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Post by beaven302 on Feb 22, 2024 13:43:32 GMT -5
The peer group we are hoping to be associated with currently is SDSU, NDSU, Montana, etc. We should be trying to schedule those teams regularly. Given their geography those teams are very used to travel. Let's work on home and homes with them. Would love to go see a game at Montana! That game day experience appears to rival many Power 4 teams. Montana fans might want to come east for a game. While on the NYC subway, I once gave directions to a group of Montana State fans who were in town to see their team play Hofstra, which had a football team at that time.
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Post by beaven302 on Feb 18, 2024 13:46:05 GMT -5
According to one source I checked, capacity at Alumni in the 60s was 26,000. It was increased to 32,000 in the early 70s.
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Post by beaven302 on Feb 17, 2024 11:47:23 GMT -5
My recollection of the 1966 game at BC was that it was a full house and that the home side was full of BC fans
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Post by beaven302 on Feb 11, 2024 13:22:35 GMT -5
I think so. There were sure some nutty plays in that game, especially the game winning pick 6 by Jay Howlett. My favorite play that day was the BC field goal attempt that was blocked and then run back for a touchdown. I also recall the frustrated BC player kicking his helmet from midfield to the sideline after the failure of the two-point conversion that would have won the game. I also like the mention of Spag’s in the video intro.
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Post by beaven302 on Jan 23, 2024 14:25:15 GMT -5
I had the same experience. Years after I stopped reading SI, I looked at a copy in a doctor’s office and was struck at how much it had gone downhill.
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Post by beaven302 on Jan 19, 2024 17:26:33 GMT -5
Yikes! It is unfortunate that like so many other magazines of my youth that it could not survie in the digital era. It’s a shame. I can still recall the students lingering at their mailboxes, checking out the swimsuit issue, before heading upstairs to have lunch in the Kimball dining hall. I also recall perusing my new issue (Chicago Bears on the cover) when WORC radio announced, “President Kennedy has been shot in Dallas.”
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Post by beaven302 on Jan 11, 2024 18:26:31 GMT -5
Ches was too talented a coach for such a lousy league - I think he got tired of taking a top 25 team on the road only to see crowds of 900 at Bucknell and (actual) 2-3000 at Colgate / Lehigh / Lafayette. I don’t blame him one bit for wanting to go to a place (and league) where fans show up Whatever the coach’s reasons for leaving for JMU, he can now tell recruits that they’ll be playing home games in front of big crowd, which is not true of a large number of schools.
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Post by beaven302 on Jan 11, 2024 1:23:28 GMT -5
JMU has about 20,000 students and a stadium capacity of around 25,000. They filled the stadium for every home game. Their fans seem to travel well. In 2023, 50,000 showed up to watch JMU play Virginia in Charlottesville. It was UVa’s largest home crowd except for the game against Tennessee.
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Post by beaven302 on Nov 21, 2023 14:39:53 GMT -5
I rember those letters — big, ugly, and very orange. As for certain Syracuse fans, what world are they living in? Their team’s glory days were years ago and Big Ten teams likely schedule it to pick up a win.
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Post by beaven302 on May 19, 2023 11:48:48 GMT -5
And in 1981 Coach Carter had a close loss (28-24) to BC using players Coach Wheelright had recruited. (After that BC/Flutie really took off). If my mind serves me I believe that the 1981 loss by 4 ended with us at the BC 4 yard line and stpped on 4th down there with only a few seconds left Devastating end to that one. Anyone else there too. I am sure a lot of you were I was at that game and the final play was right across from where I was sitting. From my vantage point, it looked as if Dave Boisture couldn’t find an open receiver and his desperation pass went out of the side of the end zone. Here’s hoping that Chesney can end the “Beat BC”” drought.
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Post by beaven302 on Mar 10, 2023 16:11:00 GMT -5
The mention of Hudson Catholic reminded me of a story told by the late Brian Kavanaugh. He said that when he was in the eighth grade at the local Hudson parochial school, Hudson Catholic was scheduled to open the following fall, and the nuns were urging the children to go there instead of the "Devil's house," Hudson High School. Brian said that he planned to go to Hudson High to play football and that when the nuns found out, his grades went way down.
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Post by beaven302 on Jan 2, 2023 17:23:11 GMT -5
Ugh indeed. Blame people like me. Things have been so bad for so long that it never occurred to me to brave the traffic and problem parking in downtown Annapolis to think of attending. Congrats to the team for a nice win.
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Post by beaven302 on Dec 28, 2022 12:52:43 GMT -5
Always one of my favorite Bowl games My “favorite” was always the Poulon Weed Eater Bowl.
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Post by beaven302 on Oct 18, 2022 13:50:53 GMT -5
With rake, shovel and a large enough plastic bag it need not be that bad. Agree. Just one animal shouldn't be a problem, nothing like Mackinac Island where cars are banned and horses are common. There, a whole group of guys with brooms and shovels are needed to keep the town's streets clean.
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Post by beaven302 on Oct 12, 2022 14:44:23 GMT -5
While channel surfing the other night, I ran across the rerun of Princeton's 23-2 win over Lafayette. Based on that game, the Leopards shouldn't do much better against HC than Bucknell did.
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Post by beaven302 on Sept 23, 2022 12:22:09 GMT -5
Sadly, that is pretty much the way it was. They were not the only NY team to do that. It ranks up there with the terrible treatment Tom Seaver got from the Mets. If the current ownership wants to avoid yet another black eye, they will resign Judge and the Mets will resign DeGrom. But, I am afraid that is simply wishful thinking. I'd like to be more optimistic. The penny-pinching Wilpons are gone from Citi Field and M. Donald Grant, who traded Tom Seaver to the Reds, has been dead since 1998.
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Post by beaven302 on Sept 11, 2022 15:57:30 GMT -5
They left out the '66 victory over BC? As for the 1964 10-8 loss, at the end of the game, Anderson sent out second-string lineman Ray Weaver to try to kick the winning field goal Unfortunately, the snap was bad and Weaver missed his chance at glory. According to my old roommate, the late Brian Kavanaugh, at the first 1965 practice, they lined up for the kick again and Weaver made it.
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Post by beaven302 on Sept 11, 2022 15:48:11 GMT -5
Finally, suitable revenge for that blight on the 1966 season -- a 35-3 loss at Buffalo!
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Post by beaven302 on Jun 10, 2022 13:37:03 GMT -5
According to one article that I saw online, Beatlemania got its start in the US in part because the group's records were received so well when played on station WORC. I do recall a WORC DJ saying back in 1963 that he was going to play a record from a British group called the Beatles who were said to be something special. After the record was over, he said that he didn't think it was so good.
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Post by beaven302 on Apr 12, 2022 11:38:28 GMT -5
At one time it was a tradition for the governor to attend the HC Commencement, usually after Harvard. Yes, it was. I recall that Gov. Volpe spoke at the 1967 graduation.
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Post by beaven302 on Jan 29, 2022 14:03:08 GMT -5
In 1978, it was my first winter in the Syracuse area ("Central New York," not as we "downstaters called it "Upstate New York"), so when when everyone in New England was complaining and suffering through that big one, I quickly realized that was the new normal for me for the next 9 years. So, it's all a matter of perspective. Of course I'm more than 40 years older and it's harder to cope with large snowfalls than when I was in my 30s. I recall from trips to Buffalo that people there said they were from "western New York." As for snow and cold, everything is a matter of perspective. I recall my two Januarys at Northwestern University graduate school when it felt warm if it got up into the mid-20s.Because the campus was on the west side of Lake Michigan, it didn't seem to snow very heavily there, but what did fall stuck around. Usually, the snow was so dry and cold that it would squeak when you walked on it.
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Post by beaven302 on Jan 29, 2022 13:53:07 GMT -5
I recall the Al Banx cartoon in the Sunday Telegram that showed everyone, including a stray cat, help keep BU out of the end zone. As for Nickerson Field, it was definitely an unusual venue with the old baseball stands on one side; high-school-like bleachers, railroad tracks, and the Charles on the other; and BU dorms looming near one of the end zones.
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Post by beaven302 on Jan 28, 2022 13:33:29 GMT -5
I love recalling and rehashing games from what was my senior year and my last semester covering the Crusaders for the Crusader. The '66 game against BU in Boston also rates a mention. Its climax was a remarkable goal line stand in at the end of the game, which preserved a close victory.
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Post by beaven302 on Jan 27, 2022 17:52:36 GMT -5
Big Papi belongs. One of the great clutch players in history in any American sport. Bonds & Clemens had HoF numbers before any hint of their using steroids. Bonds was on his way to the Hall until he lost it over Sosa & Mark McGuire getting all the publicity for their steroid fueled home run derby. I I guess he figured if them, why not me, I'm a far better player than they are. Of course Bonds' rationale was faulty. He is a cynical SOB. But, although I'm not and admirers of both Bonds & Clemens they belong in the Hall. Add Alex, Schilling to my list. Also, eventually Pete Rose will enter the Hall in memoriam. The Hall could add an asterisk to each describing their rules violations. As to Sosa & Manny I don't have enough info to form an opinion. Of note, there are plenty of questionable/bad characters , racists/pill poppers (some of which were illegal) and the like who are in the Hall because they were great ball players. ------ From a Disgruntled Yankees Fan. Big Papi definitely belongs. In addition to being a great player, he was a Boston institution. I recently rewatched the Mark Wahlberg film on the marathon bombing, which at its conclusion shows Big Papi addressing the crowd at Fenway Park.
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Post by beaven302 on Jan 27, 2022 17:46:21 GMT -5
If they pay HC to travel, I am all for that. Count me in on a game against Miami, a good school with a real football history. A game at Buffalo gives me the creeps. A 35-3 defeat there was the worst loss of the 1966 season
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