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The College of Emporia Football Team was a college football team at the College of Emporia in Emporia, Kansas. The team competed from 1893 until the college closed in 1972[1] and was known for its high quality play for the size of the school as well as its early adoption of modern football methods.
The team was one of the earliest schools to regularly call the forward pass[2] and the option pass[3] under head coach Bill Hargiss and quarterback Arthur Schabinger. The school was using the forward pass as a regular play three years before Knute Rockne and Notre Dame Football.[4]
- ^ College Football Data Warehouse College of Emporia records
- ^ Homer Hargiss History Definitive use of forward pass
- ^ Oberheide.org Hargiss's Option Play
- ^ Emporia Gazette, "The Emporia Gazette Give Credit to C. of E." by E. T. Lowther