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Weekly Trivia - 2008 won by mross34

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Schembeckler

BB73 - incorrect, please wait 3 minutes before attempting to answer the same question. Woody was Bo's coach at Miami, Ohio - not his roommate.
I know , was just being unfunny.
 
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sandgk;1115455; said:
Jim Otis
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Correct. Jim Otis was at Denison with Woody. His son Jim, who just had a BP alumni entry created this week, was at tOSU in the late 60's. Woody did not correspond with his former roommate during the time his son was in college. The grandson was at tOSU until the 2003 season.

Last question coming right up. Sandgk, how did you know the answer?
 
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Which Hall of Fame coach once led his team to a National Championship without yielding a point to the opposition, and later that same calendar year was the head coach for a different team for a few games?
 
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I'm gonna guess John Wilce here

BB73 - incorrect, please wait 3 minutes before attempting to answer the same question. Good guess - that's a Buckeye Hall of Fame coach, for those that don't know the name.

Ohio State had been playing intercollegiate football for 24 seasons, then joined the Western Conference in 1913. That same year, John Wilce entered the scene. His team won conference championships in 1916, 1917, and 1920. He retired from coaching after the 1928 season, having posted a record of 78-33-9. Wilce played football at Wisconsin and was all-Western fullback in 1908. While coaching, he obtained a medical degree at Ohio State in 1919 and joined the faculty of the College of Medicine. After his coaching ended he became a professor of preventative medicine. He retired from that post in 1959. His 1916 team beat Oberlin 128-0 and was unbeaten. The 1917 team, also unbeaten, outscored the opponents 292-6. He explained his departure from coaching: "Football was becoming too much of a business. The game was being taken away from the boys. I was a faculty-type coach who believed educational aspects were more important than winning games."​
 
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then lets try Francis Schmidt

BB73 - incorrect, please wait 3 minutes before attempting to answer the same question. Another Buckeye Hall of Fame coach, Francis "Close the Gates of Mercy" Schmidt, inventor of the Gold Pants.

Francis A. Schmidt was a brilliant strategist. His teams were high scorers and featured trick plays on the way to his career record of 158-57-11. His first team, at Tulsa in 1919, was unbeaten and outscored opponents 592-27. Among the victories were those over Oklahoma Baptist 152-0, Arkansas 63-7 and Oklahoma 27-0. He moved to Arkansas for seven years 1922-28. Then came five years at Texas Christian, a 46-6-5 record and two Southwest Conference championships. Next stop: Ohio State, seven years 1934-40, a 39-16-1 record and two Big Ten titles. Schmidt closed out with two years at Idaho, 1941-42, when that school was in the Pacific Coast Conference. His best remembered quote came from a speech to his team before a 1934 game with arch rival Michigan: "Those fellows are human; they put their pants on one leg at a time." Ohio State won the game 34-0 and thus was founded the Pants Club. Membership goes to any Ohio State player who takes part in a victory over Michigan. Members wear a gold lapel pin shaped like football pants. Thus, Francis A. Schmidt will always be remembered. Schmidt was born December 3, 1885, in Downs, Kansas. He won a letter in football at Nebraska in 1905. Schmidt served in the Army in World War I and rose to the rank of captain. He died September 19, 1944.​
 
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OK sticking with tOSU lets try Howard Jones. Anyone know where Excello , Ohio is?
Howard Jones was a staunch competitor, yet an untiring believer in fair play who became Yale's first paid coach. A star end for the Elis at the turn of the century, Jones returned to coach Yale in 1913 and was given $2,500 annual salary. Lack of talent drove him toward greener pastures a year later, and he would eventually enjoy great success at Iowa and Southern Cal. In 16 seasons at USC, Jones coached seven Pacific Coast Conference Championship teams, four National Champions and won each of the five Rose Bowls his Trojans played. The brother of Hall of Fame coach Tad Jones, his mind was never far from football - so much so, he often ignored traffic lights, lost socks and keys, and forgot appointments. Football prevailed in his life and he coached it with a sense of sportsmanship rarely matched. For example, moments before a USC-Stanford game, Jones visited the Stanford locker room and discovered Cardinal All-America halfback Bobby Grayson was nursing an injured knee. Jones returned to the USC quarters and instructed his players to avoid hitting Grayson in the crippled leg. They never did. All told, Jones' career record was 194-64-21, percentage .733, for 29 years at Syracuse, Yale, Ohio State, Iowa, Duke and Southern California.​

BB73 - incorrect, please wait 3 minutes before attempting to answer the same question.
I figured it was but it's great bringing out all the info on these great coaches again.​
 
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Gotta try this one just because of his nickname
Bernie "The Silver Fox of the Northland" Bierman
He also used the 3 yards technique apparently
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It has been said Bernie Bierman,"...never lost his temper, never raised his voice, never shed a tear, never appealed to sentiment and never played tricks on his teams." Bierman, himself, admitted, "I never made an emotional speech in my life." His teams were as low key and fundamental as his own personality, because Bierman believed in simple, common- sense football. And it won games! Starting in 1919, his University of Montana, Mississippi State, Tulane and Minnesota squads compiled a 146-62-12 record. The "Silver Fox of the Northland" gave Minnesota a 93-35-6 slate over a 16-season span which included six Big Ten Championships, five National Championships and five undefeated campaigns. He produced 14 Gopher All-Americans, including Hall of Famers Pug Lund, Ed Widseth, Dick Wildung, Clayton Tonnemaker, Bruce Smith, and Leo Nomellini. There was nothing razzle-dazzle about Bernie Bierman's tactics. It was straight single-wing football, and he was often chastised for running a "dull" offense. In response to his critics, Bierman replied, "If I found that four or five plays were doing the job, we stuck with them. Still, we probably had more plays than our opponents. I always figured that ball control with good execution is the best thing you can have.?​

BB73 - incorrect, please wait 3 minutes before attempting to answer the same question. FYI, Bierman coached Bud Wilkinson at Minnesota, who later coached Darrell Royal at Oklahoma.​
 
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buckeyes_rock;1115477; said:
walter camp
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Correct. It was in 1892. Yale went 13-0, outscoring the opposition 435-0, when TD's were worth 4 points. On the West Coast back then, they started the season later, so he coached Stanford for a few games in November and December.

The next sessions will be next Thursday at 10 a.m. and 8 p.m. Eastern time.
 
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