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1. Princeton against Rutgers (at New Brunswich, New Jersey, November 6, 1869.
2. Rugby.
3. Walter C. Camp.
4. The flying wedge. It was first used by Harvard against Yale.
5. Notre Dame. In 1913, Knute Rockne and Gus Dorais used pass plays
6. 160 feet.
7. 1902, Michigan defeated Stanford, 49-0.
8. "The Four Horsemen." He was referring to Notre Dame's outstanding
9. Byron ("Whizzer") White, University of Colorado.
10. Green Bay Packers. They defeated the Kansas City Chiefs, 35-10,
11. Vince Lombardi, coach of the Green Bay Packers. The phrase is
12. Knute Rockne of Notre Dame, who substitued entire teams,
Fordham U, NYC, was th host to Waynesburg, a Pa school,
in the first football game ever televised, in 1939, Fordham won, 34-7.
Theodore Roosevelt threatened to ban college football in 1905. Eighteen players had died
of injuries that year and 73 were seriously hurt. One of Roosevelt's sons, a freshman
at Harvard, came home from the first day of practice with a black eye. At the President's
urging, the flying wedge was outlawed as a move, and a neutral zone between opposing
lines was instituted. Roosevelt's demands to outlaw rough play led to the
Rules Committee leagalizing the forward pass in 1906.
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