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Early days .... gli albori

nota: a breve la pagina sarà tradotta in italiano.

Hollywood featured college football until the late 1940s. That is because since the very first game in 1869 when Rutgers defeated Princeton, six goals to four, the country was taken by storm with the game (See picture). It reached its peak in 1928 on Red Grange Day held on Oct. 18, 1924 in Champaign, Ill. at the university’s newly dedicated Memorial Stadium. In the game, Grange led the Illini to a 39-14 homecoming victory over Michigan in the greatest individual performance in college football history. In the first 12 minutes, he ran for 262 yards and scored each of the first four times he touched the ball including a kickoff return for 95 yards. With a bog lead, he was rested until the third quarter when he rushed 13 yards for his fifth touchdown. In the fourth quarter, he passed to Marion Leonard for another score. Final numbers: 466 yards of total offense including six passes for 64 yards. Famous sports writer Grantland Rice is the one who named him the "Galloping Ghost." (see video below) 

A week before, Rice led his article on the Irish’s 13-7comeback victory over Army of Oct. 18, 1924 at the Polo Grounds with the headline, “Original Ride of the Four Horsemen.” He overheard another writer say that the play of quarterback Harry Stuhldreher, halfbacks "Sleepy" Jim Crowley and Don Miller and fullback Elmer Layden remined him of the Rudolph Valentino movie he'd recently seen, The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. After that they led Notre Dame to a 27-10 win over Stanford in the 1925 Rose Bowl culminating a perfect 10-0 record.

Then there was the famed "Win One for the Gipper" Speech on Nov. 10, 1928 (see "Knute Rockne, All American" made in 1940 when America first learned of the speech). Rockne used the speech in the locker room at Yankee Stadium prior to facing heavily favored Army. It worked as Notre Dame won 12-6. 

The amazing decade culminated with the classic wrong way run of California star center Roy Riegels on Jan. 1, 1929 during the Rose Bowl. The play began when Georgia Tech back "Stumpy" Thomason fumbled with Riegels gabbing it on the Yellow Jacket 36-yard line. He was hit and spun around and then scampered 64 yards to the first goal he saw – the opponents – during wild cheering. He finally stops at the Cal 1-yard line and is smothered there. A few plays later, Cal is forced to punt which is blocked for a safety that led to an 8-7 Georgia Tech victory. Nonetheless, the play made “Wrong Way” Riegels a national celebrity.

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1869 - 1899

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1900 - 1909

1902 - ARMY VS NAVY - PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT ON THE FIELD

1903 - MICHIGAN VS UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO - PART 1

1903 - MICHIGAN VS UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO - PART 2

1911 - BROWN OF HARVARD (MUTO)

Uscita: 11 Novembre 1911

The 1911 silent film is based on a play by Rida Johnson Young.

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1918 - BROWN OF HARVARD or TOM BROWN AT HARVARD (MUTO)

Uscita: 27 Dicembre 1918

The 1918 film, also known as Tom Brown at Harvard, is based on the play and novel by Gilbert Colman. Members of the Washington State football team, and their coach Carl "Lone Star" Dietz, participated in filming while in Southern California for the 1916 Rose Bowl.

The 1918 film included future Boston Redskins coach William "Lone Star" Dietz and the only Washington State University football team to win a Rose Bowl.

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