{"id":10245,"date":"2015-12-30T09:02:03","date_gmt":"2015-12-30T17:02:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/today-in-sports-history-for-wednesday-dec-30\/"},"modified":"2015-12-30T09:02:03","modified_gmt":"2015-12-30T17:02:03","slug":"today-in-sports-history-for-wednesday-dec-30","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/sports\/today-in-sports-history-for-wednesday-dec-30\/","title":{"rendered":"Today in Sports History for Wednesday, Dec. 30"},"content":{"rendered":"

1956 \u2014 The New York Giants win the NFL title with a 47-7 rout of the Chicago Bears.<\/p>\n

1962 \u2014 The Green Bay Packers beat the New York Giants 16-7 to win the NFL title for the second straight year.<\/p>\n

1973 \u2014 The Minnesota Vikings beat the Dallas Cowboys 27-10 to win the NFC championship.<\/p>\n

1973 \u2014 The Miami Dolphins, behind 266 yards rushing, beat the Oakland Raiders 27-10 for an unprecedented third straight AFC title.<\/p>\n

1981 \u2014 In the 39th game of the season, Edmonton\u2019s Wayne Gretzky scores five goals, including his 50th into an empty net, to lead the Oilers to a 7-5 victory over the Philadelphia Flyers.<\/p>\n

2000 \u2014 Nebraska ends a disappointing season by setting a bowl record for points in a 66-17 victory over Northwestern in the Alamo Bowl.<\/p>\n

2002 \u2014 TCU sets an NCAA record for fewest points allowed when the Lady Frogs beat Texas Southern 76-16. The 16 points allowed breaks the Division I record for fewest points. Prairie View scored 19 points against Jackson State in 1983.<\/p>\n

2010 \u2014 Top-ranked Connecticut\u2019s record 90-game winning streak in women\u2019s basketball ends when No. 9 Stanford outplays the Huskies from the start in a 71-59 victory at Maples Pavilion.<\/p>\n

2011 \u2014 Blake Bell runs for three touchdowns to help Oklahoma survive a late rally and a crashing camera to beat Iowa 31-14 in the Insight Bowl. A camera, providing overhead shots for ESPN, hanging from a wire over Sun Devil Stadium falls with 2:22 left in the game. The camera bounces off the field around the 20-yard line and narrowly misses Iowa receiver Marvin McNutt Jr.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

1956 \u2014 The New York Giants win the NFL title with a 47-7 rout of the Chicago Bears. 1962 \u2014 The Green Bay Packers beat the New York Giants 16-7 to win the NFL title for the second straight year. 1973 \u2014 The Minnesota Vikings beat the Dallas Cowboys 27-10 to win the NFC championship. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":6,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-10245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10245\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10245"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=10245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}