view college put together an 80 game losing streak

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one season they were outscored each game by a margin of 56-4

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the oklahoma sooners hold the records for the longest winning streak in college football

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the streak lasted 47 games from 1954-1957

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the most laterals in a game

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8

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most laterals in a game during the michingan wolverines final play of the alamo bowl

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in 2005

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before every home game, folwers were placed at the graves site for every

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former Uga ( the english bulldog mascot of Gerogia)

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Since they began playing college football in 1879,

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the university of michigan wolverines have mroe games than any other team

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Yale has one more national championship

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18

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Yale has one more naitonal championships than any other college football team their last title came in

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1927

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the 1st college football game took place in 1869 between princeton and rutgers. Each team had

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25 players on the field and no forward passwing was allowed. Rutgers won by a score of 6-4

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the LSU mascot, Mike the tiger is kept in a pen in the back of the stadium. Before home games

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he is placed in a cage and moved near the visiting teams locker room, so that opposing players must pass him on the way to the field

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Colleges largest margin of victory came in 1916 when gerogia tech degeated cumberland by a score of 222-0

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the game was cut by 15 minutes

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the orange and white team colors of tennesses colunteers wree chosen in 1891

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to repsresent the daisies which grow on campus

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JFK compared the difficulties of reaching space in a rocket to the Rice Owls chances

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of defeating the Texas Longhorns

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Field goals in college were worth

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5 points

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Field goals were decreased to 4 ponts in

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1904

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field goals were decreased to 3 in

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1909

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the wisconsion badgers once had a real life badger as their mascot. during games, it would be led around the sidelines on a leash

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the animal was proved to be too mean and it was replaced with a coustomed mascot in 1940

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during the nebraska cornhuskers home games

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their stadiums become the states third largest city

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the red river shootout between oklahoma and texas is the oldest rivarly played at a neutral site

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the game is held in dallas, which is a halfway between both campuses

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oklahomoma was still a U.S. territory when the red river shootut started in 1900

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oklahomoa didnt recieve statehood until 1907

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In 1915, a group of aggie supporters placed a brand of the longhorn steer on a texas student the brand 13-0 represent A&M 1915 win over the longhorns

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in an effort to cover up the brand, the owner turned the one and 3 into letter B, and then came up with EVO. this later became the schools mascot, althout the orginal bevo was later eaten

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the number of players fielded by each college team was reduced to 20 in 1873

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15 in 1876, then to current 11 in 1880

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There are 4 collge team that can hold more than 100,000 fans

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Pen state, beaver dam, Tennesees, Neyland, Michigan, Michigan stadium, Ohio, ohio stadium

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College football fields were orginally 20 yds long and 100 yds wide

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YOU GUESSED IT

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the most people to gather for a fame of football in texas is

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89, 442 this occured in 06 during the texas vs ohio games texas lost by 24-7

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in 1953, Tennesseee brought a number of dogs onto the field in an effort to find a mascot

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A blue tick bloodhound was named blue smokey and let out a loud howl. He was selected by the fans Since that time a blue tick bloodhound has always been used as the teams mascot. in 1991, Smokey VI, ended up on the teams injury report with heat exhuastion

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in the beginning, the balls used for college football were

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round

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Touchdowns in college football were orginally

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3 points

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The most popular names for 4 yr college mascots

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eagles, tigers

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Football came out of

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rugby

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Following number of deaths

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President Theodore roosevelt threatened to ban college football in 1906

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The NCAA was formed to govern sports

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and mass momentum plays like the flying wedge were banned

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Notre Dame

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has the most players in the college football hall of fame

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The first college football game was broadcast on television in 1939

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the teams involved were fordham university and waynesburg college

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In the 1985 organe bowl, oklahoma recieved a 15 yrd penealty due to the sooner schooner ( a coverd wagon pulled by two shetland ponies) racing onto the field to celebrate an OU field goal which had been waived off

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after the penealty was assessed, Ou missed the next attempt and lost the game`

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Quarterbacks from alabama won thefirst 3 superbowls

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they have more superbowl wins than quarterbacks from any other school ( Kenny stabler 1, Joe Namth 1, Bart Starr 2)

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Reveille, the collie mascot for Texas A&M, is commisioned as a 5 star general

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if a college team played in a bowl in 1954 they were banned from any bowl games in 1955. This was designed to give every team a chance to play

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The mascot for the university of california Santa Cruz, is

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the banana slug

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Throughout the 1960s, the university of florida kept a real-life alligator named albert on the

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sidelines

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During the 1950s, the naiton champion was selected prior to the bowl games being played.

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in 1950, oklahoma was named the national champion, despite the fact that they would later lose their bowl games

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in the 1899 army-navy game

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the navy arrived with a goat as theur mascot. The army did not have a mascot at the time, so they decided on a mule. A passing a ice-truck was stopped and the white mule pulling it became the 1st mascot for Army. These mascots would come to be referred to as general scott

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The miami hurricanes hold a record of 82 consecutive weks where a former huricane scored a touchdown in a

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NFL game

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in 1822, the president of yale college prohibited students from playing football.

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Violaters would be fined no more than 50 cents and reported to the dean

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in 1905, 18 men were killed in college football games

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159 were permantely injured

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College teams were penalized

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15 yrds for an incomplete forward pass in 1910

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the white stripes on a college football were designed to help the reciever

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see the ball better

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The biggest croud for a college football game was

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114,000 for the 1926 Army-Navy game. the game ended in a tie when it become to dark to play

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The first bowl game

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Rose bowl

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the first bowl game, later known as the rose bowl, was played in 1902 between michgan wolverines and stanford carnidals. Michigan won 49-0

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Michigan cornerback charles woodsoon was the 1st heisman trophy winner not to play offense and win.

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Hesiman was handouted since 1935

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and didnt go to woodson until 1997

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The first college football national champion was princeton. They recieve the honor in 1869 and played only 2 games

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in 1956, ohio state coach woody hayes attacked a tv camerman following a loss. in 1959, he tried to punch a sportswriter, but he missed and hit someone else. in 1978, he was fired for punching a opposing plyer for returing an INT along the sidelines

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The 1st american college team to play on foreign soil were the LSU tigers

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in 1907, they took on Havana University in the inagural bacardi bowl and defeated them 56-0

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The father of former oklahoma sooners coach barry switzer

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was a bootlegger

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the annual florida gergia game is considered by many the largest tailgate party

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the game starts saturday but fans start to arrive by wednesday and dont leave until sunday

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While playing for the University of Hawaii from 200-2004 quarterback timmy chang

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set the NCAA passing record for 17,072 yds

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The butkus ward, given to the nation best college linebacker, was created in 1985

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its recipent from 1985-1986 was oklahomas brains bosworth

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university of Chiraq runnicing back jay berwanger was the 1st heisman winner to selected with the top pick in the NFL dragt ( 1936)

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During a 1979 cotton bowl game, notre dame quarterback joe montana beganna suffering from hypothermia

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As a remedy joe montana was

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fed chick soup the soup bowl and spoon is in the college hall of fame

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according to studies, it is estimated that 30% of tailgaters

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never make it inside

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Miami hurricane quarterback vinny testaverde becme the 1st and ONLY platyer to win the Heisman

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the Maxwell, the O'brien and be selected the first overal draft in 1987

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in 1895, the North Carolina tar heels became the

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1st team to utilize the forward pas

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The rallying cry for Maryland terrapins is

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Fear the turtle

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The first organized cheerling yell was preforemed on

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Princteon campus in 1880s

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In the early yrs of college football, Tulsa develped

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Tower play. Two recivers would run down the field, stop, and then one reciever would lift the other onto his shoulder to make the catch this was banned in 1917

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During important plays of the game, some members of the texas A&M cadet corps would squeeze

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testicles

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Beginning in 1916, the georgia tech team was led onto the field by a 1930 model A ford sport coupe

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it was since developed into a tradion known was the ramblin wreck

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The mascot for th euniversity of Pennslyvania is

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Ben Franklin, looking like the real ben fran he sports a school uniform during the home game

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Bill the the goat is the mascot for the US naval academy. in 1968, the 16th bill died of accidental poision after weed killer was sprayed too close to his pen

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in 1971, the same thing killed Bill XVII ( 17th)

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With is blue playing surface the bronco stadium home to the boise state broncos is the only non green playing surface in the NCAA

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YUHH

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After coach Warren B. Woodson, was fired in 1967, the New mexico state aggies have only had 4 winning seasons

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in the last 40 seasons. Many fans have come to refrer to this extened slup as Woodsons scurese

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Bobby Grier, a black fullback and linebacker for the Pittsburg panthers, became the 1st plater to break the color barrier of th

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sugar bull in 1956

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Ted, the real-life bear mascot for baylor, was donated in 1917 by a local businessmen who won him in a

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poker game

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The west virgina mountaniers were the winningest Division 1-A team ( 663-442-45) to have

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never won a national title

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Starting in 1884, the rivalry is an annual showdown between Lehigh university and lafayette college.

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The team have played every year since 1897, making it the oldest uninterrupted rivalry in college football history

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Notre Dame has

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produced more all americans than any other D1 school

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Before changing their nickname to the spartans in 1925, San Jose State was previously known as

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daniels, teachers, pedagouges, normals and normalilites

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in 1961, Erine Davis of syracuse

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became the first all-american to win th hesiman trouphy

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the unoffical mascot of

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Darmouth college is Keggy the Keg a tounge- in cheek figure which parodies the stereotype of beer-swilling frat boys. Which the school having no offical mascot, keggy has become widely accept among the student body

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Whe UT achieves a win over rival texas A&M the UT tower

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is bathed in organe lights

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Rutgers

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is known as the birthplace of college football

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in 1925 game between texas tech and Mcmurry university,

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Techs kicker appeared to make a last-second field goal to give his team the win. The refferee,however rule the game time expried. The game ended in a 0-0 tie. it was later made that th ref made that call becuase he was passed up for their head coach

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Ed marinaro of cornell holds the record for most rushing yds per game

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From 1969-1971 Marinaro averaged 174.6 yds per game. He later became an actor, starring in such shows as hill streets blues and laverne shirley

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At the Division I level, teams must win at least 6 games to be eligible for a bowl game

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Norter dame has only had 12 losing seasons out of 118

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The longest field goal in college was

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69 yds

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Ove Johansson of Abilene christian in 1976

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made the longest field goal

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Joe minor, the mascot for missouri S&T carries a pickaxe, pistol and slide rule

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NF

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Auburn is the only school where

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joe heisman coached and actually produced an hesiman trophy-winning player

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Sylvester croom was hired as the coach of mississpi state in

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2003, this made him the 1st african american coach in SEC history

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South Carolina University Board of trustees voted in 1906

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to ban football this folowed complaints from faculty that the chants were bad furing the games. This led to a public outcry the ban was lifted in 1907

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Paul \"bear\" bryant was once said

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I would croak in a week if i dindt coach. he died 27 days after his last game

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The university of Mississpi rebel were once known as the mississpi flood

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there name was changed in 1935

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The 1st football squad for the university of georgia was formed in 1832.

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The chem teacher was their coach

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Whenever a dog serving for Reveille for Tecas A&M dies she is

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buried in a special cementart at the north end of the schools stadium

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Although their team neam is the cardnials

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their unoffical mascot is the stanford tree the mascot is is creasted each year by the incumbent tree

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The record for most consevutive games without being shut out belongs to BYU

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361 ganes over 28 yrs

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The NCAA banned the kicking TEE in 1988

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reqiurid it to kicked from the ground

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