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Post by hchoops on Apr 5, 2018 10:30:59 GMT -5
Very good video But i must nitpick No mention of the 66 win over BC, or Jack Lentz And no mention of Jon Morris or the 63 upset of BC
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Post by hcpride on Apr 5, 2018 11:50:58 GMT -5
1983 Columbia -- I was at the game -- Columbia's defense may have been extremely weak, but the QB (I think his name was Witkowski) was quite capable, and the Lions did score 28 points. I was there too. Columbia was awful and were in the opening phases of their infamous 44-game winless streak. Columbia's paper did a funny and Halloween-themed write up of the game: Crusaders Club Lions in 77-28 Horror Show.The next time we played them, 1996, we had a very different team and lost 16-42 at home.
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Post by hchoops on Apr 5, 2018 12:24:20 GMT -5
I was there also. No matter how bad Columbia was, Gill the Thrill was amazing. I have never seen anything like it outside of Jimmy Brown with Cleveland.
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Post by hcpride on Apr 5, 2018 13:21:21 GMT -5
I was there also. No matter how bad Columbia was, Gill the Thrill was amazing. I have never seen anything like it outside of Jimmy Brown I agree, he was almost literally unstoppable. Heck, the team itself was really rolling thru that season...until the Harvard tie. Always thought the ‘83 team was the best HC team I saw. (I know that’s subjective)
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Post by Crucis#1 on Apr 5, 2018 19:29:45 GMT -5
Mowatt sounds right. Looks like 12 or 17 ...hard to tell with the grainy picture and my 15 inch laptop. Not sure who else was a qb in 1969...seems like all the rest of them during my stay there were my class (73, and therefore not eligible in 69) or younger, like Pete Vaas. Our QB in 1969 was Howie Burke who went 19 for 40 as a passer for 200 yards and 1 TD. He played 2 games that year, his only 2 games for his career. I don't recall hearing the name before. I wonder what class he was in and whether he transferred out? Mark Mowatt was 3 for 5 passing for 1969. 1969 was the disastrous hepatitis season where we played only two games. Harvard and Dartmouth. Howie Burke was recruited by Tom Boisture, and was the class of 1972 QB, who transferred to Bucknell in 1970, after his sophomore year. Mark Mowatt was class of 1971.
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Post by efg72 on Apr 5, 2018 19:56:20 GMT -5
I believe Howie went home after first semester and transferred to Hofstra. The three QBs were Howie Burke (so), Mark Mowatt(jr)and Jim Granger(so)-Mark Becker (also a so) was a back up if ever needed. A very few were spared hepatitis and some cases were much more severe than others. We had a talented class of sophmore’s with Billy Adams and Eddie Jenkins(Miami Super Bowl) enjoying nice careers.
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Post by efg72 on Apr 5, 2018 20:01:45 GMT -5
Mowatt was from Detroit as was Jim McClowry, a really tough and talented TE. A competitive battle between Mowatt and O’Neill during camp in ‘68 actually created some divisions on the team and eventually played some role on the decision to make a coaching change.
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Post by JRGNYR on Apr 5, 2018 20:20:05 GMT -5
This is an excellent find.
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Post by Crucis#1 on Apr 5, 2018 20:36:39 GMT -5
I believe Howie went home after first semester and transferred to Hofstra. The three QBs were Howie Burke (so), Mark Mowatt(jr)and Jim Granger(so)-Mark Becker (also a so) was a back up if ever needed. A very few were spared hepatitis and some cases were much more severe than others. We had a talented class of sophmore’s with Billy Adams and Eddie Jenkins(Miami Super Bowl) enjoying nice careers. www.bucknellbison.com/fls/32100/old_site/pdf/m-footbl/2007FBMGPages98-136.pdf?DB_OEM_ID=32100Howie may have transferred to Hofstra initially, but he ended his playing career at Bucknell. There are several references about him in the PDF above.
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Post by efg72 on Apr 5, 2018 21:10:15 GMT -5
Ok thanks for the correction-he was a tough competitor with a great sense of humor
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Post by beaven302 on Apr 9, 2018 16:00:39 GMT -5
So even though the team was 7-0 and ranked #2, we only had a little north of 12k attendance at Fitton? Played 96 players? Some things have not changed while some things have. Blame the 12k attendance on the woeful Lions. A check of old New York Times box scores for other 1983 games produced the following results. Sept. 10 - HC vs. BU -- attendance 15,231 Oct. 8 - HC vs. Colgate -- attendance 22,551 Oct. 22 - HC vs. Brown -- attendance 16,004. The athletic department would sell its soul for these numbers today.
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