[NU Sports] First game

[wildelk2 at aol.com]

   Don and List Gang,

   This may be the best post I've read on our list!  Priceless!  I'm sure you'll never forget the PA announcements calling for the Generals and Admirals to get to work.  
   And the 73-0 game;  for sure this fan would've survived NU's Dark Ages!   My first game was in the Dark Ages.  In 1978, I was a Sophomore at Elgin H.S. in Elgin, Ill.  Keep in mind I had lived in Elgin for a couple of months, as my Dad was transferred to Chicago by York International (now owned by Johnson Controls).  I was raised in York, Pa. to be a Penn St. fan.
   So we decided to go see Michigan at NU, and it was Homecoming and a big opponent.  There were 30,000 there that day; from what I was told the biggest crowd, by far, to attend an NU game that season.
   I believe it was Rick Leach who QB's Michigan, and they were winning 35-0 when NU mounted a drive near the end of the 2nd quarter.  Anyway,  we score on the last play of the 1st half, and those who were in purple went ballistic!  It was a RB with the first name of Lou (forget his last name!) who scored; the students went nuts, the band played, the team celebrated...I was hooked!  If these people could so excited over a meaningless TD, just imagine the possibilities!
   I love being an NU fan.  Even as a fan, not a graduate, what we (I say "we" as I've given hundreds, maybe thousands? to NU via Wildcat Fund, tickets, T-Shirts, etc. through the years.) stand for in college sports must be preserved.
   Exceptional academics, "team" before "me", and eventually, winning.  I believe we are in the process of taking Notre Dame's place as the premier midwest academic football power-house.  Fitz will get it done; Barnett and Walker were great teachers (minus a few "clinks" with GB).
   I saw NU take down Michigan St. in the 79-80 season with Magic Johnson and Greg Kelser.   Carmedy has been given the luxury of time; it looks like he's on the right track.
   
   Thank You for letting me "go on."  I love this list and love Cat sports.   Now let's beat the @#$%& out of Minnesota tomorrow night!            Eric    GO CATS!!




-----Original Message-----
From: ajwdbw at aol.com
To: tbng at comcast.net; nwu-sports at tssi.com
Sent: Sat, Jan 16, 2010 4:39 pm
Subject: Re: [NU Sports] First game


My first college game was in 1951. NU played Colorado and won. In  fact we 
on the first four games that year, including Army and the Naval  Academy. I 
ad just returned from Korea that July and was in absolute awe of my  
urroundings and the complete college atmosphere. The first NFL game was in 1940  
watching the Washington Redskins. I don't remember the team but season 
ickets  for six home games came to a grand total of $6.60, a $1.10 per game for 
end zone  seats. On Sunday, Dec. 7, 1941 the Redskins were playing the 
hiladelphia Eagles  when the public address announcer started to page people. 
Would General  so-and-so report to the War Department." or "Would Admiral 
lank please report  to his office." And through the stadium the word was 
assed that Pearl  Harbor had been attacked. And, yes, I saw the 73-0 
hellacking that the Chicago  Bears handed to us. One small vignette from the 
ame: 
here were about  three minutes remaining in the game and the Bears had just 
cored their  66th or 67th point when the guy in front of me rose unsteadily 
o his feet  and announced to his neighbors. "Well. that was the touchdown 
hat beat  us!"
on Williams
55
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