{"id":275,"date":"2009-06-04T09:00:02","date_gmt":"2009-06-04T14:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/doddcenter.wordpress.com\/?p=275"},"modified":"2009-06-04T09:00:02","modified_gmt":"2009-06-04T14:00:02","slug":"a-little-about-football","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/2009\/06\/04\/a-little-about-football\/","title":{"rendered":"A little about football"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to Carl Brandt, the post World War II era\u00a0was a great time\u00a0for\u00a0UConn&#8217;s football program.\u00a0 Many of these &#8220;mature males&#8221;\u00a0played\u00a0teams that seemed\u00a0to be made up of &#8220;kids&#8221; just out of High School.\u00a0 The score below is an\u00a0indication of one such game.\u00a0 Mr. Brandt recalls\u00a0another score of something like 105 to 0, but doesn&#8217;t have an official photo of it.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-276  aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/doddcenter.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/05\/uconn-football-score-about-1948.jpg\" alt=\"UCONN Football Score\" width=\"500\" height=\"357\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/files\/2009\/05\/uconn-football-score-about-1948.jpg 640w, https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/files\/2009\/05\/uconn-football-score-about-1948-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/files\/2009\/05\/uconn-football-score-about-1948-420x300.jpg 420w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And it was a time when women played football also, as you can see in this rare color photograph from the collection.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_277\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-277\" class=\"size-full wp-image-277\" src=\"http:\/\/doddcenter.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/05\/uconn-football-females-about-1948.jpg\" alt=\"Ladies football, circa 1948\" width=\"500\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/files\/2009\/05\/uconn-football-females-about-1948.jpg 640w, https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/files\/2009\/05\/uconn-football-females-about-1948-300x210.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/files\/2009\/05\/uconn-football-females-about-1948-428x300.jpg 428w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-277\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ladies football, circa 1948<\/p><\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Carl Brandt, the post World War II era\u00a0was a great time\u00a0for\u00a0UConn&#8217;s football program.\u00a0 Many of these &#8220;mature males&#8221;\u00a0played\u00a0teams that seemed\u00a0to be made up of &#8220;kids&#8221; just out of High School.\u00a0 The score below is an\u00a0indication of one such &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/2009\/06\/04\/a-little-about-football\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}