Morristown, NJ - This Week In College Football History steps back in time to look at some of football's greatest highlights, record-breaking performances, and interesting facts, which have shaped the game into what it is today. Throughout the season, many of this column's items are depicted in a changing exhibit at the College Football Hall of Fame in South Bend, Indiana. 

This Week In College Football is researched and compiled by Pat Harmon, National Football Foundation Historian. *If you choose to use this content in whole or in part, as a courtesy, please credit The National Football Foundation's College Football Hall of Fame. 

September 29, 1894: Yale beat Trinity 42-0 opening a record setting season. Yale finished 16-0, playing one game in September, nine in October, five in November, and one in December. The average score was 31-1. Yale's coach was William Rhodes, captain Frank Hinkey. Hinkey nicknamed "Silent Frank" was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1951. 

October 1, 1977: Russell Exlebern of Texas placekicked a 67-yard field goal against Rice. 

October 1, 1983: Jerry Rice of Mississippi Valley State caught 24 passes against Southern. 

October 2, 1937: Brud Holland of Cornell scored two touchdowns on end-around plays against Colgate. Holland was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1965. 

October 2, 1970: One of two Martin 404 chartered airplanes carrying the Wichita State University football team crashed into a mountain in Clear Creek Canyon in Colorado. Thirty-one of the 40 people aboard the plane died in the crash. 

October 3, 1981: Mike Wallace of Ohio Wesleyan completed 47 passes against Denison. 

October 3, 1998: Tim Couch of Kentucky completed 47 passes against Arkansas. 

October 5, 1996: Dante Brown of Marietta rushed for 441 yards against Baldwin-Wallace. 

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