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Post by purplehaze on May 22, 2020 13:17:02 GMT -5
Is the HC-Nova game from 1987 on espn available anywhere ? - that was a special night considering the score and national exposure
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Post by timholycross on May 22, 2020 13:47:19 GMT -5
When you roll over a team on the ground, it's even more difficult to keep the score down.
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Post by Crucis#1 on May 22, 2020 14:43:49 GMT -5
Is the HC-Nova game from 1987 on espn available anywhere ? - that was a special night considering the score and national exposure It was a special night. Our local alumni club cohosted with the Villanova Club a screening of the game at a local movie theater/pub on that evening. Librations flowed before the game, but needless to say, the Wildcat alum did not stick around for the end. While I have attended both institutions, no one had to guess my allegiance that evening. Another connection I had that evening, that made it fun, the Alumni Director at Villanova in 1987, was my English Teacher my freshman year in High School. To make it a full circle, his football coach in high school, was on the HC football team with Bullet Bill in 1937. Too bad those connections and rivalries seemed to have been lost in the last couple of years.
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Post by rgs318 on May 22, 2020 14:47:16 GMT -5
Too bad indeed. I do hope they can be restored in the near future.
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Post by HC92 on May 22, 2020 14:59:48 GMT -5
Villanova would be a great addition to the football schedule. Would rather play them than non-HYP Ivies or most other FCS schools in the northeast. Now that we’re once again a fairly strong opponent, maybe there’d be mutual interest. Lots of kids at both schools have friends at the other and the alumni certainly cross paths plenty in the real world.
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Post by timholycross on May 22, 2020 17:28:04 GMT -5
Villanova would be a great addition to the football schedule. Would rather play them than non-HYP Ivies or most other FCS schools in the northeast. Now that we’re once again a fairly strong opponent, maybe there’d be mutual interest. Lots of kids at both schools have friends at the other and the alumni certainly cross paths plenty in the real world. Replace "P" with "D" for Dartmouth and that would be my opinion. Princeton's a fabulous university and a good football program right now; but in terms of a Holy Cross traditional rivalry; it's the Big Green.
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Post by HC92 on May 22, 2020 20:01:47 GMT -5
Only thing I remember about that game is when the announcer said “Ciaccio hit Reilly in a bad spot, right in the hands” after a Joey Reilly drop. We enjoyed making fun of him about that for quite a while. If Ciaccio was throwing passes to Joey Reilly way back then, how can Reilly still have 3 years of hoops eligibility left? Good catch. Didn’t even think of that. Football player was Riley. Hoops player is Reilly. Riley’s biggest play was a 49-yard TD in the famous 43-42 game. He was crazy fast but never able to really put it all together. I did spend a fun night with him in New Orleans two days before Hurricane Katrina rolled in.
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Post by hcpride on May 22, 2020 20:58:46 GMT -5
A 1983 performance for the ages: Pretty decent end-zone crowd that day in a couple of clips. Game is kind of a blur lol....anyone remember the score by quarters? I know the Lions kept throwing the ball which prolonged the deluge, just curious how many points we had going into the 4th Q etc...I know many of our Ivy "friends" had oft used this game as animus toward us then. spectatorarchive.library.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/columbia?a=d&d=cs19831031-01.2.23&e=-------en-20--1--txt-IN-----Writeup and box score (forgot Gill had just 3 handoffs 3rd qtr and then sat out the rest of the game, Muldoon hit the bench a couple of plays into the 2nd quarter... and the halftime score was 37-14). I forgot about our onside kick after our second score (in retrospect, ouch). Oddly enough, Columbia was coming off a win and a tie...and tied Dartmouth the following week... of course things were turning south, very south for them.
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Post by hc87 on May 22, 2020 21:34:54 GMT -5
Thanks hcpride...forgot my buddy Vespo (John Vespraini) blocked a punt that day....just a frosh then.
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Post by princetoncrusader on May 23, 2020 9:46:41 GMT -5
Saw the entirety of the Princeton game at the old Palmer Stadium. Little did I know that in May of 1989 I would move to the area to take a job at the mutual fund division of Merrill Lynch and have been here ever since. What I recall about that game was how the talented Princeton QB, Jason Garrett, moved the team down the field to get into field goal range. There was also a key pass interference penalty against HC on that drive. I also saw the following year's 46-0 win by HC over Princeton at Fitton. How the times have changed. As to the Columbia game, one of the institutional bond salesman who covered the Merrill account was a d-back on that CU team and tacked Gil several times. He said Gil was quite the gentlemen. Great memories of the glory years of HC football.
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Post by hchoops on May 23, 2020 10:23:56 GMT -5
Your CU friend probably missed Gil a lot more than he tackled him A very unusual compliment in a football game Gil was also a very good baller Worked Blaney’s hoops camp
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Post by princetoncrusader on May 23, 2020 19:45:29 GMT -5
According to my bond salesman friend, who i have lost touch with, Gil said a few times, "Nice tackle." As noted in the student newspaper article, the HC line just obliterated the CU line and linebackers, leaving the d-backs to do the tackling.
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