Connecticut Huskies football timeline

[Adios]

2-3 - Norwich Academy - 1896-1899, 1901 - Norwich Free Academy?

4-2 - Willmantic High School - 1896(x2), 1897, 1898(x2), 1903 - 60-58

5-0 - Rockville High School - 1896, 1899, 1908, 1910, 1913 - 123-12

1-2 - Middteton High School - 1896(x2), 1901 - 28-20

7-0 - Willimantic YMCA - 1896(x2)-1897(x2), 1900-1901(x2) - 135-0

2-0 - New London AC - 1897, 1907 - 38-8

50-34-8 - Rhode Island - 1897, 1899-1901, 1903-1904, 1907-1910, 1915-1916, 1919-1942, 1946-2000, 2006, 2009 - 1862-1158

33-36-2 - Massachusetts - 1897, 1899,1900, 1916, 1919-1922, 1924-1926, 1932-1942, 1952-1999 - 1212-1281

10-12-2 - Springfield College - 1899-1900, 1901, 1904-1905, 1907-1908, 1910, 1915, 1922, 1924, 1927, 1941-1942, 1946-1951, 1956-1959 - 284-393 - Won the first game, almost every other game was a blowout except one win until 1924; dominated after series resurrected in 1941.

1-0 - Willimantic Business College - 1899 - 5-0

5-1 - Wilbraham Wesleyan Academy 1899; 1901-1904; 1908 - 99-28 - only loss in 1903

0-2 - Waterbury YMCA - 1899-1900 - 5-40

7-10-1 - Trinity College - 1900, 1909, 1919-1924, 1926-1937 - 158-204 - Trinity won 5 of the last 6 with UConn winning the last game.

1-0 - Taft School - 1900 - 11-0

3-3 - Hartford High School - 1901-1904, 1906 - 24-43

2-0 - Rockville Town Team - 1901, 1904 - 28-0

2-0 - Promfret School - 1901, 1903 - 12-5

13-3 - Norwich University - 1902, 1904, 1906-1907, 1909-1910, 1912-1914, 1916, 1923-1924, 1936-1937, 1944(x2) - 377-61 - Oldest of the 6 Senior Military Colleges.

1-8 - Williston Northampton School - 1903-1914 - 35-187 - last game was a win.

1-0 - Westerly HS - 1902 - 23-0

0-1 - Friends School - 1903 - 0-33

2-2 - Cushing Academy - 1904, 1907-1909 - 27-70

Cushing Academy is a coeducational college preparatory boarding school for grades 9 through 12 plus an optional postgraduate year located in Ashburnham, Massachusetts. It was founded in 1865 in fulfilment of a bequest by Thomas Parkman Cushing and opened in 1875, and is sometimes cited as the oldest coeducational boarding school in the United States.

1-2 - Springfield High School - 1903-1905 - 1903-1905 - Won the last game, 10-0.

1-1 - New Britain High School - 1905-1906 - 22-11 - Losing the second game, 5-11.

9-16-0 - Wesleyan University - 1905, 1907-1908, 1910-1911, 1916, 1925-1929, 1931-1941, 1946-1947 - 199-295 - One of the oldest fields in football.

29-36-6 - New Hampshire - 1906-1999 - 916-1203

0-1 - Worcester High School - 1906 - 0-4

1-0 - Holyoke High School - 1906 - 16-5

0-10-2 - Boston College - 1908-1909, 1912-1913, 1915, 1927, 2000, 2002-2004 - 59-284

0-2 - Worcester Academy - 1908; 1912 - 0-56

Lots of distinguished people including athletes have went here; Providence basketball head coach Tim Welsh '80 (1998-2008) went here. US Olympic sprinter in the 1900 Olympics one year after graduating. Doc Carroll '09, played for the MLB Phildelphia Athletics in 1916. Bruno Hass'09(?) met the son of the owner of the Phiadelphia Athletics, Connie Mach here and played for the MLB Philadelphia Athletics in 1915. "He is most remembered for setting an American League record (tying the major league record held by Bill George and George Van Haltren) for most batters walked in one game with 15. He did this in his major league debut on June 23, 1915 for the Philadelphia Athletics. Following his inauspicious debut, Haas pitched in just five more major league games, all in 1915. He played in six other games, three as an outfielder and three as a pinch-hitter." "A year later he played for the Cleveland Indians of the National Football League and is one only a few athletes to have played in both Major League Baseball and N.F.L. Haas also played tailback in the National Football League with the Akron Pros, Cleveland Tigers and Dayton Triangles." He is considered a "notable player" in the Cleveland Tigers' history in two years the Tiger existed in the NFL from the NFL's start, 1920-1921. He played 9 out of 10 games for Cleveland and 1 for the "official" champions, the Akron Pros in 1920. (Case can be argued that the Buffalo All-Americans are co-champions based on modern tie-breaking rules. Championship was not decided for 5 months.) One game for the Dayton Triangles in 1921. Roy Mack '15, son of A's owner Connie Mack. Lou Little '12, college football Hall of Famer, inducted as a coach in 1960. Played for the NFL Frankford Yellow Jackets for their first three years in the NFL. Walt Whittaker '13, played for two innings for the 1916 Philadelphia Athletics on July 6, 1916.

1-0 - Fort Mitchell (high school in Kentucky?) - 1909 - 45-0

1-0 - Bridgewater College (Virginia) - 1909 - 21-6

1-0 - Jewett City - 1909 - 34-0

1-8-2 - Tufts University - 1911, 1922-24, 1925, 1929-1934 - 16-193 - Believe it or not, UMass lost or tied the same years we lost to or tied Tufts every year except one, when we lost and UMass ties. Tufts couldn't beat the Ivy League schools.

1-1 - Monson AC - 1911, 1913 - 10-18 - Won the second game, 7-0. From Massacusetts. Only games on record are against Connecticut.

0-1 - Hotchkiss School - 1911 - 0-32

1-0 - Rockville Town Team - 1912 - 3-0

2-0 - Fort Wright (Kentucky?) - 1912, 1914 - 31-7

1-0 - Bulkeley High School - 1913 - 23-0

1-0 - Suffield Academy - 1913 - 52-0

0-4 - Stevens Tech - 1913, 1915, 1916, 1919 - 13-96 - One of the first 5 schools in college football.

0-1 - Dean College - 1913 - 0-40 - Private College in Franklin, Massachusetts, on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places list. They are also 4-0 against Boston College (1908, 1910-1912; 76-15).

6-2 - Worcester Tech - 1915, 1920-1922, 1935-1937, 1945 - 152-51 - now D3

0-1 - Columbia - 1915 - 6-17

1-1 - Fordham - 1915, 2011 - 38-35 - won 2011 game, 35-3.

9-4 - Vermont - 1916, 1928-1929, 1933, 1966-1974 - 253-138 - We won 7 out of 9 between 1966-74.

8-19-1 - Holy Cross - 1916, 1919, 1954-1955, 1960-1962, 1964-68, 1970-1985 (BC is 32-47-3 vs Holy Cross; 1068-1409. They played each other almost every year between 1910-1986 and 1896-1902.)

World War 1

0-1 - SUNY-Farmingdale - 1919 - 7-33

20-25 - Boston University - 1919-1920, 1945, 1954-1955, 1957-1971, 1973-1996 - 898-878

2-1-2 - UMass-Lowell - 1920-1921, 1927-1928, 1939 - 55-20

2-1-1 - St. Stephen's College - 1920-1923 - 102-24

2-0 - St. Lawrence University - 1921, 1953 - 65-20

0-0-1 - Widener University - 1921 - 0-0

39-20-3 - Maine - 1922-1932, 1938-1999, 2007 - 1314-1088

0-1 - Providence College - 1922 - 0-10

3-0 - CCNY - 1923, 1944(x2) - 92-0

1-0 - Manhattan College - 1925 - 19-0

1-1 - NYU - 1925, 1950 - 14-30. Lost first game, 0-23

1-1 - RPI - 1925-1926 - 33-19

2-0 - Cooper Union - 1926, 1933 - 87-6

13-1-4- Coast Guard Academy - 1927-1941, 1946-47

1-2 - Amherst College - 1929, 1934, 1945 - 33-29 - first two games (losses) played at Amherst, one of the oldest fields in college football.

0-1 - Albright College - 1930 - 0-19 - D3 powerhouse in Reading, PA.

0-0-1 - Bridgeport University - 1931 - 6-6

2-3 - American International - 1934, 1949-1951, 1957 - 83-44 - Last game was a 55-6 blowout win.

17-5-1 - Northeastern University - 1935-1936, 1954, 1956-1959, 1978, 1980-1983, 1986-1988, 1992, 1995-2000 - 550-382

1-6 - Brown Univresity - 1936-1937, 1939, 1947-48, 1952-1953 - 66-206 - won just the first game in 1936. Fritz Pollard graduared from here. So did Joe Paterno.

6-0 - Middlebury College - 1937-1938, 1941-1941, 1944-1945 - 113-20

15-4 - University at Buffalo - 1939-1940, 1951-1952, 1960-1961, 1995-1997, 1999-2005, 2009-2011 - 519-235 - One win being the 2009 International Bowl.

10-21 - Rutgers University - 1940-1941, 1956-1957, 1959, 1960-1961, 1964-1965, 1968-1969, 1972-1979, 1983, 2001, 2003-pres - 509-719 - 5-5 in the last ten going back to 2001.

0-1 - Maryland - 1942 - 34-0

World War 2.

0-1 - Bates College - 1944 - 0-6

2-0 - Brooklyn College - 1944 (x2) - 25-0

0-1 - Franklin & Marshall College - 1945 - 25-0

3-8 - Lehigh - 1945-1946, 1973, 1977, 1981-1985, 1991, 2003 - 178-223 - Won 35-17 at the Rent

0-1 - @Harvard - 1946 - 0-7

Yankee Conference forms.

2-0 - Champlain - 1947-1948 - 59-14

2-2 - Kent State - 1948-1949, 2002-2001 - 123-121 - yes, we lost the two games in the late 40s.

17-32 - Yale - 1948-1998 - 765-874

1-0 - Newport NTS - 1949 - 125-0 - Naval station?

1-1 - Ohio Wesleyan - 1949-1950 - 32-57 - Lost first game, 43-12

7-20 - Delware - 1951-1998 - 353-673 - won first 2 and 3 of the last 8.

4-8 - Temple - 1963-1966, 1970-1971, 2002, 2004, 2007-2008, 2010 - 217-323

0-2 - Davidson College - 1967-68 - 36-68 - Davidson lost the 1969 Tangerine Bowl (now called Capital One Bowl) to Toledo, 56-30. Toledo finished the season ranked #20.

0-1 - Baldwin-Wallace College - 1969 - 33-43 - We beat Rutgers and Yale that same year.

1-4 - William & Mary - 1970, 1978, 1990, 1997-1998 - 76-146

0-1-1 - VMI - 1975, 1979 - 12-26

1-6 - Navy - 1975-1979, 2002, 2006 - 82-206 - won only game in 2002.

3-4 - Colgate - 1976, 1980, 1982-1984, 1998, 2000 - 166-157 - we won the last two games.

D1-AA formed.

4-1 - Army - 1979, 2003-2006 - 166-70 - Only loss is in 1979, 10-26.

2-0 - Bucknell - 1980-1981 - 65-14

1-0 - Morgan State - 1984 - 41-14

0-2 - Delware State - 1985-1986 - 45-56 - Lack of execution! Lost second game on the road by one point, 31-32.

3-0 - CCSU - 1986, 1989, 1995 - 101-27

9-1 - Richmond - 1986-1994, 1999 - lose to them in our last year in the A-10.

2-0 - SCSU - 1987-1988 - 83-21

4-7 - Villanova - 1987- 1996, 1999 - 266-295

0-1 - SMU - 1989 - 30-31

0-3 - UNC - 1990, 2008-2009 - 43-98


0-2 - Furman - 1991, 1993 - 41-51 - Lost by one point at home in 1991.

0-1 - University of New Haven - 1992 - 13-14

1-4 - James Madison - 1993-1996, 1999 - 101-168 - Won first game.

0-1 - Towson State - 1993 - 27-28

0-1 - Nicholls State - 1994 - 7-16

0-1 - Troy - 1994 - 21-31

3-2 - Hofstra - 1996-1999, 2008 - 143-132

1-0 - Hampton - 1998 - 42-34 - D 1AA first round

0-1 - Georgia Southern - 30-59 - D 1AA Quarterfinals

0-1 - Kentucky - 1999 - 14-45

Leave FCS for FBS.

1-1 - Eastern Michigan - 2000-2001 - 44-32

0-3 - Ball State - 2000-2002 - 26-63 - Last two losses were by a total of nine points.

0-2 - Middle Tennessee State - 2000-2001 - 24-104 - First game was a home game that was a blowout loss, 10-66.

3-5 - Lousville - 2000, 2005-pres

5-4 - USF - 2000-2001, 2005-pres

3-0 - Akron - 2000, 2003, 2007 - 120-82

0-2 - Virginia Tech - 2001, 2003 - 23-99

0-1 - Eastern Washington - 2001 - 17-35

2-6 - Cincinnati - 2001, 2005-pres - 221-241

0-1 - Utah State - 2001 - 31-38

0-3 - Georgia Tech - 2002, 2004-2005 - 27-89

2-0 - Ohio University - 2002, 2009 - 60-35

0-1 - Miami (FL) - 2002 - 14-48

1-2 - Vanderbilt - 2002, 2010-2011 - 85-73 - Two losses were by a total of 8 points.

1-0 - Florida Atlantic - 2002 - 61-14

1-1 - Iowa State - 2002, 2011 - 57-44

2-0 - Indiana - 2003, 2006 - 48-17

0-1 - North Carolina State - 2003 - 24-31

1-1 - Western Michigan - 2003, 2011 - 72-65

1-2 - Wake Forest - 2003, 2006, 2007 - 74-65 - only win in 2003. One loss in 2007 Meineke Bowl

2-0 - Duke - 2004, 2007 - 67-34

4-4 - Pittsburgh - 2004-pres - 190-221

1-7 - West Virginia - 2004-2011 - 133-298 - Lone win in 2010.

6-2 - Syracuse - 2004-pres - 246-148

1-0 - Toledo - 2004 - 39-10 - Little Ceasar's Pizza Bowl.

1-0 - Liberty - 2005 - 59-0

1-1 - Virginia - 2007-2008 - 61-27

2-0 - Baylor - 2008-2009 - 61-50

1-0 - Notre Dame - 2009 - 33-30

1-0 - South Carolina - 2010 - 20-7 - Papajohns.com Bowl

0-1 - Michigan - 2010 - 10-30 - Opening a renovated Michigan Stadium.

1-0 - Texas Southern - 2010 - 62-30

0-1 - Oklahoma - 2011 - 20-48 - Fiesta Bowl

Make of it what you want. Hope you all enjoy. Every program is listed in sequence they played UConn. Every listing starts with the all-time record. The last groups of numbers are created to represent "PF-PA" for whole series. Included some notes here and there trying to justify some losses or series.

 

[ConnHuskBask]

Wow. Awesome post. Thanks for putting this together for us to look at. Some pretty cool stuff on there. Who would've thought we played against high schools way back in the day? Haha.

 

[Adios]

Wow. Awesome post. Thanks for putting this together for us to look at. Some pretty cool stuff on there. Who would've thought we played against high schools way back in the day? Haha.

You're welcome. Glad someone enjoys it. Football developed very uniquely. Back in the 1920s, a 35% competition percentage was good.

 

[ConnHuskBask]

So many things that are pretty cool about our history that I never would have thought.

I think the majority of UConn Football fans didn't follow the team until the upgrade from FCS to FBS. I got to UConn in 2005 and when I got season tickets it was the 3rd or 4th UConn Football game I had ever watched ( Rent opener vs Indiana and Motor City Bowl vs Toledo and a game-maybe Thanksgiving vs Rutgers). Most of the games just weren't on tv in New Jersey, especially when they were FCS.

The whole list is a really enlightening to the history of the program.

 

[UConnDan97]

Who would've thought we played against high schools way back in the day?

Who wouldv'e thought we LOST to high schools way back in the day! In all fairness, the helmets back then weren't like today, and we all know high schoolers are a little more thick in the head.

I think the best part of the list was actually feeling angst over some of the names and records on the list, and I can tell you that most of those instances involved current 1-AA (FCS, whatever) teams. It's amazing that I still have hatred for Maine, BU (no football program anymore, right?), URI, Northeastern, and New Hampshire. UMass tops the list along with Rutgers and Syracuse, and now they are all FBS. Regional rivalries will always drum up these emotions, and it's a shame that football realignment is stealing some of that away...

 

[Adios]

We may have lost to high schools. But now we can beat Heisman Trophy winners. I think UNH and Delaware are good prospects to go FBS.

 

[Dann]

i'm not 1 for history but for u guys that are, all this stuff and season by season stuff going way back is always in the high # pages of the media guides every year.

seems like we owe middleton high school a beat down, no?

 

[Adios]

i'm not 1 for history but for u guys that are, all this stuff and season by season stuff going way back is always in the high # pages of the media guides every year.

seems like we owe middleton high school a beat down, no?

Dude, we lost to the Waterbury YMCA twice. Can you imagine the beat down they'd get?

 

[Carl Spackler]

I'd just like to say that in the 5 years b/w 1986-1990, the program went 36-19 overall regular season and won two conference titles.
.655 win %.

Different era, different level of competition, I know, apples oranges....... but still put players in the NFL though from those rosters back then.... and for the record...football is still football.

For comparison...... in the 5 years from 2007-2011, the program went 36-24 overall regular season and won two conference titles.
.600 winning %.

Good job outgoing class of 2007, but you don't have the claim was the winningest record over class of '86.



I'm hoping that the classes of 08,09,10,11,12.......2013...... are paying attention..........

 

[Carl Spackler]

BTW- in the modern era of football post 1970's, Recruiting class of '86 has the best 5 year winning % and two conference titles, class of 2007, second in winning % with two conference titles,.....and recruiting class of 1994 is third in winning %, has one title but also has ownership of the only 10 win season in history, and playoff game victory........so far.

 

[zls44]

I'd just like to say that in the 5 years b/w 1986-1990, the program went 36-19 overall regular season and won two conference titles.
.655 win %.

Different era, different level of competition, I know, apples oranges....... but still put players in the NFL though from those rosters back then

Who, besides Koz?

 

[Carl Spackler]

Didio and Benton, Antrum, Franks, Duckworth off the top of my head, I think there was another OL. THey always get forgotten. Only girlfriends and family, coaches and former players pay attention to offensive linemen.....

 

[Carl Spackler]

http://www.uconnhuskies.com/sports/m-footbl/spec-rel/nfl-draft.html

This is the list of NFL draft picks historically.



This is the all time list that have been on an NFL roster at one point or another. .

http://www.uconnhuskies.com/sports/m-footbl/spec-rel/all-time-nfl.html


(the lists are much smaller, if you restrict it to active 53 man NFL game days, and I do expect the current era to start growing both the NFL draft list and the active 53 man list at a very fast rate though, starting with another couple guys this year.)

 

[Duncan Idaho]

Bulk of our All-Americans came from that decade.

 

[Adios]

Do we really have no tradition? More notes:

-Played 5 out of 11 "Little Ivies", 2 out of the 3 oldest fields still in existence.

-Played at 3 of the 6 oldest college football fields still in existence, 4 out of the oldest 10 college football fields known (Trinity having the 10th oldest).

-Played 4 out of 8 Ivy League schools.

-Played 4 out of the 5 oldest college football programs (dating back to 1872); possibly 8 out of oldest 9 (dating back to 1875); possibly 9 out of oldest 10 (dating back to 1877); possibly 13 of the oldest 15 (dating back to 1879). (Swarthmore and Princeton being the exemptions.) Didn't count McGill.

Yale (1872)
Harvard (1873; both games against McGill)
Penn. Military/Widener (1879)
Amherst (1877)
Columbia (1870)
Michigan (1879) - Michigan played Harvard, Yale and Princeton in their first "normal" regular season in 1881, going 0-3.
Rutgers (1869)
Stevens (1872)
CCNY (1873)
Trinity (1877)
Wesleyan (1881, possibly 1875)
Tufts (1874)
Navy (1879)

-Played the top 2 winningest programs, beating one. Played 3 of the top four (Oklahoma being #4). Will have played 4 of the top 8 by 2013 (Boise State is #8). 5 of the top 10 when we play Tennessee (#10). 6 out of the top 15 including Miami (FL) (#15). 7 out of top 20, including South Florida (#20).

-Played against 16 programs that won national championships.

-13 FBS programs by 1890 - we played 7 out of the 13 oldest FBS programs.

Rutgers (1869) - 1st
Navy and Michigan (1879) - tied 2nd
Cincinnati (1885) - 5th
Notre Dame (1889) - 8th
Syracuse and Army (1890) - tied 9th

Random tidbits:

-In 1913, the football career of a promising Army halfback named Dwight D. Eisenhower came to an end in a game against Tufts at West Point when he injured his knee after being tackled by a Tufts man.

-Mickey Kobrosky '37 became the first member of the Trinity College football program to be inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame.

-Although several colleges claim the honor, the first true football game between two American colleges took place on June 4, 1875, when Tufts beat Harvard 1-0. While Princeton and Rutgers claimed to have played the first football game in 1869, their game was basically a rough version of soccer, and carrying the ball and tackling were forbidden. The Tufts-Harvard game featured catching and running with the ball, tactics of the more modern version of football.

At issue is the century-plus, nearly universal acknowledgment that Princeton and Rutgers, in their football game of Nov. 6, 1869, established that first link in the evolutionary chain. But by [Rocky Carzo]'s research, as well as a detailed description of the '69 game on the Rutgers website, the rules governing the game that day on the Rutgers campus barely emulate the rules as we know them today. In fact, they were vastly different than the so-called "Boston Rules" employed less than six years later between Tufts and Harvard. Carzo doesn't have a living eyewitness, but he stands by his research. He says it was actually an 1874 game between McGill University in Montreal and Harvard that first employed the "Boston Rules" with 11 men on a side, and non-continuous (or soccer-like) play. That game, said Carzo, should be recognized as the first football game between North American colleges. Tufts vs. Harvard, he said, should be duly credited as the first intercollegiate game between US-based colleges.

According to Carzo, in part because of his research, Tufts tour guides refer to the '75 Harvard-Tufts matchup as America's first college football game when they take prospective students and their parents for a tour of the campus. Invariably, said Carzo, the tour guides' subtle boastings lead to letters to the school president and school newspaper from parents who want to dispute the point.

-Yale is listed in FBS record books until 1979. Best overall defense and rushing defense in 1979.

-We played against schools who were represented by 27.45% of the NFL's 75th anniversary team.

We started playing seasons that completely consisted of colleges/universities in 1915. Between the 1880s and 1915, the Ivies, the Little Ivies, independents (Rutgers, Army, etc.) dominated the northeast scene. The New England public schools became relevant starting in 1915.

 

[SAMCRO]

Didio and Benton, Antrum, Franks, Duckworth off the top of my head, I think there was another OL. THey always get forgotten. Only girlfriends and family, coaches and former players pay attention to offensive linemen.....

Anglim, i think, got a look by Philly (OL), and Aaron Sanders was in the Saints camp (DE)
Franks and Benton were drafted by Seattle and Pittsburgh respectively. Benton spent a year or two in the CFL. Didio was on Steelers practice squad, called up and played in a few games. I'm not 100% certain, but I think Duckworth was on a practice squad too.

 

[Palatine]

Eric Torkelson had a nice NFL career.

At UConn he was the UPI New England Player of the Year in 1973. He was a big RB who gained 1,200 yards his senior season.

He played 7 years for the Packers.

 

[Palatine]

Brian Herosian, DB, played in the same era and spend a couple of years with Baltimore Colts.

He also played baseball at UConn and still holds the shutout record (7).

 

[Adios]

One last thing, Big Ten schools were still playing high schools in 1905. Chicago won the national title in 1905. They played all colleges/universities starting in 1906. Notre Dame even played a high school as late as 1912.

Rutgers, the Ivy schools and the Little Ivies were amongst the first to play only colleges going back to their beginnings (with the only exception seeming to be the Boston Athletic Association). Army and Navy caught on soon after. The Ivy League schools really dominated the Little Ivies. Wesleyan, Trinity, and Amherst do not have one win against Yale in 86 games combined. They played each other into the early half of the 20th century. Yale went 11-2 against Rugters, going 10-0 between 1873 and 1890.

Michigan lost to Wesleyan and Stevens Tech in 1883. They also played the American Medical Association in 1904. The whole college football scene were dominated by the Ivies into the early 1910s.

Forgot to include Penn. That would be possibly having us played against 13 of the oldest 16 football programs.

 

[Carl Spackler]

Anglim, i think, got a look by Philly (OL), and Aaron Sanders was in the Saints camp (DE)
Franks and Benton were drafted by Seattle and Pittsburgh respectively. Benton spent a year or two in the CFL. Didio was on Steelers practice squad, called up and played in a few games. I'm not 100% certain, but I think Duckworth was on a practice squad too.

Yup - the Pittsburgh Steelers drafted a QB out of UConn. It was the 12th round, but hey - the steelers drafted a QB from UConn in 1992. Corny Benton is one of the best football players I've ever seen, and the QB situation we had in the late 80s is a great example of what a QB competition should be.

Benton got the shot to play in the NFL, but was the #2 QB for the majority of his career, and might not have played more than a single season if not for the #1 separating a shoulder against North Carolina in 1990.

There were a bunch of really good players in the early 80s and through the 90s too.

The director of college scouting for the Green Bay Packers is a UConn Husky All-American from the early 80s. Kendall Reyes done the #99 proud.

I'm curious as to if any, among the current QB's is going to take on #14.

It's fantastic to see people discussing uconn football history around here. I will go ahead and say, that i wasn't pleased in the way that our former coach downplayed the significance of Orlovsky breaking the tie for the record in TD passes in a career in 2004 that had stood from players from the previous two decades of success.

I prefer to see a coach handle career and all time records being broken the way Jim Calhoun has done with his b-ball players.

 

[Adios]

Army used to dominate Penn State going into the mid-60s. Anything is possible for us now. Took quite a while to develop UConn's program. Had to wait for the Ivy schools to fade and also develop the school.

 

[Carl Spackler]

Army used to dominate Penn State going into the mid-60s. Anything is possible for us now. Took quite a while to develop UConn's program. Had to wait for the Ivy schools to fade and also develop the school.

Recruiting. It's all about recruiting, and then lining those players up and whipping them into a team and going out and as Coach Brown said on signing day - getting on the field and smashing some people.

 

[Adios]

A little historical tidbit I found. We played against his Boston University team in 1920 that he was coaching. He is in the College Hall of Fame for his years as a halfback at Harvard. Two-time consensus All-American.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percy_Wendell

http://www.collegefootball.org/famer_selected.php?id=10028

I'll just add more stuff if I come across anything. My only objective has been to show we do have a unique history or put our history into perspective. We may not have played as many Hall of Famers, All-Americans, Heisman Trophy winners as some programs, but we still do have a very unique history. Gridiron football was established in the northeast, after all. It seems UConn, BC, UMass, Rutgers, Syracuse, and Army (and maybe Temple) represent the "ghosts" of the game's earliest years at the FBS level now.

 

[Carl Spackler]

A little historical tidbit I found. We played against his Boston University team in 1920 that he was coaching. He is in the College Hall of Fame for his years as a halfback at Harvard. Two-time consensus All-American.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percy_Wendell

http://www.collegefootball.org/famer_selected.php?id=10028

I'll just add more stuff if I come across anything. My only objective has been to show we do have a unique history or put our history into perspective. We may not have played as many Hall of Famers, All-Americans, Heisman Trophy winners as some programs, but we still do have a very unique history. Gridiron football was established in the northeast, after all. It seems UConn, BC, UMass, Rutgers, Syracuse, and Army (and maybe Temple) represent the "ghosts" of the game's earliest years at the FBS level now.

The field where Walter Camp played rugby against Harvard, and then started developing american college football wiht concepts of a static line of scrimmage and down and distance.....is still maintained in New Haven. Put up some stuff on teh origins of the NCAA, and Walter Camp, and college football in CT.

in 1904, I think ...the year before the formation of the NCAA, I believe there were somethign like 20-25 deaths in college football played in the mid-west and south, becuase they weren't using the rules properly.

 

[fgbrault]

Thanks. A lot of work and a lot of information for us to chew on.