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Friday, September 23, 2022

A Winning Aggregation

 

September 25, 1899, Oshkosh Northwestern

In today's blog entry, we end the week with an account of an Oshkosh-Menasha football game...from 1899.  Menasha was victorious that day, 10 -0.  And though that was a satisfying result, the real fun is in just reading this account, full of the syntax of that era.  Believe me, no account of a football game today can compare to this version ("The visitors now resisted determinedly...", "...their rushes were irresistible?")  Amazing.  

4 comments:

  1. Wow! So much detail! 😁

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  2. I wonder how the field was lined. Where the heck was the fifty-five yard line?

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  4. Maybe they were using Canadian rules where the field is 110 yards! More than likely though, it was a typo and he meant the 45 yard line

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