played by teams of student athletes fielded by American universities, colleges, and military academies
, or Canadian football
played by teams of student athletes fielded by Canadian universities. It was through college football play that American football rules first gained popularity in Canada and the United States.
Modern North American football has its origins in various games, all known as "football
", played at public schools
in England
in the mid-19th century.
My mom said "you are either going to be in jail, or be killed". So I decided to do something different because I didn't want to be in one of those postions, so I kind of focused on football and took off from there.
"Iowa and Minnesota play for a pig, a statuette rendition of the actual brother of a porcine star of a Will Rogers movie. I would like to remind you that this is, on balance, a marvelous nation. "
"It’s not the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog."
"We didn’t lose the game; we just ran out of time."
"I’m like a lot of coaches. I have a lot of corny saying, but one of them is ‘there are two types of class, there’s first class and there’s no class.’"
"I was tremendously honored to make the All-American team but I don't feel that I have to strain to live up to some mythical something. Yesterday's sports hero is a lot like yesterday's newspaper--you always know there's a fresh one coming tomorrow."
"Football doesn't build character. It eliminates weak ones."
"When people used to see Wake Forest on the schedule, they used a pen to mark down a
"In the next four years, I'll give you at least one national championship."