In 1907 Trinity defeated Trinity Park 24-1, Littleton High School 62-1 and Guilford 20-1. And that was in a six-game season.
Trinity defeated Trinity Park by that same 24-1 score the following season.
My math could be off but I'm fairly certain that a scoreless half is implied by a one-point game.
Technically, it was Dean Smith that prevented his team from scoring that half.
The Cam held about 8,000 back then? I am proud to be one of the 80,000 or so who claim to have been there to see history.
I was also lucky enough to be one of the 500,000 to have seen Franco Harris' "immaculate reception" in Three Rivers Stadium that held 50,000.
Please name the only two players to have participated in both the NCAA FF and the World Series.
"Play and practice like you are trying to make the team." --Coach K
I actually was there that day. It was Jim Spanarkel's senior day and I was a third year law student at UNC. I don't think I missed a Duke home game while I was at UNC. It was an easy drive back to Durham to go to the game with my dad. That was the day I lost all respect for Dean Smith.
"This is the best of all possible worlds."
Dr. Pangloss - Candide
Small hint: they attended the same Midwestern high school, but one went West and one went East for college.
Sorry for no direct Duke ties to this question, though one of the players played in the ACC and Duke did play in one of the Final Fours involving the other player.
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"Play and practice like you are trying to make the team." --Coach K
I can't help myself.
Who served the beer?
One of them is Kenny Lofton. He played in the Final Four for Arizona in 1988 and the World Series for the Cleveland Indians in 1995 and the San Francisco Giants in 2002.
Lofton narrowly missed playing in three more World Series. He was with the Chicago Cubs in 2003 when they were five outs away from clinching the pennant in Game Six of the NLCS, then imploded (the infamous Steve Bartman game) and eventually lost in seven games to the Marlins. He was with the New York Yankees in 2004 when they blew a 3-0 series lead and lost the ALCS to the Boston Red Sox. And he was with the Indians in 2007 (his last season in the majors) when they blew a 3-1 series lead and lost the ALCS to the Red Sox.
Not sure of the other.
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"I swear Roy must redeem extra timeouts at McDonald's the day after the game for free hamburgers." --Posted on InsideCarolina, 2/18/2015
Back to the original premise of the thread. My favorite Duke trivia, which I've posted about here before, are Christian Laettner's career FG and FT percentages in NCAA Regional Final games (he played in four of them).
FG%: 91.18% (31-for-34)
FT%: 91.89% (34-for-37)
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"I swear Roy must redeem extra timeouts at McDonald's the day after the game for free hamburgers." --Posted on InsideCarolina, 2/18/2015