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The intercollegiate Football Spectacle
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The Age of Crisis
Controversy flared up over the eligibility, recruitment, and subsidization (paying) of players. -
Von Gammon of Georgia dies in football game.
Von Gammon played football for Georgia. In the game against the University of Viginia Vonm charged into a large group of people and suffered a severe concussion. He was rushed to the hospital and a couple hours later he passed away. Football was alomost abolished but the governer had vetoed the measure. -
Virginia vs. North Carolina
Virgina accused North Carolina of employing two professinal stars but raised no objections to the eligibility of Professor Edward V. Howell, who scored the games winning touchdown for North Carolina. -
Professional Coach Hired for College
Harvard hired Bill Reid to coach for $7,000. He organized winter workouts, weights, and wrestled to get the team in top performance. He kept a card file on all 4,000 Harvard students as potential recruits. The stress got to him and he turned to drinking and drugs. He only lost 3 games in two years, 2 of them were to Yale. -
Roosevelt has meeting with Big Three
Roosevelt has a meeting with some of the faculty from Yale, Princeton, and Harvard. His goal was to get them to play football with out all of the "dirty" play. He wanted to start having consequences when players played with unnecessary roughness, holding, and foul play. -
IAA rules change
The IAA's rule commitee adopted a series of rule changes that they hoped would reduce bruttality and give offenses more freedom of action. They now needed to gain 10 yards for the first down with 3 tries. They could throw the ball forward 5 yards but if it was incomplete the offense was assessed a 15 yard penalty. -
30 players die so rules change.
30 players including 8 players in college died from the game of football so they changed more rules. They stopped a lot of unnecessary roughness and dirty play. Also they gave them 4 chances to get the first down and the value of a touchdown increased from 5 to 6. -
IAA goes to NCAA
The IAA was renamed, National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). -
College is on the radio and in the paper.
People could now hear games on the radio. Also it was a big in the newspaper. A total of 42 football stories were published. Football was getting seen a lot more publicly. -
New stadium built in Nebraska
Memorial Stadium was built in Lincoln, Nebraska. It cost $430,000 in funds to complete the entire stadium. It was designed by an Omaha architect named John Latenser, Sr. It could originally hold 30,080 people but, now it can hold about 82,000.
