Today’s Goldy’s Almanac builds off of yesterdays #TBT post about the 1916 Minnesota Football team. That post had more to do with the on the field success in 1916 and the craziness of 22 of 23 players enlisting when World War I broke out. Today’s post is about the logistics of the 1917 season while the War was raging in Europe.
The 1917 season was almost cancelled when the United States entered into the War. That didn’t happen but most of the Summer passed with America not knowing if college football would be played in the Fall.