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by jonriv » Sat Nov 22, 2014 11:47 am

Oldest rivalry in football

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by PDad » Sun Nov 23, 2014 9:37 am

jonriv wrote:Oldest rivalry in football

FOURTH oldest (1884) behind Princeton-Yale (1873), Harvard-Yale (1875) and Harvard-Princeton (1877).

The Rivalry is the longest active continuously-played series (1897).
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by jonriv » Sun Nov 23, 2014 9:56 am

First use of helmet in a game

First forward pass

Real nice event at Yankee stadium. Also presidents of school rang closing bell at NYSE

At 150 meetings it is the rivalry that has played the most games
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by PDad » Sun Nov 23, 2014 10:56 am

jonriv wrote:First use of helmet in a game

First forward pass

I see claims that a Lafayette player invented the helmet in 1894, however the claim is highly questionable considering a Navy player had one made in 1893 to play in the Army-Navy game. Regardless, I haven't seen any mention of it first being used in a Rivalry game. Same goes with the huddle.

The first legal forward pass was in 1906 between St Louis and Carroll. The only connection to The Rivalry is the "inventor" later coached at Lehigh. However, the origin of the forward pass is 30 years earlier - prior to the start of The Rivalry.
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by jonriv » Sun Nov 23, 2014 12:10 pm

Went on by what was said on the cbs broadcast. Great story never-the-less

https://sports.vice.com/article/the-wei ... st-rivalry
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by PDad » Sun Nov 23, 2014 12:52 pm

jonriv wrote:Went on by what was said on the cbs broadcast. Great story never-the-less

https://sports.vice.com/article/the-wei ... st-rivalry

I'm not disparaging the series or it's participants. I simply corrected your post and you proceeded to dig a deeper hole. BTW, it's nevertheless.
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by as the world turns » Sun Nov 23, 2014 9:19 pm

:lol: Jonnnny, you failed to mention which NE school wore the first jockstraps.
Oh, they still don't wear them.
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by jonriv » Mon Nov 24, 2014 7:24 am

PDad wrote:
jonriv wrote:Oldest rivalry in football

FOURTH oldest (1884) behind Princeton-Yale (1873), Harvard-Yale (1875) and Harvard-Princeton (1877).

The Rivalry is the longest active continuously-played series (1897).



Not sure Princeton-Yale or harvard-Princeton would rate as rivals?-despite being in the same league.

The point was to show a longtime rivalry between two schools that are closer than many high school rivalries that have been playing against each other from the very beginnings of football. These two schools are high level academic schools that recruit and attract the same kind of students. It is a going joke around here that when visiting schools that it is required to vist both if in the area. Again, most of the factoids I through out there were was said by the anouncers-sorry for some inaccuarcies

Game drew mor than 40k fans at Yankee stadium- small compared to a Big Ten crowd, but the largest in this games history- and quite a crowd for such small schools
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by jonriv » Mon Nov 24, 2014 7:29 am

as the world turns wrote::lol: Jonnnny, you failed to mention which NE school wore the first jockstraps.
Oh, they still don't wear them.
Understandable.


The Jockstrap was developed in Boston for "Bicycle Jockeys" who rode their bikes over cobblestone streets(We can all understand that need!) :D

Also find it quite ironic that a "Granola" from California would question anyone else's manhood. Remember AWT-"People in grass houses should not get stoned"
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by PDad » Mon Nov 24, 2014 2:03 pm

jonriv wrote:The point was to show a longtime rivalry between two schools that are closer than many high school rivalries that have been playing against each other from the very beginnings of football. These two schools are high level academic schools that recruit and attract the same kind of students. It is a going joke around here that when visiting schools that it is required to vist both if in the area.

Hmm, JR speak with forked tongue. Why is it a joke in your area? What's the punchline?

Again, most of the factoids I through out there were was said by the anouncers-sorry for some inaccuarcies

Typical JR - it's never your fault. Congrats on the triple play - wrong word, misspelling and typo - in one sentence.
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