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1. WARM-UP: Who was the athletic director who resigned in protest to the firing of head football coach Earle Bruce at the beginning of Michigan week in 1987?

Donald Duck
Michael Jackson
Richard Bay
Sonny Bono

2. Ohio State pounded Rice and Pittsburgh to open up the 1996 season by scoring 70 or more points in each game, the first time in OSU's storied football history that the team has scored 70 or more points in back to back games. What was the combined score of these two victories?

142-7
140-0
149-10
141-6

3. Who was the Buckeye QB in Earle Bruce's last game, a 23-20 victory over Michigan?

Mike Tomczak
Tom Tupa
Rex Kern
Jim Karsatos

4. Purdue beat the struggling Bucks in Ohio Stadium in John Cooper's first season (1988) in Columbus 31-26 with a true freshman starting QB Brian Fox, then only 17 years old. True or False?

True
False

5. In Ohio State's wild, come-from-behind 41-37 win at the Metrodome over Minnesota in 1989, outstanding TB Carlos Snow caught the game-winning 18 yard TD pass from QB Greg Fry with eight seconds left in the game. True or False?

True
False

6. Which former star Buckeye tailback is currently the Team's runningbacks coach?

Keith Byars
Archie Griffin
Tim Spencer
Robert Smith

7. Tom Tupa holds the single-season punting average record at 47.0 yards a punt in 1987. True or False?

True
False

8. Hugh Hindman, the OSU Athletic Director who fired coaching legend Woody Hayes after he slugged a Clemson player at the end of the 1978 Gater Bowl, once was an ssistant under Hayes. True or False?

True
False



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