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Show O from the Redhead's Mailbag I RED BARBER CBS Sport Director QUESTIONS (1) What was the last team to join the Big Nine Conference? (2) What is the longest punt on record? (3) When you announced the Ohio State-Missouri game on CBS, you said Ohio State got a safety when Missouri's pass was N incomplete. How is that determined? deter-mined? (4) Is it true that formerly a conversion after touchdown counted more points than the TD? (5) What was the first Bowl game played in America? ANSWERS ill Ohio State was accepted into the Western Conference on April 6. 1912 and that made it the Big Ten. Since then. Chicago has withdrawn, leaving it at nine. 1 2 1 If you include the roll, it prob- Oably is the 115-yarder kicked by George Gordon in an Ohio State junior jun-ior varsitv game last year. ' t3i According to the rules, when a player makes a pass that becomes incomplete in-complete behind his own goal, it is ruled a safety. (4i wasn't playing then, but the rules ih the 80 s show that a TD was worth 2 points and goal after TD wa? good for 4. I5i The Rose Bowl game pf 1902 Is generally accepted as the first. |