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College football is American football played by teams of students fielded by American universities and colleges, including United States military academies. It was the venue through which American football first gained popularity in the United States. College football remains extremely popular today among students, alumni, and other fans of the sport, particularly in the Southern and Midwestern parts of the country.
The first game played between teams representing American colleges was played under rules more similar to the 1863 rules of the English Football Association, the basis of the modern form of soccer. The game, between Rutgers University and Princeton University, took place on November 6, 1869 at College Field (now the site of the College Avenue Gymnasium), New Brunswick, New Jersey. Rutgers won, by a score of 6 "runs" to 4.
The Heisman Memorial Trophy Award (also known simply as the Heisman Trophy or The Heisman), named after former college football player and coach John W. Heisman, is considered the most prestigious award in American college football. It is awarded annually before the postseason bowl games.
The prestige in the award stems from a number of factors. Though balloting is open for all football players in all divisions of college, the winners usually represent Division I-A schools. In addition to incredible personal stats, team achievements play a heavy role in the voting - a typical Heisman winner represents a team that had an outstanding season and is most likely in contention for a DI-A national championship. Further prestige is granted by experience - no freshmen or sophomores have ever won the award, and only a few juniors have held the bronze trophy; the rest have been seniors. Finally, the Heisman is almost always awarded to a running back or a quarterback; very few players have won the trophy playing at a different position. (more}
The Rose Bowl, one of just four American football stadia to have been designated by the United States Department of the Interior as a National Historic Landmark, a stadium in the Los Angeles suburb Pasadena, California, United States, is best known for hosting annually an eponymous National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I bowl game and concomitant Tournament of Roses Parade and for having hosted by iterations of the National Football League's championship game.
Opened in 1922, the stadium saw its first Rose Bowl the next year and hosted the matchup between the champions of the Pacific Ten and Big Ten Conferences each year from 1947 to 1998. In 1998, the Rose Bowl game joined the Bowl Championship Series and the stadium has since hosted various elite teams; in January 2006, the BCS title game ending the 2005 season was contested at the Rose Bowl, as the University of Texas, in a contest described by many television commentators as the best championship game ever, claimed a three-point victory over the University of Southern California.
Wayne Woodrow "Woody" Hayes (February 14, 1913 – March 12, 1987) was an American football coach who is best remembered for his 28-year tenure at the Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio from 1951-1978.
As head coach with the Buckeyes, Hayes would lead his teams to a 205-61-10 record, winning five national championships ('54, '57, '61, '68, and '70), 13 Big Ten Conference titles and four of the team's eight Rose Bowl appearances. He's also the only coach to ever send a team to four consecutive Rose Bowl games. {more}
- ...that rior to the 1916 college football season, Zora G. Clevenger and John R. Bender in effect traded jobs as head football coach at Kansas State University and the University of Tennessee?
- ...that Joel Klatt played minor league baseball for 2 years before walking on to the Colorado Buffaloes football?
- ...that the Colorado Buffaloes football team will play their 1100th game this year against the Nebraska Cornhuskers on November 24, 2006?
- ...that during Jake Gaither's twenty-five year tenure as head football coach at Florida A&M University, his win-loss-tie record was 203-36-4, and his teams won twenty-two Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference championships and six Black College National Championships?
- ..that there are three Red River Shootout trophies given to the winner of the annual Red River Shootout, which is one of college football's oldest rivalry games, played between The University of Texas Longhorns and the University of Oklahoma Sooners?
- ...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?
- ...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?
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- ...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?
- ...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?
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- June 29, 2006 - Tragedy struck the Northwestern Wildcats football team when coach Randy Walker died, of an apparent heart attack. He was just 52 years old. The Northwestern community was stunned by the loss. Pat Fitzgerald was named the new head coach on July 7, 2006.
- June 2006 - Former Heisman trophy winning running back Ricky Williams, having been suspended for the 2006 NFL season for violating the League's substance abuse policy for a fourth time, agrees to a contract with the Toronto Argonauts, although he announces that he plans to return to the Dolphins in 2007.
- I like to believe that my best hits border on felonious assault. — former Ohio State Buckeyes defensive back Jack Tatum, on the fierce quality of his play
- If anything goes bad, I did it. If anything goes semi-good, we did it. If anything goes really good, then you did it. That's all it takes to get people to win football games for you. — University of Alabama Crimson Tide head coach Paul "Bear" Bryant, on his motivational techniques
- Let's win one for the Gipper. — University of Notre Dame Fighting Irish head coach Knute Rockne, imploring his team prior to a 1928 game against then-undefeated Army to win in honor of former Notre Dame halfback George "The Gipper" Gipp
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- Update List of college bowl games to be accurate. For example, Aloha Bowl is listed as defunct, but it is playing this year. See NCAA football bowl games, 2006-07 for list of bowl games this year.
- Rate a college football article from Category:Unassessed college football articles
- Add top-level information to Current sports events as it occurs. #1 ranking team games, other notable events.
- Improve an aritcle
- College GameDay - needs work
- List of 100 point games - Not wikified, introduction not encyclopedic, needs to WP:CITE
- List of schools by Bowl appearances - Incomplete
- De-stub an article from The college football stub category
