{"id":7908,"date":"2015-10-19T08:02:52","date_gmt":"2015-10-19T15:02:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/today-in-sports-history-for-oct-20\/"},"modified":"2015-10-19T08:02:52","modified_gmt":"2015-10-19T15:02:52","slug":"today-in-sports-history-for-oct-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/sports\/today-in-sports-history-for-oct-20\/","title":{"rendered":"Today in Sports History for Oct. 20"},"content":{"rendered":"

1940 \u2014 Alabama ends Tennessee\u2019s defensive scoreless streak of 71 quarters but still loses 27-12. Tennessee hadn\u2019t allowed a point since Oct. 29, 1938, when it beat LSU 14-6.<\/p>\n

1957 \u2014 Maurice Richard of the Montreal Canadians scores his 500th career goal in a 3-1 victory over the Chicago Blackhawks.<\/p>\n

1980 \u2014 Dan Fouts of San Diego passes for 444 yards and four touchdowns as the Chargers beat the New York Giants 44-7.<\/p>\n

1985 \u2014 Robbie Bosco of BYU passes for 585 yards in a 45-23 victory over New Mexico.<\/p>\n

1985 \u2014 Dale Klein of Nebraska ties an NCAA record with seven field goals in a 28-20 victory over Missouri.<\/p>\n

1986 \u2014 Lloyd Burruss of Kansas City intercepts three passes and returns two for touchdowns to lead the Chiefs to a 42-21 victory over the San Diego Chargers.<\/p>\n

1994 \u2014 Duke beats North Carolina 3-2 in women\u2019s soccer to end the Tar Heels\u2019 unbeaten streak of 101 games.<\/p>\n

1997 \u2014 Pittsburgh goaltender Tom Barrasso makes 22 saves for his 300th career victory with a 4-1 win over Florida. Barrasso becomes the first American-born goaltender and 13th overall with 300 wins.<\/p>\n

2002 \u2014 Avon Cobourne becomes the fifth Division I-A rusher with four 1,000-yard seasons as West Virginia beats Syracuse 34-7. Cobourne has 108 yards in the game for 1,002 yards this season.<\/p>\n

2012 \u2014 The NHL announces the cancellation of the 2012-13 regular-season schedule through November 1. A total of 135 regular-season games are now lost from Oct. 11 through Nov. 1.<\/p>\n

2013 \u2014 Connor Halliday completes 58 of 89 passes for 557 yards and four touchdowns with four interceptions for Washington State in a 62-38 loss to Oregon. He breaks the FBS-level attempts record of 83 set by Drew Brees at Purdue in 1998.<\/p>\n

2013 \u2014 Michigan\u2019s Devin Gardner sets school records with 584 yards of offense and 503 yards passing and ties a mark with five TDs to help the Wolverines outscore Indiana 63-47. Michigan\u2019s Jeremy Gallon has a Big Ten-record 369 yards receiving and two TDs.<\/p>\n

2013 \u2014 Baylor ties a school record with its 10th straight win, 71-7 over Iowa State. It\u2019s the fourth game the 12th-ranked Bears score 70 or more points in a game this season, the most by a ranked team in one season.<\/p>\n

2014 \u2014 Peyton Manning breaks Brett Favre\u2019s NFL record of 508 touchdown career passes and he throws four TD passes in Denver\u2019s 42-17 victory over the San Francisco 49ers. The record-breaker was an 8-yarder to Demaryius Thomas with 3:09 left in the first half. Manning reaches the milestone in his 246th regular-season game. Favre needed 302.<\/p>\n

2014 \u2014 DeMarco Murray becomes the first NFL running back to start a season with seven straight 100-yard games in a 31-21 win over the New York Giants. Murray, with 128 yards and a touchdown, breaks Hall of Famer Jim Brown\u2019s 56-year-old record.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

1940 \u2014 Alabama ends Tennessee\u2019s defensive scoreless streak of 71 quarters but still loses 27-12. Tennessee hadn\u2019t allowed a point since Oct. 29, 1938, when it beat LSU 14-6. 1957 \u2014 Maurice Richard of the Montreal Canadians scores his 500th career goal in a 3-1 victory over the Chicago Blackhawks. 1980 \u2014 Dan Fouts of […]<\/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-7908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7908","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=7908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7908\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7908"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=7908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}