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Son of Eli
September 29th, 2021, 03:31 PM
https://www.espn.com/espnplus/player/_/id/f4f5c916-415d-4a71-9c36-bec9f3b24d14#bucketId=19502

Bogus Megapardus
September 29th, 2021, 03:55 PM
Pop quiz - which was the first non-Ivy school to be voted national collegiate champion? :D

Hint: beating Penn was the clincher.

DFW HOYA
September 29th, 2021, 05:28 PM
Pop quiz - which was the first non-Ivy school to be voted national collegiate champion? :D


No title was awarded contemporaneously prior to 1901, the 19th century selections are all retroactive. It also helped that one of the chief selectors, Parke Davis, voted an Ivy each year through 1913, although he slipped in two titles for Lafayette College, where he coached from 1895-1897, and awarded LC a third national title in 1926 over Alabama and Stanford with a schedule that included such national powers as Muhlenberg, Albright, Dickinson, Washington & Jefferson, and Susquehanna.

Good thing he wasn't hired at Lehigh, correct? xlolx

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1926_Lafayette_Leopards_football_team

Bogus Megapardus
September 29th, 2021, 05:35 PM
No title was awarded contemporaneously prior to 1901, the 19th century selections are all retroactive. It also helped that one of the chief selectors, Parke Davis, voted an Ivy each year through 1913, although he slipped in two titles for Lafayette College, where he coached from 1895-1897, and awarded LC a third national title in 1926 over Alabama and Stanford with a schedule that included such national powers as Muhlenberg, Albright, Dickinson, Washington & Jefferson, and Susquehanna.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1926_Lafayette_Leopards_football_team

Just stop it. Read the question: "Which was the first non-Ivy school to be voted national collegiate champion?"

You know the answer.

DFW HOYA
September 29th, 2021, 05:36 PM
Just stop it. Read the question: "Which was the first non-Ivy school to be voted national collegiate champion?"

You know the answer.

"The 1896 Lafayette football team represented Lafayette College in the sport of American football during the 1896 college football season. The team was retroactively selected as the co-national champion by two selectors, the National Championship Foundation and Parke H. Davis. Lafayette's national championship this season was one of the most surprising and dramatic in the early history of college football."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1896_Lafayette_football_team

Ivytalk
September 30th, 2021, 09:09 AM
Heck, why pay for streaming? I can see Ryan Fitzpatrick most Sundays for free.

bulldog10jw
September 30th, 2021, 10:45 AM
Heck, why pay for streaming? I can see Ryan Fitzpatrick most Sundays for free.

Have to say, he does have a great beard.

OhioHen
September 30th, 2021, 01:06 PM
Have to say, he does have a great beard.

His hockey team just keeps on winning playoff series after playoff series.

CenMEBlackBearFan
September 30th, 2021, 02:00 PM
https://www.espn.com/espnplus/player/_/id/f4f5c916-415d-4a71-9c36-bec9f3b24d14#bucketId=19502

Tremendous video, educational and humorous with no other than this year's #1 sports commentator, Eli Manning.xrotatehx
Thinking the title of the link might have turned some people off, it is very will done.