A couple intersting sports questions

[Maggs44]

A couple sports questions. No prize, just a couple little know facts.

1. What NFL franchise is the oldest still in existence? What year were they formend?

2. Texas Western beat Kentucky to win the 1966 NCAA tournament. Coach Don Haskins started 5 black players (a first in NCAA championship history), inspiring the 2006 movie, Glory Road.

Question: There was a college team that was not permitted to play at all that year, but many people believe they were the best team in the country and would have won the NCAA tournament.

Name the team and why were they not permitted to play?

 

[Maggs44]

1. The oldest pro football franchise is the Cardinals. The team was formed in 1898 as the Morgan Athletic Club in Chicago. The club was then called the Racine Normals since they were originally located on Chicago's Racine Avenue (not Racine, Wisconsin, as mistaken by many). They then changed their name to the Racine Cardinals after they started wearing red uniforms, inherited from the collegiate Chicago Maroons.

After becoming a charter member of the NFL in 1920 with the Bears, (the Packers joined the NFL in 1921) the club was renamed the Chicago Cardinals. They moved to St. Louis in 1960 and later to Arizona.

2. The UCLA freshmen team was thought by many to be the best team in the country, but freshman were not allowed to play NCAA varsity sports, so they were forced to play on the JV. That team consisted of Lew Alcindor (Kareem Abdul Jabbar for the young folks) Lynn Shackelford and others.

The UCLA freshman team beat the varsity 75–60 (defending NCAA champs who went 18-10 in 1966) to prove it. A year later, those frosh were sophomores and they beat everyone in sight. They went 30-0. At the NCAA tourney in Louisville, they won by margins of 49, 16, 15 and 15—the last against Dayton in the title game. Alcindor, the 7-foot New Yorker who would later become one of the greatest pro basketball players ever. Alcindor (and others) went on to win all 3 ncaa championships they played in.