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The following are hooks related to college football that have been featured on the Wikipedia Main Page as part of the "Did you know ..." ("DYK") feature. Since 2005, more than 500 DYK hooks relating to college football have been featured . If you are aware of newly created articles (or existing articles that have recently undergone a five-fold expansion), consider whether there is an interesting hook that migh warrant a DYK feature. If so, you can nominate it for DYK at Template talk:Did you know. Also, if you are aware of past college football DYK's that are not included on this list, feel free to add them.


2010

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November

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October

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A running quarterback in 1960s vintage American football equipment looks downfield to pass while clutching the football in both hands.

  • ... that Don Doll, the only player in NFL history to register 10 or more interceptions in 3 separate seasons, changed his surname to "Doll" after being discharged from the Marines? Oct. 9, 2010

September

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  • ... that Craig "Death" Roh adopted a diet of six meals and more than 4,000 calories a day because he considered himself "tiny" at 230 pounds (104 kg)? September 25, 2010

August

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  • ... that 1974 Michigan football MVP Steve Strinko suffered a degenerative knee injury and later formed an organization to provide medical assistance to others injured in college athletics? August 12, 2010
  • ... that George Veenker has the highest winning percentage of any basketball coach in Michigan history and served on the NCAA Football Rules Committee from 1938 to 1945? August 4, 2010

July

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  • ... that Eastern Michigan football coach Fred Trosko suffered a 29-game winless streak after the school refused to follow a conference policy allowing athletic scholarships? July 29, 2010
  • ... that Willie Heston (pictured), rated by Knute Rockne as the greatest back of all time, helped Michigan outscore its opponents 2,326 to 40 in his four years with the team? July 11, 2010
  • ... that the Oklahoma football team coached by Fred Ewing played one game that had a ten-minute half and was on a 75-yard field, the lines of which the players chalked themselves? July 10, 2010
  • ... that Keith Piper successfully perpetuated the single-wing, "the formation-of-choice during football's leather-helmet era," for decades after it had been discarded by other teams? July 3, 2010

June

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  • ... that Donald Russell from 1964 to 1970 accumulated the highest winning percentage (.661) of any Wesleyan football coach with more than two years as head coach? June 21, 2010
  • ... that football coach Jake High has both the highest winning percentage (.778) in the history of Wesleyan football and the lowest percentage (.000) in the history of NYU football? June 20, 2010

May

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that Hootie Ingram tied the SEC record for interceptions, coached football at Clemson, and was the athletic director at Florida State and Alabama? May 10, 2010

  • ... that Ernie Zampese coached the leading pass offense in the NFL six times in seven years and has been credited with putting the "air" in Air Coryell? May 10, 2010

April

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Donald Brown

Roger Sherman
Roger Sherman
George Dygert
George Dygert
Flatiron Building
James Duffy
James Duffy
Gerald Ford
Gerald Ford

March

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Tom Hammond
Tom Hammond
  • ... that American football player Tom Hammond (pictured) always played without protective padding, saying "I want them to feel my bones"? March 30, 2010
1901 Michigan Wolverines football team
1901 Michigan Wolverines football team
Irving Pond
Irving Pond
  • ... that Nebraska's first All-American Vic Halligan was called "The premier punter of the West, A master of the forward pass, A tackler equal to the best"? March 14, 2010

February

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January

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Paul Magoffin
Paul Magoffin

The Miami Orange Bowl stadium, in February 2006

Clayton Teetzel
Clayton Teetzel
1896 Michigan football team
1896 Michigan football team
1895 player Forrest Hall
1895 player Forrest Hall
  • ... that the 1894 Michigan football team played Chicago in a sleet storm as the grandstand was "packed with yelling collegians" and the carriage rooms "filled with society people"? Jan. 2, 2010
1899 coach Gustave Ferbert
1899 coach Gustave Ferbert

2009

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December 2009

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November 2009

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  • ... that Cliff Sparks, hailed in 1916 as "eel-like," a "whirlwind" and "the greatest quarterback Michigan ever has had," punted by forcefully throwing the ball at his uprising foot? Nov. 18, 2009

October 2009

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September 2009

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August 2009

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Joe Maddock
Joe Maddock
  • ... that Joe Maddock (pictured) was one of the biggest ground gainers, and played four positions, for Michigan's 1903 "Point-a-Minute" football team? Aug. 12, 2009
  • ... that federal judge Paul Jones sentenced a pregnant mother of ten to jail for selling a quart of liquor, lectured her on birth control, and asked, "Doesn't this woman know how to stop it?" Aug. 11, 2009
  • ... that recruiting analysts thought Da'Rel Scott was too small for a college running back, but in 2008 he ran for more than 1,000 yards and led his conference in rushing for most of the season? Aug. 10, 2009
Curtis Redden
Curtis Redden
  • ... that Michigan end Curtis Redden (pictured) died in World War I after he had described the night sky over the battlefield as "weird, hideous, fascinating, sublime"? Aug. 9, 2009
  • ... that All-Pro linebacker Milan "Sheriff" Lazetich, a rodeo rider before joining the NFL, reported that no end or back ever threw a block like a wild pony "when he feels the first touch of a saddle"? Aug. 4, 2009

July 2009

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  • ... that SMU All-American Truman "Big Dog" Spain, known for his "rumba king" good looks, was described as "hard as ship's steel and as torrid as a foundry furnace"? July 23, 2009


  • ... that Paul Bunker died in a Japanese POW camp in 1943 but kept hidden a remnant of the U.S. flag from Corregidor now displayed at the West Point Museum? July 15, 2009
  • ... that Harvard All-American Bert Waters was accused of jabbing a finger into a Yale player's eye in the 1893 football game that became known as "The Bloodbath in Hampden Park"? July 12, 2009
Franklin Morse
Franklin Morse
  • ... that American football halfback Franklin Morse (pictured) was the model for a drawing, prints of which reportedly "hung in most college rooms throughout the country" during the 1890s? July 11, 2009

June 2009

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  • ... that the 1906 firing of John McLean (pictured) for paying an athlete to play college football was called "the biggest scandal in the history of Missouri athletics"? June 26, 2009
  • ... that Dick King, who played in the early days of the NFL, was called "one of the greatest backs who ever wore moleskins"? June 23, 2009

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  • ... that "The Great Gilroy", the leading scorer in college football in 1916, was charged in 1940 with stealing 35 shoe stitching machines from a Massachusetts factory? June 23, 2009

Battle of Château-Thierry

Ted Coy
Ted Coy
  • ... that Yale All-American Ted Coy (pictured), who played football with "his long blonde hair held back by a white sweatband," was the basis for a character in a short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald? June 21, 2009

Tom Shevlin

Marshall "Ma" Newell

May 2009

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The Battle of San Juan Hill

  • ... that All-American Beaton Squires wrote an editorial in 1905 against turning football into a "parlor game" after Harvard's president criticized its violent nature? May 25, 2009
  • ... that two-time All-American fullback "Blondy" Graydon performed a tumbling routine with the Barnum & Bailey Circus while dressed "in resplendent pink tights"? May 24, 2009

Lacrosse being played by Army.

William H. Lewis

April 2009

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Archie Weston
Bernard Kirk


Pruner West

March 2009

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February 2009

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Horace Prettyman
Albert Herrnstein
Ernie Vick
  • ... that sources indicate that Cedric "Pat" Smith, who later worked at Ford's Rouge plant, was either the second or third leading scorer in the NFL during its first season in 1920? Feb. 12, 2009
Boss Weeks and Fieldng Yost
Ernest Allmendinger
  • ... that American football player "Aqua" Allmendinger (pictured), once described as "a young giant in perfect physical condition," acquired his nickname after working as a waterboy for railroad building crews? Feb. 10, 2009 (14,200 DYK views)
Neil Snow

January 2009

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Mike Murphy


Keene Fitzpatrick
Charles Baird
  • ... that Michigan's first athletic director Charles Baird (pictured) built the largest college athletic ground in the United States and negotiated the school's appearance in the first Rose Bowl game? Jan. 18, 2009
  • ... that Dave Porter won the NCAA heavyweight collegiate wrestling championship twice and was subsequently drafted by the Cleveland Browns to play in the NFL? Jan. 12, 2009

2008

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December 2008

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  • ... that, during the team's first official season, a Maryland Terrapins football player was accused of "unaccreditable ignorance of football" after running the wrong way for 30 yards (27 metres)? Dec. 26, 2008
  • ... that Bruce Hilkene was captain of the 1947 Wolverines who were selected as the greatest Michigan football team of all time? Dec. 21, 2008

November 2008

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October 2008

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September 2008

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August 2008

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Bo McMillin scored the only touchdown in the 1921 Centre vs. Harvard game.

July 2008

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1892 Va. Tech. team

May 2008

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April 2008

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  • ...that the Michigan Wolverines' practice of parading their live mascot Biff before matches was stopped as the animal grew larger and more ferocious? April 2, 2008

March 2008

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Cody Hawkins

February 2008

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  • ...that halfback Chuck Ortmann punted 24 times in the famed 1950 Snow Bowl, deciding the best strategy was to keep the slick ball on the other side of the field in the opponents' hands? February 15, 2008
  • ...that Wally Weber, football player, coach and broadcaster at Michigan for 45 years, was renowned for his "polysyllabic fluency" and sounding like an "an educated foghorn"? February 13, 2008

January 2008

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  • ...that Al Hoisch of UCLA returned a kickoff for 103 yards and a touchdown at the 1947 Rose Bowl, a record that still stands as of the 2008 game? January 27, 2008
George Jewett
Paul Goebel
  • ...that, after eluding capture for three months when his B-25 bomber was shot down behind enemy lines in World War II, Bob Chappuis was the MVP of the Rose Bowl 60 years ago? January 3, 2008 (5,000 DYK views)

2007

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December 2007

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Gustave Ferbert
John Maulbetsch
  • ...that the All-American football player John Maulbetsch was known as the "Featherweight Fullback" because he weighed only 155 pounds and ate two pies a day for dinner during his playing career? December 28, 2007
Germany Schulz
  • ...that college football coach Bo Schembechler died the day after attending the funeral of his 1971 quarterback Tom Slade and urging the football team to be "as good a Michigan man as Slade"? December 7, 2007
  • ...that Gerald Ford's two greatest regrets in life were losing the starting center job in college to All-American Chuck Bernard and losing a presidential election? December 6, 2007

November 2007

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Al Wistert
Jordon Dizon

October 2007

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  • ...that Andy Papathanassiou, a former college football player who was the first person hired as a NASCAR pit crew coordinator, started use of trained athletes to cut pit stop times from 19 down to 13 seconds? Oct. 23, 2007


September 2007

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August 2007

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  • ...that the first meeting between the Minnesota Golden Gophers football team and the Wisconsin Badgers took place in 1890 and marked the beginning of the most played rivalry at the top level of NCAA competition? Aug. 15, 2007

July 2007

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Al Borges

June 2007

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May 2007

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L.J. Cooke

April 2007

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Cotton Bowl

March 2007

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January 2007

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Ralphie
  • ...that William E. "Bud" Davis, who had a successful career as president at four universities, originally wanted "to be the world's greatest football coach" before he went 2-8 in 1962 and never coached again? Jan. 14, 2007

2006

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December 2006

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November 2006

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October 2006

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Lee McClung

September 2006

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  • ....that even though Michigan State football coach Muddy Waters got fired for his losing 10-23 record, his fans still carried him off the field after his final 24-18 loss to Iowa? Sept. 23, 2006
  • ...that Giles Pellerin, known as the Super Fan, attended 797 consecutive USC football games over a period of 73 years? Sept. 22, 2006

July 2006

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Bennie Owen

June 2006

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May 2006

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April 2006

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March 2006

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February 2006

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January 2006

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2005

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Bill the Goat