This Week In College Football History, Jan. 22-28
Courtesy of The National Football Foundation and College Hall of Fame, Inc.
January 22, 2008
FEATURED MOMENT:
January 26, 1983: College Football Hall of Fame coach Paul “Bear” Bryant dies of a heart attack at age 69 – only 37 days after retiring as college football’s all-time winningest coach. His career spans 38 seasons with 323 wins and six national titles.
OTHER NOTABLE DATES:
January 22, 1994: Mimicking the Hula Bowls of the late 1940s, college all-stars from the mainland take on Hawaiian all-stars. The mainland’s best defeat the locals 28-15 in front of 33,947 at Honolulu’s Aloha Stadium.
January 23, 1976: Paul Robeson, College Football Hall of Fame halfback from Rutgers who gained fame as an actor, singer and activist, dies at the age of 77.
January 24, 1993: An East-West Shrine Game record crowd of 84,000 watches the East best the West 31-17 in Palo Alto, Calif.
January 25, 2003: Lou Groza Award winner Jonathan Ruffin of Cincinnati kicks a 49-yard field goal with 13 seconds left to give Team USA a 20-17 win over Team Florida in the Rotary Gridiron Classic in Orlando’s Citrus Bowl.
January 27, 1946: Played by the troops in Shanghai during World War II, the Navy All-Stars defeat the Army All-Stars 12-0 in the first China Bowl.
January 28, 2006: A sell-out crowd of 40,646 watch the North, led by Clemson quarterback Charlie Whitehurst, dominate the South 31-14 at the Senior Bowl in Mobile, Ala.
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