Dakota Marker – Some Cool Hisotry

[IdaGriz01]

If you dislike history, stay away from this article ... but it's really cool, full of information, and relevant to tomorrow's rivalry for FCS leadership.
https://www.espn.com/college-footba...a-state-south-dakota-state-tale-dakota-marker

Some great quotes:

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"The Marker would be special all on its own just because it's so cool and the history behind it is amazing. It's the story of the Dakotas," Carson Wentz explained this summer when the Bison-turned-Washington Commanders quarterback was asked about the rivalry in which he went 2-0 as a starter. "But then you add what is at stake in this game, what always seems to be at stake in this game, and it just multiplies what the Marker means by a hundred."
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"It consumes me, to be honest," Rogers confesses, sitting at a desk covered in old-school playbook pages. "Not hoisting the Marker. Don't ask what that feels like because I've never done that. Not as a player or a coach. I let the other guys do that. I don't want to be running to that and miss my favorite part."

And, what's that, Coach?

"Watching them walk off the field. Watching them have to leave that field knowing they have lost."

Oh, damn. So, that's how it is. [Insert: Sound familiar?]
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There were, of course, vicious politics and infighting and resistance from both sides, but ultimately, on Nov. 2, 1889, President Benjamin Harrison signed the papers that made North and South Dakota separate states. He had been warned that the two states were already talking 19th century smack over which one of them would become a state first, so he requested that the documents be shuffled and their titles covered so that no one could accuse him of playing favorites.
,,,

I'm a history buff/writer, so I probably resonate with this article more than most, but it's still pretty damn cool!

 

[CatGrad-UMGradStu]

If you dislike history, stay away from this article ... but it's really cool, full of information, and relevant to tomorrow's rivalry for FCS leadership.
https://www.espn.com/college-footba...a-state-south-dakota-state-tale-dakota-marker

Some great quotes:

...
"The Marker would be special all on its own just because it's so cool and the history behind it is amazing. It's the story of the Dakotas," Carson Wentz explained this summer when the Bison-turned-Washington Commanders quarterback was asked about the rivalry in which he went 2-0 as a starter. "But then you add what is at stake in this game, what always seems to be at stake in this game, and it just multiplies what the Marker means by a hundred."
...
"It consumes me, to be honest," Rogers confesses, sitting at a desk covered in old-school playbook pages. "Not hoisting the Marker. Don't ask what that feels like because I've never done that. Not as a player or a coach. I let the other guys do that. I don't want to be running to that and miss my favorite part."

And, what's that, Coach?

"Watching them walk off the field. Watching them have to leave that field knowing they have lost."

Oh, damn. So, that's how it is. [Insert: Sound familiar?]
...
There were, of course, vicious politics and infighting and resistance from both sides, but ultimately, on Nov. 2, 1889, President Benjamin Harrison signed the papers that made North and South Dakota separate states. He had been warned that the two states were already talking 19th century smack over which one of them would become a state first, so he requested that the documents be shuffled and their titles covered so that no one could accuse him of playing favorites.
,,,

I'm a history buff/writer, so I probably resonate with this article more than most, but it's still pretty damn cool!

I was just going to post this article in the Move Up thread discussing JMU. How special would it be to have the four Dakota schools, the two Montana schools, and the two Idaho flagship schools have the same type of meeting as these two did? (No, I'm not talking about the junior college cheaters in the southwest part of Idaho).

 

[OrofinoManiac]

If you dislike history, stay away from this article ... but it's really cool, full of information, and relevant to tomorrow's rivalry for FCS leadership.
https://www.espn.com/college-footba...a-state-south-dakota-state-tale-dakota-marker

Some great quotes:

...
"The Marker would be special all on its own just because it's so cool and the history behind it is amazing. It's the story of the Dakotas," Carson Wentz explained this summer when the Bison-turned-Washington Commanders quarterback was asked about the rivalry in which he went 2-0 as a starter. "But then you add what is at stake in this game, what always seems to be at stake in this game, and it just multiplies what the Marker means by a hundred."
...
"It consumes me, to be honest," Rogers confesses, sitting at a desk covered in old-school playbook pages. "Not hoisting the Marker. Don't ask what that feels like because I've never done that. Not as a player or a coach. I let the other guys do that. I don't want to be running to that and miss my favorite part."

And, what's that, Coach?

"Watching them walk off the field. Watching them have to leave that field knowing they have lost."

Oh, damn. So, that's how it is. [Insert: Sound familiar?]
...
There were, of course, vicious politics and infighting and resistance from both sides, but ultimately, on Nov. 2, 1889, President Benjamin Harrison signed the papers that made North and South Dakota separate states. He had been warned that the two states were already talking 19th century smack over which one of them would become a state first, so he requested that the documents be shuffled and their titles covered so that no one could accuse him of playing favorites.
,,,

I'm a history buff/writer, so I probably resonate with this article more than most, but it's still pretty damn cool!

Interestingly enough, in 1887, northern Idaho was nearly annexed into Washington. However, there was a pocket veto of that bill by President Grover Cleveland.

Southern Idaho would have become a part of Nevada.