Factioid Friday.

With Ohio State whipping Marshall the start of the college football season is underway so today I give you factoids on College Football!



The first college football game took place in 1869 between Princeton and Rutgers University. Each team had 25 players on the field, and no forward passing was allowed. Rutgers won by a score of 6 to 4.

College football’s largest margin of victory came in 1916, when Georgia Tech defeated Cumberland by a score of 222 to 0. The game was cut short by 15 minutes.

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2. Field goals in college football were originally worth five points. This was decreased to four points in 1904 and three points in 1909.

The frst Orange Bowl was played in 1935 between the University of Miami and Manhattan College. To save money, the Manhattan College team took a three-day boat ride to Miami.

Irvine “Cotton” Warburton is the only member of the College Football Hall of Fame to receive an Academy Award. He won for his film editing work on 1964’s Mary Poppins.

Chief Osceola, the Florida State mascot who rides out and plants a flaming spear at midfield before each home game, has been approved by Florida’s Seminole Indian Tribe.

In the 1940s, college bowl games included the Raisin Bowl, Salad Bowl and Oil Bowl.

Michigan holds the record for the most bowl appearances (31).