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<blockquote data-quote="gohornedfrogs" data-source="post: 3224174" data-attributes="member: 3599"><p>I don't think you've taken into account how big college football was in the 30s, prior to the NFL becoming a big thing. It was much bigger than the NFL until around the 1950s or early 60s. There may not have been TV, but many of the games had good attendance (during the Depression) and radio coverage was huge. People clung to every word in newspapers written by the likes of Grantland Rice. Ohio State and Michigan were getting 65-70,000 fans back then for some of their games. The US population was about 40% of what it is today. 45,000 went to the Sugar Bowl on New Years Day 1939 (that's 112,000 in today's terms). That's pretty significant.</p><p></p><p>Now, there's no comparing the athletes then to today's athletes. Kendre Miller would rush for 300 yards by about halftime with this O-Line against a 1938 defensive squad. Kendre would be bigger and stronger than just about every defensive player of that era, not to mention a whole lot faster.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="gohornedfrogs, post: 3224174, member: 3599"] I don't think you've taken into account how big college football was in the 30s, prior to the NFL becoming a big thing. It was much bigger than the NFL until around the 1950s or early 60s. There may not have been TV, but many of the games had good attendance (during the Depression) and radio coverage was huge. People clung to every word in newspapers written by the likes of Grantland Rice. Ohio State and Michigan were getting 65-70,000 fans back then for some of their games. The US population was about 40% of what it is today. 45,000 went to the Sugar Bowl on New Years Day 1939 (that's 112,000 in today's terms). That's pretty significant. Now, there's no comparing the athletes then to today's athletes. Kendre Miller would rush for 300 yards by about halftime with this O-Line against a 1938 defensive squad. Kendre would be bigger and stronger than just about every defensive player of that era, not to mention a whole lot faster. [/QUOTE]
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