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Pigskin Dispatch Podcast: Coe College's Point-A-Minute Team

Timothy P. Brown

Nov 1, 2022

Pigskin Dispatch podcaster Darin Hayes and I discuss a recent TidBit about the 1914 Coe College point-a-minute team. Click here to listen, or subscribe to Pigskin Dispatch wherever you get your podcasts.

Coe College’s 1914 football team followed Hurry Up Yost and Michigan’s lead by being called a point-a-minute team. After suffering an early season loss to Iowa State, they ran over, around, and through the rest of their schedule, scoring 0.98 points per minute in conference play.

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Today's Tidbit... Coe College’s Point-A-Minute Team of 1914

In Fielding Yost’s first season as coach at Michigan, his “Hurry Up” offense scored 550 points while allowing zero in eleven games and became known as the Point-A-Minute team. Football had 35 minutes halves at the time, so those doing the math realize Michigan scored .714 points per minute that season, but who’s counting…

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