The Associated Press." In 1934, during the Great Depression, Western Maryland was invited to play in the first Orange Bowl. Coach Dick Harlow declined so that his best player, Bill Shepherd, could play in the then more prestigious East–West Shrine Game, which hosted over 55,000 fans. Shepherd was the MVP of the game, playing 59 of 60 minutes as his East team lost. In the initial Orange Bowl (which only 5,000 attended) Bucknell, shut out earlier in the season by the Terror, defeated the Miami Hurricanes 26-0. In 1947, the Green Terror football team was featured in a cartoon in The New Yorker before a game against the Harvard Crimson. Soon after World War II, McDaniel College decided to play only other small colleges described as the college's "natural rivals." Thats when the McDaniel-Hopkins rivalry game started. It has been played annually as the last game of the regular season since 1947 and over 100 times since their first meeting in 1894. In 1992, the Green Terror became the first college football team to play in Russia. Against an all-Europe team, they won 47–4. Also in 1992 Running back Eric Frees set the then NCAA Division III record for career all purpose yards. The Green Terror returned to prominence in the late 1990s and early 2000s. They went on to be nationally ranked, with a record of 58-7, being invited to two ECAC Bowls and going to the Division III playoffs five times. Until 2010 the Baltimore Ravens, and before that the Baltimore Colts, held their training camps at McDaniel College. Head coach John Harbaugh still hosts clinics at McDaniel. In 2011, McDaniel was ranked 6th in the country for best tailgating by The Weather Channel. This is due to fans being able to park their cars practically on the field and grill & drink during the game, a tradition that dates to the 1920s. In 2012 McDaniel College was also ranked in Southern Living Magazine as one of the top 20 of the "South's Best Tailgates." At football games McDaniel can have an average attendance over 5,000 and highs as much as 8,750 even during a losing season, ranking in the top five in the country for D3 football. References External links American football teams established in 1891 1891 establishments in Maryland