Curious Factoid

This thread is proof that the NCAA should try to push games to 51 weeks a year if for nothing better than the forums.
 
To address the original point:

UM was founded in 1925 and its campus basically destroyed by the 1926 hurricane. Their financial situation probably prevented them from attempting to travel to an away game. That is in addition to the closest university at the time being several hundred miles away. In fact in 1926 they played a team from the University of Havana which was the closest university.
 
A better fact about Miami is that after they lose to us again this year one more class of seniors will leave without knowing what its like to beat Tech
 
I was going to say maybe the away teams wanted the trip down there but it was all swamp back then wasn't it? I am pretty sure there weren't those thong bikini roller skater girls back then

Who knows, maybe they occasionally flashed a little bit of ANKLE in public - oooooooooooooooooooooooh!
 
In 1928 they beat Havana 62-0; Piedmont lost to them, but Oglethorpe scorched them 13-0 in '27. Was the Florida real estate bubble going on then?
 
The Florida land boom ended in the the mid 20s. And the Depression was basically full on in South Florida years before the stock market crashed.

Funnily enough the 20s land boom mirrors greatly the last real estate bubble. Investors bought land under shady bank deals hoping to flip them quickly and make a profit. Asset prices soared without any real appreciation of the value of the assets. But when customers stopped being able to afford to make the trip it all came crashing down.
 
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