Connecticut Huskies football timeline

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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.

Walter Camp Field is located next to the Yale Bowl. Here's some stuff on Walter Camp. Jim Thorpe is mentioned here. He helped give the NFL credibility.

http://waltercamp.org/index.php/info/

Says there that Walter Camp helped establish the NCAA.

 

[Da_Aisijimo_Gou]

UConn's football media guide - particularly section III - provides the Huskies' gridiron history and a lot more related details.

 

[rw005]

Awesome Butchy.

Even though some people make fun of you regarding that we schedule games against opponents we have lost to a bunch. I will honestly say, you do have a point in certain teams that we should replay just to pay revenge to them.

 

[VAHuskyFan]

Awesome post, Butchy. But no UConn football history timeline would be complete without noting that in the late 90s we were running the program out of TRAILERS.

 

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Glad you two liked the historical timeline laid out. I did make a couple errors in a couple of posts, at least. Fordham outscored us in the two games we played against them, 38-35. If we had an experienced QB last year, we would have probably outscored them. We also played 7 FBS programs that are amongst the oldest, not 6. Records in series are useful in marketing the program. We have to prove we can win. That's the only way championships are won.

VAHuskyFan...do you know exactly what year we started using trailers?!

 

[VAHuskyFan]

No - I don't know when we started using the trailers, unfortunately. Someone has got to know this.

 

[Jarhead_1775]

No - I don't know when we started using the trailers, unfortunately. Someone has got to know this.

FUCRE knows.

 

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Here's the official timeline.

http://www.uconnhuskies.com/sports/m-footbl/archive/conn-m-footbl-archive.html

 

[uconnbill]

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


One correction it is Middletown High school one of the oldest high schools in the country

Great job with all the info on UConn history which many have have no clue about before the 70's

 

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


One correction it is Middletown High school one of the oldest high schools in the country

Great job with all the info on UConn history which many have have no clue about before the 70's

From Wikipedia: "In 1841, Middletown established the state's first public high school, which at first enrolled all students from age nine through age sixteen who had previous attended district schools."

http://www.yale.edu/ynhti/curriculum/units/1981/cthistory/81.ch.02.x.html#l

Some of those high schools are older than UConn.

 

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Bump for fans of other schools.

 

[CTpessimist]

Are we ignoring our win at Maryland?!

 

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Are we ignoring our win at Maryland?!

Didn't update and include the 2012 season. I'll get to that in a bit.

 

[freescooter]

Butch, great stuff. On the games against military teams, during Word War II the military put together teams on at least the larger bases and they played regular "college" schedules. In fact in at least 1944, they were ranked along with college teams in the Top 20. Lots of big names played. Frank Leahy, the Notre Dame coach, coached Great Lakes Naval Station in as did Paul Brown. Otto Graham was the quarterback at Raleigh Naval Pre-flight Training. In fact, Great Lakes was granted temporary membership in the Big 10 for the 1944 season, though they don't show up in the standings. Randolph Field Army Air Corps played Texas in the Cotton bowl in 1943. Roughly half of the top 20 (not 25 in those years) were military installations. Also, the rules were such that players who had competed their college eligibility but went to Army and Navy were allowed to compete again for the academies (which by the way shortened their programs from 4 to 3 years). A number of these programs stuck around at various levels through the late 40s and even longer and continued to play local college teams.

 

[UCONNFANTX]

I went to Springfield College. There is all sorts of memorabilia in their trophy cases with UConn mentions. Very cool to see the full scope of the history.

1978 is the year the NCAA began its radical rule. Too bad.