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Twelve of the 14 teams in the NFL Playoffs have a Husky on the roster. Here is the latest (click to see full image).

Source: NFL official team website rosters, as of 12:30 pm PT, Jan. 6, 2025):
January 6, 2025 at 9:02 PM
2025 UW Football Schedule release:

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December 11, 2024 at 7:38 PM
UW held the Horns to just one score, late in the second, shutting down an offense led in part by Johnny "Lam" Jones, a 1976 Olympic gold medalist (4x100m) sprinter. UW defensive stars Doug Martin, Stafford Mays and Greg Grimes led a stingy defense that produced 4 turnovers.

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December 9, 2024 at 10:51 PM
It was a defensive game, with all of the scoring coming in the second quarter, as the Dawgs won, 14-7. UW scored on an 18-yd. pass from Tom Flick to game MVP Paul Skansi, and on a 4-yd. run from freshman RB Willis Ray Mackey of Luling, Texas. Times and P-I sports pages …

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December 9, 2024 at 10:51 PM
The No. 11 Longhorns had spent nearly the entire season in the top 10, reaching as high as No. 2 before a 17-14 loss at No. 10 Arkansas. A loss at Texas A&M in the final game of the season kept the Horns out of a tie for the SWC title and a possible Cotton Bowl berth. 2/4

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December 9, 2024 at 10:51 PM
Re-upping this thread from the other site on UW's first-ever trip to the Sun Bowl, in 1979 against Texas.

No. 13 Washington, under fifth-year coach Don James, was 8-3, with losses to ASU, #17 Pitt and #4 USC (the ASU game was later forfeited to UW).

Here’s the Seattle P-I preview:

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December 9, 2024 at 10:51 PM
The Eastern men won the game, 20-0. The P-I noted that about 400 fans watched, at a ballpark on Jackson St., in what is now the Pioneer Square neighborhood, five months or so removed from the Great Seattle Fire (June, 1889).

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November 28, 2024 at 7:35 PM
A team of UW students took the “Eastern College Alumni,” made up of men who had attended college in the East, where American football taken hold. Here’s the preview in the Nov. 28, 1889, Seattle Post-Intelligencer:

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November 28, 2024 at 7:35 PM
November 24, 2024 at 4:30 AM
On this off-week Friday, here's a look at what happened 100 years ago today, when UW beat Washington State, 14-0, in the final game of the 1924 season (11/22/1924).

Stars George Wilson & Elmer Tesreau scored as UW finished the season 8-1-1. The Seattle P-I from the following day:
November 22, 2024 at 10:24 PM
Here's the Big Ten graphic with all of the Nov. 30 info.
November 18, 2024 at 6:29 PM