Portal:College football/DYK archive
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For the purposes of tracking what "Did you Know" items have appeared on the portal, please list the articles here, along with the date they were removed. Please list the full DYK item as it appeared.
- ...that Johnny Bright was named Drake University's greatest football player of all time (1969), led the nation in total offense in 1950, and was a Heisman trophy candidate in 1951 before being injured during a Drake vs. Oklahoma A&M game in an incident that came to be known as the Johnny Bright Incident?
- -replaced 5 November 2006
- ...that one of RUF/NEKS' (an all-male pep squad at the University of Oklahoma) shotguns they use during football games is displayed in the Smithsonian Institution?
- - replaced 20 October 2005
- ...that the Slab of Bacon was a traveling black walnut wood awarded annually beginning in 1930 to the victor of a game between Big Ten Conference border rivals University of Minnesota and University of Wisconsin, but, having been lost in 1945, was replaced by three years thence by Paul Bunyan's Axe?
- - replaced 20 October 2005
- ...that the Texas Longhorn Band (pictured) performed for inaugurations of Presidents Theodore Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush and George W. Bush?
- - replaced 20 October 2005
- ...that Joel Klatt played minor league baseball for 2 years before walking on to the Colorado Buffaloes football? - replaced 29 Sept 2005.
