Walter C. 'Bummy' Booth and the Undefeated 1902 Nebraska Football Team

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@daviddickey1994 9 ай бұрын

Booth was the first Nebraska coach to stay more than 2 years and most were only 1 year. It's interesting how the position of coach evolved from being really just a team manager with the players really running things, and coaches were often players who had just graduated, to being actually professional coaches. But even then few of them stayed very long. Nebraska was the Old Gold Knights then the Bugeaters until 1899. I guess Booth changed that to Huskers. I already spend way too much time looking up football information pretty much 1900 onward, but I enjoy your videos and will have to watch them all.

@Thebigloubowski22 6 ай бұрын

I really enjoy your videos, keep up the great work! The 1939 Tennessee Vols were the last unscored upon and undefeated team in the regular season but did not win or share a national championship even though they were in 1938 and 1940.

@geekstradamus1548 9 ай бұрын

Nice first episode, Jon! Keep ‘em coming.

@CollegeFootballHistory 9 ай бұрын

Thank you!

@rockheadesq.8720 9 ай бұрын

Very interesting Jon, thanks. I look forward to the next one.

@robertcarter8868 9 ай бұрын

Oh have the mighty fallen! Awesome and informative. Great job!

@nickdarr7328 4 ай бұрын

I know you were looking for "freak play" ideas but another idea is old time formations. Especially obscure ones like the single wing and old formations still alive at high school and even collegiate level like the vear and wing T. And explain positions like the original use and positioning of half back, quarter back full back, and things like wing back and flanker

@frankkottwitz6279 9 ай бұрын

Outstanding work sir!

@CollegeFootballHistory 9 ай бұрын

Thank you!

@rediknight9056 9 ай бұрын

This is the sort of channel that I can sink into. Thank you for the upload sir.

@CollegeFootballHistory 9 ай бұрын

Thank you, there will be more to come!

@goodmaro 8 ай бұрын

The Minnesota shift is also known as the birdcage shift if it's the same one I'm familiar with -- but it may not be, since the birdcage shift was in use enough years later that they might not be part of the same continuity.

@berfunkle4588 8 ай бұрын

I'm sure those masks 2:37 were used to protect, but I betcha they were also used to intimidate as well. Shades of Darth Vader.

@xxtitaniumxx6671 9 ай бұрын

Great video!

@CollegeFootballHistory 9 ай бұрын

Thank you!

@corbinsmith6025 9 ай бұрын

GBR ☠️

@paulhelman2376 9 ай бұрын

Bukeaterrs coached by Yost in 1898

@paulhelman2376 9 ай бұрын

"Bug Eaters"

@fufulame31 9 ай бұрын

Great Vidya

@CollegeFootballHistory 9 ай бұрын

Thank you!

@RoyBarnes-p7f 9 ай бұрын

All other teams claim national championships if their local newspaper said so..nebraska just had more class.

@CollegeFootballHistory 9 ай бұрын

I am thinking that's the case.

@justicerogers1637 8 ай бұрын

Insane that Nick Saban has a higher win percentage than this guy

@kentgrady9226 7 ай бұрын

It's interesting to me that the path of gridiron football followed that of association football in Britain - only a generation later. In the mid to late 19th Century, association football was, by rule, strictly amateur. The best teams were clubs founded by alumni of prestigious schools. Rural and working class teams were afterthoughts. In the early 20th Century, the best gridiron football teams represented elite schools. Any thought of professionalism (by this point, the standard in England) was considered laughable. In its earliest days, the NFL was basically a barnstorming circus. The best college teams were far superior to any professional outfit. The NFL was considered vulgar by sports purists - more like WWE than a serious competition. Schools like Nebraska would never be taken seriously in those earliest days. The elites hardly considered the place a proper university, much less one worthy of serious consideration.