Numbers

[Kimm]

AJ Hawk is a Green Bay Packer. Was 47 his Ohio State number?

[Classicblast]

I think Chick Harley was a football player from the 1930s and 1940s.

If I have the right guy in mind he went crazy possibly the result of a concussion but not for sure. I think that's who Chick Haley was. I was not aware of his number I give Spartan a lot of credit for knowing that.

[Kevin]

He played WAY earlier than the 30s or 40s. Think more like 1917-1920. Basically, he made Ohio State football what it is today. Because of him, he made fans interested in the sport and helped inspire a drive to build Ohio Stadium. Because of this the Shoe is sometimes called the House that Harley Built.

I know his number because it's one of OSU's retired numbers. All of the retired numbers are displayed on the north side of the stadium. So far, Chic is the only non-Heisman winner to have his number retired at OSU. The other 5 numbers retired are for #40 Hopalong Cassady, #22 Les Horvath, #31 Vic Janowicz, #45 Archie Griffen, and #27 Eddie George. It was retired in 2004, but A.J. was allowed to keep the number for the remainder of his career. Something kind of interesting was that until the numbers were officially retired, which didn't start til 1999, there had just been an unwritten rule about not wearing a Hesiman winner's number, mainly out of respect. Andy Katzenmoyer, a linebacker in the late 90's, asked special permission from Archie himself to wear #45. Archie allowed him to do it and as far as I know he's the only player to use a former Heisman winner's number.

The next number to be retired at OSU: #10.

Ok, so this all really didn't have much to do with the topic. But hey, I mentioned numbers. meh.

[Classicblast]

He goes back longer than I thought. I have heard of him but your knowledge of college football is very impressive.

I see that Ohio State has quite a few retired numbers. It's harder to retire football numbers because there's only a maximum of 99 numbers to issue and 53 are needed at all times.

I assume college teams have the same amount of players as pro teams. It's always 25 man roster for baseball except some rookie leagues only let you use 22. There's low budget in minor league sports trust me. And it's worse than that but it's too late at night to go there right now but if you're interested I'll tell you.

[Kevin]

D-1A rosters are limited to 105 players. The number of players aloud to dress at a game is determined by each conference, so the numbers vary. Usually only 60-70 players are allowed to travel and dress at away games and most if not all players dress at home games. I believe the whole team is allowed to travel and dress at bowl games as well.

[Classicblast]

Wow, so they can have as many as 105 people dressed?

I'm use to a 25 man roster. If you place a guy on a 10 day disabled list his space on the roster can be filled but after 10 days you have to either renew the disabled list or activate him and you have to hone it down to 25.

[Jersey]

Im 68 in college football, so I suppose that can be considered my number.

[Phil]

tryout said:

Im 68 in college football, so I suppose that can be considered my number.

So I assume that you're an offensive lineman. Congrats again on your team's championship. It's still in the news fodder.

[Classicblast]

I have known guys that believe they won't be as successful if they get a different number. Those guys are sure of that too. So much to the point they psyche themselves out and likely they actually don't play as well.

When a favorite number is not available sometimes a 6 goes to 55, a guy who wears 8 adds a 0 to make it 80, and everything like that. I actually remember a 19 because 1 + 9 = 10

So one never knows the method to the madness.

[Phil]

My name starts with an O so I'm always towards the middle when there's a list even if they go alphebet backwards.

[dannyboy]

classicblast said:

I have known guys that believe they won't be as successful if they get a different number. Those guys are sure of that too.
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They probably say that as an excuse to suck. It's just like anything else. If I had my good hammer I could fix that better. B/S its an excuse.

[im_an_alien]

Or the one I use: "I could do my homework better if I used that other computer."

[Classicblast]

imanalien said:

Or the one I use: "I could do my homework better if I used that other computer."

There's superstitious beliefs and we all have them. I'm not terribly superstitious as players go but if there's a hot streak with me or the team I try to keep the same routine for the time the streak is in place. So we all have it a little bit.

[earlthekevin]

6 is a number