Anyone up for a little sports trivia quiz? One of my favorite traditions is to watch the Rose Bowl football game. The Super Bowl is terrific, but I just don’t think you can beat good old college football and my favorite game of all is the Rose Bowl. Looks like the Oregon Ducks might just be there this year. Go Ducks!
I’m thinking I’ll make this a football quiz. So expect trivia questions about college football, professional football, the NFL, AFC, football history, rules and any other trivia I may dig up. You can strip out the answers in your word processor and use the quiz for whatever occasion you want.
And now on with the questions and of course, the answers.
- What college once had 22 members of the Phi Beta Kappa honor society on its football team?
A: Dartmouth, in 1925. - Who was the first professional football player to run for more than 2,000 yards in a season?
A: O. J. Simpson, who racked up 2,003 yards for Buffalo in 1973, breaking the previous record of 1,863 yards set 10 years earlier by Jim Brown. - The New York Jets were beating the Oakland Raiders 32-29 with 75 seconds of play to go in November 1968 when the game was pre-empted by the children’s classic “Heidi.” What was the final score?
A: The Raiders won, 43-32, after making two last-minute touchdowns. - Which was the first sport to have its top players named to an All-American team?
A: Football, in 1889. The idea originated with famed football authority Walter Camp, who picked 36 All-American teams until his death in 1925. - In the National Football League, how many footballs is the home team required to provide for each game?
A: 24–although from 8 to 12 are usually used. - Who was the famous great-great-grandfather of San Francisco 49er quarterback Steve Young?
A: Mormon leader Brigham Young. - What football player was the recipient of the biggest Super Bowl ring ever made?
A: Defensive tackle William “The Refrigerator” Perry of the Chicago Bears in 1986. The ring was a size 23. - What football teams were on the field in the 1977 film Back Sunday?
A: The Dallas Cowboys and the Pittsburgh Steelers. The game shown is Super Bow X at the Orange Bowl, won by the Steelers, 21-17. - Who was the only two-time winner of the Heisman Trophy?
A: Archie Griffin of Ohio State, who won the award in both 1974 and 1975. - What was the name of the only National Football League team playing in Pennsylvania in 1943?
A: The Steagles–the Pittsburgh Steelers and Philadelphia Eagles merged during World War II when many players were serving overseas. - What teams competed in the first football Super bowl in 1967?
A: The Green Bay Packers and the Kansas City Chiefs. The Packers won the game, 35-10. - Who is the only man elected to both the Baseball and football Halls of Fame?
A: Cal Hubbard, the tackle for the Green Bay packers and New York Giants who became an American League umpire after his retirement form football. - Who said, “Show me a good loser and I’ll show you a loser”?
A: Former Ohio State football coach Woody Hayes, who was fired for being a bad loser and attacking a Clemson player who intercepted a pass in the closing moments of the 1978 Gator Bowl. Ohio lost, 17-15. - Why were there two kickoffs at the start of the second half of Superbowl I?
A: NBC was running a commercial and missed the first kickoff. Officials nullified the play and had the half star over again. the 1967 game ended with the Green Bay Packers beating the Kansas City Chiefs, 35 – 10. - With what football team did the huddle originate?
A: With the deaf Gallaudet College team, in the 1890s. Members of the Washington, D.C., team went into a huddle to hide the hand signals they were using during a game against another deaf team.