'Changed football in the South': How Cumberland's historic loss lives on over 100 years later

'Changed football in the South': How Cumberland's historic loss lives on over 100 years later

LEBANON, Tenn. (WKRN) — If you enjoy sports trivia, Oct. 7, 1916, will provide you with plenty. On that day, Cumberland University infamously lost a college football game 222-0 in Atlanta, Georgia. Sixty-three points in the first quarter. No first downs the entire game. A make-shift Cumberland team full of fraternity brothers, law students, and random people pulled off the train.  The game was over before it began.  ‘This is primetime’: The…