One for the record book- Page 2

[smartpenguin78]

Posted: 11/5/05 at 5:13pm

I tend to dislike running up the score, I remember Spurrier deciding he had to "hang fifty" on the Bulldogs in Athens and it just feels wrong.

I always remember the 222-0 Ga Tech score over Cumberland College whenever this comes up.
In 1916 with John Heisman coaching.

[Elphaba]

Posted: 11/5/05 at 5:20pm

penguin, that was the highest scoring game of all time.....but I never knew Heisman coached it

[JailyardGuy]

Posted: 11/5/05 at 5:28pm

Wait...



...football is that thing where a bunch of men in big paddy diaper-things run around with buckets on their head and throw some oblong object back and forth, and occasionally dance around like idiots when they throw it through something, right?


:-P

[JohnPopa]

Posted: 11/5/05 at 5:33pm

Nothing was sweeter than Spurrier running 60 on Tennessee back in the day

... sniff ... I miss the Spurrier Gators. It wasn't about winning, it was about winning by A LOT.

I say in big rivalries especially it's impossible to run it up too much. It's like when Woody Hayes went for 2 at the end of a old Michigan game even though the game was over and he had it won. When asked why he went for 2 he replied he went for 2 because 'there wasn't any way to go for 3.'

[Type_A_Tiff]

Posted: 11/5/05 at 7:42pm

Thanks YWIW (for the info and the compliment ).

What margin is generally considered large enough in football that running up the score is frowned upon?

[YouWantitWhen????]

Posted: 11/5/05 at 8:30pm

I don't have an absoulte answer for you on that.

It probably varies on the team and how much time is left.