During the 2005 Linfield College football season, the McMinnville News-Register newspaper began preparing a special edition, to be issued when Linfield won a game assuring the 50th season/year of The streak.As N-R staff looked through information in past issues of the newspaper and compared game scores to those in the Linfield football media guide, it questioned a score from the 1959 season.
The media guide showed Linfield winning the game, 14-0, over the College of Idaho. But, the N-R has Linfield and the C of I playing (in Caldwell, Idaho) to a 14-14 tie. Indeed, the Sunday Oregonian of Oct. 11, 1959, said C of I "marched 93 yards in 10 plays in the final two minutes" for the tie.
Because the game ended in a tie and not a win, Linfield's win-loss-tie record during the 1959 season was correctly 4-3-2, not 5-3-1, as listed in the 2005 media guide.
So? Linfield's streak of winning football seasons started in 1956. If there had been one more loss during the 1959 season, the Wildcats would have been 3-4-2 and, consequently, the streak would have started with the 7 win-2 loss 1960 football season, not the 1956 season.
The 2005 season would have been when Linfield clinched 45 years of winning seasons. And, if the Linfield Streak started in 1960, the 50 year mark would have been 2010, not 2005.
Photo taken Sept. 2008 of a Melrose Hall radiator has nothing to do with The Streak, but maybe the radiator was around when The Streak started?
