College Football an Olympic Sport? YES!
by JGuiher on Apr 20, 2009 12:46 AM EDT
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I was looking for some info on when college football played exhibition games in preseason back in the day and found this link
http://www.mmbolding.com/Olyball/Olympic_Football.htm
Apparantly college football was an olympic sport in 1904!
Also found some info about when the college all-stars got to play the world champs.
http://collegefootball.rivals.com/content.asp?CID=563246
And a real interesting read (from a Penn State grad) about how some schools count games in their history and others dont.
http://www.la84foundation.org/SportsLibrary/CFHSN/CFHSNv16/CFHSNv16n3d.pdf
Still looking for some info on the exhibition games. I know JoePa eluded to them once in a Presser about how we used to go down to Carlise or something and have a little scrimmage. Maybe in the 50's?
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Hasn't ND played a regular season game in Ireland?
I know it’s not a pre-season exhibition per se, but I think it’s pretty close. It was back in the ’70s I think.
Also, the 1904 Olympics featured tug-o-war as a medal event. That should be reintroduced. It would make for great TV and every nation on Earth could have a team.
by Cairo on Apr 20, 2009 9:33 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs
ND vs. Navy Dublin, Ireland 2012
"gotta love the HD"
by biscoiv on Apr 20, 2009 10:32 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Will that be considered
an Irish home game?
"You are a tenacious little monkey!"
by rahpsu92 on Apr 20, 2009 3:02 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
After reading up on the 2012 matchup
Looks like ND-Navy played in Dublin in 1996. Pretty cool.
by tomatpsu on Apr 20, 2009 11:52 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs
1932 Olympics
Football was also a demonstration sport in the Los Angeles Olympics
by mahaffe on Apr 20, 2009 11:38 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
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