1939 \u2014 Kansas State\u2019s homecoming game against Nebraska is the second college football game ever televised, following Fordham vs. Waynesburg in New York earlier in the fall. The Cornhuskers win 25-9 before a limited Nebraska television audience.<\/p>\n
1950 \u2014 Nevada\u2019s Pat Brady set an NCAA record with a 99-yard punt in a 34-7 loss to Loyola Marymount.<\/p>\n
1962 \u2014 New York Giants quarterback Y.A. Title passes for 505 yards and seven touchdowns, and Del Schofner catches 11 passes for 269 yards and a touchdown in a 49-34 victory over the Washington Redskins.<\/p>\n
1973 \u2014 Gail Goodrich scores 49 points and Elmore Smith sets an NBA record with 17 blocks, leading the Los Angeles Lakers past Portland 111-98.<\/p>\n
1973 \u2014 With jockey Eddie Maple substituting for suspended Ron Turcotte, Secretariat concludes his racing career with a victory in the Canadian International Championship Stakes at Woodbine in Toronto.<\/p>\n
1978 \u2014 Joe Delaney rushes for 299 yards and four touchdowns to send Northwestern Louisiana to a 28-18 victory over Nicholls State.<\/p>\n
1989 \u2014 Tony Alford rushes for 310 yards on 28 carries to break a Western Athletic Conference record and scores three touchdowns, powering Colorado State past Utah 50-10.<\/p>\n
1989 \u2014 Central State crushes Lane 101-0. Lane concedes with 11:26 to play in the fourth quarter. Quarterback Henderson Mosley runs for three touchdowns and passes for six.<\/p>\n
1990 \u2014 Jennifer Capriati, 14, beats Zina Garrison in three sets to capture the Puerto Rico Open and become the youngest player to qualify for the Virginia Slims Championship.<\/p>\n
1993 \u2014 Ron Francis becomes the 38th NHL player to score 1,000 points with a goal in the Pittsburgh Penguins\u2019 7-3 loss to the Quebec Nordiques.<\/p>\n
2006 \u2014 Oregon State capitalizes on four turnovers to upset the Trojans 33-31, ending USC\u2019s 27-game Pac-10 winning streak.<\/p>\n
2007 \u2014 Roger Federer beats Jarkko Nieminen 6-3, 6-4 to win his second straight Swiss Indoors and clinch the No. 1 ranking for the fourth consecutive year.<\/p>\n
2007 \u2014 The Boston Red Sox win their second title in four years with a 4-3 win over the Colorado Rockies in Game 4.<\/p>\n
2010 \u2014 Caroline Wozniacki wraps up the year-end No. 1 ranking after rallying to beat Francesca Schiavone 3-6, 6-1, 6-1 at the WTA Championships.<\/p>\n
2011 \u2014 The St. Louis Cardinals win the World Series, beating the Texas Rangers 6-2 in Game 7. The Cardinals capture their 11th World Series crown behind another key hit by hometown star David Freese and six innings from starter Chris Carpenter.<\/p>\n
2012 \u2014 Marco Scutaro singles home the tiebreaking run in the 10th inning, and the San Francisco Giants beat the Detroit Tigers 4-3 to complete a sweep for their second World Series title in three years.<\/p>\n
2012 \u2014 Serena Williams beats Maria Sharapova 6-4, 6-3 to win the WTA Championships for the third time, finishing the year with a 59-4 record.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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