Craziest Schedule

[89Hen]

Borrowing from OL FU's great thread about historical schedules, let's see what you think is your team's most remarkable season(s). Be it best, worst, strangest opponents....

I'm not sure I can top the UD season I posted of an 0-5-1 season in which the Hens didn't score a single point, but...

Perhaps 1894 (1-1) losing one game 36-0 and winning the other 38-0. :eyebrow:

1895 (1-3) lost twice to Swarthmore, once to the "Alumni" (2-0) but still beat stinking Villanova :thumbsup:


1903 (4-4) only one game where the losing team scored...
Wins:
Washington College 27-0
Rutgers 5-0
Conference Academy 23-0
Maryland 16-0

Losses:
Swarthmore 11-0
St. John's 5-0
Western Maryland 16-6
Haverford 37-0

1912 (1-6-1) Hens score no points in the first 7 games then beat Maryland (Baltimore) 50-0


Strangest opponents:
Battleship Minnesota
Conference Club of Dover
Delaware Field Club of Wilmington
Lakehurst Naval Air Station (5 years after the Hindenburg)
Medico-Chirurgical
Philadelphia Manual Training School
Rhode Island State (who knew?)
U.S. Radio Training School
Warren Club of Wilmington
Wilmington High School :confused:
Wilmington Y.M.C.A.

[BigApp]

we played "Parris Island Marines" in the 1930's

[HiHiYikas]

ASU posted 61 shutouts between 1929 and 1939. That includes eight 0-0 ties, but hey, if the defense brings it...

For some reason, the Mountaineers played 14 games in 1931, including 4 weekday games, and two games on consecutive days.

Saturday, Sep 19 Campbell W 20-6
Saturday, Sep 26 at Lenoir-Rhyne W 6-0
Saturday, Oct 3 High Point W 20-0
Saturday, Oct 10 at King W 20-0
Saturday, Oct 17 Piedmont W 24-12
Saturday, Oct 24 at Catawba W 7-6
Thursday, Oct 29 at Navy Apprentice W 25-12
Friday, Oct 30 at Langley Field L 3-6
Friday, Nov 6 at Maryville T 6-6
Saturday, Nov 14 Bowden T 6-6
Saturday, Nov 21 Concord W 25-0
Thursday, Nov 26 at Glenville State L 6-25
Saturday, Dec 5 Catawba W 15-7

I can't find 'Parris Island Marines' anywhere in the media guide. They would fall between "Oak Ridge" and "Piedmont" in the list of all-time opponents, I'd guess (or maybe between "Maine" and "Marshall")

[JMG1MON]

Well, our worst season was either 1999 or 2002 (only been around 14 seasons).

I don't know too much about our beginnings, but the strangest games I have witnessed since I have been following Monmouth are the 2001 Towson game and the 2002 St. Francis (PA) game.

Towson game, score was 14-7 Monmouth at halftime, all three scores were defensive, including 2 90+ yard interception returns for tds. Monmouth also completed only 3 passes out of 10 that game, except they were all to Towson. Monmouth was outgained 384-119 yards but managed to stop Towson on the last play of the game at the half yard line to win the game

St. Francis game, my dad turns to me and says at halftime (score was 0-0) that whoever scores a defensive td will win this game. First play from scrimmage of the 2nd half, Monmouth intercepts a pass and takes it to the house for the only scoring of the game, MU wins 7-0. There were 5 missed field goals including 3 blocks. It was absolutely horrible to watch.

[poly51]

Cal Poly's first year of football 1915 Record 1-0-1
Santa Barbara HS 6-6 Tie
Beat Santa Barbara HS 17-14

Best Seasons
From November 11, 1932 through October 20, 1934 Cal Poly was Unbeaten, Untied and Unscored Upon. That is 12 games including the entire 7 game 1933 season. Cal Poly outscored their opponents 170-0.


Cal Poly was Unbeaten and Untied in 1953 with wins over Fresno State and San Diego State. They outscored their opponents 395-65.

Worst Seasons
The Cal Poly team airplane crashed in 1960 at Toledo Airport after a 6-50 loss to Bowling Green killing 16 players and 1 booster.

Cal Poly was 0-10 in 1964 and was outscored by opponents 74-335.

Best Season Ever 1980. Record 10-3. Division II National Champions. 2 of the 3 losses were to Division I-A teams Fresno State and Cal State Fullerton. 1 win was over Boise State the 1980 I-AA Champion and 1 was over Eastern Illinois for the National Championship.

[HiHiYikas]

ASU has one 1-win season (1945)and two 2-win seasons (1952 and 1977). Those are the worst.

The 1945 season was strange, in that the Mountaineers played only 7 games, against only 5 opponents.

Sep 29 Milligan L 7-26
Oct 6 at Milligan L 7-9
Oct 13 Oak Ridge L 7-27
Oct 20 at High Point L 12-13
Oct 27 Guilford W 7-6
Nov 3 at Catawba L 0-55
Nov 10 High Point L 13-31

[BigApp]

I can't find 'Parris Island Marines' anywhere in the media guide. They would fall between "Oak Ridge" and "Piedmont" in the list of all-time opponents, I'd guess (or maybe between "Maine" and "Marshall")

hmm...

[BigApp]

ok, the media guide only goes back to 1940, this Parris Island game was in 1932. A 6-6 tie was the final.

We also played Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College that year too.

[Cobblestone]

Swarthmore ... sad what happened at that school. Some elitist college president didn't like "the image" that a football program brought upon his university so he drops the program. I guess nobody told that stuck-up a-hole that schools like Harvard, Yale and MIT have football programs. Somehow I think the reputations of those schools are perfectly fine.

[DFW HOYA]

Georgetown opened its 1916 season with a 13-7 loss to Navy, its traditional rival in the early years. For its next nine games, it outscored opponents 467-20, including scores such as:

Georgetown 61, NC State 6
Georgetown 78, Bucknell 0
Georgetown 47, George Washington 7
Georgetown 62, Tulane 0

[HiHiYikas]

ok, the media guide only goes back to 1940, this Parris Island game was in 1932. A 6-6 tie was the final.

We also played Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College that year too.
What Media guide are you reading? This one (http://goasu.com/autoimage/p7dnxF0.pdf) goes all the way back to 1928 and lists the 1932 season as:

Sep 24 at North Carolina State L 0-31
Oct 7 High Point L 7-13
Oct 14 Lenoir-Rhyne W 6-0
Oct 21 Navy Apprentice W 7-3
Oct 28 Catawba W 7-0
Nov 5 Western Carolina W 20-0
Nov 12 West Virginia Tech T 14-14
Nov 18 at Maryville L 0-7
Nov 25 at Georgia Southern L 0-33
Dec 1 at East Carolina W 21-0

[YaleFootballFan]

From 1890-93, Yale won 35 straight games and didn't allow a single point in any of those games.

Yale had so many good teams and undefeated seasons from 1872-1924 it's hard to determine which one was the best team. Yale won an amazing 26 National Championships during that span.

Best Yale teams in the modern era - 1960, 1968 and 1981.

Worst Yale teams - 1983 and 1997 (both 1-9 seasons, but '97 was probably a worse team because the '83 team played a difficult schedule that consisted of William & Mary and Boston College).

[appfan2008]

In ASU's first season we played schools i have never heard of or knew had football teams at one time...
Wilkesboro?
Mountain City?
Lees-McRae (who knew they had a team them)
Belmont Abbey...
man times have changed
it makes me wonder what they will be like in the future

[PaladinFan]

Some of those games were back in the day when Duke was in the national championship picture....

[Mr. C]

Cal Poly's first year of football 1915 Record 1-0-1
Santa Barbara HS 6-6 Tie
Beat Santa Barbara HS 17-14

Best Seasons
From November 11, 1932 through October 20, 1934 Cal Poly was Unbeaten, Untied and Unscored Upon. That is 12 games including the entire 7 game 1933 season. Cal Poly outscored their opponents 170-0.


Cal Poly was Unbeaten and Untied in 1953 with wins over Fresno State and San Diego State. They outscored their opponents 395-65.

Worst Seasons
The Cal Poly team airplane crashed in 1960 at Toledo Airport after a 6-50 loss to Bowling Green killing 16 players and 1 booster.

Cal Poly was 0-10 in 1964 and was outscored by opponents 74-335.

Best Season Ever 1980. Record 10-3. Division II National Champions. 2 of the 3 losses were to Division I-A teams Fresno State and Cal State Fullerton. 1 win was over Boise State the 1980 I-AA Champion and 1 was over Eastern Illinois for the National Championship.
I knew some of the people who survived the 1960 plane crash. What a tragic story.

The irony of the 1980 loss to my alma mater, Fresno State, was that in 1979 the Mustangs just killed us in San Luis Obispo with the same players, WR-KR Robbie Martin, RB Louis Jackson (who was from Fresno) etc. They shut us out. We really wanted to beat you bad in 1980. We were also a lot better with former Montana State coach Jim Sweeney back as our head coach after a two-year journey into the NFL.

[Mr. C]

In ASU's first season we played schools i have never heard of or knew had football teams at one time...
Wilkesboro?
Mountain City?
Lees-McRae (who knew they had a team them)
Belmont Abbey...
man times have changed
it makes me wonder what they will be like in the future
The Wilkesboro and Mountain City games were against HIGH SCHOOL teams.

Lees-McRae had a great football tradition until financial problems at the college forced the Bobcats to drop their program. Believe it, or not, Lees-McRae still has a player in the NFL, WR Troy Brown (who transferred to Marshall after the Bobcats dropped their program).

Belmont-Abbey was one of the many Catholic schools that dropped football during a particular time period. Dropping football is always a mistake.

[Mr. C]

From 1890-93, Yale won 35 straight games and didn't allow a single point in any of those games.

Yale had so many good teams and undefeated seasons from 1872-1924 it's hard to determine which one was the best team. Yale won an amazing 26 National Championships during that span.

Best Yale teams in the modern era - 1960, 1968 and 1981.

Worst Yale teams - 1983 and 1997 (both 1-9 seasons, but '97 was probably a worse team because the '83 team played a difficult schedule that consisted of William & Mary and Boston College).
It would be hard to consider ANY Yale team better than that 1968 squad that included Brian Dowling at QB (remember the BD character from Doonesberry?) and Calvin Hill at RB.

[Mr. C]

ASU has one 1-win season (1945)and two 2-win seasons (1952 and 1977). Those are the worst.

The 1945 season was strange, in that the Mountaineers played only 7 games, against only 5 opponents.

Sep 29 Milligan L 7-26
Oct 6 at Milligan L 7-9
Oct 13 Oak Ridge L 7-27
Oct 20 at High Point L 12-13
Oct 27 Guilford W 7-6
Nov 3 at Catawba L 0-55
Nov 10 High Point L 13-31
You've got to remember that WWII was still going on in 1945. Most schools didn't play football at all during the years from 1942-45.

[citdog]

You've got to remember that WWII was still going on in 1945. Most schools didn't play football at all during the years from 1942-45.

We didn't play a down during those years and the ENTIRE Class of '44 was taken out of The Citadel and sent to fight. The Class of '44 is known as "The Class That Never Was"

[andy7171]

Well, our worst season was either 1999 or 2002 (only been around 14 seasons).

I don't know too much about our beginnings, but the strangest games I have witnessed since I have been following Monmouth are the 2001 Towson game and the 2002 St. Francis (PA) game.

Towson game, score was 14-7 Monmouth at halftime, all three scores were defensive, including 2 90+ yard interception returns for tds. Monmouth also completed only 3 passes out of 10 that game, except they were all to Towson. Monmouth was outgained 384-119 yards but managed to stop Towson on the last play of the game at the half yard line to win the game

St. Francis game, my dad turns to me and says at halftime (score was 0-0) that whoever scores a defensive td will win this game. First play from scrimmage of the 2nd half, Monmouth intercepts a pass and takes it to the house for the only scoring of the game, MU wins 7-0. There were 5 missed field goals including 3 blocks. It was absolutely horrible to watch.
Is this the game that was played in a monsoon? I remember listening to a Towson Monmouth game on the radio and the commentators said half the field was covered with water from all the rain.

[JMG1MON]

Don't think it was that one. Only thing about the weather I remember was the 20+ mph winds and thinking that the lift I was in would topple over (was filming from the goalline).

[Zim262]

We didn't play a down during those years and the ENTIRE Class of '44 was taken out of The Citadel and sent to fight. The Class of '44 is known as "The Class That Never Was"


May we never forget the "Class That Never Was". For without them and all of the others who made the ultimate sacrifice for us we wouldn't enjoy the freedoms that we have today.

[andy7171]

Don't think it was that one. Only thing about the weather I remember was the 20+ mph winds and thinking that the lift I was in would topple over (was filming from the goalline).
I hated the endzone shot! There is no hiding from that view! :(

[BigApp]

What Media guide are you reading?

2006...I just noticed mine has pages 187/188 missing! xlolx

[74AppState]

there were lots of strange schedules during WWII

[walliver]

there were lots of strange schedules during WWII

There were also a lot of great teams in the late 40's when the vets came home and these battle-hardened heroes hit the gridiron.:nod:

[JMG1MON]

I hated the endzone shot! There is no hiding from that view! :(

This is true, although I was so cold, I did an absolute horrible job. My fingers were practically frozen together after the game. Only good thing was I did have a birdseye view of the final play and just how close Towson got to tying the game.

[poly51]

there were lots of strange schedules during WWII

Included in Cal Poly wartime schedule were:

11-11-1941 Cal Poly 14-160th Infantry Division 0
10-4-1942 Cal Poly 26- Fort Ord 7
10-25-1942 Cal Poly 50-Stockton Army Base 0
1943-1944 No Games
10-6-1945 Cal Poly 0-Camp Cooke 46 Camp Cooke was US Army. It became Vandenberg AFB
10-27-1945 Cal Poly 0-Goleta Marines 42
11-4-1945 Cal Poly 0-Minter Field (Army Air Corp) 19
11-2-1946 Cal Poly 34-San Diego NTC 6
11-16-1946 Cal Poly 26-El Toro Marines 0