(02-05-2015 05:29 PM)I45owl Wrote:  

(02-04-2015 04:38 PM)owlaggie Wrote:  I realize that the Wagner game has not generated a lot of enthusiasm among most of this board. However for one current Rice football family the game has generated considerable excitement! Andrew Reue's (#77) maternal grandfather is a Staten Island native and a graduate of Wagner. His brother (Andrew's great-uncle) was also a Wagner graduate and was a 2000 inductee into the Seahawk sports hall of fame. Phil Qualben was a three sport standout(football, baseball, basketball) and played for the Cleveland Indians 1951-1954 before leaving for the ministry. Several nieces and nephews are also Wagner grads. When Rice played Army this past year at West Point there was a large contingent of the New York family on hand for the Rice victory! We are hoping for a reunion of sorts at Rice stadium in September! Andrew's grandfather is now deceased but his grandmother, who now lives in Austin, attends every Rice home game!
We are, of course, expecting to obliterate the Seahawks!!

Wasn't it Andrew Reue's grandfather that featured prominently in stories about the Owls' trip to the Pearl Harbor memorial (i.e. wasn't he at Pearl Harbor when the Japanese attacked)? I suspect there is no-one on the Rice campus happier with Dr. Joe Karlgaard than the Reue family...

The Wagner grad is Andrew's maternal grandfather. The Navy vet at Pearl Harbor was his paternal grandfather...