{"id":705,"date":"2006-02-08T02:07:39","date_gmt":"2006-02-08T08:07:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/67.227.157.91\/~kenpom\/wp_blog\/line-o-the-night-1904-style\/"},"modified":"2006-02-08T02:07:39","modified_gmt":"2006-02-08T08:07:39","slug":"line-o-the-night-1904-style","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/line-o-the-night-1904-style\/","title":{"rendered":"Line o&#8217; the Night: 1904 Style"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not much for today, since I have a column going up on espn.com later. A cool thing I came across when doing research for it was a database of boxscores for <a href=\"http:\/\/mbb.mountaineerstats.com\/seasons.php?team_id=308\">every game West Virginia has ever played<\/a>. It&#8217;s an interesting page if you ever want to see the evolution of the box score. I know it seems far-fetched that there will ever be a possession count in the official box, but back in 1904, my great-grandpappy was looking forward to the day when field goal attempts would be tracked. <\/p>\n<p><b><\/p>\n<p><u>Line o&#8217; the Night<\/u><\/p>\n<p><\/b><\/p>\n<pre>                           <b>FG    3pt  FT   Reb\n                      Min  M-A   M-A  M-A  O-T   A F S TO BLK Pts<\/b>\nCurtis Jerrells        34 11-14  5-6  1-2  1-2   2 0 2  2  0   28\n<b>Result: Win.<\/b> Baylor 90, Missouri 64. <\/pre>\n<p>In 1904, this would have looked like&#8230;<\/p>\n<pre>                    <b>FG  FT  Pts<\/b>\nCurtis Jerrells     11   1   23<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not much for today, since I have a column going up on espn.com later. A cool thing I came across when doing research for it was a database of boxscores for every game West Virginia has ever played. It&#8217;s an interesting page if you ever want to see the evolution of the box score. I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}