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FOOTBALL TRIVIA:

1. The first intercollegiate college football game was played between which two teams?

2.From what well-known English game did American-style football evolve?

3. Which Yale graduate (Class of 1880) is generally recognized as the Father of American Football?

4. What famous play, since outlawed, became the sensation of collegiate football in 1892?

5. Which college team first drew national attention to the possibilites of the forward pass?

6. How wide is a regulation football field?

7. In what year was the first Rose Bowl game played?

8. What sobriquet did sportswriter Grantland Rice make famous folowing Notre Dame's victory over Army in 1924?

9. Name a former All-American halback who later became a U.S. Supreme Court justice.

10. Who won the first Super Bowl game?

11. What coach made famous the phrase "Run to daylight"?

12. Who was the first coach to use the platoon system?

Answers

1. Princeton against Rutgers (at New Brunswich, New Jersey, November 6, 1869.

2. Rugby

3. Walter C. Camp

4. The flying wedge. It was first used by Harvard against Yale.

5. Notre Dame. In 1913, Knute Rockne and Gus Dorais used pass plays to score a stunning upset over Army.

6. 160 feet

7. 1902, Michigan defeated Stanford, 49-0.

8. "The Four Horsemen." He was referring to Notre Dame's outstanding backfield of Stuhldreher, Layden, Miller and Crowley.

9. Byron ("Whizzer") White, University of Colorado.

10. Green Bay Packers. They defeated the Kansas City Chiefs, 35-10, in Los Angels in January 1967.

11. Vince Lombardi, coach of the Green Bay Packers. The phrase is commonly used to urge running backs to look instinctively for openings in the line through which they can make extra yardage.

12. Knute Rockne of Notre Dame, who substituted entire teams, which he called his "shock troops," back in the 1920's