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The first game played between teams representing American colleges was played under rules more similar to the 1863 rules of the English Football Association, the basis of the modern form of soccer. The game, between Rutgers University and Princeton University, took place on November 6, 1869 at College Field (now the site of the College Avenue Gymnasium), New Brunswick, New Jersey. Rutgers won, by a score of 6 "runs" to 4.
The 2006-07 Bowl season capped the 2006 NCAA Division I-A football season in college football. The NCAA Division I-A does not include a play-off system. Instead, the season concludes with a series of bowl games that have developed as a reward for teams that do well in the regular season.
The 2006-07 schedule was the largest post-season lineup ever, with the addition of the new stand-alone Bowl Championship Series National Championship Game as well as the International Bowl in Toronto, Ontario which was the first bowl game to be played outside the USA since the last Bacardi Bowl was played in Havana, Cuba in 1937. The season also added two additional games---the PapaJohns.com Bowl and the New Mexico Bowl---as part of a record 38 post-season games (32, not including the post-BCS all-star games) scheduled between the Poinsettia Bowl on December 19, 2006, and the post-season-ending Texas vs. The Nation Game on February 2, 2007. Thus, 64 teams out of the 119 in Division I-A played in the post-season, thanks in part to the NCAA's decision to expand D-I schedules to 12 games and allow teams with a 6-6 record to be bowl-eligible if the team or their conference has negotiated a bowl contract.
Arthur Kahler was an American college football and basketball coach. He was listed in "Ripley's Believe It Or Not" as only person to coach at two different major colleges at the same time - head basketball coach at Brown University and football coach at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. He later became a coach and Athletic Director at Southwestern College in Winfield, Kansas.
Southwestern honored the memory of Kahler by naming the football field "Art Kahler Field." In 1974, Kahler was inducted into the Kansas Sports Hall of Fame.
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- ...that the quarterback for the first College Football All-America Team in 1889 was Edgar Allan Poe?
- ... that the visitor's locker room at the Alabama Crimson Tide football stadium was recently named "The Fail Room" after alumnus contributor James M. Fail?
- ...that college football cornerback Kevin Barnes of Maryland delivered a tackle hard enough to cause Heisman Trophy prospect Jahvid Best to vomit on the field, footage of which became a viral video?
- ...that All-American quarterback Archie Weston was once tackled during a game by an irate female fan?
- ...that the Cal State Fullerton Titans football team holds NCAA records for both most fumbles and most fumbles lost for a single season with 73 and 41 respectively?
- ...that college football tailback Mikell Simpson of Virginia ran for a 96-yard touchdown in the 2008 Gator Bowl, which is the longest rush by a running back in an NCAA bowl game?
- ...that Herb Treat, unanimously selected as a 1922 College Football All-American, was hit by a car in 1943 and plunged nine stories from a hotel window in 1947?
- ...that college football quarterback Brian Johnson led the Utah Utes to become the only undefeated team in the 2008 season, including an upset of fourth-ranked Alabama in the 2009 Sugar Bowl?
- ... that Liz Heaston was the first woman to score points in a college football game when she kicked two extra points for the Willamette Bearcats in 1997?
- ...that in 1922, Washington & Jefferson College's Charlie "Pruner" West became the first African American to play quarterback in the Rose Bowl?
- ...that the 1948 All-America team was the first to include separate offensive and defensive college football teams?
- ...that the Centre College Praying Colonels participated in the first game of American football played south of the Ohio River in 1880?
- ...that end Bernard Kirk, who Knute Rockne called the "apple of my eye," died of complications from a fractured skull days after being named an All-American in December 1922?
- ...that American football player Buddy Burris was the first Oklahoma Sooner to be named an All-American three times?
- ...that Horace Prettyman (pictured) played eight years of "college" football for the University of Michigan from 1882 to 1890, some when he was in his 30s and no longer a student?
- ...that the 1881 Michigan Wolverines football team is credited with playing the first intersectional football games against Harvard, Yale and Princeton?
- ...that Gus Cifelli won three college football national championships and an NFL championship with the Detroit Lions before being elected as a judge, where he served for over 20 years?
- ...that American football tackle J.D. Maarleveld survived Hodgkin's lymphoma but was cut from the Notre Dame team anyway, transferred to Maryland, and became a consensus first-team All-American?
- ...that college football player Bob Ward is the only player to have been selected by the Associated Press as a first-team All-American in both an offensive and defensive position?
- ...that Neil Snow, ranked by Grantland Rice as one of the three greatest all-around athletes ever turned out in college sports, died of heart failure at age 34 after a game of squash?
College Football DYK Archive
- January 2 — The 2008 Utah Utes football team jumps out to a 21–0 lead and holds on to shock the formerly #1 Alabama Crimson Tide by a score of 31–17 in the 2009 Sugar Bowl.
- January 1 — Former Auburn coach Terry Bowden takes over the football program at the University of North Alabama after having spent the last ten years out of coaching.
- November 22 — The Abilene Christian University Wildcats set a record for points in an NCAA playoff game (93) as they scored touchdowns on 13 of its 15 possessions in a 93-68 defeat of West Texas A&M in the 2008 NCAA Division II National Football Championship playoffs.
- November 15 — The opening round of the 2008 NCAA Division II National Football Championship playoffs was held. The playoffs will conclude on December 13, 2008 at Braly Municipal Stadium near the campus of the University of North Alabama in Florence, Alabama.
- May 1 — Headlined by Troy Aikman, Billy Cannon and Lou Holtz, the 2008 class of College Football Hall of Fame inductees is announced.
- We need a playoff. — Bernie Machen, president of the University of Florida who supports creating a play-off for NCAA Division I-A
- I like to believe that my best hits border on felonious assault. — former Ohio State Buckeyes defensive back Jack Tatum, on the fierce quality of his play
- If anything goes bad, I did it. If anything goes semi-good, we did it. If anything goes really good, then you did it. That's all it takes to get people to win football games for you. — University of Alabama Crimson Tide head coach Paul "Bear" Bryant, on his motivational techniques
- When people used to see Wake Forest on the schedule, they used a pen to mark down a `W.' We're at the point now where we at least make them use a pencil. — Wake Forest head coach Jim Grobe
- Create individual 2007/2008 articles for bowls listed in NCAA football bowl games, 2007-08. Please stick to known facts and citable predictions for these future events.
- Rate a college football article from Category:Unassessed college football articles
- Add top-level information to Current sports events as it occurs. #1 ranking team games, other notable events.
- Improve an aritcle
- College GameDay - needs work
- List of 100 point games - Not wikified, introduction not encyclopedic, needs to WP:CITE
- List of schools by Bowl appearances - Incomplete
- De-stub an article from The college football stub category
