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DanS
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Kickball Capital of the World
Jan 1970
time: 00:30
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OSU looked very good... or Washington looked very bad, I can't decide which one applies . Maybe both. |
While they didn't blow out Washington, it was pretty much a command performance through 3 quarters. They looked very confident and disciplined for a first game of the year. Not explosive like Miami sometimes seems to look on their best days, though.
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Is college "football" a professional sport? |
Good question. To add to the description given above, college football is an amateur sport, dates to the late 1860s and was the pioneer of the sport of football. At the time, it used a ball like a soccer ball and was played with ad hoc local and team rules. The ball was changed to the pigskin in the 1870s, the rules were pretty much standardized in the 1880s (downs, 11 players per side). In the very early 20th centery, because there were too many deaths and injuries of players, the forward pass was instituted.
It's a huge sport. Attendance at games is about 45 million per year, which is about 3x of what professional football puts in the stands, even though each professional team plays a third more games than do college football teams (there are about 600 college football teams). The Ohio State game tonight had 105,000 people in the stands. For context, the whole town of Columbus, where OSU is located, has about 1 million people.
Btw, association football also got its formal start in the 1860s. That's why there is a great deal of justification for using the term "soccer" (i.e., . Or at least if you want to label ours as "American football". 
Last edited by DanS on 31-08-2003 at 11:05
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