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re: Time to claim 1908
Posted on 10/16/23 at 2:49 pm to MikeTheTiger71
Posted on 10/16/23 at 2:49 pm to MikeTheTiger71
Mike LSU tried hard to play Michigan in New Orleans in 1908.
Joe Curtis head coach of Tulane warned Michigan's coach Yost not to play LSU due to its speed on the field.
Joe saw LSU play Texas A&M and Haskell and Haskell is the key along with Mayhew to find out how good the 1908 team was at its time.
Mayhew is a track and field man and made 2nd team All American, he was easily beat in a foot race by Doc and Mike Lally, these were not close races. Coach Mayhew also made All American at halfback at Brown.
Haskell game is where Ty Cobb lost $3000.00 betting on Haskell to win. To say the least he was mad, he had just got back from Japan with his wife (if I remember correct, I do have copies of the articles).
Joe Curtis head coach of Tulane warned Michigan's coach Yost not to play LSU due to its speed on the field.
Joe saw LSU play Texas A&M and Haskell and Haskell is the key along with Mayhew to find out how good the 1908 team was at its time.
Mayhew is a track and field man and made 2nd team All American, he was easily beat in a foot race by Doc and Mike Lally, these were not close races. Coach Mayhew also made All American at halfback at Brown.
Haskell game is where Ty Cobb lost $3000.00 betting on Haskell to win. To say the least he was mad, he had just got back from Japan with his wife (if I remember correct, I do have copies of the articles).
This post was edited on 10/16/23 at 2:55 pm
Posted on 10/16/23 at 8:41 pm to tigger1
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Haskell game is where Ty Cobb lost $3000.00 betting on Haskell to win. To say the least he was mad, he had just got back from Japan with his wife (if I remember correct, I do have copies of the articles).
Haskell had years as a legitimate program, but 1908 wasn’t one of those. They went 3-5-1 with 2 of the wins over Drury and St Mary’s (Kansas) and the tie against Creighton. They also lost to Washburn. Their only other win was over a Southern team: Texas A&M. A&M for their part was only 3-5 with 2 of the wins over non-major teams Trinity (TX) and Southwestern (TX). They did beat TCU who was 6-3, but had 4 wins over non-major teams and 2 over Baylor. Baylor played a more legitimate schedule but was only 3-5, including an 89-0 loss to LSU. They beat A&M and TCU (going 1-2 against TCU) along with Tulane (1-1 against them). Tulane was the only team downstream from Haskell with a win against a team outside of Texas or Louisiana with wins over Ole Miss, Miss St and Washington (MO) on the way to 7-1 (before weaseling out of the LSU game.) Ole Miss only beat 3 non-majors (and lost to Rhodes.) Miss St beat only Ole Miss and 2 non-majors (but lost to USL.) Washington (MO) was barely major going 4-0-1 against non-major teams on 0-4 against majors. That’s where things dead end downstream from Haskell. Ty Cobb clearly was judging Haskell based on prior Haskell squads, not the one they fielded in 1908.
Posted on 10/17/23 at 12:44 am to tigger1
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Haskell game is where Ty Cobb lost $3000.00 betting on Haskell to win
He bet money on this guy?
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