(01-21-2019 05:49 PM)ScottyB757 Wrote: (01-21-2019 04:02 PM)nogretheogre Wrote: No more complaints about our schedule.
Holy Cross game = Gordie Lochbaum's visit to the Colonial Capitol. A rainy, dreary day as I recall.
That was a GREAT schedule at the time.
Colgate, our opener, had Kenny Gamble who was considered among the top running backs at the time in 1AA - which he showed in the 1H. This game was Lambiotte's coming out game, which as I remember we won with a 2H rally in exciting fashion.
Both Harvard and VMI were sellouts or close to it. There was an article written about the Harvard game, it was independent and taken by some larger papers, describing the game in positive terms, a football game with perspective.
I still have the newspaper write-up on the Holy Cross game - which was homecoming. They were undefeated and #1 in "1AA". We had just come off a win vs Princeton -
that followed our huge win at UVA, 41-37. Gordie Lockbaum was in the running for the Heisman. Their head coach, Mark Duffner, a Tribe football alum who later took the job at Maryland, was the HC head coach. Holy Cross had sold 3,000 tickets for the game. The article mentioned Cary was overflowing with 17,100 at the game (we had huge end zones then) despite the rain.
If you were trying to make a point of sarcasm about a bad schedule, you failed miserably in this example.