[NU Sports] Other Facts About NU Football

[Jeff Beamsley]

Warner,

I understood the basis for the comparison.  I just didn't agree with it.

The basis for my disagreement is that the current decade isn't over, and
though it is comforting to extrapolate the last three seasons to a decade of
consistency, we have only to look at the sixties for a similar inflection
point.  As I said earlier, in 1965 we had a winning percentage for the
decade (.509) and ended that decade at .409.  I would love to see 2005
become the point that we all look back on in five years and say this was
where NU really made the move from mediocrity to consistency, but with the
departure of Baz it could just as easily be the point that we look back on
fondly and say gosh, we really didn't realize how much Baz meant to this
program.

As far as tossing out the seventies, it would be like saying except for
Steve Bartman it was a great season.  Nice idea, but history doesn't work
that way.  

Jeff


-----Original Message-----
From: warneradams [mailto:warneradams at comcast.net] 
Sent: Monday, November 07, 2005 8:39 AM
To: jeffb at hilgraeve.com; nwu-sports at romaine.tssi.com
Subject: RE: [NU Sports] Other Facts About NU Football

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
Behalf Of Jeff Beamsley
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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