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RE: Sports trivia thread 2022 - BobK - 06-27-2022
Hutchinson played a couple of games for the baseball Cardinals
Merriman the 5th football and baseball at Stanford and MLB
So one more basketball to MLB
RE: Sports trivia thread 2022 - Giants - 06-27-2022
Hutchinson pitched in three games in 2001 for the Cards (24.75 ERA).
RE: Sports trivia thread 2022 - Phogge - 06-27-2022
Howie Dallmar, Don Burness, Jim Pollard?
RE: Sports trivia thread 2022 - BobK - 06-27-2022
Dave Frost. MLB at Stanford baseball and basketball plus a JC transfer
RE: Sports trivia thread 2022 - Phogge - 06-27-2022
Answers for the peanut gallery:
Roy Campanella has the highest % throwing out runners.
Russ Nixon with over 2,000 AB's never stole a base. Had speed like Bobbbbbbbbbb.
What is the connection between a defunct pro basketball team and a failed presidential candidate who once cried at a press conference?
RE: Sports trivia thread 2022 - Phogge - 06-27-2022
The Minnesota Muskies were an original ABA team in 1967.
RE: Sports trivia thread 2022 - Giants - 06-28-2022
Phogge mentioned Andy Messersmith in another post. Reading his name reminded me of the followIng question.
What number (and why) was Messersmith assigned when he signed a free agent contract with the Braves?
RE: Sports trivia thread 2022 - Phogge - 06-28-2022
Wild guess, could it have been Curt Flood's number?
RE: Sports trivia thread 2022 - Mick - 06-29-2022
Two bits of Barry Bonds trivia:
1) Did Barry have more career intentional base on balls (walks) or more home runs? He is MLB career leader in both.
2) Which distance is further, the distance Barry covered by going around the bases for home runs, or the distance covered by his walks + stolen bases put together?
RE: Sports trivia thread 2022 - Giants - 06-29-2022
#17.
Turner Broadcasting was Channel 17 in Atlanta and Ted Turner wanted to link the free agent signing and his television station.
Heck, I can remember when I first got cable in 1984. I regularly watched the Cubs on WGN and Braves on TBS. Marketing wizardry for both clubs……
RE: Sports trivia thread 2022 - Mick - 07-06-2022
In the spirit of the USCLA football defection from the Pac-12 to the B1G, here's a trivia question:
What was the first major college to drop varsity football? Hint: they started football two years after Stanford did, and they were once coached by a Stanford football coach.
What was the second?
RE: Sports trivia thread 2022 - BostonCard - 07-06-2022
WAG: University of Chicago?
BC
RE: Sports trivia thread 2022 - Phogge - 07-07-2022
Carlisle Indian school. Coached by Pop Warner.
RE: Sports trivia thread 2022 - Mick - 07-07-2022
(07-07-2022, 12:13 AM)Phogge Wrote: Carlisle Indian school. Coached by Pop Warner.
Phogge is correct! And good guess, BC, but technically Chicago still has a football team, albeit Division III.
Carlisle Indian School existed from 1893 to 1917, and (technically) was the first D1 school to drop football. They also have the highest winning percentage of any school that has dropped football (.646). They were typically undersized compared to their opponents, so Glenn "Pop" Warner, who coached Carlisle from 1899 to 1903 and 1907 to 1914, was responsible for instituting a number of innovations, including:
1) The first handoff.
2) The first misdirection plays.
3) The first overhand forward pass thrown as a spiral. In fact, most forward passes in those days only traveled a few yards. In 1907, Carlisle played the national champion Penn and won 26-6 (Penn won all other games that year). Carlisle's fullback Pete Hauser not only could throw a tight spiral, he completed one that traveled 40 yards in the air, utterly shocking those in attendance. They beat U of Chicago's Maroons, and Hauser threw a 50 yard TD in that game.
Their listed rival was Harvard, although Harvard beat Carlisle the first 11 times they played.
One interesting opponent was the U. S. Military Academy (Army). Warner was the coach. Here's what he told his team before the game, played just 22 years after the last army battle with the Lakota Sioux at Wounded Knee:
"Your fathers and your grandfathers are the ones who fought their fathers. These men playing against you today are soldiers. They are the Long Knives. You are Indians. Tonight, we will know if you are warriors." Final score was Carlisle 27, Army 6.
To answer the second question, the next university to drop D1 football was the College of Charleston in 1923. They are still D1 today, competing in 22 men's and women's sports.
RE: Sports trivia thread 2022 - BobK - 07-07-2022
Actually the U of Chicago dropped football after the 1939 season
Then Stanford fired Tiny Thornhill and hired Clark Shaughnessy. Stanford players were livid hiring a coach so bad that the school dropped football. Of course it worked out just fine
RE: Sports trivia thread 2022 - Phogge - 07-07-2022
And #1 Minnesota was afraid to play them and turned down the Rose Bowl.
What Stanford Indian was the game's MVP? Longtime association with the U.
RE: Sports trivia thread 2022 - BobK - 07-07-2022
I'll pass but Rugby LOL
RE: Sports trivia thread 2022 - Phogge - 07-07-2022
And was an assistant coach under Taylor. Didn't he have something to do with intramurals?
For the younger guys, Pete Kmetovic. Cinched the game with a punt return TD. Pretty good backfield with two College Hall of Famers.
Name the backfield.
RE: Sports trivia thread 2022 - Mick - 07-07-2022
(07-07-2022, 08:45 AM)BobK Wrote: Actually the U of Chicago dropped football after the 1939 season
Then Stanford fired Tiny Thornhill and hired Clark Shaughnessy. Stanford players were livid hiring a coach so bad that the school dropped football. Of course it worked out just fine
Right, just like SCU did in 1952. Unlike Chicago, SCU reinstated it, then dropped it again, permanently. Chicago still has a D3 team.
RE: Sports trivia thread 2022 - Phogge - 07-07-2022
Frankie Albert and Hugh Gallernau in the CFHOF. Norm Standlee, great FB and LB, started for the Niners and developed polio which ended his career prematurely. Kmetovic was the scatback and RB hero.
Among the lineman was John Warnecke who became a famous architect and was the first man to date Jackie after JFK’s death.