The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-10-01
Strange Things Happen
Even in Football


More things you should know
about this game called football.
with grateful acknowledgment to
gentleman who lives in the Juni-
alta Branch of Altoona, Pa, and re-
quests that his name shall not be
ilSed.)
George Washington u, Washing
ton, D. c., plays teams from seven
different states but makes no trips,
playing all games at home.
St. Mary's college, California, has
a student enrolment of 476-and a
stadium seating $4,000; Oglethorpe
~" Atlanta, Ga, has an enroll
ment of 500-and a stadium seat
ing $4,000.
In 1872 football game between
Columbia and Rutgers was called on
account of darkness.
In 1921 Cornell defeated Dart
mouth, SO to latter leading by
but single touchdown at he half.
Walter Camp once placed a Ne
braska player on his All-American
team who had graduated the year
before.
In 1916 Bill Fincher of the Georgia
Tech team booted eighteen consecu-
tive goals after touchdoWns in a
game that ended 222 to 0 against
Cumberland-incidentally one of the
highest scores ever made.
Pat O'Dea diop-kicked 81 yards
for Wisconsin in 1896 against North
weStern-in a snoWstorm.
Homer Hazel of the 1923 Rutgers
team kicked off to Villanova to
open the game. A few seconds lat
er he recovered fumble-scoring
on his own kickoff.
Walter Camp played on the Yale
team six years; Foster Sanford
played on the same team two years
before even entering the institution.
The game of football was almost
banished in 1897 in Georgia due to
the fatal injury to Vonalbade Gam
mon of the Georgia squad.
Bradsbury Robinson made an 81
yard pass in a st. Louis-Kansas
game in 1906. In 1920 Brick" Null
Ter of Ohio State snapped the ball
for a mere 70 yards.
Thad Brock of Davidson colleges
IN. c. 1929 team made a run of
102 yards yet failed to score
against Duke. He had attempted to
kick from eight yards behind his
goal line, changed his mind, ran,
and was dOwned on Dukes Six-yard
stripe.
Woodrow Wilson was the first
Princeton football coach to defeat
both Harvard and Yale; he origi-
mated the double pass and was re-
sponsible for the modern eligibility
rules. He also coached at Wesley
an.
The outstanding David Goliath
football game is still Centres con-
quest of Harvard in 1921. That was
back when Junk" Moran coached
Centre. His last coaching assign
ment was at Catawba college, Sal
isbury, N. c., two years age.
Centre college was one of the first
Southern teams to defeat a North
ern team on Northern soil.
Earle Clark of the Colorado col
lege team scored all the points for
both sides in 1929, the score stand
ing to 2 at the finish for Colorado
victory over Denver.
A University of North Carolina
player, Ike Norwood, in 1903 played
in the first game he had ever seen
and then played in every game dur
ing the season except one.
Picked Up Here and There-Ru-
mormongers whisper the only rea-
son Gene Venzke does not turn pro
is that nobody mentions the sort of
money Jesse Owens expects to
make. Also that if open track
meets become any sort of success
Gene Immediately will hop on the
band wagon but that, meanwhile,
he doesn't dare chirp about such
things for fear of getting in wrong
with the badge-wearing poo-bahs.
Gene, by the way, now carries
cane. 1t is a broken and discarded
iavelin he picked up on the Berlin
Olympic field Although he car
ries the smallest pair of glasses of
any racing devotee, veteran train
er Uncle Henry Mcdaniel never
misses seeing everything that's GO
ing on One of the most amaz-
ing sports reactions in history has
come over the Brooklyn fans. OF
course they still hate the Giants
but they actually are roofing for
the Terry team to win the pennant.
It looks as if the Brooklyn fans real
ly wanted to see the Giants and the
Yanks tough in the World Series.