Today in College Football History
American Football Topics: American Football Championships - American Football Coaches - American Football Hall of Fame - American Football Leagues - American Football Players - NFL Teams
Events in Sport
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1875-11-13 - Harvard-Yale game is 1st college football contest with uniforms
1892-12-27 - N C Biddle beats Livingston 4-0 in 1st black college football game
1932-11-19 - Joe Kershalla scores 71 points in a college football game
1939-09-30 - 1st televised college football game (Fordham vs Waynesburg at NYC)
1945-11-10 - College football's #1 Army beats #2 Notre Dame 48-0
1980-01-01 - Alabama beats Arkansas in Sugar Bowl for college football championship
1980-09-06 - College football longest losing streak of 50 games ends for
1981-01-01 - Georgia beats Notre Dame in Sugar Bowl for college football title
1981-11-28 - Bear Bryant wins his 315th game to out distance Alonzo Stagg & become college football's winningest coach
1982-01-01 - Clemson wins the Orange Bowl for college football championship
1983-01-01 - Penn State beats Georgia in Sugar Bowl for college football title
1984-01-02 - Miami beats Nebraska in Orange Bowl for college football championship
1984-06-27 - Supreme Court ends NCAA monopoly on college football telecasts
1985-01-02 - Undefeated BYU becomes college football champions
1985-08-23 - Paul Hornung awarded $1,160,000 by a Louisville court against NCAA who barred him as a college football analyst for betting on games
1986-01-01 - Oklahoma wins Orange Bowl for college football championship
1987-01-02 - Penn State upsets Miami in Fiesta Bowl for college football champ
1988-01-01 - Miami beats Oklahoma for college football championship
1988-12-19 - Oklahoma's College football team gets 3 year probation
1989-01-02 - Notre Dame beats West Virginia for college football championship
1990-01-10 - NCAA approves random drug testing for college Football Players
1996-09-28 - Troy Davis of Iowa State ran for 378 yards, 3rd highest in college football games (others: Michigan, Notre Dame, Texas & Alabama)
Birthdays in Sport
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1883-03-01 - Thomas Shelvin, college footballer great (Yale)
1893-12-06 - Lou Little, college football hall of fame coach (elected 1960)
1897-02-15 - Earl H Blaik, Det, college football hall of fame coach (elected 1965)
1913-02-14 - Woody Hayes, [Wayne], college football coach (Ohio, 1968 coach of the year)
1916-04-23 - Bud Wilkinson, college football coach (Oklahoma)
1919-02-13 - Eddie Robinson, winningest college football coach (Grambling)
1937-02-23 - Tom Osborne, college football coach
1951-10-31 - Nick Saban, American college football coach
1954-09-25 - Sylvester Croom, American college football coach
1960-11-10 - Dan Hawkins, American college football coach
1987-05-11 - Louis Murphy, American college football player
1988-02-07 - Matthew Stafford, American college football player
1988-03-08 - Armanti Edwards, American college football player
Deaths in Sport
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1980-01-10 - Bo Rein, American college football coach (b. 1945)
1983-01-26 - Paul "Bear" Bryant, college football coach (Alabama), dies at 69
2001-12-06 - Charles McClendon, Hall of Fame college football coach (b. 1923)
2009-12-02 - Foge Fazio, American college football coach (b. 1938)
