Good read, Busey. But believe it or not the team that created big time college football in the South is Vanderbilt. They were the first ones to play the powerhouse teams from the northeast on a regular basis. As their coach said to his team before their 1910 game with Yale, "Some of your grandfathers rest in Confederate cemeteries and this afternoon on the football field you will meet the grandsons of the Yankee sons of bitches who put them there."

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Posted by busey

First Coast, Florida

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Posted on 9/9/11 at 1:01 am to RhodeIslandRed

Yea, I just saw the article posted on Kentucky Sports Radio today. I had no idea that football was considered a "Yankee game" at one time, although I guess it makes sense since Ohio State, Michigan, etc were the first powerhouses.

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Posted by loweralabamatrojan

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Posted on 9/9/11 at 5:58 am to RhodeIslandRed

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"Some of your grandfathers rest in Confederate cemeteries and this afternoon on the football field you will meet the grandsons of the Yankee sons of bitches who put them there."

I'd love to have seen the highlights of that game.

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Posted by AU86

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Posted on 9/9/11 at 6:28 am to RhodeIslandRed

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As their coach said to his team before their 1910 game with Yale, "Some of your grandfathers rest in Confederate cemeteries and this afternoon on the football field you will meet the grandsons of the Yankee sons of bitches who put them there."

BTW: Northern Alabama was not totally pro-union. There were several Confederate regimements raised there and my ancestor fought in one of them. I think that there was one union regiment from N. Alabama- 1st Alabama Union- Cavalry.

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Posted by windhammontanatigers

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Posted on 9/9/11 at 9:48 am to RhodeIslandRed

RhodeIslandRed, I really enjoy reading your posts and I absolutely love your historic perspectives that you put with them. I am a big historian of the Civil war and enjoy reading the different historical parts of the Civil war that you bring in. Keep up the great work and thanks again.