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Post by beaven302 on Apr 26, 2020 17:25:04 GMT -5
There was a very good article on Fauci in a recent New Yorker magazine. It says that he did not try to play at the college level because he was too short.
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Post by beaven302 on Apr 22, 2020 13:44:14 GMT -5
A very exciting day to be at HC, esp in Kimball where Lewie received a standing O. We all knew the odds were very, very long, but there was that slight glimmer of hope, and fame. Thanks for that reminder. I was in Kimball that night, too. He came into the dining hall with Texeira, The students (including me) went wild. I've always thought that that reception killed whatever miniscule chance there was that he might come to HC. Much too big a fish for much too small a pond. I was at the Kimball serving when his parents came in. They got a standing ovation too. As for any chance of Alcindor coming to HC, I recall reading that he didn't much like his high school coach, Jack Donohue who had just been hired as head coach. I also recall reading that one of the very few Afro-American students at HC advised him not to come because he'd be isolated. In reality, the chances of him coming may have been slim and/or none, but whoever was writing for the Worcester Telegram didn't get the message. I remember seeing its big headline in the sports section: "Alcindor to Join Teixeira at HC."
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Post by beaven302 on Nov 14, 2019 14:42:14 GMT -5
I have a very vivid memory of the Holy Cross - UMass football game during my time as a student. Looking at the archive records, it was November 5, 1966. Holy Cross dominated the first three quarters of the game and built a 16-0 lead. Then, in the 4th quarter, UMass -- spearheaded by QB Greg Landry -- came alive. UMass drove down the field, scored a TD and added a 2-point conversion. Then, UMass got the ball back and Landry again led the Minutemen on a drive down the field to score a TD. Fortunately, HC stiffened and the 2-point conversion try failed. Final score: HC 16, UMass 14. I remember that game very well. It was parents weekend and the visiting "old folks" were treated to great weather. If I recall correctly, It was Mike Kaminski's field goals that helped save the day for HC. As for the '66 season in general, it had several cliff-hangers: In addition to UMass, there were Dartmouth (which missed a 2 pt. conversion), a tough tie at Colgate, BU (victory saved by a major goal line stand), and of course the epic win over BC.
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Post by beaven302 on Nov 14, 2019 13:15:01 GMT -5
UMass being a 39-point underdog to Northwestern is truly remarkable since the largely toothless Wildcats who have been forced to play their third-string quarterback for most of the season haven't scored more than 30 points. And in some games they have been shut out or managed only a field goal.
As for the history or UMass and UConn football, they formerly played I-AA football. Back in the day, UMass could be quite good especially during the mid-1960s when they had future NFLer Tom Landry at quarterback. In contrast, UConn was one assured win for HC. In 1977, when the team shocked BC 35-20, its only other win was the previous week at UConn.
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Post by beaven302 on Oct 11, 2019 12:07:50 GMT -5
Are there any Catholic universities and colleges headed by non-clergy? (Hint: I know of one highly rated Jesuit U.) After a major financial scandal involving an administrator at St. John's University, the Vincentian president was forced out and replayed by a lay person.
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Post by beaven302 on Aug 30, 2019 12:54:23 GMT -5
I can hardly miss this one. We moved to Annapolis last summer to be closer to the grandchildren. The stadium is only about 15 minutes away, meaning that this will be the quickest trip to an HC game since going to home games as an undergraduate. And, since my son lives three blocks from the stadium, I can park in his driveway and skip the traffic around the stadium. For anyone who's not going downtown and who craves salt and grease, every fast food place imaginable is on West Street, which is one route to the stadium. Also on West Street is the Double T Diner, which serves typical diner fare and is very popular with the locals.
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Post by beaven302 on Jun 27, 2019 12:55:15 GMT -5
I recall meeting Bill Osmanski at a party in Evanston, IL, back in the fall of 1967 when I was a graduate student at Northwestern. The owner of a large, old Evanston home where I rented a room got me a job mixing drinks at the aforementioned party. When I met Osmanski, my tactless twenty-one-year-old self promptly commented that he was the coach when HC lost to BC 76-0. He said, "Oh, that," and then explained how he had received little support from the HC administration.
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Post by beaven302 on Jun 21, 2019 12:19:42 GMT -5
We moved to Annapolis last July to be closer to the grandchildren. For those who have never been here, the Navy football stadium is not on the campus of the Academy. Instead, it's in the middle of an ordinary residential neighborhood, and is surrounded by large parking lots. Downtown Annapolis has a lot to offer, but it has narrow, one-way streets. On-street parking is a lost cause, but there are several parking garages.
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Post by beaven302 on May 30, 2019 12:06:15 GMT -5
HC vs BC, years '63,'64,'65,'66, 2W's-2L's. Dead even. HC was never and isn't now any other school's "little brother" regardless of athletics. Traditionally, HC has been. "the flagship" of Catholic higher education. It still offers an undergraduate education many professionals believe is far superior to the others but this not adequately measured by the rankings mags. and websites. LoveHC 30 years ago maybe. It seems ND has always been the dream of catholic students across the country. The deal they have with NBC doesn’t hurt in getting the name out to today’s 21 st century students. Back in 1963, I was accepted by Notre Dame, but went to HC. Six years later, I visited my cousin, a ND senior, for a few football weekends. The games themselves were a sight to see, but some of the rest of the Notre Dame experience wasn't as impressive. Shabby South Bend made Worcester look good, the bar scene in the near north side of Chicago was far away, the dating ratio then was awful -- something like 10 to 1 with the nearby women's college, and the one meal that I had in the cafeteria made Kimball fare seem pretty tasty in comparison. I also recall my cousin saying that a lot of ND students went there so they could wear Notre Dame jackets when they went home on vacation.
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Post by beaven302 on Apr 25, 2019 20:41:14 GMT -5
When my son was accepted to HC back in 1997, the admissions office attempted to use the fact that I went there to persuade him to attend. He received a letter, which noted that I'd gone to HC, and stated that now he could build his own legacy there. It didn't work Despite the fact that he had a fine time at HC as a child whenever I took him to watch Mark Duffner's teams roll some unfortunate opponent into the Blackstone River, he chose to go to Bucknell.
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Post by beaven302 on Apr 5, 2019 11:46:51 GMT -5
I watched the tape and to say that the students' behavior reflected poorly on HC is an understatement. That said, as others have pointed out, HC students behaving badly is nothing new. Back in the fall of 1963, my roommate, Brian Kavanaugh, told me about slipping away from a party at the 9-20 motel when it was raided by the local police. When the event was reported on Worcester radio, inexplicably, it was described as having involved Georgetown students. In the winter of 1967, I also heard about a party at a Worcester apartment in which HC "gentlemen" went out on the porch and peeked under the shade at girls using the bathroom. The more things change, the more they stay the same.
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Post by beaven302 on Mar 22, 2019 13:19:31 GMT -5
With no postseason success there is no way he will be top five or even top 10. 12 years is a long time Good point. I recall the Yankees' travails with the now-unproductive A-Rod during the last part of his ten-year contract. Trout may well be worth every penny for the full term of his contract, but the decline in A-Rod's production near the end of his career is a cautionary tale for all free-spending club owners.
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Post by beaven302 on Feb 24, 2019 13:35:14 GMT -5
Patronizing a prostitute is definitely a misdemeanor, meaning the Florida authorities will slap him with a fine. His real problem is with the NFL and being charged with violating the league's conduct policy. In theory, Kraft could be suspended, forcing him to watch the Patriots on TV instead of looking down from on high in his luxury Gillette Stadium suite.
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Post by beaven302 on Feb 23, 2019 14:01:59 GMT -5
Probably will be charged wth the equivalent of a negligent homicide. This is extremely unlikely. Swerving to avoid a car without its lights on and then accidentally striking a pedestrian on an unlit highway doesn't add up to negligent homicide. As reported, there's really no evidence of negligence on Boeheim's part. As for this location, driving can be very treacherous in bad weather. I recall driving back from Buffalo and while in this area observing several vehicles that had ended up off the road because of icy conditions.
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Post by beaven302 on Jan 21, 2019 14:32:28 GMT -5
Ironic because I would guess NP presided over an aggregate decline in attendance during his tenure at Holy Cross. The rise of professional sports and the ability to watch any game in the country on a multitude of devices has led to the decline. Pro sports is đź‘‘! This is it in a nutshell. For many decades, New England had no NFL team, and when first established, the Patriots were a joke. (I remember an article, probably in Sports Illustrated, that reported the team practice ag shoddy fields and watched game films projected onto a bed sheet. )And for a long time, only a handful of college games were available on TV, which made any appearance by HC a big deal. Finally, the establishment of Division I-AA didn't help. Until then, schools like HC, Harvard, Yale, and UMass were grouped with the future Power Five conferences, and could claim a version of major football status.. After I-AA came along, they were officially stamped second rate, which helped diminish fan interest. I recall after I-AA was announced, someone with connections to Yale football realized this, and was quoted in the NY Times as saying: "We have to get back into Division I-A."
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Post by beaven302 on Jan 21, 2019 14:22:28 GMT -5
Why did Bucknell wait so long ? Because football is something to do between lacrosse and basketball seasons This about sums things up. In fact, football may rank below stargazing and bird watching at Bucknell. When my son went there from 1997-2001, he and his friends never went to a game. On one visit, HC was playing the Bison, and when we entered the stadium, the lady taking tickets said: "Thank you for coming." Attendance was dismal and the atmosphere, if one could call it atmosphere, was that of a poorly-attended high-school game.
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Post by beaven302 on Jan 18, 2019 22:01:36 GMT -5
I was Brian's roommate in 1963-64 and 1965-66, and have all sorts of memories about him: first seeing this awesomely big football player on my first day at HC, how he once leveled Floyd Little in the 1965 HC-Syracuse game causing the all-star running back to fumble the ball away, his enjoyment of the Boo Radley character in To Kill a Mockingbird, his losing bet to RGS of this board in the Liston-Clay fight, the time during junior year when he and the late Jack Dahlstrom decided to take their dorm mattresses outdoors to sleep under the stars and then forgetting where they'd left them, his first date with his future wife, and later visiting them when Brian worked at the old Lyman School. When I saw Brian at the 2017 reunion, he told me that he didn't expect to live much longer because of health problems, but accepted it. May he rest in peace.
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Post by beaven302 on Jul 25, 2018 13:11:00 GMT -5
P.S. Yes, my Dad always said the search for shoes was in Harrisburg, not Gettysburg. This was always my understanding. An Ohio State University Department of History website entitled "The Myths of Gettysburg" (https://ehistory.osu.edu/articles/myths-gettysburg) calls the story of shoes at Gettysburg a myth. The Shoe Factory® of Gettysburg Myth: The Battle of Gettysburg was fought over a shipment of shoes housed at the Gettysburg Shoe Factory. Fact: Not only was there not a shoe factory in Gettysburg in 1863, but the Army of Northern Virginia and the Army of the Potomac did not engage in three days of battle to gain control of a mythical shipment of shoes—even though both sides were in need of them, especially the Confederates. Fannie Buehler, wife of Gettysburg postmaster described Confederate General John Gordon's infantry as it marched into town. They were "dirty, …hatless, shoeless, and footsore." Additionally, when Confederate General Jubal Early marched his troops into the town for the first time on June 26 (on his way to Hanover Junction and York), he ordered the town to hand over 1,000 pairs of shoes and 500 hats, or as an alternative $10,000 cash. Gettysburg authorities knew they couldn't fill Early's bill and instead offered to open their stores to him. Early's inspection of the town's shops yielded him little in way of supplies (especially shoes) except for a hefty supply of horseshoes and nails. Source: Coddington, Edwin The Gettysburg Campaign: A Study in Command, 1968 Charles Scribner Sons.
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Post by beaven302 on Jul 21, 2018 21:55:18 GMT -5
Hard to believe it's only a little ovah a month to kickoff at Chestnut Hill. Been to a few games there since our last visit there in 1985...this will be HC's 1st game there since Alumni Stadium was renovated/expanded in the late 80s or early 90s. Anybody here go to the game in '78? We had no right winning that game but somehow stole a 30-29 win. BC finished 0-11 that season. We returned the favor in '80 blowing a 13pt lead in the 4th Q. I made the trip to BC from Long Island for the '78 game.Other than the return of the BC field goal attempt for a touchdown, my chief memory is of a frustrated BC player, just after time ran out, kicking his helmet from the center of the field towards the sideline.
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Post by beaven302 on Jul 11, 2018 0:11:27 GMT -5
If you want a quick recap of the 1966 HC-Dartmouth game, here is the Dartmouth point of view. The HC game starts around 3:15, and runs until about 5:40. This was a great find, but to truly get the 1966 game experience, the HC segment of the tape should be watched while sitting on a bench in a chilly bathroom while getting soaked by cold water from the shower.
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Post by beaven302 on Jul 6, 2018 13:48:36 GMT -5
I entered in Sept 1971 and took four classes each semester for four years. Lucky you. In the Fall of 1963, we took five three-credit courses, -plus a two-credit theology class that was taught by an elderly Jesuit who'd never see the inside of a class room today. I recall that a good part of the final consisted of quotations from the Gospels and the students were expected to indicate whether they came from Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. Since I was a graduate of a public high school, the results were predictably disastrous.
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Post by beaven302 on Jul 6, 2018 13:40:44 GMT -5
I recall attending the chilly 1966 UConn game, which was the last chance to watch a home game as a student. It was a good day for Jack Lentz as HC dominated. The game did end in time to get back to the dorm in time to see Ara Parseghian tie one for the Gipper. Out of curiousity, I've checked the NY Times account of the game and it gave the size of the crowd as 5,000, which was quite low for that time. As for the disappointing 1967 season, I remember reading a pre-season column in the NY Times sports section that said the experienced Holy Cross team could be the "strongest in the East," adding that the only problem was replacing Jack Lentz (which turned out to be impossible). I saw the BC game in 67, HC should have won. Missed an extra point and two field goals that were 25 yards or less (of course, maybe HC should have done better in the red zone and field goal attempts wouldn't have been necessary). Final was 13-6. For those who witnessed the entire season (I did not, if anything I was a BC fan in those days, forgive me)….did HC snatch defeat out of the jaws of victory in other games that year too? As far as the ND/MSU game goes, you realize that if the game hadn't ended in a tie, no one would be talking about it 52 years later. This was the reverse of the '66 season, which had many close victories: Dartmouth missed a two-point conversion that would have given it the lead, a hard-fought tie at Colgate that easily could have been a loss, a last-second goal line stand at BU, and a failed UMass two-point conversion that would have tied the score late in the game..
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Post by beaven302 on Jul 5, 2018 12:16:48 GMT -5
I recall attending the chilly 1966 UConn game, which was the last chance to watch a home game as a student. It was a good day for Jack Lentz as HC dominated. The game did end in time to get back to the dorm in time to see Ara Parseghian tie one for the Gipper. Out of curiousity, I've checked the NY Times account of the game and it gave the size of the crowd as 5,000, which was quite low for that time. As for the disappointing 1967 season, I remember reading a pre-season column in the NY Times sports section that said the experienced Holy Cross team could be the "strongest in the East," adding that the only problem was replacing Jack Lentz (which turned out to be impossible).
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Post by beaven302 on Jul 4, 2018 11:52:28 GMT -5
The average of 7,200 is probably about right....Homecoming and Parent's Weekend games skew the average up somewhat. Both of those games draw (or sell tickets anyway) in the 10K+ ballpark (no pun intended) which offset some of the 2-4K clunkahs we've had in the recent past. Are there any plans for future night games at Fitton anytime soon? Imo, those have been the only non-HC or PW games that had any real buzz about them. Of course, back in the day a crowd of 7,200 would have been considered a low turnout. The diminished status of HC football was underlined for me by some recent discoveries inside a trunk that contained all sorts of items from my time at HC from 1963-67. These included two yellowing Worcester Telegram sports sections that provided coverage of HC's 7-6 victory over Dartmouth and 32-26 win over BC during the 1966 season. The front pages had big bold headlines accompanied by lengthy reports on the games, which continued in equal length on an inside page. There were also separate columns about the games' highlights and cartoon versions of the on-field events drawn by Al Banx. (Of course, this was a long time ago as evidenced by ads for new cars priced at $2750.)
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Post by beaven302 on Jul 1, 2018 12:33:47 GMT -5
Correct.....Why the Northwesterns, William and Marys, Richmonds, and Rices are not on our radar is a mystery to me.... You are mixing apples and oranges here. North Western and Rice are both FBS games that are scheduled years in advance and have a potential and significant Payback. While it would cost quite a bit of money to get our football team to Chicago or Houston , the guarantee would atill net HC hundreds of thousands of dollars. I would not be surprised if either or both of these teams and up on her schedule at some point in the next decade. William & Mary and Richmond are both FCS schools that would not pay any kind of guarantee for us to come and play them. We are already playing UNH, a football program that has been at the same or an even higher level than both of those programs over the last 10 years. A far more logical rival than shlepping to VA for a game. Years in advance is right. Northwestern recently announced future non-conference opponents: Tulane 2020, Rice 2031, and South Dakota State 2026. As for those who see the Wildcats as a possible FBS upset win for HC, they ought to look elsewhere. These days, NU gets mostly three-star recruits with a few four stars. It also just picked up a five-star transfer quarterback. In addition, its recruiting prospects are likely to get a boost from the just-opened new $260 million lakeside athletic facility.
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