A Few Notes from the Football Team

Danny Wild has some photos up from Spring practice, if you haven't visited Danny's Wildlife blog, check it out.

Danny's photography gives him access to the team, so while players' medical status are always unofficial until they come full term, I am encouraged by the latest Army personnel rumor:

"Football-related, I heard Army linebacker Andrew Rodriguez may return for 2011 and may also have a shot at being the first captain of the Corps — pretty exciting on both fronts."

Sal's take on A-Rod estimates Rodriguez's 2011 return at a 50/50 probability.

"From everything I’ve heard, there’s probably less than a 50 percent chance that Rodriguez plays in the fall.

Rodriguez, a top student, is a potential candidate to be first captain of the Corps of Cadets for the 2011-12 school year.

If he doesn’t play football, there’s a good chance that Rodriguez could stay with the team as a student coach."

You can follow Danny Wild's photography work on his flickr site:

His collection of Army football football photos on flickr can be found here.


It's been a slow time for football news, so to catch up on some of the changes from 2010 to 2011 Phil Steele has lists of the college football coaching changes, and the 2011 conference alignment.


I don't know if I posted the post spring game interview before, but here is a talk with Steve Erzinger courtesy of GoArmySports.com.




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Yearbook: South Carolina

 
South Carolina has their Garnet and Black yearbooks available online.

There are some significant gaps in the years that they have online, but the earliest edition of the Garnet and Black they have available is from way, way back in 1899. That volume gives us a look at the then brief history of southern football as well as recapping South Carolina's 1898 season.

 

 
 

I like finding major college scores and records that aren't listed on my favorite games database, and the earliest online volume of the Garnet and Black yearbook has several items listed that fall under that category. 

 

 None of those pre-1900 scores are listed with Soren Sorensen,which is the true value of these records of early football. No matter how biased a publication can be, the true history of the game is captured in the game recaps and  scoring summaries of each  game and in each year. 

I hope these yearbooks can clarify those early years as we move forward.

Make sure to check out the yearbook collection  for more historically relevant football content. The more we examine these sources the more we can find out about the game that remains America's #1 sport: 

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