Today's Tidbit... 1908 Huron College Football
Huron College in Huron, South Dakota, closed in 2005, but 97 years earlier, they put a football team on the field. With 290 students, about twenty turned out for football, including thirteen returning from the 1907 team. The schedule was still in flux in mid-September when they published the following slate:
10/2: Aberdeen Normal
10/13: State University in Vermillion
10/27: Mitchell University
11/2: School of Mines
11/18: Yankton
11/26: Brookings College
Although they had a coach, football was less formal today than today.
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