What's Included in the CFE?
Detailed yearly team records, bowl summaries, coaching records, team and individual award and trophy winners, top 10 listings.
See summary of what is included.
Conferences and Schools Included
Introduction: A Brief History of College Football
Author's Biographical Sketch
Southeastern Conference
Navy
Author's Biographical Sketch
Robert M. Ours, professor emeritus at West Virginia University, has combined a love of history, sports and writing as author of the College Football Encyclopedia. Ours has been a football fan since his father, Henry Maurice Ours, took him to his first high school football game in 1945. By the following year he had begun collating his own set of statistics, the beginning of a lifetime hobby that eventually led to publication of College Football Almanac in 1984, the College Football Encyclopedia in 1994, 2nd and 3rd editions of the Encyclopedia in 1999 and 2000, and a 4th edition in 2002.
In 2004 Ours' long-time interest in bowl games led to the publishing of Bowl Games: College Football's Greatest Tradition, the first comprehensive history of a tradition dating to New Year's Day 1902.
Ours has watched thousands of football games, live and on TV, at all levels since 1945 and covered many between 1953 and 1972 as a stringer, sports information director, newspaper reporter, and Associated Press newsman. He was SID at West Virginia Wesleyan College as a freshman in 1954-55, helped with sports publicity at West Virginia University in 1955-56, and covered a number of football games as well as other sports while a general newsman for The Associated Press in 1958-64. Since the early 1970s, he has written a number of articles on sports and history for newspapers, magazines, and books.
Ours graduated cum laude with a journalism degree from West Virginia University in 1958, earned a master's degree in history from the University of Virginia in 1966 and earned a Ph.D. in history from The College of William & Mary in 1974. He taught history at the University of Virginia's Eastern Shore Branch in 1966-68, worked as a historian/editor at the Virginia State Library and as an editor and indexer for the Virginia Independence Bicentennial Commission in 1971-72, and in 1972 became a journalism professor at West Virginia University, where he served as head of the news-editorial sequence from 1989 through 1996.
Ours, born at Parkersburg, W.Va., on Sept. 15, 1936, has two daughters, Dorothy and Linda. He is a member of Kappa Tau Alpha (journalism honorary), the Cousteau Society, the Planetary Society, the Virginia Historical Society and the Presbyterian Church. In his spare time he likes to write historical fiction, read, sing and play music, and take nature walks.
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