{"id":12982,"date":"2015-11-11T09:09:14","date_gmt":"2015-11-11T17:09:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/today-is-sports-history-for-nov-11\/"},"modified":"2015-11-11T09:09:14","modified_gmt":"2015-11-11T17:09:14","slug":"today-is-sports-history-for-nov-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/sports\/today-is-sports-history-for-nov-11\/","title":{"rendered":"Today is Sports History for Nov. 11"},"content":{"rendered":"

1911 \u2014<\/strong> Carlisle Indian School of Carlisle, Pa., led by Jim Thorpe, beats nationally ranked Harvard 18-15 before 25,000 in Cambridge, Mass. Thorpe scores all the points for Carlisle, a touchdown, extra point and four field goals.<\/p>\n

1939 \u2014<\/strong> Texas Tech and Centenary (La.) play to a 0-0 tie in a torrential downpour in Shreveport, La. There are an NCAA-record 77 punts in the game (39 by Tech, 38 by Centenary).<\/p>\n

1978 \u2014<\/strong> Eddie Lee Ivery rushes for 356 yards to lead Georgia Tech to a 42-21 victory over Air Force.<\/p>\n

1981 \u2014<\/strong> The Minnesota North Stars score eight goals in the second period of a 15-2 victory over the Winnipeg Jets.<\/p>\n

1995 \u2014<\/strong> Eddie George rushes for a school-record 314 yards on 36 carries and scores three TDs, powering Ohio State past Illinois 41-3.<\/p>\n

1995 \u2014<\/strong> Hakeem Olajuwon scores 21 points to become the 21st NBA player to compile 20,000 career points as the Houston Rockets beat the Minnesota Timberwolves 119-97.<\/p>\n

2000 \u2014<\/strong> Lennox Lewis wins a unanimous 12-round decision over David Tua to retain his WBC and IBF heavyweight titles.<\/p>\n

2001 \u2014<\/strong> In his sixth career start, Shaun Alexander has 266 yards rushing on 35 carries and an 88-yard touchdown run as Seattle beats AFC West-leading Oakland 34-27. It\u2019s the fourth-best rushing game in NFL history.<\/p>\n

2002 \u2014<\/strong> The Oakland Raiders, behind record-setting performances, beat the Denver Broncos 34-10. Rich Gannon completes 21 straight passes and Jerry Rice becomes the first player to score 200 career touchdowns.<\/p>\n

2004 \u2014<\/strong> Earl Boykins, at 5-foot-5, becomes the smallest player in NBA history to reach 30 points, scoring a career-high 32 in Denver\u2019s 117-109 victory over Detroit.<\/p>\n

2006 \u2014<\/strong> Michael Redd scores 57 points to break Kareem Abdul-Jabbar\u2019s franchise record of 55, but Matt Harpring makes a layup with 1.8 seconds left to give the Utah Jazz a 113-111 win over Milwaukee.<\/p>\n

2006 \u2014<\/strong> Wladimir Klitschko stuns Calvin Brock with a sharp left, then finished him off with a thunderous right late in the seventh round to successfully defend his IBF heavyweight title in New York.<\/p>\n

2006 \u2014<\/strong> Wake Forest beats Florida State 30-0 to become the first team to shutout the Seminoles at Doak Campbell Stadium in Bobby Bowden\u2019s 31 seasons as coach.<\/p>\n

2007 \u2014<\/strong> Brett Favre joins Dan Marino as the only quarterbacks to throw for 60,000 yards in a career during the second quarter of Green Bay\u2019s 34-0 win over Minnesota.<\/p>\n

2007 \u2014<\/strong> Jacksonville\u2019s Fred Taylor becomes the 21st running back in NFL history to reach 10,000 yards rushing with a 15-yard carry in the first quarter of the Jaguars\u2019 28-13 win over Tennessee.<\/p>\n

2008 \u2014<\/strong> Jockey Julien Leparoux has a record-tying day at Churchill Downs. The 25-year-old Frenchman ties Hall of Famer Pat Day\u2019s track record with seven wins. Day set the record on June 20, 1984.<\/p>\n

2008 \u2014<\/strong> Jordan Staal scores a hat trick in the third period and sets up Ruslan Fedotenko\u2019s goal with 1:11 left in overtime, leading the Pittsburgh Penguins to a 7-6 win over the Detroit Red Wings.<\/p>\n

2011 \u2014<\/strong> Faulkner defeats Union (Ky.) 95-89 in triple overtime to set an NAIA football record. The 184 combined points, smashes the previous mark of 141 set in 1994 when Southwestern (Kan.) defeated Sterling (Kan.) 79-62.<\/p>\n

2012 \u2014<\/strong> Antron Brown becomes the first black champion in any NHRA pro series when he wins the Top Fuel title at the season-ending event. Brown suffers minor burns to his hands when his engine pops in an opening-round loss during eliminations, then waits to celebrate his victory until the final, when teammate Tony Schumacher loses in a photo finish to Brandon Bernstein.<\/p>\n

2012 \u2014<\/strong> Atlanta\u2019s Tony Gonzalez catches the 100th TD pass of his career, a 2-yarder from Matt Ryan in the Falcons 31-27 loss at New Orleans. He adds another score on a 6-yard pass and becomes the first tight end with 100 TD receptions. Ryan is 34 of 52 for 411 yards and three touchdowns.<\/p>\n

2013 \u2014<\/strong> Novak Djokovic off his season by defending his ATP World Tour Finals title with a 6-3, 6-4 win over Rafael Nadal. Djokovic\u2019s 22 consecutive wins to finish 2013 matches top-ranked Nadal\u2019s best stretch of the year.<\/p>\n

2014 \u2014<\/strong> Dirk Nowitzki becomes the highest-scoring NBA player born outside the United States and Dallas rallies from 24 points down to beat the Sacramento 106-98. Nowitzki, who passes Hakeem Olajuwon for ninth place on the all-time scoring list, finishes with 23 for 26,953 points, seven more than Olajuwon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

1911 \u2014 Carlisle Indian School of Carlisle, Pa., led by Jim Thorpe, beats nationally ranked Harvard 18-15 before 25,000 in Cambridge, Mass. Thorpe scores all the points for Carlisle, a touchdown, extra point and four field goals. 1939 \u2014 Texas Tech and Centenary (La.) play to a 0-0 tie in a torrential downpour in Shreveport, […]<\/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-12982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12982","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=12982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12982\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12982"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=12982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}