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  Message Not Read  Wait til next year . . . 1908 style . . .
   Posted: 1/23/2019 11:57:34 AM 

Thought you folks might get a kick of this entry from the 1908 Athena yearbook. Looks like Marietta College was the big rival back then.

Last Edited: 1/23/2019 12:00:31 PM by OhioCatFan

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  Message Not Read  RE: Wait til next year . . . 1908 style . . .
   Posted: 1/23/2019 12:07:04 PM 
Considering that we scored ten or fewer points in all but one game, my guess is we ran a lot of BUTM.

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   Posted: 1/23/2019 12:18:45 PM 
The most amusing thing about this article, was the name they gave for Marietta College. ;)

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  Message Not Read  RE: Wait til next year . . . 1908 style . . .
   Posted: 1/23/2019 12:23:29 PM 
OhioCatFan wrote:
Thought you folks might get a kick of this entry from the 1908 Athena yearbook. Looks like Marietta College was the big rival back then. https://www.idiosyncraticphoto.com/BobcatAttack/i-tPNkKFj/A

Humiliating that the men lost to the OU women 6-0.
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  Message Not Read  RE: Wait til next year . . . 1908 style . . .
   Posted: 1/23/2019 12:39:23 PM 

Thought you might like to see what these '07 OHIO dudes looked like.  I particularly like the threads and cap being worn by the coach.

 

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   Posted: 1/23/2019 12:45:32 PM 
I know its not,but the third guy from the left,in the front row,reminds me of
a young FDR.
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  Message Not Read  RE: Wait til next year . . . 1908 style . . .
   Posted: 1/23/2019 1:54:06 PM 
L.C. wrote:
The most amusing thing about this article, was the name they gave for Marietta College. ;)


Marietta College outscored their opponents 286-13 in 1906, so maybe they were a team of Ringers? They gave up one TD all year, OSU scored a FG, WVU and OHIO a safety.

The Marietta v. the Alumni game was closer than the Marietta OHIO game in 1907.
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   Posted: 1/23/2019 4:15:54 PM 
OhioCatFan wrote:
Thought you might like to see what these '07 OHIO dudes looked like. I particularly like the threads and cap being worn by the coach.
https://www.idiosyncraticphoto.com/BobcatAttack/i-tdp8s9M/A


So you missed that picture because you were on the coal tender servicing the Maine in Havana Harbor??? Asking for a friend, of course.

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   Posted: 1/23/2019 5:11:20 PM 
Three of the four scores in the first two games is 5. I wonder how many times in Ohio football history since than a team has scored exactly 5 points.
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   Posted: 1/23/2019 5:17:36 PM 
To understand the scores here, you need to know that from 1897 to 1912 a touchdown was five points, and the goal after touchdown added another point. Not sure what the scoring was before that. I believe a safety has always been two points, but I'm not sure of that.

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   Posted: 1/23/2019 5:21:54 PM 
OhioCatFan wrote:
To understand the scores here, you need to know that from 1897 to 1912 a touchdown was five points, and the goal after touchdown added another point. Not sure what the scoring was before that. I believe a safety has always been two points, but I'm not sure of that.


Well, I may have been wrong about safeties. Upon further exhaustive, one minute internet research, it looks like you might not have been able to score a safety until 1912, when the end zone was added. Before that a pass caught beyond the goal line resulted in a change of possession and a touchback.

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   Posted: 1/23/2019 5:26:30 PM 
oldkatz wrote:
OhioCatFan wrote:
Thought you might like to see what these '07 OHIO dudes looked like. I particularly like the threads and cap being worn by the coach.
https://www.idiosyncraticphoto.com/BobcatAttack/i-tdp8s9M/A


So you missed that picture because you were on the coal tender servicing the Maine in Havana Harbor??? Asking for a friend, of course.



Shh . . . there's always been so much discrimination against us Spanish War Veterans, I don't like to admit that involvement in that shameful little war. ;-)

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   Posted: 1/24/2019 11:44:18 AM 
Another photo for your off-season viewing enjoyment of that mediocre 1907 OHIO football team from the 1908 Athena:



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   Posted: 1/24/2019 12:08:50 PM 
Lot's of good stuff in this 1908 Athena. Here are two more shots. One appears to be actual game action, unusual for that time period. And, the other clearly shows that the team had moved by 1907 to the stadium that was located where Porter Hall now stands. I recognize the look of the inside of that stadium. As I said, as a kid that was the baseball stadium. I've never been clear whether it was built as a baseball stadium, and was simply used by the football program from sometime in the early 1900s until Peden was built in 1929. Or, alternately, was it built as a football stadium and then re-purposed as baseball stadium when the football team moved to Ohio Stadium (later renamed Peden). My guess is the former, but I don't know for sure.



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   Posted: 1/24/2019 12:42:55 PM 
And, speaking of baseball, here's the baseball team. It's a little unclear whether this photo is of the 1907 or the 1908 team. Next to it they list the scores for 1907 and the schedule for 1908.

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   Posted: 1/24/2019 12:46:51 PM 
Thanks much for posting these photos that provide slices of Ohio's history.

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   Posted: 1/24/2019 2:56:28 PM 
Solich was a GA that year wasn't he?

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   Posted: 1/24/2019 11:22:13 PM 
UpSan Bobcat wrote:
Three of the four scores in the first two games is 5. I wonder how many times in Ohio football history since than a team has scored exactly 5 points.


Um, last one was Utah State
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