Last night, Major League Baseball's Chicago Cubs broke one of sports' longest-standing curses, defeating the Cleveland Indians in a thrilling, 10-inning, rain-delayed Game 7 to win their first World Series title since 1908. For a college football perspective on this drought, in the 1908 season:
- The Penn Quakers won the national title
- The University of Chicago Crimson won the Big 9, as the then-eight-member Big Ten was known at the time
- Touchdowns were worth five points, and field goals were worth four
- Kansas went 9-0. Yeah, that Kansas.
- Harvard had an All-American tackle in Hamilton Fish III, who would later serve 13 teams in the House of Representatives and be known as a prominent isolationist and opponent of Franklin Roosevelt in the run-up to World War II
- Washington & Jefferson University became the first team to wear numbers on their uniforms in a game, a claim that is disputed by Pitt, which.