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unusual facts about Ohio State Buckeyes



1935 NCAA Men's Track and Field Championships

Ohio State's Jesse Owens won championships in four individual events—the 100-yard sprint, the 220-yard sprint, the 220-yard low hurdles, and the broad jump (now called the long jump).

1936 NCAA Men's Track and Field Championships

For the second consecutive year, Ohio State's Jesse Owens won championships in four individual events—the 100-meter sprint, the 200-meter sprint, the 110-meter high hurdles and the broad jump (now called the long jump).

1985 Rose Bowl

The 1985 Rose Bowl Game was a postseason college football bowl game between the USC Trojans of the Pacific-10 Conference and Ohio State Buckeyes of the Big Ten Conference, held on New Year’s Day in the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California.

1997 Rose Bowl

The 1997 Rose Bowl Game was a postseason college football bowl game between the Arizona State Sun Devils of the Pacific-10 Conference and the Ohio State Buckeyes of the Big Ten Conference, held on New Year’s Day in the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California.

2004 Alamo Bowl

The 2004 edition to the Alamo Bowl featured the Ohio State Buckeyes, and the Oklahoma State Cowboys.

Billy Latsko

As as senior in 2006, Latsko was a member of the Gators squad that defeated the Ohio State Buckeyes to win the BCS National Championship.

Harold Leroy Enarson

After leaving the university, Enarson commented that he would be remembered most for his firing of popular Ohio State Buckeyes football coach Woody Hayes after Hayes punched an opposing player in the throat, though events such as Archie Griffin's two Heisman Trophies or graduate Paul Flory's Nobel Prize were highpoints.

Irwin Uteritz

He missed the opening game against Case as Michigan Coach Fielding H. Yost asked team captain Paul G. Goebel and Uteritz to accompany him to Columbus, Ohio to watch the Ohio State Buckeyes in action against Ohio Wesleyan.

Jack Crabtree

Since Oregon State had gone to the Rose Bowl the previous year, the unranked Ducks earned a berth in the 1958 Rose Bowl against heavily favored and top-ranked Ohio State.

JumpTV

Among them are the Arena Football League, the University of Colorado, Arkansas State University and Ohio State University.

Kirk Herbstreit

After waiting his turn as a Buckeye starter behind Greg Frey and Kent Graham, Herbstreit finally led the team as a senior in 1992.

Louisville–Memphis rivalry

Both schools were represented in a 2008 Sheraton commercial featuring fans of other college sport rivals such as Michigan/Ohio State, Duke/North Carolina, USC/UCLA, and Syracuse/Georgetown.

Reynolds–Sorgi incident

The Reynolds–Sorgi Incident refers to an American college football in-game incident in which Ohio State Buckeyes linebacker Robert Reynolds choked Wisconsin Badgers quarterback Jim Sorgi, injuring Sorgi's trachea, after the play had been whistled dead.

WKRK-FM

Also on weekdays, WEWS-TV sports director Andy Baskin and Fox Sports Ohio personality Jeff Phelps host the midday program Baskin & Phelps; Adam "The Bull" Gerstenhaber, formerly of WFAN/New York, and former Ohio State safety Dustin Fox host Bull & Fox weekday afternoons; and Ken Carman, formerly of WARF/Akron, hosts the weekday evening show.


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1957 Ohio State Buckeyes football team

The 1957 Ohio State Buckeyes football team was led by captains Galen Cisco and Leo Brown.

Matt Wilhelm

In 2013, he was hired by Cleveland radio station WKNR AM 850 to be a football analyst, and serve as a co-host for the station's Ohio State Buckeyes pregame show, and Cleveland Browns postgame show.