{"id":6448,"date":"2018-09-05T23:51:05","date_gmt":"2018-09-06T04:51:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sportspaper.info\/blog\/?p=6448"},"modified":"2018-09-05T23:51:05","modified_gmt":"2018-09-06T04:51:05","slug":"top-25-college-football-flashback-2018-week-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/top-25-college-football-flashback-2018-week-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Top 25 College Football Flashback (2018 Week 2)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week&#8217;s flashback highlights an early game in the historic rivalry between SMU and TCU, aka the Battle for the Iron Skillet. Actually, this game predates the skillet but we&#8217;ll go with it anyway.<\/p>\n<p>The Mustangs were riding a four-game win streak in the series heading into the 1928 matchup at Ownby Stadium (which was just a few years old at the time).<\/p>\n<p>The two teams met on November 29, Thanksgiving Day. Here is the program from the game.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sportspaper.info\/ncaaf\/seasons\/1928\/11-29_tcu-smu.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/sportspaper.info\/watermark.php?path=ncaaf\/seasons\/1928\/images\/ncaaf-program_1928-11-29_tcu-smu.jpg\" alt=\"SMU vs. TCU, 1928\" width=\"600\" height=\"818\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>TCU triumphed on a rain-soaked field, 15-6, behind the offensive tandem of QB Howard Grubbs and RB Austin Griffith. As a result of the win the Frogs finished the 1928 campaign with 8 totals wins, tied with Baylor for the most in the SWC. The conference title went to Texas however, with one more conference victory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For this week&#8217;s college football flashback we look at a game from the historic SMU vs. TCU rivalry, all the way from 90 years ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6451,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[240,26,14,447,44,224],"class_list":["post-6448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-classic-programs","tag-1920s","tag-college-football","tag-programs","tag-smu-mustangs","tag-tcu-horned-frogs","tag-thanksgiving","wpcat-61-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6448"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6448\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6455,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6448\/revisions\/6455"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}