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Tonight's Insight Bowl pitting Missouri against Iowa is the first between the schools since 1910. Although the universities are just 192 miles apart, they haven't played in 100 years after the series between the teams was ended by Jesse Hawley, the coach who would go on to lead an undefeated Dartmouth team to a share of the 1925 national championship. The Columbia Daily Tribune tells the story.

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Here's what happens when you don't have an official mascot. Scroll down to the second entry under the letter "K." Not that the other "K's" are very good, but yikes ...

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As long as we're making my old professors grimace by turning to Wikipedia, check out the entry for Old Division Football. If nothing else, the picture of students playing on the Green in 1874 is kind of cool. Old Division Football was:

... a soccer-like game played from the 1820s to around 1890 by students at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire. The game was first played before the rules for soccer and rugby were standardized in England, and it continued to rely on its own local rules for some time after students learned of the newer imports. Dartmouth students published the rules of what is now called Old Division Football in 1871.

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True story. This is an orange peel That Certain Hanover High grad spotted on the ground outside of Leverone Field House this week and emailed to her teammates. She thought it looked as if it might be midway through a workout and I can't disagree.

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Heading this morning on our weather-delayed/shortened trip to Massachusetts to celebrate the holidays with the BGA in-laws ...