The Tide finally got on the board on a 2nd quarter fumble recovery but the Tigers responded with a Brandon Cox touchdown pass to Cole Bennett later in the 2nd quarter to make a halftime score of 28-7. Auburn’s Ben Obomanu accounted for two of the scores as he caught one and took another in on the ground, and Kenny Irons rushed for one more. captured the action and told us that at the end of the first quarter it was 21-0 and the Tigers seemed to be on track for a blow out as they scored on their first three possessions. Both teams entered the fray with one loss, attributed to both teams losing to LSU earlier in the season. NovemJordan-Hare Stadium, Auburn, Alabama - The 70th edition of the Iron Bowl was played as the Auburn Tigers hosted the Alabama Crimson Tide. The Stallions quarterback Tracy Ham won the game MVP award. The Stallions never looked back as Tracy Ham used his feet and arms to keep putting points on the board for Baltimore. The Stallions then bolted to a 23-13 halftime score on a scoop and score and three field goals. Calgary quarterback Doug Flutie put the Stampeders up when he threw a TD pass to Marvin Pope in the 2nd stanza. The Stampeders put the score within one point at the end of the first quarter with a couple of field goals by Mark McLoughlin. According to the website Baltimore got on the board first with a Chris Wright 82-yard punt return for a touchdown. It was only the second season for the Baltimore club, and yet despite that, the Stallions would not be going for a repeat as the franchise ended up being dissolved and then added to make a reincarnated Montreal franchise, that had closed shop in 1986 and go under the old Alouettes moniker, due to Baltimore getting the NFL’s old Cleveland franchise which we now know as the Ravens. It marked the only time that an American-based team won the Grey Cup. The Stallions won the game by a score of 37–20.

The 83rd edition of the Grey Cup for the CFL Champion to be crowned was played between the Baltimore Stallions and the Calgary Stampeders. What? Is that right? An American team won the Canadian Football League’s Grey Cup? In fact it is very true. NovemTaylor Field, Regina, Saskatchewan - The year an American Team took home the Grey Cup. NovemSouth Bend, Indiana - The Iowa Hawkeyes gave Notre Dame fits all day but with 2:15 left to play Paul Hornig booted a 28 yard field goal for the Irish that broke the tie and provided the lead that the Golden Domers would hang onto in the 17-14 Fighting Irish Win. Kershalla evidently scored 11 touchdowns in the contest and then had 5 extra point kicks that went through the uprights as well to get to the miraculous 71 points! Hawkeyes thinking upset NovemCharleston, West Virginia - According to a newspaper clipping found on the Ohio State University archives from a paper called the “Lantern” a West Liberty State Teachers College football player named Joe Kershalla scored 71 points in a college football game against Cedarville College. NovemCartier Field, South Bend, Indiana- The Notre Dame Fighting Irish hit a milestone as they reached win number 100 against Ohio Northern in a 47-0 blowout. The famous Allegheny Athletic Association gave Sporty $250 to play against the Washington and Jefferson eleven.

NovemBen Sporty Donnelly became oonly the second confirmed player to be paid to play on the gridiron, according to historian Ken Crippen on his Football Learning Academy website. Stop Yale did as they won the tightly fought contest with Harvard 6-0. The 1892 Yale Bulldogs football team compiled a perfect 13–0 record, outscored opponents by a total of 429 to 0, and has been recognized as the national champion by the Billingsley Report, Helms Athletic Foundation, Houlgate System, National Championship Foundation, and Parke H. Deland, Deland had devised would forever be known as the “Flying Wedge,” where he had his players form two smaller V's made up up five players each and the runner who would signal the formations together into a single unit and then get lost in the humanity. Yale was ready for the challenge though, as Walter Camp received some intel on the formation and devised a way to stop it. The V-formation of Princeton was modified by Harvard’s Head Coach Lorin F. NovemYale versus Harvard game at the Boston area school.

Davis' book Football: the Intercollegiate Game

Flying wedge football