College Football an Olympic Sport? YES!

by JGuiher on Apr 20, 2009 12:46 AM EDT

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