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.
- Removed July 24, 2007
- ...that John Elway had led Stanford on what would have been the game winning drive culminating in a field goal... before the Cal football team ran over the Stanford Band on the last play of the game, in the game known as The Play. This was Elway's last game before becoming a pro, where he led the Denver Broncos to many comebacks.
- ...that the Sunflower Showdown, the series of athletic contests between Kansas State University and the University of Kansas, dates back to a dispute over the location of the state university in the 1860s?
- ...that the 1989 Glasnost Bowl was an attempt to schedule an American college football game in Soviet Russia at Moscow's Dynamo Stadium?
- ...that Auburn's first bowl game was the 1937 Bacardi Bowl, played in Havana, Cuba? The game against Villanova ended in a 7-7 tie.
- ...that the Rose Bowl was played in Durham, North Carolina in 1942 due to security concerns following the attack on Pearl Harbor? Oregon State beat Duke, 20-16.
- ...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 Texas Longhorns and the Oklahoma Sooners?
- Removed March 16, 2007
- ...that Michigan has more wins than any other Division I-A team at 848?
- ...that Kentucky has only won a single SEC championship in football? It came in 1950, under legendary coach Bear Bryant.
- ...that Miami has won the most national championships of any Division I collegiate football team in the last quarter century, with five (1983, 1987, 1989, 1991 and 2001)?
- ...that the Florida Gators have not beaten the Miami Hurricanes since 1985?
- ...that last season, Rutgers went to their second bowl ever? In the Insight Bowl, the Scarlet Knights lost to Arizona State, 45-40.
- ...that Chicago was a member of the Big Ten conference from 1896-1939 under head coach Amos Alonzo Stagg?
- ...that prior 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 the 2004 Texas Longhorn football team made college football history by being the first team to ever win the Rose Bowl Game as time ran off the clock?
- ...that the Colorado Buffaloes football team will play their 1100th game this year against the Nebraska Cornhuskers on November 24, 2006?
- ...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-Madison, 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.
