POCATELLO, Idaho, Aug. 6 -- Idaho State University issued the following news release:
With seven home games scheduled in the ICCU Dome, there are plenty of chances to see the Bengals in action this fall. But it wasn't so long ago, before the dome, and before ISU was officially a four-year institution, that Bengal football looked a little bit different. Football at the Academy of Idaho began in September 1902, when the school was barely one year old. The football team took the field against Pocatello High School and Idaho Falls High School for five games and completed their inaugural season 5-0. The Academy's baseball team decided to call themselves the "Tigers" in 1908, but it wasn't until 1927 that football Coach Ralph Hutchinson, a Princ...