The Angel of Death wrote:
I think that was the year Adams went to Chili Pepper and beat Arkansas (not Colorado), then both teams went on to win their respective NCAA championships. I know this may be lost to the past, but historians - did Arkansas run a full strength squad at that race? The legends seem to suggest they did, but I've never seen results.
Once again, this is one of those often repeated, yet completely untrue fabrications that has been restated so many times on this board that many of the DII/NAIA old school guys have actually come to believe it happened.
It didn't.
Vigil DID bring his guys in, and he did have a very special team that year who did go on to the championship, but they didn't beat Arkansas.
I think where the myth started is that Arkansas DID get beat at home at the Chili Pepper during this time of domination in their history, but it wasn't Adams, it was an NAIA school. I personally witnessed the azz-chewing the Arkansas guys received after that home-course loss.
Quick trivia, does anyone know the name of that school?