Stanford Hall Captures Campus Football Title

Stanford Hall started its football history with an outstanding championship team. Dominating the East League, they went undefeated and unscored upon in all their games, however, being forced into a 0-0 tie by third ranked Breen-Phillips. They captured the championship by dominating Off-Campus 13-0, keeping the western champions from penetrating their 45 yard line. Stanford showed a well-balanced attack, scoring once on pass plays and again on a long ground drive. The team played well with Ed Cornelia and Al Chonko shining on offense and Jerry Hofacre and Tom Brinkworth standing forth on defense.

Preseason

• A record fifteen teams enter the 1957 tournament. West league (Blue) is the upper-class halls. East (gold) is underclass.

  • First season for Keenan, Pangborn, and Stanford Halls.

Season

• Stanford defeats Dillon in week 4 to break their seventeen-game unbeaten streak and take an undisputed lead in the East division.

  • Badin upsets the Off-Campus team on the same day, allowing Alumni Hall to take first place in the west.

Postseason

• Stanford wins the undisputed interhall championship in their inaugural season. They are the first hall team to achieve this in the championship era. Sorin (1890), Corby (1899), and Sophomore (1923) also accomplished this feat but won disputed titles.

  • Stanford also broke a five-year streak of no new teams winning their first championship.

• Keenan Hall also enjoyed a five-win season in their first year.

Miscellaneous

• I call this the "miracle season" because I was able to deduce thirty unrecorded outcomes with certainty based only on the end-of-season records in the Dome Yearbook and nine recorded contests from the Scholastic.

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