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View Poll Results: Who's the Greatest Buckeye Multi-Purpose Player? (vote for 3)
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Brian Baschnagel (WR, RB)
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4 |
2.02% |
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Howard "Hopalong" Cassady (RB, CB)
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166 |
83.84% |
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Neal Colzie (CB, PR)
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2.02% |
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Bruce Elia (FB, LB)
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2.53% |
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Chris Gamble (CB, WR, PR)
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128 |
64.65% |
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Ted Ginn, Jr. (WR, KR, PR)
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124 |
62.63% |
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Cie Grant (LB, CB)
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6 |
3.03% |
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Paul Warfield (WR, RB)
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88 |
44.44% |
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Other
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7 |
3.54% |
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no Vic Janowicz? really? the guy played all three ways and won the Heisman doing it... he played in the NFL for the Redskins and in the majors for the Pittsburgh Pirates. he was Neon Deion when Florida State was still an all girls school...
and what's this crap about playing prior to 1950? Vic, Hop, and Chic Harley are the only ones who would get my vote in this poll. Chic was voted as the best player in the first 50 years of football. not at Ohio State, in ALL of football. without him, we're a MAC-level program right now. he single-handedly put Ohio State on the map.
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09-10-2007, 02:28 PM
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no Vic Janowicz? really? the guy played all three ways and won the Heisman doing it... he played in the NFL for the Redskins and in the majors for the Pittsburgh Pirates. he was Neon Deion when Florida State was still an all girls school...
and what's this crap about playing prior to 1950? Vic, Hop, and Chic Harley are the only ones who would get my vote in this poll. Chic was voted as the best player in the first 50 years of football. not at Ohio State, in ALL of football. without him, we're a MAC-level program right now. he single-handedly put Ohio State on the map.
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Nice write here LV, and what about Cassady? |
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i said Cassady would get my vote. i didn't feel the need to extoll his virtues since his name is on the list... in fact, of the names on the list, Hop is the ONLY one who would get my vote, considering the fact that he, Vic and Chic are the three names that immediately popped into my mind...
i'm guess i'm writing in two of my three choices... which means i'm not voting in this poll...
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09-10-2007, 02:46 PM
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i said Cassady would get my vote. i didn't feel the need to extoll his virtues since his name is on the list... in fact, of the names on the list, Hop is the ONLY one who would get my vote, considering the fact that he, Vic and Chic are the three names that immediately popped into my mind...
i'm guess i'm writing in two of my three choices... which means i'm not voting in this poll...
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yeah I said that wrong , I was addressing the list of candidates rather than you.
My real list would have to include Vic, Hop and Archie |
09-10-2007, 04:06 PM
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and what's this crap about playing prior to 1950? Vic, Hop, and Chic Harley are the only ones who would get my vote in this poll. Chic was voted as the best player in the first 50 years of football. not at Ohio State, in ALL of football. without him, we're a MAC-level program right now. he single-handedly put Ohio State on the map.
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It's a conspiracy.....
Seriously, if you haven't noticed, the game has changed somewhat since 1916. Chic Harley was 5-foot-7, 150 pounds, which is clearly too small to play football at Ohio State in the 21st-century (see Saddler, Cameron). And Ohio State's first two-time All-American lineman, Iolas Huffman (1919-20), was a huge player at 6-foot-1, 235 pounds (roughly the size of running back Beanie Wells, and several inches shorter and 80 to 100 pounds lighter than the Buckeyes' current offensive linemen). And of course, the national championships from the leather helmet days don't count because they happened before the advent of the forward pass (see any thread about Notre Dame or Michigan). But really, we should pretend that there's no significant difference between the football played today, and that played nine decades ago....
While it's easy to throw around names like Harley and Fesler, and Horvath and Janowicz, what about players like Gaylord Stinchcomb, Edwin Hess, Leo Raskowski, and Donald Scott? Who were those guys, you ask? Well, each was a two-time All-American for Ohio State back in the good old days. Should they get any consideration for our polls? I mean, really, you could go crazy trying to come up with a perfect system for something like this, when in reality these polls are just supposed to be a fun little diversion between games.
That's my explanation. If you Buckeye PhD's out there don't like it, then you can prepare your own polls. 
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09-10-2007, 04:33 PM
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I went with Ginn, Hopalong, Warfield
The last 2 are obvious, even to a youngin like me, and went with Ginn over Gamble, mostly because I can still see Lee Evans (I think?) burning Gamble on a double move in Wisky. The bastard!  |
09-10-2007, 04:41 PM
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