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Aerial view of Harvard Stadium in Boston, in the form of a letter U with a capital H in the center of the field and the words Harvard and Crimson at either end

... that the Harvard Crimson football team (home stadium pictured) has won 12 national championships and is the eighth winningest team in NCAA Division I football history?
... that American football running back Keith Elias graduated from Princeton University with 21 Princeton Tigers records and 4 National Collegiate Athletic Association I-AA records?
... that Vanderbilt's "Blonde Bear" supervised the ransacking of black households in the 1946 Columbia Race Riot?
... that Native American football player Peter Hauser has been credited with throwing the first spiral pass?

Yale's original mascot, Handsome Dan

... that the Yale Bulldogs football team (mascot pictured) has won 27 national championships and ranks second in wins in college football history?
... that Michigan's All-American 60-minute man Tom Johnson was the second African-American player for the Green Bay Packers?
... that Deputy National Security Advisor Denis McDonough played for Hall of Fame football coach John Gagliardi at Saint John's University?
... that the Wittenberg Tigers from Springfield, Ohio, have won more games than any other Division III college football team?

College Football DYK Archive

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