{"id":662,"date":"2011-12-15T10:30:38","date_gmt":"2011-12-15T18:30:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sandiegoyesterday.com\/?p=662"},"modified":"2011-12-15T10:31:25","modified_gmt":"2011-12-15T18:31:25","slug":"first-football-at-san-diego-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sandiegoyesterday.com\/?p=662","title":{"rendered":"First Football at San Diego State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Student sports were in their infancy in 1900 at San Diego Normal School but the college we know today as San Diego State University was eager to launch competitive sports. From its campus on Park Blvd. in University Heights, the one-year-old school was ready for football.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The story of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sandiegoyesterday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/First-Football-at-San-Diego-State.pdf\">First Football at San Diego State<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_664\" style=\"width: 520px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sandiegoyesterday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/football_team.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-664\" data-attachment-id=\"664\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/www.sandiegoyesterday.com\/?attachment_id=664\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sandiegoyesterday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/football_team.jpg?fit=630%2C403\" data-orig-size=\"630,403\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"football_team\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sandiegoyesterday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/football_team.jpg?fit=630%2C403\" class=\"size-full wp-image-664  \" title=\"football_team\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sandiegoyesterday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/football_team.jpg?resize=510%2C327\" alt=\"\" width=\"510\" height=\"327\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sandiegoyesterday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/football_team.jpg?w=630 630w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sandiegoyesterday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/football_team.jpg?resize=300%2C191 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 510px) 100vw, 510px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-664\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Normal School champions of 1900. 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