« on: November 22, 2018, 01:16:35 PM »
https://hailvarsity.com/s/5538/the-time-iowa-lent-nebraska-a-football-coach-or-probably-didntIowa was the Nebraska football team’s first out-of-state opponent. The game was played in Omaha on Thanksgiving Day, 1891. And the final score was 26-0, or rather 22-0.
“The referee publically announced the score as 26 to 0,” Nebraska’s student newspaper The Hesperian reported. “But after the public departed under that impression, he called the teams together and admitted he was four points off . . . the boys (players) were naturally hot about it.”
When the referee was asked why the mistake, he said “none of your business.”
The referee was from Iowa City, the umpire from Omaha.
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