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College Football Flux Capacitor: Unearthing archaic headlines

A note to our Yankee cousins in the college football world:

In case you thought the bravado surrounding Southern football was a new invention (like all the talk of "Southern Speed" we inundated you with around bowl season), check out this headline from The Kingston Times ($) in 1937:

Well, you don't see headlines like that anymore. Of course the writer was using "retarded" in the proper sense; it's actually an article about the start of spring practice in advance of the 1937 season and how bad weather kept some teams from starting workouts on time. But it's all in how you read it.

Of note to Vol fans, that particular article mentions that while most programs were holding from 4-6 weeks of practice, Neyland was working the Tennessee boys for eight(!) weeks of drills.

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While the statement is not "PC" it remains technically accurate.

And wait a minute...you mean to tell me that teams didn't have practice domes in 1937?!  How on earth did the schools recruit back then?

by Aerobab on May 24, 2007 10:27 AM EDT reply actions   0 recs

Trash talk
Sounds like the kind of trash talk we might hear from a different school down South ...

by StudentBodyRight on May 24, 2007 4:11 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

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