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Posted: 11/10/2011 11:54 AM

Can anyone tell me the reason for the "100" sticker on the back of the helmet.  Thanks for sharing the pictures.

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Posted: 11/10/2011 1:09 PM
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Thanks for posting.  These are real neat photos.  One correction: The score of the 1970 game was 32-22.  With just a few minutes to go Ohio scored to come within three points.  Ohio then failed on an onside kick and PSU went in for a final TD.  This was the only game in the series, thus far, that Ohio had a legitimate chance of winning down the stretch.  I wasn't there, but I remember listening to it on the radio from my home in Chesapeake, Ohio, a bedroom community for Huntington, W.Va..  Ohio finished 4-5 that year and PSU was 7-3.  It was that evening that the Marshall team was killed in the plane crash.  So, Ohio's season was over.   Two Marshall assistant coaches -- Mickey Jackson and Carl Koker -- were at the Ohio-Penn State game in a scouting capacity so they lived to provide some coaching continuity for the Young Herd in 1971.


OCF, you are correct as I checked my hardcopy of the 1996 Media Guide.  The score is a misprint in the 2010 Media Guide, PDF.  Looks like the "2" for Penn State was left off.

http://grfx.cstv.com/photos/schools/ohio/sports/m-footbl/auto_pdf/Section6.pdf

My 1996 Media Guide includes Wolfgang Kratzenberg!
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Posted: 11/10/2011 1:27 PM
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Can anyone tell me the reason for the "100" sticker on the back of the helmet.  Thanks for sharing the pictures.



It was the 100th Anniversary of the NCAA.  Many, but not all teams wore the decal. Some information and MAC schools with the link: http://nationalchamps.net/Helmet_Project/1969.htm

No Mac Schools, but lots of neat college and pro helmets: http://www.helmethut.com/





 
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Posted: 11/10/2011 2:08 PM
Bobcat Grad 86 wrote:expand_more

Can anyone tell me the reason for the "100" sticker on the back of the helmet.  Thanks for sharing the pictures.



It was the 100th Anniversary of the NCAA.  Many, but not all teams wore the decal. Some information and MAC schools with the link: http://nationalchamps.net/Helmet_Project/1969.htm

No Mac Schools, but lots of neat college and pro helmets: http://www.helmethut.com/





 

If so that would have been 2006 for the use of the stickers. 1969 was 100 years of college football.
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Posted: 11/10/2011 3:07 PM
Correct -- 100 years of American football.  

Though, it's a little bit of a stretch because the game they played on that field in Piscataway in 1869 still looked a lot like soccer, as the ball was apparently advanced by kicking it with the feet -- but there was line play that looks more like football than soccer.  There's no doubt though that American football evolved from this game to what it is today so it does deserve historical significance.


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Posted: 11/10/2011 4:22 PM
I guess we can call my confusion about 100 Years of College Football and 100 Years of the NCAA a "Rick Perry Moment".

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Posted: 11/10/2011 5:28 PM
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I guess we can call my confusion about 100 Years of College Football and 100 Years of the NCAA a "Rick Perry Moment".



ROFL!  

The difference between the two situations, from my perspective, is that I like you -- but I don't like Perry.  
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