9/28/19 Huskies vs. You Can't Spell "SUCK" Without "U-S-C" Game Thread

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Re: 9/28/19 Huskies vs. You Can't Spell "SUCK" Without "U-S-C" Game Thread

Post by D-train » Mon Sep 30, 2019 7:25 pm

Did anyone see in the Times that Ahmed's 89 yard run was 5 yards short of the Husky record set by none other than Sterling Hill vs. Puyallup in 1898.

After much searching I could not find it on Youtube. I think I would pay $100 to see that run. :)
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Re: 9/28/19 Huskies vs. You Can't Spell "SUCK" Without "U-S-C" Game Thread

Post by Sibelius Hindemith » Mon Sep 30, 2019 10:19 pm

D-train wrote:
Mon Sep 30, 2019 7:25 pm
Did anyone see in the Times that Ahmed's 89 yard run was 5 yards short of the Husky record set by none other than Sterling Hill vs. Puyallup in 1898.

After much searching I could not find it on Youtube. I think I would pay $100 to see that run. :)
Puyallup had a team?

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Post by Michael K. » Tue Oct 01, 2019 12:08 pm

D-train wrote:
Mon Sep 30, 2019 7:25 pm
Did anyone see in the Times that Ahmed's 89 yard run was 5 yards short of the Husky record set by none other than Sterling Hill vs. Puyallup in 1898.

After much searching I could not find it on Youtube. I think I would pay $100 to see that run. :)
I did see that. Crazy. The last run close to that run was Kaufman.

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Re: 9/28/19 Huskies vs. You Can't Spell "SUCK" Without "U-S-C" Game Thread

Post by Sibelius Hindemith » Tue Oct 01, 2019 3:11 pm

I thought Puyallup was just a lot of farmland back then. So a bunch of farm-hands got together and decided to put together a football team and somehow UW needed an opponent desperately enough to play them?

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Post by Captain 97 » Tue Oct 01, 2019 3:22 pm

College sports on the west coast really didn't become anything resembling what they are today until the 1920's. In the 1800's it was more just like a school club. There were no leagues and they only played a few games a year against whoever they could find. Traveling to Oregon or California or even over to Pullman probably never even crossed their mind. In 1898 they played 2 games both against the Puyallup Indian tribe.

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Post by D-train » Tue Oct 01, 2019 4:43 pm

Sibelius Hindemith wrote:
Tue Oct 01, 2019 3:11 pm
I thought Puyallup was just a lot of farmland back then. So a bunch of farm-hands got together and decided to put together a football team and somehow UW needed an opponent desperately enough to play them?
Puyallup U was known as the Harvard of the West back then. :mrgreen:
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Post by D-train » Tue Oct 01, 2019 4:46 pm

Captain 97 wrote:
Tue Oct 01, 2019 3:22 pm
College sports on the west coast really didn't become anything resembling what they are today until the 1920's. In the 1800's it was more just like a school club. There were no leagues and they only played a few games a year against whoever they could find. Traveling to Oregon or California or even over to Pullman probably never even crossed their mind. In 1898 they played 2 games both against the Puyallup Indian tribe.
Bizarre that they still count that as the record. Though I heard that it was the Puyallup tribe that originally came up with the Cover 2 defense later copied by Monte Kiffin.
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Post by Michael K. » Tue Oct 01, 2019 10:22 pm

It was cover 0, because there was no such thing as the forward pass.

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Post by Sibelius Hindemith » Tue Oct 01, 2019 11:43 pm

Good thing the UW players had those old-time leather helmets to protect their scalps. (sorry, bad joke)

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