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Trivia that I don't know

Unleash Hell

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This is from the latest Throw you a Bohn. Does anybody know the 12 schools who have played football longer than CU?

The 2007 football season is upon us, as in just one short month YOUR TEAM, the Colorado Buffaloes, begin our 118th season of intercollegiate football. Did you know only 12 schools have played football longer than CU?
 
This is from the latest Throw you a Bohn. Does anybody know the 12 schools who have played football longer than CU?

The 2007 football season is upon us, as in just one short month YOUR TEAM, the Colorado Buffaloes, begin our 118th season of intercollegiate football. Did you know only 12 schools have played football longer than CU?

off the top of my head I would guess the following

yale
harvard
princeton
columbia
michigan
penn
rutgers
dartmouth
brown
cornell
army
navy
 
CU started in 1890. per the college football date warehouse the following teams started before 1890

navy
n carolina
cal
rutgers
penn st
usc
cincinnati
duke
virginia
indiana
iowa
wake forest
kentucky
miami OH
syracuse
michigan
ohio st
purdue
mich st
notre dame
washington
minn
northwestern
wiscy
depauw
lake forest
albion
amherst
south dakota st
brown
bucknell
butler
columbia
cornell
dartmouth
delaware
fordham
furman
georgetown
harvard
howard
illinois st
lafayette
lehigh
maine
u mass
penn
princeton
richmond
VMI
yale
the following started in 1890

army
pitt
csu
vandy
illinois
kansas
missouri
fuskers
colgate
 
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1890 CU Schedule:
Nov. 15 at Denver Athletic Club. L 0 - 20
Nov. 22 Colorado Mines L 0 - 103 (!!!)
Nov. 29 at Colorado Springs A.A. L 0 - 44
(no idea of what that org is. Too early for Alcoholics Annonimous, Air Academy, or American Airlines)
Dec 13. Colorado Mines L 4 - 50.

Not exactly an auspicious beginning.

I get a charge that when the new state gov't established funding for a university and a prison and gave Canyon City first dibbs. Apparently the state had more crooks than geeks, so the prison went to Canyon City and the rest is Boulder history.
 
CU started in 1890. per the college football date warehouse the following teams started before 1890

navy
n carolina
cal
rutgers
penn st
usc
cincinnati
duke
virginia
indiana
iowa
wake forest
kentucky
miami OH
syracuse
michigan
ohio st
purdue
mich st
notre dame
washington
minn
northwestern
wiscy
depauw
lake forest
albion
amherst
south dakota st
brown
bucknell
butler
columbia
cornell
dartmouth
delaware
fordham
furman
georgetown
harvard
howard
illinois st
lafayette
lehigh
maine
u mass
penn
princeton
richmond
VMI
yale
the following started in 1890

army
pitt
csu
vandy
illinois
kansas
missouri
fuskers
colgate

Well if thats the case, WTF is Mike Bohn smoking?:confused:
 
1890 CU Schedule:
Nov. 15 at Denver Athletic Club. L 0 - 20
Nov. 22 Colorado Mines L 0 - 103 (!!!)
Nov. 29 at Colorado Springs A.A. L 0 - 44
(no idea of what that org is. Too early for Alcoholics Annonimous, Air Academy, or American Airlines)
Dec 13. Colorado Mines L 4 - 50.

Not exactly an auspicious beginning.

I get a charge that when the new state gov't established funding for a university and a prison and gave Canyon City first dibbs. Apparently the state had more crooks than geeks, so the prison went to Canyon City and the rest is Boulder history.

canon city, pronounced "canyon" but not spelled like that.

yes, this is true. canon city had first dibs and chose the prison because they thought the attendance would be better. :lol:
 
I get a charge that when the new state gov't established funding for a university and a prison and gave Canyon City first dibbs. Apparently the state had more crooks than geeks, so the prison went to Canyon City and the rest is Boulder history.

yes, this is true. canon city had first dibs and chose the prison because they thought the attendance would be better. :lol:


I've heard that story before but I thought it was about Pueblo choosing the State Hospital over the University. :confused::huh::confused:
 
Maybe Boulder was third in line?!?!:confused:

nope, pueblo wasn't in it. canon city and boulder... at the capitol building, they had a handwritten vote tally on display (at least they did waaaaaaay back when i was in college).

i always laugh at that story, especially since it is true.

:smile2:
 
I've heard a slightly different version of the story as to how Boulder got the university. The story I heard is that Nichols, of Nichols hall fame, was influential in getting the university in Boulder and that he lobbied very hard for it. The choice was between Canon City and Boulder, that much is true, but that the legislature made the decision to put the university in Boulder at Nichols prodding.


Then Nichols went off and killed a bunch of injuns at Sand Creek, so they stripped his name from the residence hall that bore his name - 100 years after the fact. :huh:
 
Not to be the 'PC' police, but do Native Americans see that term the same as African-Americans see the 'N' word? And no, I am not talking about the truly derogatory, totally classless 'N' word of Kneebraska. The other N word.
 
I'll be hanging his scalp from my lodgepole after the CU/OU game and see what he thinks then..... :lol:
 
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