Football commentator and former player Joe Theismann:"Nobody in football should be called a genius. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein
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November 15, 1890, the University of Colorado played its first football game. It was a 20-0 loss to the Denver Athletic Club.
December 13, 1890, University of Colorado scored their first touchdown on a sixty-five yard run back of a recovered fumble. Nevertheless Colorado School of Mines won 50-4. Yes, 4, touchdowns counted for four points, kicks after a touchdown counted for two points, and field goals counted for five points. Early football was patterned after Rugby and the emphasis was on foot of football.
In 1880, Walter Camp was successful in getting the rules changed to eleven players on each team instead of fifteen.
In 1890 Andrew Coyle arrived in Denver and started working on the defense of Will Conway in the fictitious murder trial described in Murder in the Rockies. It makes one wonder if Coyle found time to attend a football game. Read Murder in the Rockies to find out.
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As the train pulled into the station, Coyle looked out of the window and saw a passing buggy with three men in it. One was a uniformed policeman, one wore a suit and a derby and the third appeared to be a prisoner. They were followed by another buggy with two uniformed policemen and a couple of policemen on horseback. Behind the horsemen there was a small, but growing, crowd of curious onlookers. The train came to a stop, and the crowd passed on by.
"I wonder what that is all about," Coyle thought out loud.
When Andrew Coyle, Esq. of the Philadelphia Coyles, stepped off the train and onto the platform in Denver’s Union Station, his first look at Denver amazed him. He had expected mostly frame buildings, if not log cabins. Instead, he saw well-built, brick structures reaching as high as four or five stories. It was 1890 and Denver had been rebuilt in brick after the disastrous fire of '63 and the flood of '64. Business was booming and opportunities abounded. Andrew Coyle, fresh out of law school, meant to take advantage of every opportunity that came his way.
Bet you didn't know
November 15, 1890, the University of Colorado played its first football game. It was a 20-0 loss to the Denver Athletic Club.
December 13, 1890, University of Colorado scored their first touchdown on a sixty-five yard run back of a recovered fumble. Nevertheless Colorado School of Mines won 50-4. Yes, 4, touchdowns counted for four points, kicks after a touchdown counted for two points, and field goals counted for five points. Early football was patterned after Rugby and the emphasis was on foot of football.
In 1880, Walter Camp was successful in getting the rules changed to eleven players on each team instead of fifteen.
In 1890 Andrew Coyle arrived in Denver and started working on the defense of Will Conway in the fictitious murder trial described in Murder in the Rockies. It makes one wonder if Coyle found time to attend a football game. Read Murder in the Rockies to find out.
Excerpts
As the train pulled into the station, Coyle looked out of the window and saw a passing buggy with three men in it. One was a uniformed policeman, one wore a suit and a derby and the third appeared to be a prisoner. They were followed by another buggy with two uniformed policemen and a couple of policemen on horseback. Behind the horsemen there was a small, but growing, crowd of curious onlookers. The train came to a stop, and the crowd passed on by.
"I wonder what that is all about," Coyle thought out loud.
When Andrew Coyle, Esq. of the Philadelphia Coyles, stepped off the train and onto the platform in Denver’s Union Station, his first look at Denver amazed him. He had expected mostly frame buildings, if not log cabins. Instead, he saw well-built, brick structures reaching as high as four or five stories. It was 1890 and Denver had been rebuilt in brick after the disastrous fire of '63 and the flood of '64. Business was booming and opportunities abounded. Andrew Coyle, fresh out of law school, meant to take advantage of every opportunity that came his way.