Football formally recognizes an 1869 game between Princeton University and Rutgers University as the first college football game, although it did not resemble today’s game until 1880. Slippery Rock State Normal School students formed a team in 1898…

On October 16, 1937, Slippery Rock University's North Hall caught fire and burned to the ground, all because of one unfortunate ox. October of 1937 was a big month for Slippery Rock. As of October 6th, six thousand letters had been sent out to…

March 31, 1943 Flight Cadets arrived in the small town of Slippery Rock to receive training at the local teachers' college for the war that Americans had been entangled in for two years already. Upon stepping onto the campus, the Cadets were greeted…