User:Johntex/college football/Did you know

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• ...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-Madison, 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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