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Post by WCHC Sports on May 7, 2018 11:46:21 GMT -5
I played in a golf outing last Friday for a scholarship fund, in the name of a local football coach and popular bartender who died in 9/11. He worked at Bob Hyland's Sports Page Pub in White Plains, and coached at Stepinac. Bob Hyland played football at BC, but you know his son well as former C on the Holy Cross basketball team graduated 2006 I believe. Anyway, we're coming down the fairway (into the wind) next to the hole that has the longest drive competition. The flag marking the drive is about 60 yards from the pin, meaning the drive had to be a bazooka blast. These outings tend to be rife with some "generous" measurements, but we were all skeptical in my foursome. When we get to the next hole and make it to the flag, we use our GPSs to measure: 346 yards. The names on the card taped to the flag read something like: - Joe Smith = 260 yards
- Bob Jones = 290 yards
- Eric Terminello = 346 yards
- NO FKKIN WAY!
- GTFO WITH THAT CRAP
So we make some jokes and snicker throughout the round that the monster golfer would have hit a ball through that tree, or if he landed in that lake all the water would have been blown out, etc.
Fast forward to the dinner reception that evening when they're glad to have a former scholarship recipient come back and speak about what it means to him, and Eric gets up there as a student at the Naval Academy, speaking to the legacy of Joe and the football experience at Stepinac. He's going on to become a naval aviator, going to flight school down at Pensacola, FL. When we find out that he's also the kid that hit the long drive and played on the Navy golf team, we're all bowing in shame saying it has to be legit, and send the kid our well-wishes.
I of course reminded him that back when I was at Holy Cross, we won the PL golf championship (no thanks to me of course... I just started to pick up golf around that time), even though Navy took the crown this year.
Just thought it was work a chuckle-- we're all saying who is this lying cheating somma'bitch... and it's a really selfless kid in the academy. Good luck, Eric. |
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Post by hchoops on May 7, 2018 12:17:13 GMT -5
Do not know if you realize it, but Stepinac hoops team won the CHSAA for the fist time since 1960 and state Federation championships this past season.
I saw Bob Hyland at the CHSAA quarters.
He played freshman hoops at BC. When our HC team played his, he set a bone crunching screen that I have not forgotten.
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Post by WCHC Sports on May 7, 2018 13:06:47 GMT -5
I do know it, 'hoops. My younger cousin played on one of the recent football state championship teams as a WR a few years back. As a tall lefty, I always wanted him to stick with baseball, but football got the girls, I guess  |
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Post by Non Alum Dave on May 7, 2018 16:39:07 GMT -5
Bob Hyland, the answer to 2 trivia questions: 1) who made the tackle on the opening kickoff of the 1967 Green Bay-Dallas Ice Bowl game, and 2) the player who ran into Packer coach Dan Devine on the sideline, breaking Devine's leg (after having been traded from the Packers to the Giants).
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Post by hchoops on May 7, 2018 16:42:03 GMT -5
That makes 3, NaD
Who set the screen that shattered my bones ?
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Post by Non Alum Dave on May 7, 2018 17:26:10 GMT -5
We'll have to pull this one out some Friday during the summer, hoops. |
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Post by hchoops on May 7, 2018 17:38:47 GMT -5
When I met Bob when Kevin was playing, I told him of my memory. Needless to say, he did not recall it. He only said that screenng for Willie Walters and Doug Hice was his only role.
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Post by rickii on May 8, 2018 14:46:21 GMT -5
www.theexaminernews.com/bob-hyland-takes-a-look-back-to-his-football-playing-days/
PG: When you attended Boston College was Holy Cross your biggest rival?
BH: It was a very big rivalry at the team. B.C. was really on a upward trend and Holy Cross wasn’t putting a lot of emphasis on football. They had a lot of good football players and so forth. They had a lot of spirit and so forth, but they weren’t on the right trajectory as far as building a real progam.
PG: Was Bob Cousy the B.C. basketball coach when you were there?
BH: He was there my freshman year. I was playing intramural basketball as a freshman and Cousy asked me to go out for the freshman basketball team. The reason he did so because we had a guy by the name of Willie Walters who was potentially a very good center. He turned out to be a very good center. He (Cousy) just needed someone to bang him. I did it gladly. I was just an okay basketball player, but I was a big strong kid who liked to rough house. That’s what he (Cousy) was looking for.
www.sports-reference.com/cfb/schools/boston-college/1966-schedule.html
In Hyland's senior year we beat BC @alumni Stadium 32-26. I took my Dad to that game.
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Post by hchoops on May 8, 2018 15:51:25 GMT -5
And we also beat them his freshman year in ‘63.
So I can blame my aching bones on the Cooz.
Wait till I see him !
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