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re: Div. II Tusculum sets NCAA record, allows -100 yards of offense

Posted on 9/5/14 at 8:58 am to
Posted by TigerintheNO
New Orleans
Member since Jan 2004
41232 posts
Posted on 9/5/14 at 8:58 am to
Check out these numbers- from a game played on 10/17/16

Rushing Yards=
Cumberland (-96)
Ga Tech 1,620 32 Tds
Posted by LST
Member since Jan 2007
16316 posts
Posted on 9/5/14 at 9:32 am to
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Check out these numbers- from a game played on 10/17/16



Have you ever read the background on that game? Its pretty crazy.

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Cumberland College, a school in Lebanon, Tennessee, had discontinued its football program before the season but was not allowed to cancel its game against the Engineers.[1][2] The fact that Cumberland's baseball team had crushed Georgia Tech earlier that year 22–0 (amidst allegations that Cumberland used professionals as ringers) probably accounted for Georgia Tech coach John Heisman's running up the score on the Bulldogs, Heisman also being the Engineers' baseball coach.[1][2] He insisted on the schools' scheduling agreement, which required Cumberland to pay $3,000 ($65,018 in inflation-adjusted terms) to Tech if its football team failed to show.[1][2] So, George E. Allen (who was elected to serve as Cumberland's football team student manager after first serving as the baseball team student manager) put together a team of 14 men to travel to Atlanta as Cumberland's football team.[2]
Posted by GeauxColonels
Tottenham Fan | LSU Fan
Member since Oct 2009
25604 posts
Posted on 9/5/14 at 11:36 am to
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Check out these numbers- from a game played on 10/17/16

Rushing Yards=
Cumberland (-96)
Ga Tech 1,620 32 Tds

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