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Post by hchoops on Sept 26, 2020 19:33:08 GMT -5
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Sept 26, 2020 20:41:40 GMT -5
Post by Crucis#1 on Sept 26, 2020 20:41:40 GMT -5
The Lehigh game in 1987 vaulted HC to the #1 national ranking in 1AA that week. One of most memorable in watching 50 years of ‘Sader ball. Jeff Wiley had an incredible game. As I was walking along the HC sideline at Lehigh’s Taylor Stadium during the pregame, one of his passes was overhead. The ball literally whistled in flight. I knew it was going to be an HC day. 😎 I had a nice chat with Dr. Wiley at last year’s Ring of Honor ceremony and mentioned the high velocity tight spiral he was throwing that afternoon. Fortunately we had the receivers that could catch his passes. Looking back vs Lehigh: www.mcall.com/news/mc-xpm-1990-10-18-2775646-story.html |
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Sept 26, 2020 22:11:15 GMT -5
Post by longsuffering on Sept 26, 2020 22:11:15 GMT -5
Reading this 30 year old article in the Call I couldn't remember with certainty who won the game and with Lehigh coming in a 5-1 and HC being 4-1-1, I was less certain. Then the reporter wrote that HC before the game was 44-5-1 under coach Mark Duffner. At that point I knew that HC won the game because all five losses and the one tie Duffner would have at Holy Cross had already been booked a season and a half before he left at 60-5-1. Never ceases to amaze.
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Sept 26, 2020 22:19:53 GMT -5
Post by hc87 on Sept 26, 2020 22:19:53 GMT -5
The Lehigh game in 1987 vaulted HC to the #1 national ranking in 1AA that week. One of most memorable in watching 50 years of ‘Sader ball. Jeff Wiley had an incredible game. As I was walking along the HC sideline at Lehigh’s Taylor Stadium during the pregame, one of his passes was overhead. The ball literally whistled in flight. I knew it was going to be an HC day. 😎 I had a nice chat with Dr. Wiley at last year’s Ring of Honor ceremony and mentioned the high velocity tight spiral he was throwing that afternoon. Fortunately we had the receivers that could catch his passes. Looking back vs Lehigh: www.mcall.com/news/mc-xpm-1990-10-18-2775646-story.htmlYou really get a feel for how hated/feared we were then reading that article. HC won that 1990 game too. |
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Post by breezy on Sept 27, 2020 7:38:12 GMT -5
I remember the 1987 game against Lehigh at Taylor Stadium. It was one of the few games I was able to attend in the 1980s with my dad, who was already fighting prostate cancer and bladder cancer that eventually took his life in 1992.
I have to admit that I felt a little uneasy about the way Coach Duffner ran up the score in that game.
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Sept 27, 2020 10:19:37 GMT -5
Post by timholycross on Sept 27, 2020 10:19:37 GMT -5
I remember the 1990, 91 (of course) and 92 games (92 was Vaas). We were in their heads at that point. Lehigh was actually a pretty good team and we won all three. Several instances of Hank Small coaching snafus in those games.
Even in 1993, IIRC, HC was a very poor team but in that game competitive, lost in the last minute or so, kind of a fluky ending, although I can't remember exactly why.
Getting back to 1987, it was my first and last ip to Taylor Stadium, one of the most bizarre venues I've seen. Picture, if you will, not a "U" shaped stadium, but a "J" shaped one. The stands on the visitors' side abruptly stopped around the 50 yard line; the rest of that sideline was right up against a neighborhood or something like that.
All I could think of when I saw the place was "this is what Father Brooks was so proud of getting us into? Did he ever tour any of these places?". Didn't know Goodman was coming on line soon afterward.
It did have one nice feature; the open end zone was a parking lot, just a few rows and the rows pretty much conforming to the width of the football field. Those lucky enough to park there set up tailgates and never moved. There must have been the same charge to park there as to buy a ticket, all I could figure out.
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