Posted on 09/15/2010 5:01:32 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson
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OK, it is a strange thing to post. But where else are you going to find this kind of information on the internet. If some graduate of Lowell Textile yearns to know when the big game with Panzer took place in 1940 this is the ideal place to find out. Maybe the only place left.
If any of these games greatly interests you let me know and I can look for Times coverage when the time comes. Otherwise, college football coverage won’t be exactly comprehensive
Notably missing is the University of Chicago, where atheist jerk president Maynard Hutchins had abolished football in 1939. He believed that sports, religion, among other things, were distractions.
I don’t think any other regular season game attracts as much attention on FR as the Army/Navy game. According to your schedule it was November 30 in 1940.
I remember seeing U. of Chi. on the schedule last year. They lack a football program to this day, don't they? I didn't know that was where Amos Alonzo Stagg coached. The only thing I knew about their football team was that Elmer Gantry starred there years earlier. I believe he was an end.
For sure I we will cover Army-Navy. After the 1941 season that may be the only sporting event we do cover.
ML/NJ
I think it’s great you post these articles. They combine two of my favorite subjects: history and sports.
This makes you appreciate how the college game has changed over the years. Some examples from cruising through the schedules:
Looks like most of what is now the Big 10 only play 8 games, while the SEC teams play 10. Some teams, like Pittsburgh, play almost everyone at home (main exception being a short trip to Columbus to play the Buckeyes). On the other hand, some teams like Arkansas and Florida, only play two games on their home fields.
I would say that the business aspect of college football has not yet taken hold. And perhaps that socialist president at Chicago (and yes, to this day they do not compete in any NCAA sport) may have had a point. Sports is a major distraction, and not wholly suited to academic endeavor.
But on the other hand, I had Indiana football season tickets many years and dutifully went to my six home games (so I could watch Indiana get their yearly ration of 3-4 wins). It was a distraction I enjoyed while I was there (culminating in Bob Knight’s gift to my senior class in 1981) and which I still enjoy with my sons today.
Look on the bright side. They will find another use for the stadium at UoC that will be of historical significance down the road.
What I noticed is that University of New Mexico is not on the list. As usual my Lobos get no love. So I looked it up myself and found the schedule:
9/28 @ Wyoming
10/4 vs. Western New Mexico
10/11 vs. *Arizona State
10/19 @ *Texas-El Paso
10/26 vs. Colorado State @ Denver, CO
11/9 vs. *New Mexico State
11/16 vs. *Northern Arizona
11/23 @ *Arizona
11/30 vs. *Texas Tech
Thanks for posting this. Brings back memories, not from the 1940 season, since I was pushing 1 at that time, but later.
Don’t know when Dad got the battery operated radio, but if it was in action that season, I probably was exposed to “Llyle Bremser KFAB and voice of the Huskers 1939-82 (Retired from KFAB 1987, passed away 1990)” quite early and became an early fan. I know that in later years the games were always on. Even latter I listened between loads during silo filling on the radio in the barn. One of Llyle’s significant influences was that every boy in Nebraska wanted to play football.
Looking at the schedule, one wonders how the teams traveled. One of the Nebraska games was in Pittsburgh. Train travel, although much more advanced than anything we have today, would still have taken quite a while. What were the passenger planes available? Don’t believe a Ford Tri-motor would carry the team.
Do remember that by 1960, the team traveled by charter air. Don’t remember what the planes were, but we on the cross country team flew along with the football team from Lincoln to Denver for action in Boulder.
USC started the Forties on a positive note by winning the Rose Bowl Game, but it looks as though the Trojans will have a tough schedule this fall. Nonetheless, I have confidence Coach Jones will rise to the occasion.
Fight on and cage the Cougars!
Thanks. I love this stuff. Reminds me of a time (although I wasn’t around that long ago) when college football really had some tradition, before TV basically destroyed it.
http://homepages.cae.wisc.edu/~dwilson/rsfc/history/howell/
Pick a year
http://homepages.cae.wisc.edu/~dwilson/rsfc/history/howell/cf1940gms.txt
By school
http://www.jhowell.net/cf/scores/byName.htm
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