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Growing up in the 1930s and 1940s
Posted on 4/15/20 at 5:07 pm
Posted on 4/15/20 at 5:07 pm
The players today are so much better and faster.
They wouldn't stand a chance.
The boys took steroids when they were legal. Still, they would struggle.
They wouldn't stand a chance.
The boys took steroids when they were legal. Still, they would struggle.
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Posted on 4/15/20 at 5:09 pm to WolfPackers
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Growing up in the in the 1930’s and 1940’s
You’re probably dead
Posted on 4/15/20 at 5:12 pm to WolfPackers
Growing up in the 30s? Dude, you have to be the oldest person on this site.
Posted on 4/15/20 at 5:23 pm to WolfPackers
WOW! Hot take!!! /s
Posted on 4/15/20 at 6:42 pm to WolfPackers
quote:Idk, but ask Mizzouiowabuckeye about it.
Growing up in the 1930s and 1940s
Posted on 4/15/20 at 7:16 pm to WolfPackers
Ok boomer
Posted on 4/15/20 at 7:42 pm to WolfPackers
Doubt anyone football player today could out run Jesse Owens.
Posted on 4/15/20 at 7:56 pm to WolfPackers
the best players then had to play both ways.
some were stars at two positions.
into the 1950s.
lsu 1958 champs
some were stars at two positions.
into the 1950s.
lsu 1958 champs
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player could only enter a game at the start of a quarter and once in that quarter thereafter. That meant the best 11 players on a team played both offense and defense, bolstered by a second string of dependable backups
This post was edited on 4/15/20 at 8:01 pm
Posted on 4/15/20 at 8:04 pm to ReauxlTide222
ah frick off. 
IDK why everyone thinks I'm Peej's age.
IDK why everyone thinks I'm Peej's age.
Posted on 4/15/20 at 8:19 pm to CelticDog
Jim Brown was 6’2 232 lbs.
In the 1950s, the average offensive lineman was 6-foot-2, 234 pounds. In the 1960s, the average offensive lineman was 6-foot-3, 251 pounds.
Can you imagine an NFL rb today that was 6’5 315 lbs but also him being the fastest player on the field? I’m surprised he didn’t kill people!
Eta: in before OJ
In the 1950s, the average offensive lineman was 6-foot-2, 234 pounds. In the 1960s, the average offensive lineman was 6-foot-3, 251 pounds.
Can you imagine an NFL rb today that was 6’5 315 lbs but also him being the fastest player on the field? I’m surprised he didn’t kill people!
Eta: in before OJ
This post was edited on 4/15/20 at 8:20 pm
Posted on 4/16/20 at 1:44 am to kywildcatfanone
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Doubt anyone football player today could out run Jesse Owens.
Not sure if serious but Jesse’s best times couldn’t win some high school state champion times.
This post was edited on 4/16/20 at 1:46 am
Posted on 4/16/20 at 10:05 am to mizzoubuckeyeiowa
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ah frick off.
Posted on 4/16/20 at 10:19 am to saturday
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Growing up in the 30s? Dude, you have to be the oldest person on this site.
My dad is 84. He never posts, but he reads the Rant avidly. He stays away from the OT and poliboard though
Posted on 4/16/20 at 10:23 am to WolfPackers
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The boys took steroids when they were legal.
Link?
Posted on 4/16/20 at 10:33 am to West Palm Tiger561
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Not sure if serious but Jesse’s best times couldn’t win some high school state champion times.
Maybe so, but Owens' 10.3 in the 100 would have still put him in the quarter-final heat in the 2016 Rio games.
Not medal worthy, but still better than a lot of contestants who were running around 11 or more.
Posted on 4/16/20 at 11:33 am to West Palm Tiger561
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Not sure if serious but Jesse’s best times couldn’t win some high school state champion times.
Jesse Owens without the benefit of modern training techniques, modern shoes, modern track surface or other modern equipment ran a 10.2 100 meter in 1936 (at age 23). That record stood for 20 years. The current high school record is 10.0 unaided.
Top 10 official unaided times in high school.
10.00 Trentavis Friday (Cherryville, North Carolina) 2014
10.01 Jeff Demps (South Lake, Groveland, Florida) 2008
10.09(A) Anthony Schwartz (American Heritage, Plantation, Florida) 2018
10.11(A) Matthew Boling (Strake, Houston, Texas) 2019
10.12 ————Demps 2008
10.13 Derrick Florence (Ball, Galveston, Texas) 1986
10.13 ————Schwartz 2018
10.13 ————Boling 2019
10.14 *Noah Lyles (Williams, Alexandria, Virginia) 2015
10.15 Henry Neal (Greenville, Texas) 1990
10.15 ————*Schwartz 2017
10.15(A) ————Boling 2019
So two official times are faster than Owens by high school athletes and those are 6 years apart.and the last one 6 years ago
wind or altitude aided 2 more
9.98w Matthew Boling (Strake, Houston, Texas) 2019
9.99w(A) Trayvon Bromell (Gibbs, St. Petersburg, Florida) 2013
Boling was aided by a 4.2 mph tailwind
Bromell was aided by a 4 mph tailwind and ran in Albuquerque, New Mexico which is at roughly the same elevation as Denver (I did not know this until today) 5,312 ft.
Owens was a phenomenal athlete and would have been today as well.
Athletes are generally bigger and often supplement their nutrition with things not often available to athletes of yesterday, some of them not legal. The taller players are primarily from better early childhood nutrition allow the maximization of the biological potential genetics may give you. The bigger guys as adults is more about training and nutrition as an athlete and of course the taller frame to put the weight on.
So if you magically transported an athlete forward, they may not be as impressive relative to other athletes now but would still be better than most. If you took infant athlete x and transported him to more modern time where he could take advantage of modern nutrition and training as he grew, who knows what you may get.
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