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World Soccer XXX: We Have Men Too!

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Russell Jaslow said:
There were stories of coaches going to the local bar and pulling guys out to fill out the roster on game day. Mind you, this was in the very, very early days of college football. And it wouldn't surprise me if it happened with other sports as well.
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Horse Feathers (1933) parodied this brilliantly, but there were credible stories about schools doing this back to the 1910s, and by "schools" I don't mean the SEC and Big Ten I mean Harvard and Yale.
 
Russell Jaslow said:
There were stories of coaches going to the local bar and pulling guys out to fill out the roster on game day. Mind you, this was in the very, very early days of college football. And it wouldn't surprise me if it happened with other sports as well.
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Remember the famous 222-0 Georgia Tech vs Cumberland game? GT was pissed because Cumberland had beat them 22-0 in baseball earlier that year with a team composed of professional ringers, and Heisman was the baseball coach too.
 
French Rage said:
Remember the famous 222-0 Georgia Tech vs Cumberland game? GT was ****ed because Cumberland had beat them 22-0 in baseball earlier that year with a team composed of professional ringers, and Heisman was the baseball coach too.
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That and Cumberland had ended its football program. The "team" that represented them was a frat. Imagine your yoga class playing Alabama in football. 222 seems very low.

I'm actually very surprised nobody was killed. Football in 1916 was basically MMA.
 
Kepler said:
That and Cumberland had ended its football program. The "team" that represented them was a frat. Imagine your yoga class playing Alabama in football. 222 seems very low.

I'm actually very surprised nobody was killed. Football in 1916 was basically MMA.
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My favorite stat from that game is that neither team earned a single first down.
 
Spartanforlife4 said:
Go back to the early days of college football and there were shades of that being a possibility. Can't recall if it was always frowned upon or became so later on, but it wasn't out of the ordinary to have a few guys who weren't enrolled at the school playing on the team.

Didn't BYU do something like that with their soccer team? They were enrolled in the school and still amateurs, but they were playing in one of the lower leagues of the US pyramid instead of the NCAA.
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Yeah BYU had a team in USL-2 (what was called the PDL back then) though they don't anymore.

UANL and UNAM are really just professional teams that happen to be owned/run by the University, they have youth academies (Seattle just beat Tigres at the GA Cup this month), women's teams, reserve teams etc. They're not that old either, Pumas was founded in 1954 and Tigres in 1960.
 
Kepler said:
Horse Feathers (1933) parodied this brilliantly, but there were credible stories about schools doing this back to the 1910s, and by "schools" I don't mean the SEC and Big Ten I mean Harvard and Yale.
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I couldn't remember the name of that movie. When I first saw it on TV, it caused me to do some research and discover that scene was basically true.

Of course the Ivy League back then (along with Army) was the SEC of college football.
 
Russell Jaslow said:
Of course the Ivy League back then (along with Army) was the SEC of college football.
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I had no idea Army was like that. I'm actually shocked. That happens like once a decade.

Yes, one of the most fun facts about the Ivies is they went no scholarship / no special treatment (ahem) to some extent because of their stated goal of promoting academics, but also because the whole sport including them had a seriously sketchy reputation for (1) ringers, (2) betting, (3) hookers, (4) banging underage non-professionals, and (5) really extraordinary levels of violence.

Ivy League football back when they won national titles for the first 20 or 30 years was basically Florida Man in cold weather and cleats.
 
Kepler said:
I had no idea Army was like that. I'm actually shocked. That happens like once a decade.

Yes, one of the most fun facts about the Ivies is they went no scholarship / no special treatment (ahem) to some extent because of their stated goal of promoting academics, but also because the whole sport including them had a seriously sketchy reputation for (1) ringers, (2) betting, (3) hookers, (4) banging underage non-professionals, and (5) really extraordinary levels of violence.

Ivy League football back when they won national titles for the first 20 or 30 years was basically Florida Man in cold weather and cleats.
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So these days they just exclude ringers :-p
 
Article on NWSL Refereeing.

This article, however, is pretty poorly written and leaves out facts to imply gender equality issues:

1. MLS not only pays higher game fees but nearly all MLS referees are full time employees who receive full time training and a salary. NWSL referees are part time and have normal jobs. Why? Because...

2. That whole "NWSL pays a portion of PRO's operating costs" thing? The NWSL pays $125k yearly, MLS pays $10 million yearly.

It always amazes me that leagues like the NWSL and USL complain about not being on equal footing in the USSF or PRO with MLS while coming nowhere near the investment in infrastructure that MLS does. That bit about referees not having a locker room and changing in tents? That was in Louisville in a $65 million stadium that opened in 2020!
 
Champions League final delayed 30 minutes due to crowd issues outside the stadium.

Men in Blazers calls it the CONCACAFination of UEFA.
 
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