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Post by Deleted on Sept 16, 2023 9:27:38 GMT -6
Newspapers around the state carried handout information from the colleges and universities -- back when colleges and universities were considered important parts of our world. This one is from March 1923, the Connersville News-Examiner, announcing that E.C. was about to begin a football program. The highlighted words are the result of the search criteria. I was actually looking for something completely different. John Harmon was coach. The first game for the Harmonites was against Merom College (also known as Union Christian). That matches up with the scores listed on a related link. The Merom game, won by the Purples 19-0, was on Oct. 19. Game was at Bosse Field. First TD -- Small to Stuteville for 30 yards. Merom-UC was a college in Sullivan Co., north of Tee-town. I have no idea why anyone would go to college there, so I guess they quit having one. Wiky says: At UCC women could study to be doctors, lawyers, ministers, or home-makers. Wow, a doctor-housewife! Let me find this woman! Related clip is from Evansville Journal, Aug. 1923. Snip-and-clip options create unusual outcomes on type size. I won't be doing this regularly, but it was fun to stumble over some old-timey news. E.C. moved from Moores Hill, Indiana, after a fire destroyed their campus building in 1917. I think 1923 is the same year they built the Olmstead shrine. No idea where this dorm was to be located or how long it lasted. That information is available. I just don't feel like looking for it at the moment.
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Post by E-Villan on Sept 16, 2023 20:33:43 GMT -6
If you have a little extra time and are as tired of US 41 as I am from Terre Haute, I highly suggest taking SR 63 and then SR 58 back to US 41 at Carlisle. Very scenic drive that takes you through Merom. There is a park on high bluffs overlooking the Wabash and the campus of the old college still remains as a retreat/conference center. www.merom.org/
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Post by Deleted on Sept 16, 2023 21:45:37 GMT -6
If you have a little extra time and are as tired of US 41 as I am from Terre Haute, I highly suggest taking SR 63 and then SR 58 back to US 41 at Carlisle. Very scenic drive that takes you through Merom. There is a park on high bluffs overlooking the Wabash and the campus of the old college still remains as a retreat/conference center. www.merom.org/Sounds like a nice day trip from here. We could stay at the Regal 8 there in Terry Haute, see the Bird statue and eat at the IHOP. Then ... well, if we went in August we could get some watermelons at Melon Acres. That is nice that they keep this place alive.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 18, 2023 14:24:15 GMT -6
More old-timey football from 1923. Evansville's second-ever opponent was Oakland City, who the Pioneers/Aces beat 18-to-zilch. But Oakland City was actually a "veteran" team by this time. The Oaks had started football in 1922 and played the usual teams -- Merom, Jasonville, Hanover, Rose Poly ... and Battery D. The "D-Cells" was the National Guard unit based in Princeton and got together here and there to play some football. Mostly the D-Cells lost because they were really not football players, just guys who liked to play football. But their first game against the Oaks, they won. Later on, the revenge tilt went the other way. Oakland City didn't have much of an organized sports program in 1922 and hired Walter Webb to coach track, basketball, baseball, badminton, battery charging and cheerleading. He was actually a YMCA swimmer as well. That year, OCC put down 1-1/2 inch sawed oak on its gymnasium floor, rendering it one of the finest in all the land. For its part, Battery D has a legendary history. You can look that up on your own.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 25, 2023 13:38:02 GMT -6
Sept. 25, 1926 ... Kentucky Wesleyan traveled to Cincinnati to play a night game against the Bearcats. On WSAI radio, it was. WSAI was the "go-to" rock 'n roll station for us when we were teenagers. Not sure what they have on now.
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Post by E-Villan on Oct 19, 2023 21:16:21 GMT -6
Sept. 25, 1926 ... Kentucky Wesleyan traveled to Cincinnati to play a night game against the Bearcats. On WSAI radio, it was. WSAI was the "go-to" rock 'n roll station for us when we were teenagers. Not sure what they have on now. WSAI is still around as a FOX Sports affiliate. I usually listened to another AM station when I was in Cincinnati. Crazy DJ's and promotions. Even bombed a shopping center with turkeys once.
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Post by ATP on Oct 19, 2023 21:57:09 GMT -6
Sept. 25, 1926 ... Kentucky Wesleyan traveled to Cincinnati to play a night game against the Bearcats. On WSAI radio, it was. WSAI was the "go-to" rock 'n roll station for us when we were teenagers. Not sure what they have on now. WSAI is still around as a FOX Sports affiliate. I usually listened to another AM station when I was in Cincinnati. Crazy DJ's and promotions. Even bombed a shopping center with turkeys once. I am still not sure how I deleted my account but I guess it is what it is. Yeah, I thought those things could fly.
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