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Post by steve81 on Jun 3, 2019 19:38:34 GMT -5
It'd have to be a home and home series, Steve. We have a big enough stadium to accommodate your fans. Like your stadium, parking and tailgating is a bit tough. Won't stop me for being Peter the Piper. Again Navy looks like a nice vacation, but kind of hard to plan spur the moment with Labor Day.
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Post by hc6774 on Jun 4, 2019 8:24:18 GMT -5
Yrs ago I flew with and shared a stateroom with a Navy fball player who played on the Staubach teams. He said unlike Army, Navy played a limited number of home games, 2/3 a year, because the Navy was very aware of the PR value of playing high profile away games.
Later when I was on the NROTC staff at Holy Cross we had a Marine officer USNA alum who arranged for the Marine Corps band and drill team to perform at half time on Fitton Field. I don’t remember our opponent, but it would have been ’72 or ’73. Approximately 80/100 Marines landed at Worcester airport, bussed to the campus, in dress uniform formed up under the visitors stands, performed at half-time and were airborne by the time the 4th quarter started.
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Post by steve81 on Jun 7, 2019 13:21:49 GMT -5
It'd have to be a home and home series, Steve. We have a big enough stadium to accommodate your fans. Neglected to communicate this here. Did ask our AD Ryan Bamford last year about us doing a 2-1 with Holy Cross. His reply generally said we would always consider request like this, but as an independent, it's hard enough to get 6 home games on the schedule. I'm not the AD and not officially connected to the university, but. In looking at the schedule issues in 2022 and 2023, If there was ever going to be a 2-1, that would be the time. (Do remember it being mentioned that you may have a game with Army in 2023.) fbschedules.com/ncaa/umass/From underdogdynasty, you guys have the first two checked off. www.underdogdynasty.com/2019/6/7/18638951/umass-scheduling-wish-list-top-5-minutemen-bc-temple-uconn-hawaii-georgia-southern-independent
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Post by CHC8485 on Jun 9, 2019 20:35:36 GMT -5
The link between Holy Cross and the Navy beginning with the V-12 program in WWII and continuing to this day with the NROTC would be an awesome pre-game or halftime feature on CBS Sports Network or if ESPN is doing a College Game Day that week.
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Post by hc6774 on Jun 9, 2019 21:49:54 GMT -5
The link between Holy Cross and the Navy beginning with the V-12 program in WWII and continuing to this day with the NROTC would be an awesome pre-game or halftime feature on CBS Sports Network or if ESPN is doing a College Game Day that week. Good idea Actually the HC NROTC unit was established on campus in July 1941, 2 years before the V-12 program. The first group of Ensigns was commissioned on February 28, 1944 and immediately shipped out for the Pacific. The last survivor of this group, Edwin Meyer of Worcester, died last summer.
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Post by rgs318 on Jun 10, 2019 8:00:03 GMT -5
May his soul and that of all HC grads rest in peace.
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Post by hc6774 on Jun 10, 2019 12:11:39 GMT -5
The link between Holy Cross and the Navy beginning with the V-12 program in WWII and continuing to this day with the NROTC would be an awesome pre-game or halftime feature on CBS Sports Network or if ESPN is doing a College Game Day that week. Good idea Actually the HC NROTC unit was established on campus in July 1941, 2 years before the V-12 program. The first group of Ensigns was commissioned on February 28, 1944 and immediately shipped out for the Pacific. The last survivor of this group, Edwin Meyer of Worcester, died last summer. But it is fair to say that the V-12 program saved the school. Before Pearl Harbor the enrollment was 1200; after, the Jesuits projected it would drop to under 700. In the summer or 1943, 621 V-12 cadets were sent Holy Cross, their tuition paid by the Navy; unlike the midshipmen in the NROTC they were on full pay active duty i.e. not reservists & subject to strict military discipline. The V-12 was a 4 term college program, the 4th term, 'midshipman' school' was required to graduate and to be commissioned. The first 3 terms were heavy on academics emphasizing mathematic, physics and history as taught by the college faculty. This is when approximately 50% washed out and were sent to the fleet. The 131 V-12 schools were required to have 3 terms in a year. Holy Cross went to 3 terms before being selected for the V-12. This was to accommodate not only the NROTC but also the many students who were members of the local Army, Navy and Marine Corps reserve units in Worcester. At Holy Cross if there was dorm space V-12 cadets were assigned to the NROTC midshipmen battalion for the 4th term. If not they were transferred to a midshipman school somewhere in the country that had space. In Massachusetts Harvard had both V-12 & NROTC; Williams & WPI had just V-12. V-12 ended in summer 1946... NROTC continued albeit back to a 4 year 2 term program.
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Post by CHC8485 on Jun 10, 2019 16:45:52 GMT -5
The link between Holy Cross and the Navy beginning with the V-12 program in WWII and continuing to this day with the NROTC would be an awesome pre-game or halftime feature on CBS Sports Network or if ESPN is doing a College Game Day that week. Good idea Actually the HC NROTC unit was established on campus in July 1941, 2 years before the V-12 program. The first group of Ensigns was commissioned on February 28, 1944 and immediately shipped out for the Pacific. The last survivor of this group, Edwin Meyer of Worcester, died last summer. Thanks for the correction hc6774, I did not know that. Your post made me search the HC website for a couple of articles I remember seeing over years in HC Magazine. Suspect you've seen this, but for others and in case you did not see it, I found this remarkable history of the NROTC program at HC published by HC on behalf of the O'Callahan Society for the 75th anniversary of the NROTC program. Lots of great stories to be told from these pages. crossworks.holycross.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1000&context=nrotc75
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Post by KY Crusader 75 on Jun 10, 2019 17:56:45 GMT -5
Very interesting document. I wonder when we’ll see the next admiral or general?
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Post by hc6774 on Jun 11, 2019 6:30:08 GMT -5
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Post by rickii on Jun 11, 2019 10:57:30 GMT -5
I wonder if it somehow could be arranged for either of these fine folks to participate - with background connections announced on the stadium PA - in the pre-game coin toss at Navy.
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