1971 Otterbein vs Wittenberg Football Film (1 of 2)

Otterbein is wearing dark uniforms and white helmets; Wittenberg is wearing all white uniforms. Rosters are available in the game program. For more game details see the Columbus Dispatch articles linked above. Otterbein University is a private university in Westerville, Ohio. The university was founded in 1847 by the Church of the United Brethren in Christ and named for United Brethren founder the Rev. Philip William Otterbein. After the merger of the Evangelical United Brethren Church and the Methodist Church, in 1968, Otterbein has been associated with the United Methodist Church. Colors: Tan and Cardinal. Mascot: Cardinals Wittenberg University is a private liberal arts university in Springfield, Ohio. Wittenberg College (it became Wittenberg University in 1957) was founded in 1845 by a group of ministers in the English Evangelical Lutheran Synod of Ohio, which had previously separated from the recently established German-speaking Evangelical Lutheran Joint Synod of Ohio and Other States. A German American pastor of the Evangelical Lutheran Church, the Rev. Ezra Keller was the principal founder and first president of the college. Its initial focus was to train clergy with the Hamma School of Divinity as its theological department. One of its main missions was to Americanize Lutherans by teaching courses in the English language instead of German, unlike the nearby Capital University in Columbus, Ohio. Springfield, Ohio, was selected for its location on the National Road, running from the eastern cities of Baltimore and Cumberland, Maryland, to the west in the Illinois Country, eventually to the territorial capital of Vandalia, near the Mississippi River. In 1874, women were admitted to the college, and, the following year, blacks were admitted. The college was named for the historic University of Wittenberg in Wittenberg, Germany, the town in which Martin Luther famously posted his Ninety-five Theses on the church door on October 31, 1517. In 1993 the university and the German city entered into an official partnership. Colors: Red and White. Mascot: Tigers. (The school’s early moniker were the Fighting Lutherans, followed by the Crimson and Cream [the early school colors]. In 1921 the teams were known as “Tigers of the West,” shortened to Tigers in the late 1940s. The mascot is called “Ezry the Tiger” after the first name of the school’s founder.)https://digitalcommons.otterbein.edu/sports_films_1970s_02/1001/thumbnail.jp