Nov. 24

1904 — Fullback Sam McAllester is thrown for a touchdown to give Tennessee a 7-0 victory over Alabama. McAllester, wearing a wide leather belt with handles sewn on the side, is repeatedly thrown by two teammates over the line of scrimmage, including the only touchdown of the game.

1949 — The Syracuse Nationals edge the Anderson Packers 125-123 in five overtimes.

1949 — Led by quarterback Joe Paterno, Brown overcomes a 26-7 third-quarter deficit by scoring 34 points in the final 17 minutes to beat Colgate 41-26.

1957 — Cleveland Browns rookie Jim Brown rushes for 232 yards and scores four touchdowns in a 45-31 victory over the Los Angeles Rams.

1960 — Wilt Chamberlain of the Philadelphia Warriors sets an NBA record with 55 rebounds in a 132-129 loss to the Boston Celtics.

1977 — Miami's Bob Griese throws for six touchdowns in a 55-14 Thanksgiving Day victory over the Detroit Lions.

1985 — Ron Brown of the Los Angeles Rams returns two kickoffs for touchdowns in a 34-17 victory over the Green Bay Packers.

1990 — BYU's Ty Detmer passes for 560 yards and five touchdowns to set an NCAA record for yards passing in a season in a 45-10 rout of Utah State. Detmer's 4,869 yards breaks the record of 4,699 set a year earlier by Houston's Andre Ware.

1996 — Karrie Webb, capping a sensational rookie year, wins the season-ending LPGA Tour Championship to become the first player in tour history to earn more than $1 million in a season.

2000 — Detroit coach Scotty Bowman coaches his 2,000th regular-season NHL game, a 3-2 Red Wings victory over Vancouver. Bowman's 1,157 regular-season victories exceeds the total of games coached by all but two individuals — Al Arbour (1,607) and Dick Irvin (1,449) — and those of 23 of the league's 30 franchises.

2000 — LaDainian Tomlinson caps the fourth-best rushing season with 174 yards and a touchdown in Texas Christian's 62-7 victory over Southern Methodist. Tomlinson, who also won his second straight NCAA rushing title, finishes the season with 2,158 yards.

2002 — Dominant to the very end, Annika Sorenstam finishes off the best LPGA Tour season in 38 years with a 4-under 68 to win the season-ending ADT Championship, her 11th victory of the year.

2005 — Hiroyuki Tomita becomes the first Japanese gymnast in 31 years to win an all-around title at the world championships. Tomita is his country's first gymnast to win the world all-around title since Shigeru Kasamatsu in 1974.

2007 — Quarterback Pat White rushes for 186 yards and accounts for three touchdowns to lead the West Virginia to a 66-21 win over Connecticut. White and Steve Slaton become the third pair of teammates in the Football Bowl Subdivision to surpass 1,000 yards rushing in consecutive seasons.

2007 — Oklahoma quarterback Sam Bradford sets an NCAA freshman record for touchdown passes in a season. He has four scoring passes to give him 32 this year in the Sooners' 48-17 victory over Oklahoma State.

2007 — Kevin Smith rushes for 219 yards and a touchdown to surpass 2,000 yards for the season in Central Florida's 36-20 win over UTEP. Smith, the nation's leading rushing with 2,164 yards, tallies the fourth-highest total in Division I-A (Bowl Subdivision) history.