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RE: Sports trivia thread 2024 - skip75 - 10-25-2024

(10-25-2024, 08:57 AM)BobK Wrote:  There have been five colleges to have back to back Voldemort winners. Can you name them??

Whoops it’s 6 colleges

Army - Davis & Blanchard
Ohio State - Archie Griffin
USC - when they were running back U
Oklahoma - recent QB run with Mayfield, Hurts, + 1 more?
Alabama - recent run of RBs & WRs
Notre Dame

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RE: Sports trivia thread 2024 - BobK - 10-25-2024

Army, Ohio State, Yes
Oklahoma yes but different QB
Alabama very recent yes
USC Yes but one a QB the other Bush

Not ND one to go.

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RE: Sports trivia thread 2024 - Mick - 10-25-2024

Alabama
Michigan
Notre Dame
Ohio State
Texas
USC

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RE: Sports trivia thread 2024 - Leftcoast - 10-25-2024

Hmmhhhh .... Just guesses but Michigan, Florida, Florida State, USC, Ohio St, and Alabama? 

I don't think recent winners Clemson or Auburn nor bluebloods Texas, Georgia, and Tennessee have done it but I could be wrong. I'm no doubt showing substantial recency bias and missing the pre 1960 sets.

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RE: Sports trivia thread 2024 - BobK - 10-25-2024

Skip got 5 of the 6. Lefty nor Mick got the final one. One to go

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RE: Sports trivia thread 2024 - Leftcoast - 10-25-2024

OK, looked it up so I'm disqualified.  Hint: It's an oldie (1930s) and not a football blueblood.

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RE: Sports trivia thread 2024 - skip75 - 10-25-2024

U of Chicago???
Yale?????

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RE: Sports trivia thread 2024 - BobK - 10-25-2024

Game was a very blue blood back then. Congrats skip yes Yale

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Thanks for me thinking of the next question Skip
What coach was so bad not only was he fired the school dropped football. He then installed the T formation that summer. Where ??

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RE: Sports trivia thread 2024 - BostonCard - 10-25-2024

Clark Shaunnessy, the father of the T formation.  Stanford went from 1-7-1 in 1939 to 10-0 Rose Bowl champions in 1940, Shaunessy's first year.

BC

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RE: Sports trivia thread 2024 - BobK - 10-25-2024

Almost Boston Card however Shaunnessy stopped off to spend a month or so installing the T elsewhere before coming to Stanford

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RE: Sports trivia thread 2024 - BostonCard - 10-25-2024

No idea.  Which coaches were passed over when Shaunessey was picked?

BC

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RE: Sports trivia thread 2024 - BobK - 10-25-2024

I don’t know that BC but I do know the players were quite upset at the hire. Coach so bad they dropped football and hired by Stanford. Shaunesssy first installed the T for the Chicago Bears
Fun that I got this first hand. Plus pres clippings

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RE: Sports trivia thread 2024 - BostonCard - 10-25-2024

Supposedly, Buck Shaw (then at Santa Clara) and Dudley DeGroot (SJSU), both alums and successful local coaches (DeGroot was 24-1 in the preceding two years) were the local favorites.  John Bain Sutherland, who had left Pitt due to a lack of institutional support was supposedly the front runner.  Don Faurot, from Missouri was also in the running and may have been offered the job.

BC

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RE: Sports trivia thread 2024 - BobK - 10-26-2024

Thanks BC. Very interesting.

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RE: Sports trivia thread 2024 - BostonCard - 10-26-2024

In honor of Freddie Freeman’s walk-off grand slam in the bottom of the 10th last night…

When was the last walk-off grand slam in the World Series?

BC

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RE: Sports trivia thread 2024 - PAsportsfan - 10-26-2024

Wasn’t last night’s the first?

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RE: Sports trivia thread 2024 - BostonCard - 10-26-2024

(10-26-2024, 11:48 AM)PAsportsfan Wrote:  Wasn’t last night’s the first?

Yes!  It was a trick question.

Ok, how many prior walk off playoff grand slams?  And which famous one wasn’t?

BC

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RE: Sports trivia thread 2024 - BobK - 10-26-2024

1962 World Series Giants Chuck Hiller first ever NL grand slam

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RE: Sports trivia thread 2024 - BostonCard - 10-26-2024

Not a walk-off though.  But yeah, Hiller had the first NL grand slam in WS history.

BC

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RE: Sports trivia thread 2024 - BostonCard - 10-27-2024

(10-26-2024, 01:27 PM)BostonCard Wrote:  

(10-26-2024, 11:48 AM)PAsportsfan Wrote:  Wasn’t last night’s the first?

Yes!  It was a trick question.

Ok, how many prior walk off playoff grand slams?  And which famous one wasn’t?

BC

Re-upping before I post the answer. Hint, there had only been one post-season walk-off grand slam before Freeman. The second question, about a walk off grand slam that wasn’t is a good one.

And here’s a non-sports related Trivia question: “Which Bond film mentions its own title most frequently in the dialogue?”

BC

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