... will do well this year since it has not lost a game since 1940. Others are doubtful about the team's success this year because it has not won a game since 1939.

At first glace, it seems like those statements contradict one another. However, everything comes into focus when one realizes that the Old Dominion has not fielded a football team since the 1940 version played an abbreviated schedule and scored no points while giving up 121.

It has been so long since the school had a football team that ODU was still called the Norfolk Division of the College of William and Mary.

The athletic nickname was not the Monarchs—it was the Braves.

Ironically, Old Dominion will still play its games in the same stadium as the sc...

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