March 30 March in Football History

In this episode of the Football History Headlines, we discuss Football rules revisions and the Galloping Gal as well as many more HOF Legendary stories.

The picture in the banner above is from my own personal Early College Football Rule Books collection in a photo I took myself.

March 30, 1889 - At the football rules convention early rules makers voted in a new rule to read that “a touchdown is made when the ball is carried, kicked or passed across the goal-line and is held either in touch or in goal. We get this info from Parke H. Davis fine book Football the InterCollegiate Game published in 1911. 
  
March 30, 2004 - At the NFL Owners Meetings the group voted to extend Instant Replay System in place for another 5 years. The plan with the extension was that proponents hoped the next time the vote would come up they could tweak it and make it a permanent fixture in the NFL. Their wish came true in 2007 when a 30-2 vote gave replay permanence so as it would not have to be debated each year.   At that same meeting the owners would give a reward for coaches who were successful on their first two reviews: a third challenge according to Operations.NFL.com. 

March 30, 1914 - Morris, Oklahoma - The fine tackle of the Stanford Cardinal, Bobby Reynolds was born.

March 30, 1935 - Saint Augustine, Florida - Florida A&M's halfback from 1953 through the 1956 season, Willie Galimore arrived to celebrate his birth.Willie, also known as the "Galloping Gal" was a stud runner four all four seasons he played at the school. The NFF says he was All-Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference choice four times and was named black college All-America by the Pittsburgh Courier three times. The A&M Rattlers won four conference championships and one black college national championship in the era of Galimore. In Galimore's biggest game he rushed for 295 yards and four touchdowns against Tennessee State in 1956. He had rushing totals of 187 yards against Morris Brown College and 159 against Xavier University of Louisiana in 1955. He scored 16 total touchdowns in the 1956 season alone with his longest run was 98 yards against Allen College that season. In WIllie's four year career he gained 3,596 yards rushing. Willie Galimore received the great honor of being selected for inclusion into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1999.