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Football Trivia Quiz - Test your football knowledge

Anyone for a sport little bond with Israel? One of my favorite traditions is to see the Rose Bowl football game. The Super Bowl is great, but I do not think you can beat a good football old school and my favorite game of all is the Rose Bowl. It appears that the Oregon Ducks could only be there this year. Go Ducks!

I'm thinking I'll make this a football test. So expect questions trivia about college football, professional football, NFL, AFC, football history, rules, and any other trivia I can unearth. You can remove the answers in your word processor and use the test for any occasion you want.

And now on with the questions and of course, the answers.

  1. What college once had 22 members of Phi Beta Kappa Society in honor of his football team?
    A: Dartmouth, in 1925.

  2. Who was the first professional football player for a period of more than 2,000 yards in a season?
    A: OJ Simpson, who amassed 2003 yards for Buffalo in 1973, breaking the previous record of 1863 meters established 10 years ago by Jim Brown.
  3. New York Jets were playing the Oakland Raiders 32-29 with 75 seconds left to go in November 1968, when the game was developed by the children's classic "Heidi." What was the outcome? "
    A: The Raiders won, 43-32, after making two runs in the last minute.
  4. That was the first sport that the best players to name a All-American team?
    A: The football in 1889. The idea originated with the famous Walter Camp football authorities, who chose All American-36 teams until his death in 1925.
  5. In the National Football League, as many footballs is the home team must provide for each game?
    A: 24 - despite 8 to 12 are usually used.
  6. Who was the famous great-great-grandfather of San Francisco 49er quarterback Steve Young?
    R: Mormon leader Brigham Young.
  7. What soccer player was the recipient of the largest Super Bowl ring ever made?
    R: Defensive tackle William "The Refrigerator" Perry Chicago Bears in 1986. The ring was a size 23.
  8. What football teams were in the field of the 1977 film Back Sunday?
    A: The Dallas Cowboys and Pittsburgh Steelers. The game shown is Super X arc in the Orange Bowl, the Steelers won, 21-17.
  9. Who was the only two-time winner of the Heisman Trophy?
    A: Archie Griffin, Ohio State, which won in both 1974 1975.
  10. What was the name of the only football team playing the National League in Pennsylvania in 1943?
    A: The Steagles - Steelers Pittsburgh and Philadelphia Eagles combined during the Second World War when many players were serving overseas.
  11. What teams competed football in the first Super Bowl in 1967?
    A: The Green Bay Packers and Kansas City. The Packers won the game, 35-10.
  12. Who was the only man elected to both the baseball and football Halls of Fame?
    A: Cal Hubbard, tackle of Green Bay Packers and New York Giants that became the American League referee after his retirement form football.
  13. Who said: "Show me a good loser and I'll show you a loser?
    A: The former football coach Woody Hayes at Ohio State, who was fired for being a bad loser and an attacking player Clemson intercepted a pass in the final moments of the 1978 Gator Bowl. Ohio lost, 17-15.
  14. Why were two kickoffs to top of the second half of Superbowl I?
    R: NBC was running a commercial and missed the first kickoff. Officials canceled the game and had another half star time. 1967 ended the game with the Green Bay Packers beat the Kansas City Chiefs, 35 - 10.
  15. What football team made the squad originate?
    A: With a team of deaf Gallaudet College in the 1890s. Members of the Washington, DC, the team went into a huddle to hide the hand signals they were using during a game against another team of the deaf.

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