Make Fun of UT Thread With Not Subtle Working Title.

[NWLB]

From Toledo's own web site, under traditions:
Here is one to be proud of:
" 1917 Dean Brandeberry is "selected" coach when he begins conversing with some students on the gravel field near the 11th Street UT campus. Team member Charles Morgan later says, "Nobody else wanted the job." Each of the team's 13 members purchases his own uniform. The team has no practice scrimmages prior to playing the first game in school history, a contest at powerful Detroit. UT not only loses the game, 145-0, it loses four players to injury. Toledo finishes the season 0-3, outscored 262-0 by its opponents."

TOUCHDOWN MMMMUUUUUNNNNNIIIEEES!
"1920s The Blade newspaper refers to the team as "Munies," short for Municipal University, and also as the "Fighters."

"1922 The first football field is built at Scott Park. Seating, consisting of seven rows of wooden bleachers, is added in 1923. From 1918-1936 games are also played at Armory Park, and Waite, Scott, Libbey and St. John's high schools. "
Not mentioned was that halfof the bleachers were full, but announced attendance was 36,000 and later declared a "MAC record."

For all the jokes about their mascot, they give us this gift:
"1923 Toledo acquires its current nickname following a game with powerful Carnegie Tech. Surprised to learn that Toledo has no nickname, Pittsburgh sports writers pressure James Neal, a UT student working in the press box, to come up with one. Neal, impressed with his team's flashy performance against a superior Carnegie Tech team, labels UT the "Skyrockets," which the writers shorten to "Rockets."
.....skyrockets in flight, afternoon.....nevermind.

"1924 After Toledo defeats Bowling Green, 12-7, controversy erupts when BGSU alleges that the Rockets used an illegal player. Athletic competition between the two schools is suspended from 1925-27."
-I'm sure they were just confused over how the player was described. By "illegal player" most likely we just meant he was a convict.

"1925 Numbers are worn on jerseys for the first time."
-1987, the players are taught what those shapes on the jerseys mean.

"1931, Amid the Great Depression, football is cancelled due to a lack of funds."
"1943, With the country at war, football is suspended from 1943-45."
-Third times the charm! Please?

[BGSUfanatUT]

Wow, dont you think TJ will be offended that we are talking about toledo again? I mean hell, they are only our rival...