[NU Sports] Northwestern and the National Championship

[Roy S. Lamberton]

The eternal optimist in me says that the NCAA Tourney jinx will be over next
year.

But then I thought it would be over this spring.

It's a shame - My theme for football this year was going to be, "Return to the
Rose"

 

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Roy S. Lamberton - Senior Associate
Computer Applications & Support Associates
and Publisher of Purple Reign, 
The Scout.com Northwestern University Site
(http://www.purplewildcats.com)
AIM Handle: CoachRoy74
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Upset with Alexander Hamilton's fiscal
 policies during George Washington's first
 term, the man considered the founder of the
 Democratic Party, Thomas Jefferson, started
 a newspaper to spread lies and rumors in an
 attempt to stop Hamilton. 
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com 
> [mailto:nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com] On Behalf Of Mark S. Ament
> Sent: Tuesday, April 26, 2005 8:26 PM
> To: 'Jim Bendat'; nwu-sports at tssi.com
> Subject: RE: [NU Sports] Northwestern and the National Championship
> 
> 
> That really makes us the ultimate answer to a basketball 
> trivia question - name the only national champion never to 
> play in the NCAA tournament.  It's rather sad,  really.
> 
> Mark
> Mark S. Ament
> prplehaze at insightbb.com
>  
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com 
> [mailto:nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com] On Behalf Of Jim Bendat
> Sent: Tuesday, April 26, 2005 7:03 PM
> To: nwu-sports at tssi.com
> Subject: [NU Sports] Northwestern and the National Championship
> 
> Not that I've ever watched a lacrosse game (or does one call 
> it a match?), but I'm definitely aware that our women's team 
> is presently undefeated and ranked #1 in the country.  This 
> got me to wondering how many national championships we've 
> ever won.  The NCAA basketball championship officially began 
> in 1939, but eight years earlier -- in 1931 -- Northwestern 
> won the mythical championship, as determined by the Helms 
> Athletic Foundation: 
> http://www.rauzulusstreet.com/basketball/college/helmscollegec
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To the best of my knowledge, Northwestern has only won one official NCAA
championship -- in fencing, and I'm not sure what the year was.  We've probably
had some individual champions here and there -- tennis with Riessen and
Graebner, and golf's Luke Donald certainly come to mind.  But NCAA champions
don't come around Evanston too often.  Our 1962 football team was ranked #1 six
games into the season, but that didn't last.  The women's lacrosse championship
game will be on CSTV on May 22nd.  If we're in it, I promise to watch.

Jim B.

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