DID YOU KNOW: Record Set vs. Virginia Tech – Ohio State Buckeyes
7/29/2015 12:00:00 AM | Football
Sept. 9, 2015
Wasting no time! After 26 team records were set or tied in 2014, the program mark for yards per play has fallen at the hands of the 2015 squad. Ohio State averaged a school record 10.2 yards per play in its season-opening win over Virginia Tech, Monday.
That number surpasses the previous mark of 10.0 YPP against Wisconsin in the 2014 Big Ten Championship Game.
The Buckeyes totaled 572 yards vs. the Hokies including 366 rushing yards at 9.7 yards per carry, 2nd-best in school history.
Sept. 2, 2015
Not only is Ohio State’s Urban Meyer the winningest active head coach in college football with an .845 career win percentage, he owns an even better mark to open a season with a perfect all-time mark of 13-0. He is 3-0 as Buckeye head coach with victories vs. Miami (OH) in 2012, vs. Buffalo in 2013 and in a neutral-site contest against Navy to open last season.
Aug. 26, 2015
Ohio State has been one of the premier rushing teams in all of college football in Urban Meyer’s three years as coach and Ed Warinner’s three years coaching the team’s offensive linemen. The Buckeyes are among the Top 5 nationally between 2012-14 in – cumulative – average yards per carry (No. 3 at 5.9 yards per carry), rushing touchdowns (No. 4 with 123) and yards gained (No. 5 with 12, 280). Ohio State is No. 7 in that time in yards per game at 273.0.
BY THE NUMBERS
13: 300-yard rushing games by Ohio State in the last three years.
30: Number of 100-yard rushing games by an Ohio State runner the last three years.
40: Number of games the past three years in which Ohio State has scored one or more rushing touchdowns (41 games).
Aug. 12, 2015
Ohio State men’s golf alum Jack Nicklaus won his record-breaking 14th major title on August 12, 1973, surpassing Bobby Jones’ mark of 13 major championships.
Firing a seven-under-par 277, “The Golden Bear” was the only player in red figures defeating Sam Snead by seven strokes to capture the 1973 PGA Championship at Canterbury Golf Club in Beachwood, Ohio.
Nicklaus, who won the 1959 & ’61 U.S. Amateur titles while attending Ohio State, would go on to finish his career with a total of 20 major titles (18 major professional championships); a record that stands to this day.
More: This Day in HISTORY (History.com)
Photos from PGA of America
Aug. 5, 2015
Current Cleveland Browns wide receiver Brian Hartline owns the Ohio State record for longest punt return with a 90-yard touchdown take-back vs. Kent State Oct. 13, 2007. The Medina, Ohio native accounted for the first two scores of a 48-3 victory over the Golden Flashes in The Shoe.
Hartline, who ranks 19th all-time at Ohio State with 1,429 career receiving yards, is in his first season with the Browns after spending his first six NFL seasons with the Miami Dolphins, twice topping 1,000 yards receiving (2013 and ’14).
The Browns are holding an open scrimmage Friday, Aug. 7 inside Ohio Stadium. The event runs from 6-8 p.m.
July 29, 2015
Nearly 60 years ago, Howard “Hopalong” Cassady set the single game scoring record vs Iowa en route to winning the 1955 Heisman Trophy.
Here is the excerpt from The Makio, Ohio State’s 1955-56 yearbook:
Ohio Stadium’s third largest crowd-82,701 cheering fans–the score 20-10–All-American “Hop” Cassady breaking the all time Ohio State scoring record–what more could one ask? Yes, it was a magnificent show as the Buckeyes, led by the stalwart linemen and everready backs defeated a very stubborn Iowa team.
The victory was highlighted by the brilliant showing of Howard Cassady, whose three touchdowns totally shattered the long-standing Ohio scoring record set by Chic Harley in 1919. The first touchdown, a beautiful run of forty-five yards was the one that did it.
Iowa took the opening kickoff and drove to the Ohio nineteen yard line before they were held for three downs. From that spot they kicked a field goal to lead 3-0. The Bucks took the ball on the 50 as Iowa twice kicked out of bounds. On the second play from scrimmage, Cassady carried for the touchdown. Iowa scored once, then State added two more markers to end the game 20-10. The win gave the Bucks a 5-0 Western Conference mark and set the stage for the big
show of the year at Michigan.
“Hop” Cassady set the single-game scoring record vs. Iowa en route to winning the Heisman Trophy in 1955.
