[NU Sports] Other Facts About NU Football

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Jeff

I was comparing NU winning percentages per decade.  They are, as follows:

1882-89	.500
1890-99	.540
1900-09	.669
1910-19	.408
1920-29	.519
1930-39	.580
1940-49	.489
1950-59	.383
1960-69	.405
1970-79	.261
1980-89	.173
1990-99	.382
2000-05	.478

If we could only toss out the 1972-1994 era, in which Northwestern lost its
way (46-203-4), our program would be one game under .500 record all time.

-----Original Message-----
From: nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com [mailto:nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com] On
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Sent: Sunday, November 06, 2005 8:21 PM
To: nwu-sports at romaine.tssi.com
Subject: RE: [NU Sports] Other Facts About NU Football

 
Slow down there big fella.  

No disrespect intended to Pappy, but I think that Ara P. might have a bone
to pick with you.

First of all, not including this year, RW's record from 2000-2004 is 27-33
(.450).  Ara's record (plus one year of Alex) from 1960-1964 is 24-21 (.533
my gosh a winning record!).  Alex turned in a 4-6 season in 1965 to make
their combined six year total for the sixties 28-27 (.509 also winning!).
Even if NU goes 3-0 the remainder of the season, that makes RW's record for
this decade so far 36-36 (.500).  Close but no cigar.

Jeff
    
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Sent: Sunday, November 06, 2005 7:05 PM
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Subject: [NU Sports] Other Facts About NU Football

Congratulations to Randy Walker on a third straight 6 win season.  The last
time it happened Dapper Dick Hanley was the coach and NU was finishing
back-to-back Big Ten titles in 1930-31.  The 1930 squad ran up 7 straight
wins before dropping the season-ender 14-0 to Notre Dame.  The next year,
the Cats had an incredible non-conference schedule (by today's standards) as
they hosted and defeated Nebraska (19-7) and UCLA (19-0) sandwiched around a
0-0 tie with Notre Dame at Soldier Field.  The Cats then swept 5 straight
Big Ten contests before dropping their finale to Purdue (7-0).

 

Northwestern has posted its best record for a decade, thus far, (33-36-0
.478) than in any previous decade since 1940-49 when Pappy Waldorf and Bob
Voigts combined to go 42-44-3(.489).

 

Keep it going, beat OSU!

 

David Warner

Evanston

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