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Post by beaven302 on Dec 9, 2021 14:56:41 GMT -5
I thought we were discussing grad school, not "making a living." Another year of development could make a big difference. I was thinking full scholarship. Those are very difficult for kickers to earn. The Delaware kid ( clearly a superior kicker) landed one (for both his remaining years) with Cincinnati. Cincinnati made it a high priority (apparently their field goal situation is currently horrendous - one fan site notes: Cincinnati finished the season 129th-out of-130 FBS teams in team field goal percentage (43.75%)... Northwestern was the only team worse than the Bearcats... The Bearcats will try to score a touchdown on every one of their Cotton Bowl possessions to avoid ever attempting a field goal.). Giving scholarships to high school kickers can be problematic. NU gave a full scholarship to high school kicking star Charlie Kuhbander in 2016. In a five-year career he had a success average of under 60% on kicks of 30+ yards.
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Post by beaven302 on Dec 2, 2021 14:19:16 GMT -5
I voted for the Lentz pass but, again, historically, Sluka's pass was better. Three generations of Crusaders in my family and I really "get" the significance of the BC game and that's why I cast my ballot for Lentz but we played BC every year for eons. And played them after that game. There will only be one "first post season win" ever. That's history. Saw Coker's catch. It was a great catch. Kimener, as I understand it, was an "easy" catch. What he had to do was drag 2 Eagles into the end zone. That was where the degree of difficulty lay. Agree about the Lentz pass, which gave HC a dramatic win in the big rivalry game that could make or break the season. For example, the 1963 season is generally regarded as a success, even though the team had a losing record, because the team upset BC 9-0.
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Post by beaven302 on Dec 1, 2021 14:17:11 GMT -5
I At some point before the next season the new coach predicted an undefeated season in '67. The rest is history. It wasn't just Boisture who had high expectations. Before the season, I remember the NY Times saying: "Experienced Holy Cross eleven could be the best team in the East."
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Post by beaven302 on Nov 17, 2021 14:21:15 GMT -5
56 ? Yet another increasingly more frequent “ boy am I getting old “ moment Amen. I recall taking my now 42-year-old son to see Gordie play for HC. Because of Gordie his youth soccer number was always 17.
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Post by beaven302 on Sept 6, 2021 17:30:19 GMT -5
Job security could very well have been why Mel left HC. I remember Brian Kavanaugh once claiming that one of his pre-game pep talks came down to something like: "We have to win, I've got a wife and kids."
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Post by beaven302 on Aug 26, 2021 13:36:27 GMT -5
This so-called survey is both predictable and utterly absurd.
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Post by beaven302 on Jul 26, 2021 12:10:39 GMT -5
Playing Devil’s Advocate here, it was presumably intended as an honor of Lou Sockalexis that the named the team Indians, not a pejorative. A non-pejorative origin also applied to the St. John's "Redmen." The name reportedly originated with the the early football team, which had all-red uniforms. However, it didn't take long for the name to be associated with Native Americans. I can recall my father, who attended St. John's in the 1930s, saying that the students would bring a cigar store wooden Indian to basketball games.
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Post by beaven302 on Jun 30, 2021 15:00:01 GMT -5
Was in attendance at the BC-HC game in '83. HC was undefeated & pumped up. The team stormed onto the field , music blasting. Then the game started. The game was a disaster, an absolute nightmare. The players did their best but were clearly totally overmatched, physically outmanned in every phase of this game. It was brutal. I had always held out hope that the rivalry could continue but not after witnessing this massacre of a great HC team. The game was not a one off loss. BC had been clobbering HC for many consecutive years. Some games were closer but the result was the same. BC wins. This game brought me to the realization that HC could no longer compete against BC.It was clear. HC did not belong on the same field with BC and hadn't belonged for a number of years. Left the stadium on that day extremely demoralized. Very sad and a bit angry for some reason. It was obvious. The annual rivalry game against BC had to end. It was a great loss for many of us. Football has never been quite the same for me & others. I recall going to that game and it was truly a debacle. I didn't expect HC to win, but given the closeness of recent BC games, I didn't expect the rout. Adding to the dismal nature of the event was that it was freezing cold and the Foxboro stadium had no ambiance whatever. It's too bad that this HC team couldn't have played against a team like the winless '78 BC squad or some of the decidedly mediocre teams that BC fielded after the Flutie-inspired glory days were over.
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Post by beaven302 on Jun 30, 2021 14:52:16 GMT -5
Apart from other considerations, the games against major teams can result in real achievements for individual HC players. I recall Brian Kavanaugh telling me how he blew up All-American Floyd Little on a kick-return play, causing him to fumble near the Syracuse goal line, a play that led to HC's only TD in what was a lopsided game. In 1966, those of us who lived on the same floor as second-string lineman Ray Weaver enjoyed the sight of him sacking the Syracuse quarterback.
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Post by beaven302 on May 10, 2021 10:47:04 GMT -5
I was very sorry to hear about Dick. I roomed with him sophomore year and was an usher at his wedding in September '67. Mention of him having been a drum major reminded me that in an effort to increase the band's small numbers, he once had a non-musical friend wear a band uniform, march, and pretend to play an instrument.
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Post by beaven302 on May 6, 2021 13:03:08 GMT -5
Don't remember anyone being particularly upset. It was the chance for a program like HC's to be competitive with similar schools (maybe not academically, in a lot of cases, but certainly in terms of athletics and all that entails). It was what happened in 1984/5 that pissed people off. You had half the bowls that you do now, our best year in the 70s was the 7-4 season in 1978 and as far as bowls go, it wasn't nearly good enough to get a nibble. I recall seeing an article in the NY Times in which some people involved with Yale football were expressing displeasure over the change, worried what it would men for the team's status and attendance. One person what quoted as saying: "We have to get back into 1-A." (Recall that Yale had upset Navy only a few years before.)
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Post by beaven302 on Mar 10, 2021 15:21:41 GMT -5
Perhaps Dean Wormer can lend Greg Marmalard and Doug Niedermeyer to help straighten out that board! Marmalard and Niedemeyer would handle problem posters by telling them to "drop and give me 20" or by applying a paddle to their posteriors while requiring them to say: "Thank you sir. May I have another."
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Post by beaven302 on Feb 10, 2021 23:18:56 GMT -5
Fort those who were concerned about the new president's commitment to Catholicism, here's an excerpt of an email that I received today from the widow of a classmate.
"I know Vince Rougeau personally! He lives about a mile from us and attends St. Julia Church here in Weston. He is a terrific guy, usually sits behind me at church and helps me stay on tune with a fabulous voice (like he should do voice-overs for radio). He is also a lector and quietly involved in social justice education with parishioners. His wife Robin participated in a Lenten prayer group at our house, and then they both led a couples group the next year. Good, good people……who are involved in so much, without much fanfare."
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Post by beaven302 on Dec 4, 2020 1:23:55 GMT -5
I took my son to the '86 game. My clearest memory of that day was Army's quarterback trying one last pass, but instead disappearing under a sea of white HC jerseys.
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Post by beaven302 on Nov 18, 2020 13:38:41 GMT -5
Was Enter the Sandman ever played for anyone but Mariano Rivera? I remember one reliever for the other NY ball club tried to use it but got only a chorus of Boos. That would be Billy Wagner who played for the Astros, Mets, Phillies, Red Sox, and Braves.
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Post by beaven302 on Nov 10, 2020 14:51:09 GMT -5
Memories of HC... Dick Summer on the radio... Heard his distinctive, comforting voice on a TV commercial recently. 2020! It brought back warm memories of my HC in the '60' s - awkward mixers,Earl of Sandwich was in reality the Earl of Shrewsbury thus the sandwich should be called the Shrewsbury. Roy Orbison, Pretty Woman;April Stevens & Nino Tempo; Sugar Shack and so much more. And, Dick Summer. IMO he was & thank God is still the best. 75. I remember listening to Dick Summer's Nightlight show driving back from Newton College on weekends. One of his things at the time was his pet venus flytrap, Irving. As for "Sugar Shack," I associate that song more with WORC. Speaking of WORC, I recall that it had a weekend disc jockey from Worcester Tech named Marshall Cross who regularly mocked Roy Orbison (he called him the "Big Zero") and West Boylston.
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Post by beaven302 on Nov 2, 2020 13:56:20 GMT -5
By far, the best "James Bond" of them all! RIP! Most definitely. I recall the an ad for some Bond film, which said: "Sean Connery is James Bond." My favorite Connery Bond film was Goldfinger, which I saw on a Friday night in the Kimball auditorium. I recall that when Honor Blackman said; "My name is Galore, Pussy Galore," the audience cheered and applauded. Another good line came after Bond asked Goldfinger is he expected him to talk, only to be told "No, Mr. Bond, I expect you to die."
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Post by beaven302 on Oct 30, 2020 13:57:52 GMT -5
Any mention of late '70s games should include the 1978 victory over winless BC at Chestnut Hill. This game included a pick-six near the BC goal line, a BC field-goal attempt that was run back for a touchdown, and the break-up of last-second BC two-point conversion attempt that would have won the game for them. Apart from the game itself, one of my memories of that day was the sight of a frustrated BC player kicking his helmet from the center to field toward the sideline after the two-pointer failed.
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Post by beaven302 on Sept 5, 2020 12:36:26 GMT -5
May his soul rest in peace. Gifted athlete. I always enjoyed his insights into baseball. Shen the Mets tirade him away (and Nolan Ryan) I stopped being a Mets fan for several years. I was irate over the Seaver trade, but I stuck with the team although they were hardly worth watching. (Things were so bad during the post-Seaver period that the team even trotted out Mettle the Mule to stir fan interest.) The man behind the Seaver trade, M. Donald Grant ,is easily the biggest fool iand most-hated man in franchise history.
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Post by beaven302 on Sept 5, 2020 12:29:45 GMT -5
I recall the Colgate tie as being regarded as a satisfactory result. Colgate had beaten HC in '64 and '65, had very good team in '66, and it was a road game. (That year, HC travelled to Buffalo and lost 35-3.) Another factor was the manner in which the tie was achieved -- blocking an extra point late in the game. If Colgate had had its kicking game in order, it would have won 16-14.
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Post by beaven302 on Sept 3, 2020 14:00:30 GMT -5
Since I recalled little about this game except that HC got a tie on the road, I dug up the account of the 1966 HC-Colgate contest on a NY Times database. HC won at Hamilton 14-14. HC's Bob Kurtz blocked a Colgate extra point try with three minutes to go. Earlier in the game, Colgate had missed another extra point. They did get a safety, which explains their 14 points.
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Post by beaven302 on Jul 29, 2020 13:28:19 GMT -5
Doug Flutie has dropped to #94 on the list of NCAA career passing leaders 🧐 What makes me feel old about Doug Flutie is recalling him in the 1981 BC game and thinking that he had the face of a little boy and now seeing him on TV as a fiftysomething former football star.
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Post by beaven302 on Jul 29, 2020 13:18:27 GMT -5
This is a good account of the game, better than one that I saw in a Boston paper, whose tone seemed to express resentment that the Eagles had been defeated.
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Post by beaven302 on Jul 27, 2020 14:23:25 GMT -5
Hoops, I am with you on this one. Jack was talented and exciting (for more than one great BC game!). That's the truth. I recall one game in '66 there was a play near the other team's goal line where the whole HC team moved to the right along with the entire opposition. Meanwhile, Lentz put the ball on his hip and waltzed into the end zone. There wasn't a player within about 20 feet of him when he scored
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Post by beaven302 on Jun 4, 2020 13:54:34 GMT -5
Nickel seats nails it for the Little Theater. I recall sitting there during the 1967 BC game and the action was rather distant to say the least. This was during Bob Cousy's tenure as BC coach and he took from some flak from the HC students.
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