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Paid Attendance: One

In 1955, Washington State hosted San Jose State and the paid attendance was one. That’s right, one fan!

At least that is the claim in this photo from a J&B Scotch ad from a 1973 Time magazine. I found it posted on the Facebook page for the Washington State Manuscripts, Archives and Special Collections section of the library.

Washington State claims one paying fan at 1955 game versus San Jose State

However, when I reference the Washington State media guide, the school claims an attendance of 1,600.

Sadly, we will probably never know which is the correct number, although I have reached out to the Washington State athletic department.

 

UPDATE:

I have been informed by @jjncaa that the actual paid attendance really was one, and that it is in a trivia book written by Ken Jennings. Yes, the Ken Jennings that had the insane Jeopardy run of 74 straight wins.

The book is called Ken Jennings’s Trivia Almanac: 8,888 Questions in 365 Days and can be purchased here.

[via WSUMASC Facebook page]

C-USA to Add UTSA, North Texas, FIU and Louisiana Tech

Last night, Kyle Kensing (@kensing45) posted an article about how RowdyReport.com had broken the news that the University of Texas – San Antonio (UTSA) was likely to join Conference USA (C-USA) for the 2013 season. The story outlines the UTSA football program and how they have already grown a huge legion of fans.

Later in the evening, Kensing also posted on twitter that North Texas would also be voting this week to join C-USA.

Today, Brett McMurphy reported that FIU and Louisiana Tech were also expected to join C-USA. Those four teams would bring C-USA back up to 12 members for 2013 after they lose Houston, SMU, UCF and Memphis to the Big East.

UTSA would not owe their original target conference, the Western Athletic Conference, a buyout fee because they never officially started in the league. They would however owe C-USA a $2 million entrance fee, according to McMurphy.

North Texas and FIU would also be able to leave the Sun Belt conference without paying an exit fee.

In other conference re-alignment news, it also appears that Utah State and San Jose State with be joining the Mountain West conference for 2013.

For more news and details, here is the McMurphy story.

I find it interesting how the smaller conferences keep cannibalizing each other. There is sure to be even more movement when the WAC eventually folds from all of this and the MWC/C-USA merger is officially dead.

San Jose State upgrading Spartan Stadium

Yesterday, the San Jose Business Journal posted a story about how San Jose State is in the first phase of a $20 million upgrade to Spartan Stadium. Unfortunately they hid most of the story behind the paywall so you can’t read it unless you pay them. Basically all of the information I could find was that the first phase calls for the installation of new scoreboards since they have not been updated since the 80′s.

Here is a picture and when I get new info or pictures, I will be sure to share.

New Spartan Stadium Scoreboard

Two-A-Days: Team #114 – San Jose State

Quick Thoughts: San Jose State seems to be short on talent again in 2011.

How others rank San Jose State

Publication Rank
Phil Steele 96
Athlon Sports 113

My “sure-to-be-wrong” game score predictions

Date Team Predicted Score
Sat, Sep 3 @ Stanford L 16-49
Sat, Sep 10 @ UCLA L 24-34
Sat, Sep 17 Nevada L 45-23
Sat, Sep 24 New Mexico State W 31-34
Sat, Oct 1 @ Colorado State L 27-33
Sat, Oct 8 @ Brigham Young L 23-41
Fri, Oct 14 Hawaii L 48-31
Sat, Oct 29 @ Louisiana Tech L 31-34
Sat, Nov 5 Idaho L 35-27
Sat, Nov 12 @ Utah State L 34-35
Sat, Nov 19 Navy L 42-38
Sat, Nov 26 @ Fresno State L 27-37

Predicted Record: 1-11

As always, feel free to toss in your opinion on why I am wrong.