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Post by rgs318 on Apr 18, 2021 21:17:51 GMT -5
inhocsigno...I'll join you in that HC by 4 (24-20).
My cousin had season tickets to JMU for the four years one of his daughters went there. He watched Saturday's game with me and said HC looked very good - even compared to JMU. He was both surprised and impressed by the Cross.
I know that in reality this is a VERY long shot picking HC but why not? HC is playing with house money. A win makes this a truly amazing year and a loss could get them revved up for a solid start to next season...classic win-win.
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Post by hc87 on Apr 18, 2021 21:20:43 GMT -5
HC87 on the SDSU board: Let me educate you guys on the Duffnahh yeeaahhhhsss. In 87, we beat AAAHMMYY and the game was basically ovah by halftime. And we coulda been in the Big East. It is what it is. Patriot League is the appropriate place for HC in football but basketball is a disastah. Touche...but please point out where any of this is incorrect???
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Post by A Clock Tower Purple on Apr 18, 2021 22:11:41 GMT -5
HC87 on the SDSU board: Let me educate you guys on the Duffnahh yeeaahhhhsss. In 87, we beat AAAHMMYY and the game was basically ovah by halftime. And we coulda been in the Big East. It is what it is. Patriot League is the appropriate place for HC in football but basketball is a disastah. Don't tink many of youse on da SDSU forum were round bak den but HC hadda helluva club. You may enjoy my shctick but dose on my school's forum are tired of it so figured I'd try it here.
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Post by hc87 on Apr 18, 2021 22:51:01 GMT -5
HC87 on the SDSU board: Let me educate you guys on the Duffnahh yeeaahhhhsss. In 87, we beat AAAHMMYY and the game was basically ovah by halftime. And we coulda been in the Big East. It is what it is. Patriot League is the appropriate place for HC in football but basketball is a disastah. Don't tink many of youse on da SDSU forum were round bak den but HC hadda helluva club. You may enjoy my shctick but dose on my school's forum are tired of it so figured I'd try it here. And maybe another certain postah could lighten up and not snap at most everybody's posts? Hmm?
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Post by Non Alum Dave on Apr 19, 2021 4:47:26 GMT -5
I for one love hc87 being unleashed on the Jackrabbits' board!
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Post by Crucis#1 on Apr 19, 2021 4:50:04 GMT -5
WGBH Radio had a very nice but brief story this morning at 5:45 AM, about the team winning the Patriot League Championship and the upcoming FCS playoffs.
Holy Cross football mentioned on public radio is unusual, but definitely a step in the right direction regarding recognition.
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Post by Crucis#1 on Apr 19, 2021 5:02:17 GMT -5
While reviewing the SDSU athletic site, read this paragraph regarding their former stadium Coughlin-Alumni Stadium that was phased out on November 7, 2015.....
“Since moving to the NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision in 2004, the Jackrabbits posted a 50-16 mark (.758 win percentage) at CAS, including a 22-10 record at home against Missouri Valley Football Conference opponents.”
Jackrabbit football moved into a new stadium in the fall of 2016 with the completion of Dana J. Dykhouse Stadium.
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Post by Pakachoag Phreek on Apr 19, 2021 6:54:51 GMT -5
The marching song of the 7th Cavalry, even to this very day, is the Irish air, Garryowen. It is said that it was the last song heard by Custer and his regiment as they rode out of camp. Felix V. makes an uncredited appearance. The original.
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Post by ndgradbuthcfan on Apr 19, 2021 7:12:09 GMT -5
The marching song of the 7th Cavalry, even to this very day, is the Irish air, Garryowen. It is said that it was the last song heard by Custer and his regiment as they rode out of camp. Felix V. makes an uncredited appearance. The original. On that subject, listen to Sean South from Garryowen by the Wolfe Tones (youtube),
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Post by hcpride on Apr 19, 2021 7:44:41 GMT -5
The marching song of the 7th Cavalry, even to this very day, is the Irish air, Garryowen. It is said that it was the last song heard by Custer and his regiment as they rode out of camp. Felix V. makes an uncredited appearance. The original. Perhaps Chesney could model parts of his pre-departure speech after another (and far more successful) 7th Cavalry Officer. In this case, commander of 1st Battalion, 7th Cavalry, Colonel Hal Moore (from the movie We Were Soldiers): www.americanrhetoric.com/MovieSpeeches/moviespeechweweresoldiers7thcavalryaddress.html
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Post by Pakachoag Phreek on Apr 19, 2021 8:17:06 GMT -5
The marching song of the 7th Cavalry, even to this very day, is the Irish air, Garryowen. It is said that it was the last song heard by Custer and his regiment as they rode out of camp. Felix V. makes an uncredited appearance. The original. On that subject, listen to Sean South from Garryowen by the Wolfe Tones (youtube), As sung by Charlie and the Boys. The music would make for a great college fight song. The great Irish poet and lyricist Thomas Moore adapted Garryowen into a poem, about the Irish leaving Ireland for the East and West, but I can't find a recording. Moore wrote "Minstrel Boy" which is played by military bands in the UK, and occasionally in the U.S. More frequently played now with the pipes on elegiac occasions, and also the soundtrack for Blackhawk Down. Minstrel Boy, Royal Albert Hall, recited, symphonic arrangement with the Irish army Band and the band of the Irish Guards Moore, a fervently devout Catholic, also wrote, "Believe Me, if All Those Endearing Young Charms", to an Irish air. the music is the alma mater of Harvard. Thankfully, HC can claim its alma mater is based on O Tanenbaum, and not on the state anthem of Maryland, which was proposed as the official anthem of the Confederacy. [<<< Circling this riff of a post back to HC.]
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Post by Crucis#1 on Apr 19, 2021 8:44:23 GMT -5
Has anyone seen Custer’s grave site on a visit to West Point?
I should not have been, but I was surprised to see it a number of years ago, after a football game.
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Post by timholycross on Apr 19, 2021 9:18:32 GMT -5
Has anyone seen Custer’s grave site on a visit to West Point? I should not have been, but I was surprised to see it a number of years ago, after a football game. Where's Fort Courage in relation to SDSU? Or did the Hekawi come from some other territory?
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Post by rickii on Apr 19, 2021 9:22:07 GMT -5
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Post by joe on Apr 19, 2021 9:38:02 GMT -5
If HC wants to be a top FCS program, when, if not now, would be a better time to make that happen? What will be different next year or the year after or the year after that? We have the coach and the team to get it done. Now is the time for the statement win.
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Post by Crucis#1 on Apr 19, 2021 9:43:08 GMT -5
Has anyone seen Custer’s grave site on a visit to West Point? I should not have been, but I was surprised to see it a number of years ago, after a football game. Where's Fort Courage in relation to SDSU? Or did the Hekawi come from some other territory? Not near SDSU. Fort Courage is in Houck Arizona www.atlasobscura.com/places/fort-courage
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Post by HC92 on Apr 19, 2021 10:00:14 GMT -5
I saw that SDSU lost 28-17 to Univ of NoDak back in February. In that game, they attempted 32 passes to only 26 rushing attempts. Seems like slowing down the running game and getting them to pass more than they throw would be our best bet. Easier said than done, I know.
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Post by KY Crusader 75 on Apr 19, 2021 10:42:43 GMT -5
The marching song of the 7th Cavalry, even to this very day, is the Irish air, Garryowen. It is said that it was the last song heard by Custer and his regiment as they rode out of camp. Felix V. makes an uncredited appearance. The original. I've heard that delightful and instantly recognizable tune many times but did not know it had Irish origins or lyrics
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Post by KY Crusader 75 on Apr 19, 2021 10:52:51 GMT -5
The marching song of the 7th Cavalry, even to this very day, is the Irish air, Garryowen. It is said that it was the last song heard by Custer and his regiment as they rode out of camp. Felix V. makes an uncredited appearance. The original. On that subject, listen to Sean South from Garryowen by the Wolfe Tones (youtube), as a North Dakota grad SoDak State must have been a rival of sorts for you
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Post by ndgradbuthcfan on Apr 19, 2021 12:18:22 GMT -5
It was only a matter of time before my disingenuousness would be uncovered. Go Fighting Hawks.
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Post by hc2020 on Apr 19, 2021 12:27:43 GMT -5
My understanding is that the team submitted to COVID testing today. We should know if Saturday’s game will actually take place around this time tomorrow.
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Post by hc2020 on Apr 19, 2021 12:39:12 GMT -5
My understanding is that the team submitted to COVID testing today. We should know if Saturday’s game will actually take place around this time tomorrow. Are we playing by NCAA rules or PL rules? That’s a good question. I think our status will be determined by Holy Cross rules, whatever they may be.
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Post by Ignutz on Apr 19, 2021 12:57:35 GMT -5
Are we playing by NCAA rules or PL rules? That’s a good question. I think our status will be determined by Holy Cross rules, whatever they may be. My recollection from the selection show is that any team unable to play because of CoVID has to notify the NCAA by sometime today. What was interesting was that they really didn’t say what would happen to the “surviving” team if a given squad has to back out between today and kickoff this weekend.
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Post by Pakachoag Phreek on Apr 19, 2021 13:06:54 GMT -5
Even more of a tangent, but the march below indicates that national rivalries within Europe run deep, and long. This link is for the March of the Soldiers of Robert Bruce, the Scottish king who defeated the English. This was played as thousands of Scottish soldiers, who had joined forces with the Maid of Orleans against the English, triumphantly marched in Orleans in 1429 after the English defeat. (I came across the version below while looking for bagpipe music for a funeral.) The music seems to be the unofficial anthem of the French marines. I've never seen a link to a recording of this being played by a British band. military or otherwise. Version below includes hornpipes and bagpipes, and sounds medieval. Music ends about the five minute mark. Robert Bruce is the 'Flower of Scotland' in the unofficial national anthem of Scotland, and the official anthem of Scotland's national rugby and football [soccer] teams, and the Tartan Army of supporters. And it is sung vigorously by all, particularly when England is the visiting opponent as it appears to be in the video below. (The unreferenced battle is Bannockburn in 1314.)
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Post by Pakachoag Phreek on Apr 19, 2021 13:12:29 GMT -5
Are we playing by NCAA rules or PL rules? That’s a good question. I think our status will be determined by Holy Cross rules, whatever they may be. The NCAA established the Tier One rules, not HC. New positive cases at HC at the end of last week were about one new case a day, whereas the week prior, new cases were 8-9 a day. Chesney said football had had two cases, which did not interfere with practice or competition. He did not say when, but some weeks ago, he said there was one case.
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