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Montana Grizzlies – Idaho Vandals

History
Teams	University of Montana Grizzlies Montana Grizzlies football The Montana Grizzlies football program represents the University of Montana in the Division I Football Championship Subdivision of college football. The Grizzlies have competed in the Big Sky Conference, where it is a founding member, since 1963... University of Idaho University of Idaho The University of Idaho is the State of Idaho's flagship and oldest public university, located in the rural city of Moscow in Latah County in the northern portion of the state... Vandals Idaho Vandals football The Idaho Vandals are a college football team that represents the University of Idaho. The Vandals currently compete in the Western Athletic Conference of the Football Bowl Subdivision of NCAA Division I...
Trophy	Little Brown Stein
Originated	1903
Series	84 Games Idaho leads 55-27-2
First Game	Idaho 28, Montana (1903)
Largest Victory	Idaho 46, Montana 0 (1945)
Highest Scoring Game	Idaho 56, Montana 45 101 points (1968)
Lowest Scoring Game	Idaho 0, Montana 0 (1914)
Longest Win Streaks	Idaho 8 (1951-1959) Montana 4 (1991-1994) & (2000-Present)
Most Recent Game	Montana 41, Idaho 28 (2003)
Current Streak	Montana 4 (2003)
Last Ten Games	Montana leads, 8-2
Next Game	None Scheduled

The Little Brown Stein is a rivalry trophy awarded to the winner of the college football

College football

College football refers to American football played by teams of student athletes fielded by American universities, colleges, and military academies, or Canadian football played by teams of student athletes fielded by Canadian universities...

game between the University of Idaho

University of Idaho

The University of Idaho is the State of Idaho's flagship and oldest public university, located in the rural city of Moscow in Latah County in the northern portion of the state...

Vandals

Idaho Vandals football

The Idaho Vandals are a college football team that represents the University of Idaho. The Vandals currently compete in the Western Athletic Conference of the Football Bowl Subdivision of NCAA Division I...

and University of Montana Grizzlies

Montana Grizzlies football

The Montana Grizzlies football program represents the University of Montana in the Division I Football Championship Subdivision of college football. The Grizzlies have competed in the Big Sky Conference, where it is a founding member, since 1963...

. The trophy is, as the name implies, a large stein

Stein

Stein is a German and Norwegian word meaning "stone" and may refer to:* Beer stein* Stein , a beer brewery in Bratislava, Slovakia* USS Stein , a frigate in the U.S...

mug with the results of all the games between the two painted on. The game was last played in 2003

2003 NCAA Division I-A football season

The 2003 NCAA Division I-A football season ended with an abundance of controversy, resulting in a split national championship. This was the first split title since the inception of the BCS, something the BCS intended to eliminate....

, and Montana retains the trophy.

History

Idaho and Montana first played in 1903 and have played 84 times.

Idaho has dominated the overall series (55-27-2), which also includes two I-AA playoff wins at home in the 1980s. Montana has had the upper hand since 1991

1991 NCAA Division I-A football season

The 1991 NCAA Division I-A football season ended with a split champion for the second consecutive season. Both the Miami Hurricanes and the Washington Huskies finished the season undefeated and with the top ranking in a nationally recognized poll...

, winning eight of the last ten. Since Idaho moved back up to Division I-A from Division I-AA in 1996

1996 NCAA Division I-A football season

The 1996 NCAA Division I-A football season ended with the Florida Gators crowned National Champions, but not as unanimously as the Bowl Alliance would have hoped....

, the teams have met five times with Montana winning the last four.

The schools were the only public universities in their respective states for decades, and are about 200 miles (321.9 km) miles apart.

Moscow

Moscow, Idaho

Moscow is a city in northern Idaho, situated along the Washington/Idaho border. It is the most populous city and county seat of Latah County and the home of the University of Idaho, the land grant institution and primary research university for the state...

and Missoula

Missoula, Montana

Missoula is a city located in western Montana and is the county seat of Missoula County. The 2010 Census put the population of Missoula at 66,788 and the population of Missoula County at 109,299. Missoula is the principal city of the Missoula Metropolitan Area...

are on opposite sides of the lower Idaho Panhandle

Idaho Panhandle

The Idaho Panhandle is the northern region of the U.S. State of Idaho that encompasses the ten northernmost counties of Benewah, Bonner, Boundary, Clearwater, Idaho, Kootenai, Latah, Lewis, Nez Perce, Shoshone. Residents of the panhandle refer to the region as North Idaho...

, separated by the Bitterroot Mountains

Bitterroot Mountains

The Northern and Central Bitterroot Range, collectively the Bitterroot Mountains, is the largest portion of the Bitterroot Range, part of the Rocky Mountains, located in the panhandle of Idaho and westernmost Montana in the Western United States...

over Lolo Pass. Both were members of the old Pacific Coast Conference

Pacific Coast Conference

The Pacific Coast Conference was a college athletic conference in the United States which existed from 1915 to 1959. Though the Pacific-12 Conference claims the PCC's history as part of its own, the older league had a completely different charter and was disbanded in 1959 due to a major crisis...

(the forerunner of today's Pac-12); Montana departed after the 1950

1950 college football season

The 1950 college football season finished with the unbeaten and untied Oklahoma Sooners being the overwhelming choice for national champion. On New Year’s Day, the 9-0-0 Sooners were upset by the 10-1-0 Kentucky Wildcats in the Sugar Bowl. The #2 team, the United States Military Academy had been...

season, and the PCC disbanded in the summer of 1959.

The universities were charter members of the Big Sky Conference

Big Sky Conference

The Big Sky Conference is an intercollegiate college athletic conference affiliated with the NCAA's Division I, with football competing in the Football Championship Subdivision. The BSC was founded in 1963. Member institutions are located in the western United States in the states of Arizona,...

in 1963

1963 college football season

During the 20th Century, the NCAA had no playoff for the college football teams that would later be described as "Division I-A". The NCAA Football Guide, however, did note an "unofficial national champion" based on the top ranked teams in the "wire service" polls...

and their final season as conference opponents was 1995. Idaho departed for the Big West

Big West Conference

The Big West Conference is an NCAA-affiliated Division I mid-major college athletic conference. When the conference began in 1969, its name was the Pacific Coast Athletic Association . After nineteen years, in 1988, its name was changed to the Big West Conference. The conference stopped...

in 1996

1996 NCAA Division I-A football season

The 1996 NCAA Division I-A football season ended with the Florida Gators crowned National Champions, but not as unanimously as the Bowl Alliance would have hoped....

, and moved to the WAC

Western Athletic Conference

The Western Athletic Conference is an American collegiate athletic conference, which was formed on July 27, 1962, making it the sixth oldest of the 11 college athletic conferences currently participating in the NCAA's Division I FBS...

in 2005

2005 NCAA Division I-A football season

The 2005 NCAA Division I-A football season ended with the least amount of controversy surrounding the Bowl Championship Series title game in many years.To an extent it was a return to classic football...

Idaho–Montana football results

Idaho: 55 wins (.667)
Montana: 27 wins (.333)
Ties: 2

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| 2010

2010 NCAA Division I FBS football season

The 2010 NCAA Division I FBS football season, or the college football season, began on Thursday, September 2, 2010. The season progressed through the regular season and bowl season, and concluded with the Tostitos BCS National Championship Game on Monday, January 10, 2011.-Rule changes for...

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| 2009

2009 NCAA Division I FBS football season

The 2009 NCAA Division I FBS football season, or the college football season, began on September 2, 2009, progressed through the regular season and bowl season, and concluded with the Bowl Championship Series National Championship Game in Pasadena, California on January 7, 2010, featuring the...

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| 2008

2008 NCAA Division I FBS football season

The 2008 NCAA Division I FBS football season, or the college football season, began on August 28, 2008, progressing through the regular season and bowl season, and concluded with the Bowl Championship Series National Championship Game in Miami Gardens, Florida on January 8, 2009, where the #2...

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| 2007

2007 NCAA Division I FBS football season

The 2007 NCAA Division I FBS football season, or the college football season, began on August 30, 2007, progressed through the regular season and bowl season, and concluded with the Bowl Championship Series National Championship Game in New Orleans, Louisiana on January 7, 2008, where the top...

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| 2006 || || || || align="center" | not played
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| 2005

2005 NCAA Division I-A football season

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| 2004

2004 NCAA Division I-A football season

The 2004 NCAA Division I-A football season ended with several undefeated teams vying for a spot in the national title game, triggering controversy. In the 2003 season, no team finished the regular season unbeaten, and five teams finished the season with one loss...

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| 2003

2003 NCAA Division I-A football season

||style="background:#990000; color:white"| Montana Griz|| align="center" | 41-28 ||Missoula

Washington-Grizzly Stadium

Washington-Grizzly Stadium is an outdoor athletic stadium in Missoula, Montana, located on the campus of the University of Montana. It is home to the Montana Grizzlies college football team, a dominant program of the Big Sky Conference and consistently a top team in Division I FCS, formerly known...

, Montana

Montana

Montana is a state in the Western United States. The western third of Montana contains numerous mountain ranges. Smaller, "island ranges" are found in the central third of the state, for a total of 77 named ranges of the Rocky Mountains. This geographical fact is reflected in the state's name,...

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| 2002

2002 NCAA Division I-A football season

The 2002 NCAA Division I-A football season ended the season with what most consider an exciting double overtime national championship game. Ohio State and Miami both came into the Fiesta Bowl undefeated. The underdog Buckeyes defeated the Hurricanes 31–24, ending Miami's 34 game winning...

||style="background:#990000; color:white "| Montana Griz|| align="center" | 38-31 || Moscow

Kibbie Dome

The William H. Kibbie-ASUI Activity Center is a multi-purpose indoor athletic stadium in Moscow, Idaho, on the campus of the University of Idaho...

, Idaho

Idaho

Idaho is a state in the Rocky Mountain area of the United States. The state's largest city and capital is Boise. Residents are called "Idahoans". Idaho was admitted to the Union on July 3, 1890, as the 43rd state....

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| 2001

2001 NCAA Division I-A football season

The 2001 NCAA Division I-A football season ended with the University of Miami winning the national title for the fifth time.The Hurricanes were led by Larry Coker, who was in his first year as head coach after five years as Miami's offensive coordinator under Butch Davis...

||style="background:#990000; color:white"| Montana Griz|| align="center" | 33-27 || Missoula, Montana ||
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| 2000

2000 NCAA Division I-A football season

The 2000 NCAA Division I-A football season ended with the Oklahoma Sooners claiming their first national championship and their first conference championship since the departure of head coach Barry Switzer....

||style="background:#990000; color:white "| Montana Griz|| align="center" | 45-38 || Pullman

Martin Stadium

Martin Stadium is an outdoor athletic stadium in Pullman, Washington, United States, on the campus of Washington State University. It is the home field of the Washington State Cougars of the Pacific-12 Conference, and is the smallest football stadium in the conference...

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Martin Stadium

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| 1999

1999 NCAA Division I-A football season

The 1999 NCAA Division I-A football season saw Florida State named national champions, defeating Virginia Tech in the BCS Sugar Bowl.Florida State became the first team in history to start out preseason #1 and remain there through the entire season. Their 12-0 season gave them 109 victories in the...

||style="background:#CEBE70; color:black "| Idaho Vandals|| align="center" | 33-30 || Missoula, Montana ||
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| 1998

1998 NCAA Division I-A football season

The 1998 NCAA Division I-A football season was the first of the Bowl Championship Series, which saw Tennessee win the national championship, one year after star quarterback Peyton Manning left for the NFL...

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| 1997

1997 NCAA Division I-A football season

The 1997 NCAA Division I-A football season, play of college football in the United States organized by the National Collegiate Athletic Association at the Division I-A level, began in late summer 1997 and culminated with the major bowl games in early January 1998. The national championship was...

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| 1996

1996 NCAA Division I-A football season

The 1996 NCAA Division I-A football season ended with the Florida Gators crowned National Champions, but not as unanimously as the Bowl Alliance would have hoped....

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| 1995 ||style="background:#CEBE70; color:black "| Idaho Vandals|| align="center" | 55-43 || Moscow, Idaho ||
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| 1994 ||style="background:#990000; color:white "| Montana Griz|| align="center" | 45-21 || Missoula, Montana ||
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| 1993 ||style="background:#990000; color:white "| Montana Griz|| align="center" | 54-34 || Moscow, Idaho ||
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| 1992 ||style="background:#990000; color:white "| Montana Griz|| align="center" | 47-29 || Missoula, Montana ||
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| 1991 ||style="background:#990000; color:white "| Montana Griz|| align="center" | 35-34 || Moscow, Idaho ||
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| 1990 ||style="background:#CEBE70; color:black "| Idaho Vandals|| align="center" | 47-29 || Missoula, Montana ||
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| 1989 ||style="background:#CEBE70; color:black "| Idaho Vandals

1989 Idaho Vandals football team

The 1989 Idaho Vandals football team represented the University of Idaho in the 1989 NCAA Division I-AA football season. The Vandals, led by first-year head coach John L...

|| align="center" | 30-24 || Moscow, Idaho ||
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| rowspan=2|1988 ||style="background:#CEBE70; color:black "| Idaho Vandals

1988 Idaho Vandals football team

The 1988 Idaho Vandals football team represented the University of Idaho in the 1988 NCAA Division I-AA football season. The Vandals, led by third-year head coach Keith Gilbertson, were members of the Big Sky Conference and played their home games at the Kibbie Dome, an indoor facility on campus in...

|| align="center" | 38-19 || Moscow, Idaho || align="center" | I-AA playoffs - 1st rd.
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| style="background:#990000; color:white "| Montana Griz|| align="center" | 26-17 || Missoula, Montana ||
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| 1987 ||style="background:#CEBE70; color:black "| Idaho Vandals

1987 Idaho Vandals football team

The 1987 Idaho Vandals football team represented the University of Idaho in the 1987 NCAA Division I-AA football season. The Vandals, led by second-year head coach Keith Gilbertson, were members of the Big Sky Conference and played their home games at the Kibbie Dome, an indoor facility on campus...

|| align="center" | 38-19 || Moscow, Idaho ||
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| 1986 ||style="background:#CEBE70; color:black "| Idaho Vandals

1986 Idaho Vandals football team

The 1986 Idaho Vandals football team represented the University of Idaho in the 1986 NCAA Division I-AA football season. The Vandals, led by first-year head coach Keith Gilbertson, were members of the Big Sky Conference and played their home games at the Kibbie Dome, an indoor facility on campus in...

|| align="center" | 38-31 || Missoula, Montana || Washington-Grizzly Stadium

Washington-Grizzly Stadium

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| 1985 ||style="background:#CEBE70; color:black "| Idaho Vandals

1985 Idaho Vandals football team

The 1985 Idaho Vandals football team represented the University of Idaho in the 1984 NCAA Division I-AA football season. The Vandals, led by fourth-year head coach Dennis Erickson, were members of the Big Sky Conference and played their home games at the Kibbie Dome, an indoor facility on campus in...

|| align="center" | 38-0 || Moscow, Idaho ||
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| 1984 ||style="background:#CEBE70; color:black "| Idaho Vandals

1984 Idaho Vandals football team

The 1984 Idaho Vandals football team represented the University of Idaho in the 1984 NCAA Division I-AA football season. The Vandals, led by third-year head coach Dennis Erickson, were members of the Big Sky Conference and played their home games at the Kibbie Dome, an indoor facility on campus in...

|| align="center" | 40-39 || Missoula, Montana ||
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| 1983 ||style="background:#CEBE70; color:black "| Idaho Vandals

1982 Idaho Vandals football team

The 1982 Idaho Vandals football team represented the University of Idaho in the 1982 NCAA Division I-AA football season. The Vandals, led by first-year head coach Dennis Erickson, were members of the Big Sky Conference and played their home games at the Kibbie Dome, an indoor facility on campus in...

|| align="center" | 45-24 || Moscow, Idaho ||
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| rowspan=2|1982 ||style="background:#CEBE70; color:black "| Idaho Vandals

1982 Idaho Vandals football team

|| align="center" | 21-7 || Moscow, Idaho || align="center" | I-AA playoffs - 1st rd.
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| style="background:#990000; color:white "| Montana Griz|| align="center" | 40-16 || Missoula, Montana ||
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| 1981 ||style="background:#990000; color:white "| Montana Griz|| align="center" | 16-14 || Moscow, Idaho ||
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| 1980 ||style="background:#CEBE70; color:black "| Idaho Vandals

1980 Idaho Vandals football team

The 1980 Idaho Vandals football team represented the University of Idaho in the 1980 NCAA Division I-AA football season. The Vandals were led by third-year head coach Jerry Davitch and were members of the Big Sky Conference...

|| align="center" | 42-0 || Missoula, Montana ||
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| 1979 ||style="background:#CEBE70; color:black "| Idaho Vandals|| align="center" | 20-17 || Moscow, Idaho ||
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| 1978 ||style="background:#CEBE70; color:black "| Idaho Vandals|| align="center" | 34-30 || Missoula, Montana ||
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| 1977

1977 college football season

The 1977 college football season was one in which the top five teams all finished with records of 11-1-0. Notre Dame, which beat a #1 ranked Texas team in the Cotton Bowl Classic, became the national champion. The year 1977 was the last before NCAA's Division I was divided into I-A and I-AA...

||style="background:#CEBE70; color:black "| Idaho Vandals|| align="center" | 31-20 || Moscow, Idaho ||
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| 1976

1976 college football season

The 1976 college football season ended with a championship for the Panthers of the University of Pittsburgh. Coached by Johnny Majors , the Pitt Panthers brought a college football championship to the home of the defending pro football champions, the Steelers. Pitt also had the Heisman Trophy...

||style="background:#CEBE70; color:black "| Idaho Vandals|| align="center" | 28-19 || Moscow, Idaho || align="center" | Kibbie Dome

Kibbie Dome

The William H. Kibbie-ASUI Activity Center is a multi-purpose indoor athletic stadium in Moscow, Idaho, on the campus of the University of Idaho...

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| 1975

1975 college football season

The 1975 college football season saw University of Oklahoma repeat as national champion in the Associated Press writers' poll. With the Sooners having completed two seasons of NCAA probation, they were ranked #1 in the United Press International coaches' poll as well...

||style="background:#990000; color:white "| Montana Griz|| align="center" | 14-3 || Missoula, Montana ||
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| 1974

1974 college football season

The 1974 college football season finished with two national champions. The Associated Press writers' poll ranked the University of Oklahoma, which was on probation and barred by the NCAA from postseason play, #1 at season's end...

||align="center" style="background:#999999; color:black "| - Tie -|| align="center" | 35-35 || Moscow, Idaho
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| 1973

1973 college football season

The 1973 college football season was the first for the NCAA's current three-division structure. Effective with the 1973–74 academic year, schools formerly in the NCAA "University Division" were classified as Division I...

||style="background:#CEBE70; color:black "| Idaho Vandals|| align="center" | 20-7 || Missoula, Montana ||
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| 1972

1972 college football season

The 1972 college football season saw the USC Trojans, coached by John McKay, go undefeated and win the national championship as the unanimous choice of the fifty AP panelists...

||style="background:#CEBE70; color:black "| Idaho Vandals|| align="center" | 31-17 || Moscow, Idaho || align="center" | new Idaho Stadium

Kibbie Dome

The William H. Kibbie-ASUI Activity Center is a multi-purpose indoor athletic stadium in Moscow, Idaho, on the campus of the University of Idaho...

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| 1971

1971 college football season

The 1971 college football season saw Coach Bob Devaney's Nebraska Cornhuskers repeat as national champions. After being ranked 2nd in the preseason poll, Nebraska captured first place the following week and remained there for the rest of 1971 and won the Orange Bowl 38–6 in a #1 vs...

||style="background:#CEBE70; color:black "| Idaho Vandals

1971 Idaho Vandals football team

The 1971 Idaho Vandals football team represented the University of Idaho in the 1971 college football season. The Vandals, led by second-year head coach Don Robbins, were members of the Big Sky Conference and played three of their five home games at the new Idaho Stadium, an outdoor facility on...

|| align="center" | 21-12 || Missoula, Montana || align=right|article
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| 1970

1970 college football season

The 1970 college football season was marked by tragedy, due to two airplane crashes. On October 2, one of the planes carrying the Wichita State football team crashed on the way to a game against Utah State, killing 31 people on board, including 14 players...

||style="background:#990000; color:white "| Montana Griz|| align="center" | 44-26 || Pullman

Rogers Field (Washington State)

Rogers Field was an outdoor athletic stadium on the campus of Washington State University in Pullman, Washington. It was the home venue of the WSU Cougars football and track teams until severely damaged by a fire in April 1970...

, Washington || align="center" | Rogers Field

Rogers Field (Washington State)

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| 1969

1969 college football season

The 1969 college football season was celebrated as the 100th anniversary of college football. During the 20th Century, the NCAA had no playoff for the college football teams that would later be described as "Division I-A"...

||style="background:#990000; color:white "| Montana Griz|| align="center" | 34-9 || Missoula, Montana || align="center" | Dornblaser Field

Dornblaser Field

Dornblaser Field is the name of two stadiums in Missoula, Montana, former home fields of the Montana Grizzlies football teams. The first ivy-covered stone venue opened in 1912 on campus at the base of Mount Sentinel; it hosted the Griz until an off-campus stadium opened in 1968, a "temporary"...

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| 1968

1968 college football season

In the 1968 college football season, the system of "polls and bowls" changed. The Associated Press returned to its pre-1961 system of ranking the Top 20 rather than the Top 10, and voted on the national champion after the bowl games, rather than before. During the 20th Century, the NCAA had no...

||style="background:#CEBE70; color:black "| Idaho Vandals|| align="center" | 56-45 || Moscow

Neale Stadium

Neale Stadium was an outdoor athletic stadium in Moscow, Idaho, on the west end of the campus of the University of Idaho. Opened in 1937 for college football , it was used for over three decades, through the 1968 season...

, Idaho ||
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| 1967

1967 college football season

The 1967 college football season was the last one in which college football's champion was crowned before the bowl games. During the 20th century, the NCAA had no playoff for the college football teams that would later be described as Division I-A and now as Division I FBS...

||style="background:#CEBE70; color:black "| Idaho Vandals|| align="center" | 19-14 || Missoula, Montana ||
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| 1966

1966 college football season

The 1966 college football season was marked by controversy as the year of "The Tie", a November 19 game between the two top-ranked teams, Michigan State and Notre Dame. Neither team participated in a post-season bowl game. At the same time, 1966 was the first year that the professional football...

||style="background:#CEBE70; color:black "| Idaho Vandals|| align="center" | 40-6 || Moscow, Idaho ||
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| 1965

1965 college football season

During the 20th Century, the NCAA had no playoff for the college football teams that would later be described as "Division I-A". The NCAA did recognize a national champion based upon the final results of "wire service" polls. The "writers' poll" by Associated Press was the most popular,...

||style="background:#CEBE70; color:black "| Idaho Vandals|| align="center" | 35-7 || Missoula, Montana ||
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| 1963

1963 college football season

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| 1962

1962 college football season

During the 20th Century, the NCAA had no playoff for the college football teams that would later be described as "Division I-A". The NCAA did recognize a national champion based upon the final results of "wire service" polls. The extent of that recognition came in the form of acknowledgment in...

||style="background:#990000; color:white "| Montana Griz|| align="center" | 22-16 || Missoula, Montana ||
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| 1961

1961 college football season

During the 20th century, the NCAA had no playoff for the college football teams that would later be described as "Division I-A". The NCAA did recognize a national champion based upon the final results of "wire service" polls. The extent of that recognition came in the form of acknowledgment in...

||style="background:#CEBE70; color:black "| Idaho Vandals|| align="center" | 16-14 || Boise

Boise, Idaho

Boise is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Idaho, as well as the county seat of Ada County. Located on the Boise River, it anchors the Boise City-Nampa metropolitan area and is the largest city between Salt Lake City, Utah and Portland, Oregon.As of the 2010 Census Bureau,...

, Idaho || align="center" | old Bronco Stadium

Bronco Stadium

Bronco Stadium is an outdoor athletic stadium in Boise, Idaho, the home field of the Boise State Broncos of the Mountain West Conference. Since 1997, it has hosted the Famous Idaho Potato Bowl Bronco Stadium is an outdoor athletic stadium in Boise, Idaho, the home field of the Boise State Broncos...

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| 1960

1960 college football season

The 1960 college football season marked the last time that the University of Minnesota was a national champion on the gridiron. Murray Warmath's Minnesota Gophers were not in the Top 20 in preseason polling, but received the AP Trophy at the end of the regular season...

||style="background:#990000; color:white "| Montana Griz|| align="center" | 18-14 || Missoula, Montana ||
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| 1959

1959 college football season

The 1959 college football season saw Syracuse University crowned as the national champion by both the AP and the UPI wire services. Mississippi , which had outscored its opponents 350-21, finished #2 in both polls, and its only loss during the regular season had been to LSU, which ultimately...

||style="background:#CEBE70; color:black "| Idaho Vandals|| align="center" | 9-6 || Moscow, Idaho ||
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| 1958

1958 college football season

The 1958 college football season was the first to feature the two point conversion. On January 13, 1958, the 11-man NCAA Rules Committee unanimously approved a resolution to allow teams to choose between kicking an extra point after a touchdown, or running or passing from the 3 yard line for 2...

||style="background:#CEBE70; color:black "| Idaho Vandals|| align="center" | 14-6 || Missoula, Montana ||
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| 1957

1957 college football season

The 1957 college football season saw two different national champions. Auburn University was ranked first in the AP writers' poll taken at season's end, while Ohio State University was first in the UPI coaches' poll...

||style="background:#CEBE70; color:black "| Idaho Vandals|| align="center" | 31-13 || Moscow, Idaho ||
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| 1956

1956 college football season

The 1956 college football season saw the Sooners of the University of Oklahoma finish a third consecutive season unbeaten and untied to again win the national championship....

||style="background:#CEBE70; color:black "| Idaho Vandals|| align="center" | 41-0 || Missoula, Montana ||
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| 1955

1955 college football season

The 1955 college football season saw the Oklahoma Sooners win the national championship after going 10-0-0. Although the final poll was taken before the postseason bowl games, Oklahoma played against the nation's other unbeaten and untied team, the Maryland Terrapins, at the Orange Bowl in Miami,...

||style="background:#CEBE70; color:black "| Idaho Vandals|| align="center" | 31-0 || Moscow, Idaho ||
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| 1954

1954 college football season

The 1954 college football season saw three teams finish unbeaten and untied, with Ohio State Buckeyes and the UCLA Bruins sharing the national championship as the #1 picks of the AP Poll and the UPI Poll, respectively. Although the winners of the Big Ten and the Pacific conferences normally met in...

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| 1953

1953 college football season

The 1953 college football season finished with the Maryland Terrapins capturing the AP, INS, and UPI national championship after Notre Dame held the top spot for the first nine weeks. The #4 Oklahoma Sooners defeated Maryland in the Orange Bowl, but there was no further polling after the November...

||style="background:#CEBE70; color:black "| Idaho Vandals|| align="center" | 20-12 || Missoula, Montana ||
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| 1952

1952 college football season

The 1952 college football season ended with the unbeaten Michigan State Spartans and Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets each claiming the national championship according to different polls. Michigan State finished first according to two of the "wire service" polls which also both placed Georgia Tech...

||style="background:#CEBE70; color:black "| Idaho Vandals|| align="center" | 27-0 || Moscow, Idaho ||
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| 1951

1951 college football season

The 1951 college football season finished with seven unbeaten major college teams, of which five were unbeaten and untied. Ultimately, the Tennessee Volunteers were voted the best team by the Associated Press, followed by the Michigan State Spartans, with the Vols having a plurality of first place...

||style="background:#CEBE70; color:black "| Idaho Vandals|| align="center" | 12-9 || Missoula, Montana ||
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| 1950

1950 college football season

||style="background:#990000; color:white "| Montana Griz|| align="center" | 28-27 || Moscow, Idaho ||
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| 1949

1949 college football season

The 1949 college football season finished with four teams that were unbeaten and untied-- Notre Dame, Oklahoma, #3 California and Army had won all their games at season’s end. Notre Dame, however, was the overwhelming choice for national champion, with 172 of 208 first place votes...

||style="background:#CEBE70; color:black "| Idaho Vandals|| align="center" | 47-19 || Moscow, Idaho ||
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| 1948

1948 college football season

The 1948 college football season finished with several unbeaten teams. The Michigan Wolverines and the Fighting Irish of Notre Dame were both unbeaten and untied, as were the California Golden Bears and the Clemson Tigers...

||style="background:#CEBE70; color:black "| Idaho Vandals|| align="center" | 39-0 || Missoula, Montana ||
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| 1947

1947 college football season

The 1947 college football season finished with Notre Dame, Michigan and Penn State all unbeaten and untied, but the Fighting Irish of Notre Dame were the first place choice for 107 of the 142 voters in the AP writers poll, and repeated as national champions...

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| 1946

1946 college football season

The 1946 college football season finished with the Fighting Irish of Notre Dame crowned as the national champion in the AP Poll, with the United States Military Academy the runner up...

||style="background:#990000; color:white "| Montana Griz|| align="center" | 19-0 || Missoula, Montana ||
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| 1945

1945 college football season

The 1945 college football season finished with the United States Military Academy, more popularly known as “Army”, being the unanimous choice for the nation’s number one team by the 116 voters in the Associated Press writers’ poll...

||style="background:#CEBE70; color:black "| Idaho Vandals|| align="center" | 46-0 || Moscow, Idaho ||
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| 1944

1944 college football season

The 1944 college football season was played during the Second World War. The football team of the United States Military Academy, more popularly known as Army, was crowned as the nation’s #1 team by 95 of the 121 writers who participated in the AP poll...

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World War II

World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...

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| 1943

1943 college football season

The 1943 college football season concluded with the Fighting Irish of Notre Dame crowned as the nation’s #1 team by a majority of the voters in the AP poll, followed by the Iowa Pre-Flight Seahawks as the runner-up...

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| 1942

1942 college football season

The 1942 college football season saw the Buckeyes of Ohio State University named as the nation’s #1 team by a majority of the voters in the AP poll, followed by the Georgia Bulldogs as the runner-up...

||style="background:#CEBE70; color:black "| Idaho Vandals|| align="center" | 21-0 || Missoula, Montana ||
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| 1941

1941 college football season

The 1941 college football regular season ended with the Golden Gophers of the University of Minnesota repeating as the AP Poll national champion. This was Minnesota's fifth national championship in eight years...

||style="background:#990000; color:white "| Montana Griz|| align="center" | 16-0 || Moscow, Idaho ||
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| 1940

1940 college football season

The 1940 college football season ended with the Gophers of the University of Minnesota being named the nation’s #1 team and national champion, and the Stanford University Indians in second, with the two teams receiving 65 and 44 first place votes respectively...

||style="background:#990000; color:white "| Montana Griz|| align="center" | 28-18 || Missoula, Montana ||
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| 1939

1939 college football season

The 1939 college football season concluded with the Aggies of The Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas being named as the national champions by the voters in the Associated Press writers' poll....

||style="background:#990000; color:white "| Montana Griz|| align="center" | 13-0 || Moscow, Idaho ||
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| 1938

1938 college football season

The 1938 college football season ended with the Horned Frogs of Texas Christian University being named the nation’s #1 team by 55 of the 77 electors in the Associated Press writers' poll. The AP poll was in its second year, and seven votes were taken during the final weeks of the 1937 season,...

||style="background:#CEBE70; color:black "| Idaho Vandals|| align="center" | 19-6 || Missoula, Montana ||
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| 1937

1937 college football season

The 1937 college football season ended with the Panthers of the University of Pittsburgh being named the nation’s #1 team by 30 of the 33 electors in the Associated Press writers' poll...

||style="background:#CEBE70; color:black "| Idaho Vandals|| align="center" | 6-0 || Moscow, Idaho || align="center" | Neale Stadium

Neale Stadium

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| 1936

1936 college football season

The 1936 college football season was the first in which the Associated Press writers' poll selected a national champion. The first AP poll, taken of 35 writers, was released on October 20, 1936...

||style="background:#990000; color:white "| Montana Griz|| align="center" | 16-0 || Missoula, Montana ||
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| 1935

1935 college football season

The 1935 college football season was the last one before the Associated Press writers' poll was used in selecting the national champion. The Dickinson System, consisting of the calculations of University of Illinois Professor Frank Dickinson, crowned Southern Methodist University as the best in...

||style="background:#CEBE70; color:black "| Idaho Vandals|| align="center" | 14-7 || Moscow, Idaho ||
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| 1934

1934 college football season

The 1934 college football season saw the addition of not one, but two New Year's Day football games to rival the venerable Rose Bowl. On February 15, Warren V. Miller and Joseph M. Cousins had organized the New Orleans Mid-Winter Sports Association and by October, the group had enough funds to...

||style="background:#CEBE70; color:black "| Idaho Vandals|| align="center" | 13-6 || Missoula, Montana ||
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| 1933

1933 college football season

The 1933 college football season saw the Michigan Wolverines repeat as winners of the Knute Rockne Memorial Trophy as national champion under the Dickinson system. Thirteen members of the old Southern Conference split off in 1933 to form the Southeastern Conference . The ten Southern teams that...

||style="background:#CEBE70; color:black "| Idaho Vandals|| align="center" | 12-6 || Moscow, Idaho ||
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| 1932

1932 college football season

The 1932 college football season saw the Michigan Wolverines win the Knute Rockne Memorial Trophy as national champion under the Dickinson system. Because the "Big Nine" conference didn't permit its teams to play in the postseason, however, the Wolverines were not able to accept a bid to the Rose...

||style="background:#CEBE70; color:black "| Idaho Vandals|| align="center" | 19-6 || Missoula, Montana ||
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| 1931

1931 college football season

The 1931 college football season saw the USC Trojans win the Knute Rockne Memorial Trophy as national champion under the Dickinson system. Rockne, who had coached Notre Dame to a championship in 1930, had been killed in a plane crash on March 31, 1931. For the first time, the champion under the...

||style="background:#CEBE70; color:black "| Idaho Vandals|| align="center" | 21-19 || Moscow, Idaho ||
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| 1930

1930 college football season

The 1930 college football season saw Notre Dame repeat as national champion under the Dickinson system, and a post-season Rose Bowl matchup between two unbeaten teams, Washington State and Alabama, ranked #2 and #3, respectively...

||style="background:#990000; color:white "| Montana Griz|| align="center" | 12-6 || Missoula, Montana ||
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| 1929

1929 college football season

The 1929 college football season saw a number of unbeaten and untied teams. Purdue, Tulane, Notre Dame and Pittsburgh all finished the regular season with wins over all their opponents; Notre Dame was recognized as national champion under the Dickinson system...

||style="background:#CEBE70; color:black "| Idaho Vandals|| align="center" | 19-0 || Moscow, Idaho ||
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| 1928

1928 college football season

The 1928 college football season had the USC Trojans recognized as champions under the Dickinson System, but the Rose Bowl was contested between the #2 and #3 teams, California and Georgia Tech...

||style="background:#CEBE70; color:black "| Idaho Vandals|| align="center" | 21-7 || Missoula, Montana ||
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| 1927

1927 college football season

The 1927 college football season ended with the Illini of the University of Illinois being recognized as champion under the Dickinson system. In the Rose Bowl, the Pittsburgh Panthers were invited to play against the Pacific Coast Conference champion...

||style="background:#CEBE70; color:black "| Idaho Vandals|| align="center" | 42-6 || Moscow, Idaho ||
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| 1926

1926 college football season

The 1926 college football season was the first to attempt recognition of a national champion. Stanford University, coached by Glenn "Pop" Warner, was the #1 team in the nation under the Dickinson System, and awarded the Rissman Trophy. Unbeaten Stanford faced unbeaten Alabama in the Rose Bowl...

||style="background:#CEBE70; color:black "| Idaho Vandals|| align="center" | 27-12 || Missoula, Montana ||
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| 1925

1925 college football season

The 1925 college football season ended with the University of Alabama's recognition as a football powerhouse. The Rose Bowl was closer to a national championship than had been seen previously, providing an intersectional matchup between two unbeaten teams, the Washington Huskies and the Alabama...

||style="background:#990000; color:white "| Montana Griz|| align="center" | 20-14 || Moscow, Idaho ||
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| 1924

1924 college football season

The 1924 college football season was the year of the Four Horsemen as the Notre Dame team, coached by Knute Rockne, won all of its games, including the Rose Bowl, to be acclaimed as the best team in the nation. Notre Dame and Stanford were both unbeaten at season's end, and the Fighting Irish won...

||style="background:#CEBE70; color:black "| Idaho Vandals|| align="center" | 41-13 || Missoula, Montana ||
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| 1923

1923 college football season

The 1923 college football season saw several teams finish their seasons unbeaten and untied. Illinois and Michigan The 1923 college football season saw several teams finish their seasons unbeaten and untied. Illinois (coached by Bob Zuppke) and Michigan The 1923 college football season saw...

||style="background:#CEBE70; color:black "| Idaho Vandals|| align="center" | 40-0 || Moscow, Idaho ||
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| 1922

1922 college football season

The 1922 college football season had a number of unbeaten and untied teams, and no clear-cut champion. Three different "retro polls", taken years later and based on opinions drawn from historical research, reached different conclusions...

||style="background:#CEBE70; color:black "| Idaho Vandals|| align="center" | 39-0 || Moscow, Idaho ||
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| 1921

1921 college football season

The 1921 college football season had no clear-cut champion, with the Official NCAA Division I Football Records Book listing California Golden Bears, Cornell Big Red, Iowa Hawkeyes, Lafayette Leopards, and Washington & Jefferson Presidents as champions...

||style="background:#CEBE70; color:black "| Idaho Vandals|| align="center" | 35-7 || Missoula, Montana ||
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| 1920

1920 college football season

The 1920 college football season had no clear-cut champion, with the Official NCAA Division I Football Records Book listing the California, Notre Dame, and Princeton as national champions. Only California and Princeton claim national championships for the 1920 season.-Conference standings:The...

||style="background:#CEBE70; color:black "| Idaho Vandals|| align="center" | 20-7 || Missoula, Montana ||
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| 1919

1919 college football season

The 1919 college football season had no clear-cut champion, with the Official NCAA Division I Football Records Book listing the Centre, Harvard, Illinois, Notre Dame, and Texas A&M as national champions.. Only Harvard and Illinois claim national championships for the 1919 season.-Conference...

||style="background:#CEBE70; color:black "| Idaho Vandals|| align="center" | 7-0 || Moscow, Idaho ||
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| 1918

1918 college football season

The 1918 college football season had no clear-cut champion, with the Official NCAA Division I Football Records Book listing Michigan and Pittsburgh as national champions.-Conference standings:The following is an incomplete list of conference standings:...

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World War I

World War I , which was predominantly called the World War or the Great War from its occurrence until 1939, and the First World War or World War I thereafter, was a major war centred in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918...

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| 1917

1917 college football season

The 1917 college football season had a clear-cut champion, with the Official NCAA Division I Football Records Book listing Georgia Tech as national champions.-Conference standings:The following is an incomplete list of conference standings:...

||style="background:#CEBE70; color:black "| Idaho Vandals|| align="center" | 14-3 || Moscow, Idaho ||
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| 1916

1916 college football season

The 1916 college football season had a very clear cut champion, with the Official NCAA Division I Football Records Book listing Army and Pittsburgh as national champions. Only Pittsburgh claims a national championship for the 1916 season....

||style="background:#990000; color:white "| Montana Griz|| align="center" | 20-13 || Moscow, Idaho ||
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| 1915

1915 college football season

The 1915 college football season had no clear-cut champion, with the Official NCAA Division I Football Records Book listing Cornell, Oklahoma, and Pittsburgh as national champions. Only Pittsburgh and Cornell claim national championships for the 1915 season.-Conference standings:The following is an...

||style="background:#990000; color:white "| Montana Griz|| align="center" | 15-3 || Missoula, Montana || align="center" | old Dornblaser Field

Dornblaser Field

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| 1914

1914 college football season

The 1914 college football season had no clear-cut champion, with the Official NCAA Division I Football Records Book listing Army, Illinois, and Texas as national champions. Only Illinois claims a national championship for the 1914 season....

||align="center" style="background:#999999; color:black "| - Tie -|| align="center" | 0-0 || Moscow, Idaho || align="center" | MacLean Field
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| 1913

1913 college football season

The 1913 college football season had no clear-cut champion, with the Official NCAA Division I Football Records Book listing Auburn, Chicago, and Harvard as national champions. Only Harvard and Chicago claim national championships for the 1913 season....

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| 1912

1912 college football season

The 1912 college football season was the first of the modern era, as the NCAA implemented changes to increase scoring:*Teams were given 4 downs instead of 3 downs to gain ten yards...

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| 1911

1911 college football season

The 1911 college football season was the last one before major reforms were made to the American game in 1912. In 1911, touchdowns were worth five points, the field was 110 yards in length, and a team had three downs within which to advance the ball ten yards...

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| 1910

1910 college football season

The 1910 college football season had no clear-cut champion, with the Official NCAA Division I Football Records Book listing Harvard and Pittsburgh as national champions...

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| 1909

1909 college football season

The 1909 college football season was the first for the 3-point field goal, which had previously been worth 4 points. The season ran from Saturday, September 25, until Thanksgiving Day, November 25, although a few games were played on the week before....

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| 1908

1908 college football season

The 1908 college football season ran from Saturday, September 19, until November 28 . The Quakers of the University of Pennsylvania and the Crimson of Harvard University finished the season unbeaten, though each had been tied once during the season. The Tigers of Louisiana State University went...

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| 1907

1907 college football season

The 1907 college football season saw the increased use of the forward pass, which had been legalized the year before. Football remained a dangerous game, despite the "debrutalization" reforms, and an unprecedented eleven players were killed , while 98 others were seriously injured. However, there...

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| 1906

1906 college football season

The 1906 college football season was the first in which the forward pass was permitted. Although there was no national championship, there were two teams that had won all nine of their games as the 1906 season drew to a close, the Princeton Tigers and the Yale Bulldogs, and on November 17, 1906,...

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| 1905

1905 college football season

The 1905 college football season had no clear-cut champion, with the Official NCAA Division I Football Records Book listing Chicago and Yale Bulldogs football as national champions.-Rule experiment:...

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| 1904

1904 college football season

The 1904 college football season had no clear-cut champion, with the Official NCAA Division I Football Records Book listing Michigan, Minnesota, and Penn as national champions....

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| 1903

1903 college football season

The 1903 college football season had no clear-cut champion, with the Official NCAA Division I Football Records Book listing Michigan and Princeton as national champions....

||style="background:#CEBE70; color:black "| Idaho Vandals|| align="center" | 28-0 || Moscow, Idaho ||
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External links

egriz.com - photos - 2003 game in Missoula, MT - 2003-09-27
egriz.com - photos - 2002 game in Moscow, ID - 2002-10-05

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