Oldest rivalry in football
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jonriv wrote:Oldest rivalry in football
jonriv wrote:First use of helmet in a game
First forward pass
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
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).
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.
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.
Again, most of the factoids I through out there were was said by the anouncers-sorry for some inaccuarcies