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Digging through some material here at BGA World Headquarters yesterday I scanned a page from an old Dartmouth media guide and shared it via email with a loyal reader. The guess here is that you'll find it interesting as well. Do notice the "major college" nomenclature and the teams with which the 1970 Big Green was rubbing elbows:
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The BamaOnLine site is running a series of stories about the best Alabama football teams of all time and its latest piece is about the 1925 season that was capped with an appearance in the Rose Bowl. The story notes that undefeated Alabama was invited to Pasadena only after Dartmouth, Yale and Illinois turned down invitations. (LINK)
Bama won the Rose Bowl, 20-19, over Washington and now counts that as its first national championship season, although the BamaOnLine site does concede, "You won’t find much recorded conversation from the time about which team was national college football champion in 1925."
Dartmouth, of course, bills the '25 Big Green team led by Swede Oberlander, Myles Lane and Nathan Parker as national champion after going 8-0.
1925 Dartmouth Football Scores
Dartmouth 59, Norwich 0
Dartmouth 34, Hobart 0
Dartmouth 50, Vermont 0
Dartmouth 56, Maine 0
Dartmouth 32, at Harvard 9
Dartmouth 14, at Brown 0
Dartmouth 62, Cornell 13
Dartmouth 33, at Chicago 7
1925 Alabama Football Scores
Alabama 53, Union (Tenn.) 0
Alabama 50, Birmingham-Southern 7
Alabama 42, at LSU 0
Alabama 27, Sewanee 0
Alabama 7, at Georgia Tech 0
Alabama 6, Mississippi A&M 0
Alabama 31, Kentucky 0
Albama 34, Florida 0
Alabama 27, Georgia 0
Alabama 20, Washington 19 (Rose Bowl)
Green Alert Take: Given that Alabama also claims titles in 1926, 1930, 1934, 1941, 1961, 1965, 1966, 1973, 1978, 1979, 1992, 2009 and 2011, 2012, 2015, 2018 would the Tide really miss the 1925 championship?
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A sobering note from Axios
Today marks 103 days since the last MLB, NBA, NFL or NHL game — the longest such drought since the fall of 1918, when the World Series was held in September amid WWI and the Spanish flu.•
EXTRA POINT
Had to laugh at an NPR story under the headline, The Latest Pandemic Shortage: Coins Are The New Toilet Paper. (LINK)
If the country is running out of coins, it ought to send someone to our house with a wheelbarrow. And probably yours as well.
Like a lot of you, when we have change in our pockets it usually ends up getting dropped in jars and bottles until we run out of them (bottles and jars, not coins). It seems we always have containers here and there overflowing with pennies, nickels, dimes and quarters (although the quarters frequently get pilfered for parking meters and snack/soft drink machines).
A lot of banks – make that most banks – have decommissioned coin-counting machines for their customers. There's just one bank we know of locally that still takes coins and Mrs. BGA opened an account at that bank for the sole purpose of taking advantage of the coin service rather than paying the ridiculous 11.9 percent processing fee the kiosks at the box stores charge.
A regular game we play before taking a load of coins to the bank is to see who can come closer to guessing the total. I can't remember what our all-time high was but I believe it was somewhere in the $300-plus mark.
Here's a tip: If your local bank doesn't take coins – and it sure seems as if they should be required to accept U.S. legal tender – those annoying coin kiosks at the box stores offer e-gift cards with no processing fee to 20 or so businesses including Amazon, Home Depot, Southwest Airlines and some other national chains and restaurants.
