Anybody out there anxious for College football? Only about 6 weeks until the season begins.
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College football is a lot of fun, especially the SEC: best action, finest athletes, prettiest cheerleaders, and most fun.
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I just read where Penn State will open 2014 against UCF in Ireland. I guess that's one way to get around the bowl ban. Going to Ireland will be like a bowl trip for those players.
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Read a short while ago that Johnny Football is in a bit of hot water. I sure hope this is not true as he is one great QB and has a great career ahead of him.
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I would like to see a few changes in amateur football that would make the game closer to what it was in the 1880s and 90s:
two 30 minute halves
a wider field = 63-70 yards
no blitz
rounder ball
soft pads/safety equipment
goal posts on the goal line
wider goal posts
backfield motion permitted (like the Notre Dame box single wing)
no shoulder charge tackling
limited substitutions
This will make a 60 minute game of football in 60 minutes and promote safety.
While this is not the modern day version of gridiron football, it is more in keeping with the old rugby game that it came from by having more FOOT in football. I prefer that it be that way but it is not likely to come back as it should.
two 30 minute halves
a wider field = 63-70 yards
no blitz
rounder ball
soft pads/safety equipment
goal posts on the goal line
wider goal posts
backfield motion permitted (like the Notre Dame box single wing)
no shoulder charge tackling
limited substitutions
This will make a 60 minute game of football in 60 minutes and promote safety.
While this is not the modern day version of gridiron football, it is more in keeping with the old rugby game that it came from by having more FOOT in football. I prefer that it be that way but it is not likely to come back as it should.
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caption identifies the player at the front as George Jewett - it is said he was the first great black college football player and started his career in 1890
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The Four Horsemen:
The Four Horsemen from left to right Don Miller, Elmer Layden, Jim Crowley, and Harry Stuhldreher.
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Outlined against a blue-gray October sky, the Four Horsemen rode again. In dramatic lore they are known as Famine, Pestilence, Destruction and Death. These are only aliases. Their real names are Stuhldreher, Miller, Crowley and Layden. They formed the crest of the South Bend cyclone before which another fighting Army football team was swept over the precipice at the Polo Grounds yesterday afternoon as 55,000 spectators peered down on the bewildering panorama spread on the green plain below.
~ ~ ~ Grantland Rice, October 1924
The Four Horsemen from left to right Don Miller, Elmer Layden, Jim Crowley, and Harry Stuhldreher.
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Outlined against a blue-gray October sky, the Four Horsemen rode again. In dramatic lore they are known as Famine, Pestilence, Destruction and Death. These are only aliases. Their real names are Stuhldreher, Miller, Crowley and Layden. They formed the crest of the South Bend cyclone before which another fighting Army football team was swept over the precipice at the Polo Grounds yesterday afternoon as 55,000 spectators peered down on the bewildering panorama spread on the green plain below.
~ ~ ~ Grantland Rice, October 1924
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Mark this down on your calendar!
Saturday, Sept 14 =
Texas A & M vs Alabama
Johnny Football vs the Tide!!!
Saturday, Sept 14 =
Texas A & M vs Alabama
Johnny Football vs the Tide!!!
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James Street - a man definitely born to win - RIP at age 65:
Former Texas Longhorns QB James Street, 65, dies - ESPN
Street made his first career start two games into his junior season in 1968 and went 20-0, with a Cotton Bowl Classic victory over Notre Dame in 1969 and a win over Arkansas in the matchup billed as the "Game of the Century."
LHN - Longhorn Legend James Street remembered - YouTube
He wasn't the flashiest player ever - but he had a strong will who played with great determination to win both in football and baseball. You just had to see him play. Never to be forgotten.
Former Texas Longhorns QB James Street, 65, dies - ESPN
Street made his first career start two games into his junior season in 1968 and went 20-0, with a Cotton Bowl Classic victory over Notre Dame in 1969 and a win over Arkansas in the matchup billed as the "Game of the Century."
LHN - Longhorn Legend James Street remembered - YouTube
He wasn't the flashiest player ever - but he had a strong will who played with great determination to win both in football and baseball. You just had to see him play. Never to be forgotten.
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The Iron Bowl!
Alabama-Auburn. What a game, what a finish!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fImYkZd_4RY
This is why so many of us love college football.
Alabama-Auburn. What a game, what a finish!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fImYkZd_4RY
This is why so many of us love college football.
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