89Hen wrote:The Ivy, especially Harvard, is a joke. They don't participate in the playoffs, so they shouldn't even be mentioned on the FCS board. Put them in "other sports"... that is, if you think their brand of football is even a sport.
89Hen wrote:The Ivy, especially Harvard, is a joke. They don't participate in the playoffs, so they shouldn't even be mentioned on the FCS board. Put them in "other sports"... that is, if you think their brand of football is even a sport.
NCAAjunkie wrote:Ivy League just doesn't want their schools getting demolished. They should be particiapting though. Doesn't Princeton have 28 national titles? They should try to add more onto that total...
Ya know? The 1869 title? Because Princeton won the first ever game of football, they had their undefeated dream season. BTW only other team playing the sport was Rutgers.
Cmon now Princeton, 28? Okay.
Hold on a second, the Scarlet Knights won that game:
"The first "football" game played between teams representing colleges in the United States was an unfamiliar ancestor of today's college football, as it was played under 99-year-old soccer-style Association rules.[1] The game between teams from Rutgers College (now Rutgers University) and the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University) took place on November 6, 1869 at College Field (now the site of the College Avenue Gymnasium at Rutgers University) in New Brunswick, New Jersey. Rutgers won by a score of 6 "runs" to Princeton's 4.[2][3][4] The 1869 game between Rutgers and Princeton is important in that it is the first documented game of intercollegiate football game ever played between two American colleges. It is also notable in that it came a full-two years before a codified rugby game would be played in England. The Princeton/Rutgers game was undoubtedly different from what we today know as American football. Nonetheless it was the forerunner of what evolved into American football. Another similar game took place between Rutgers and Columbia University in 1870 and the popularity of intercollegiate competition in football would spread throughout the country."
89Hen wrote:The Ivy, especially Harvard, is a joke. They don't participate in the playoffs, so they shouldn't even be mentioned on the FCS board. Put them in "other sports"... that is, if you think their brand of football is even a sport.
89Hen wrote:The Ivy, especially Harvard, is a joke. They don't participate in the playoffs, so they shouldn't even be mentioned on the FCS board. Put them in "other sports"... that is, if you think their brand of football is even a sport.
Ok Hen- The Harvard team from a few years ago, 2004, was as good as any team I have seen in FCS. They had current Bills starting QB Ryan Fitzpatrick under center, and former NFL RB and Northwestern transfer Clifton Dawson toting the ball. They beat a pretty decent Northeastern team that year 41-14. Yes 41-14 - by far the worst loss for Northeastern that year. How many FCS teams have an NFL QB and NFL RB on the team at the same time?
I don't know how far they would've went in the FCS playoffs, but they would at the very least given teams a very good game.
