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HC - BC
Nov 24, 2018 14:03:44 GMT -5
Post by longsuffering on Nov 24, 2018 14:03:44 GMT -5
I tried to watch the video of this game from Stadium via the PLN. Blank Screen. Good luck to the Crusaders. I wonder if this is the first time HC and BC have ever been in the same league together? In the past both schools were independent for many years in BB and FB. I am not even sure HC was included in the "Mythical East Indies" football conference with BC that the Boston Globe used to list standings for. I wonder if the two schools ever wound up together in the same league in any of the many sports both schools have competed in together over decades just 35-40 miles apart. Perhaps loosely under the ECAC umbrella on some occasions. Calling all Holy Cross sports historians out there.
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HC - BC
Nov 24, 2018 16:26:45 GMT -5
via mobile
Post by HC92 on Nov 24, 2018 16:26:45 GMT -5
Women lost 5-0 to BC today
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HC - BC
Nov 24, 2018 16:33:50 GMT -5
Post by hc87 on Nov 24, 2018 16:33:50 GMT -5
I tried to watch the video of this game from Stadium via the PLN. Blank Screen. Good luck to the Crusaders. I wonder if this is the first time HC and BC have ever been in the same league together? In the past both schools were independent for many years in BB and FB. I am not even sure HC was included in the "Mythical East Indies" football conference with BC that the Boston Globe used to list standings for. I wonder if the two schools ever wound up together in the same league in any of the many sports both schools have competed in together over decades just 35-40 miles apart. Perhaps loosely under the ECAC umbrella on some occasions. Calling all Holy Cross sports historians out there. To the best of my knowledge, the bolded portion above is true....it was in basketball in the 70s anyway....whilst not officially a "league" per se, most D1 hoop schools in NE played one another and at the end of the regular season 4 schools were chosen to participate in the ECAC New England playoffs. Baseball may have had a similar arrangement....not entirely sure. The football "East Indies" were a group of D1 football schools thrown together by newspapers, magazines etc. but there was no league aspects to it whatsoevah. |
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HC - BC
Nov 24, 2018 17:54:45 GMT -5
Post by timholycross on Nov 24, 2018 17:54:45 GMT -5
The mythical East Indies did not include Holy Cross for sure.
One Globe Archive article from the 70s lists them as Pitt, Penn State, Syracuse, WVA, BC, Army and Navy. Most of that decade that would have put BC fourth behind Pitt, Penn State and West Virginia. Syracuse, Army and Navy did not have very good teams that decade.
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HC - BC
Nov 25, 2018 17:52:21 GMT -5
Post by trimster on Nov 25, 2018 17:52:21 GMT -5
The mythical East Indies did not include Holy Cross for sure. One Globe Archive article from the 70s lists them as Pitt, Penn State, Syracuse, WVA, BC, Army and Navy. Most of that decade that would have put BC fourth behind Pitt, Penn State and West Virginia. Syracuse, Army and Navy did not have very good teams that decade. I do believe Joe Paterno tried to create an all sports conference from that group, plus Temple and Rutgers, before the Big East was created. |
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HC - BC
Nov 25, 2018 19:00:15 GMT -5
Post by hc87 on Nov 25, 2018 19:00:15 GMT -5
Ehhh...while I'm not saying we were at their level, we were considered an "East Indy" in many publications like Street&Smith, in some papers standings, in the Lambert Trophy voting etc until we went 1-AA in 1982.
Paterno did want to start an all-sports conference but the Big East beat him to the punch from what I remember.....led to a lot of hard feelings which ultimately led Penn St to the B1G.
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Post by JRGNYR on Nov 27, 2018 12:31:38 GMT -5
Ehhh...while I'm not saying we were at their level, we were considered an "East Indy" in many publications like Street&Smith, in some papers standings, in the Lambert Trophy voting etc until we went 1-AA in 1982. Paterno did want to start an all-sports conference but the Big East beat him to the punch from what I remember.....led to a lot of hard feelings which ultimately led Penn St to the B1G. I think the bad feelings stemmed mostly from when the Big East didn't take Penn State in 1982 and not that the Big East was created in general. Well-documented in the Requiem for the Big East 30 for 30. Had the Big East taken Penn State in '82, the landscape would look vastly different than it does now. If I recall, the Big East didn't expand to Olympic sports until the mid-80s or so. |
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