FB: American Rivers Conference

[sportsknight]

26 - the number of years I will have been around come my next birthday

I wasn't around a computer yesterday or I would have made a similar comment about my next birthday (less than a month away).  Except I'll only be 25.

[Alfredeneumann]

Here's an article about TRUE sportsmanship.

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncaa/columns/story?columnist=hays_graham&id=3372631&lpos=spotlight&lid=tab4pos1

Wow, what a great read.  Actually choked me up a bit. 

Now for your trivia question.  Cleveland, Baltimore and Pittsburgh???  I was thinking there was a 4th???

Doolittle you had the correct teams - just 3 teams .

[Alfredeneumann]

26 Days until Wartburg Graduation.

ABOUT 26 hours until the Knights START spring practice. - Hopefully NO team will have the bad luck UCLA had this week.

"Coming into the season, new UCLA football coach Rick Neuheisel had a tough decision about who will be his starting quarterback in 2008 with Patrick Cowan and Ben Olson as the top two candidates.

....In practice Thursday, Cowan and Olson went down on back-to-back plays. Both were wearing helmets, shoulder pads and shorts, in the next-to-last practice of an injury-free spring."

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=3370532

[Klompen]

26 Days until Wartburg Graduation.

ABOUT 26 hours until the Knights START spring practice. - Hopefully NO team will have the bad luck UCLA had this week.

"Coming into the season, new UCLA football coach Rick Neuheisel had a tough decision about who will be his starting quarterback in 2008 with Patrick Cowan and Ben Olson as the top two candidates.

....In practice Thursday, Cowan and Olson went down on back-to-back plays. Both were wearing helmets, shoulder pads and shorts, in the next-to-last practice of an injury-free spring."

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=3370532

Once again it reminds me of '88 when Central lost 2 QB's the same day and headed into the first game of the playoffs without a proven QB.  We didn't win the conference, but we finished 2nd in the nation.  Not bad.

[doolittledog]

Klompen, were you on that '88 team???

[Floyd in Iowa City]

26 - IIAC team titles for the Wartburg Wrestling team

26 - retired number of Billy Williams for the Cubs

26 - number of tackles Chris Kern for Simpson had against Luther in 2004 (IIAC record)

26 - number of letters in the alphabet (although in MN we have 27 with the extra long "o")

26 - supposedly a Rubik's cube can be solved in 26 moves or less

26 - the number of years I will have been around come my next birthday

26 - IIAC team titles for the Luther Men's Track team (the heat might be on the current track coach)

26 - Career TD passes thrown by 1986 Iowa Conference co-MVP and former Norse Head Coach Paul Hefty

I will have to start paying more attention to the numbers as there are a few of these sports where the Norse have won 20-some conference titles (men's and women's tennis, men's cross country, men's track).

[DutchFan2004]

26 - IIAC team titles for the Wartburg Wrestling team

26 - retired number of Billy Williams for the Cubs

26 - number of tackles Chris Kern for Simpson had against Luther in 2004 (IIAC record)

26 - number of letters in the alphabet (although in MN we have 27 with the extra long "o")

26 - supposedly a Rubik's cube can be solved in 26 moves or less

26 - the number of years I will have been around come my next birthday

26 - IIAC team titles for the Luther Men's Track team (the heat might be on the current track coach)

26 - Career TD passes thrown by 1986 Iowa Conference co-MVP and former Norse Head Coach Paul Hefty

I will have to start paying more attention to the numbers as there are a few of these sports where the Norse have won 20-some conference titles (men's and women's tennis, men's cross country, men's track).

Was that career TD's or season.  Did he play more than one year.  If that is a career stat things have changed a lot as 26 for a career is kind of low now a days.  If a guy is say a two year starter that is 20 games that is just over one a game. 

[TheOne89.1]

I will have to start paying more attention to the numbers as there are a few of these sports where the Norse have won 20-some conference titles (men's and women's tennis, men's cross country, men's track).

How about Baseball and Softball?  I faintly remember as a kid that Luther was pretty good in those areas.  Maybe it was just because I was 20 min. away and didn't hear about any other IIAC schools.

On a note related to Luther baseball...just watched "The Final Season" the other day.  Excellent movie.  Sean Astin walking around in "Luther College" shirts the whole time.  I've driving through "Norway".  I've met Nick Livingston (the "closer" in the movie) a few years back.  But overall, another great baseball movie that has to do with Iowa.

[Floyd in Iowa City]

26 - IIAC team titles for the Wartburg Wrestling team

26 - retired number of Billy Williams for the Cubs

26 - number of tackles Chris Kern for Simpson had against Luther in 2004 (IIAC record)

26 - number of letters in the alphabet (although in MN we have 27 with the extra long "o")

26 - supposedly a Rubik's cube can be solved in 26 moves or less

26 - the number of years I will have been around come my next birthday

26 - IIAC team titles for the Luther Men's Track team (the heat might be on the current track coach)

26 - Career TD passes thrown by 1986 Iowa Conference co-MVP and former Norse Head Coach Paul Hefty

I will have to start paying more attention to the numbers as there are a few of these sports where the Norse have won 20-some conference titles (men's and women's tennis, men's cross country, men's track).

Was that career TD's or season.  Did he play more than one year.  If that is a career stat things have changed a lot as 26 for a career is kind of low now a days.  If a guy is say a two year starter that is 20 games that is just over one a game. 

Career TDs as he was a multiple year starter for the Norse.  The IIAC was much more of a running league in general back then as far as TDs passes and overall yardage.  Paul may have moved the Norse down the field with the passing game at times, but many drives were finished with the run game.  He also ran with the ball in addition to what he did through the air.  The Norse were 7-3 in 1986 and 8-2 in 1987 (the best two-year period since the early 1970s).

[Floyd in Iowa City]

I will have to start paying more attention to the numbers as there are a few of these sports where the Norse have won 20-some conference titles (men's and women's tennis, men's cross country, men's track).

How about Baseball and Softball?  I faintly remember as a kid that Luther was pretty good in those areas.  Maybe it was just because I was 20 min. away and didn't hear about any other IIAC schools.

On a note related to Luther baseball...just watched "The Final Season" the other day.  Excellent movie.  Sean Astin walking around in "Luther College" shirts the whole time.  I've driving through "Norway".  I've met Nick Livingston (the "closer" in the movie) a few years back.  But overall, another great baseball movie that has to do with Iowa.

Baseball has won 12 "official" titles since 1947, but the most dominant decades of baseball at Luther were before World War II when over half of the schedule most years were against Division I opponents.  The Norse were very consistent in the 1920s and 1930s and won many conference titles that are no longer recognized by the Iowa Conference (only conference titles in baseball since 1947 are recognized).  Two of the players from those teams made the Major Leagues while many others played professional baseball.  They had yearly rivalry games with schools like Iowa and Northwestern (beat the Wildcats for 10 straight games), and also played schools like LSU, USC, Michigan State, and Notre Dame. 

The Norse also had good runs in baseball in the 1960s-mid 70s and won three in a row in the mid-1980s.  One of the mid-1960s teams were Division II regional champs before they had a Division II College World Series.  One player from the post-World War II era played in the Major Leagues.

The coach in "The Final Season" played baseball at Waldorf before playing at Luther during the time when they won those three conference titles in a row from 1983-85.

Luther Softball has had good teams (5 titles), but softball hasn't been around that long (since 1983 as a championship IIAC sport) and Central is the best school in that sport (9 titles).  Simpson and B.V. have both won 6 titles as well.

[Walston Hoover]

I have a Billy Williams autographed baseball tucked away somewhere at my house.

[DutchFan2004]

26 - IIAC team titles for the Wartburg Wrestling team

26 - retired number of Billy Williams for the Cubs

26 - number of tackles Chris Kern for Simpson had against Luther in 2004 (IIAC record)

26 - number of letters in the alphabet (although in MN we have 27 with the extra long "o")

26 - supposedly a Rubik's cube can be solved in 26 moves or less

26 - the number of years I will have been around come my next birthday

26 - IIAC team titles for the Luther Men's Track team (the heat might be on the current track coach)

26 - Career TD passes thrown by 1986 Iowa Conference co-MVP and former Norse Head Coach Paul Hefty

I will have to start paying more attention to the numbers as there are a few of these sports where the Norse have won 20-some conference titles (men's and women's tennis, men's cross country, men's track).

Was that career TD's or season.  Did he play more than one year.  If that is a career stat things have changed a lot as 26 for a career is kind of low now a days.  If a guy is say a two year starter that is 20 games that is just over one a game. 

Career TDs as he was a multiple year starter for the Norse.  The IIAC was much more of a running league in general back then as far as TDs passes and overall yardage.  Paul may have moved the Norse down the field with the passing game at times, but many drives were finished with the run game.  He also ran with the ball in addition to what he did through the air.  The Norse were 7-3 in 1986 and 8-2 in 1987 (the best two-year period since the early 1970s).

If they were more of a running team that would explain it.  I guess with the recent years and with more passing that just seemed low for a career.  That does make sense though. 

[footballdaddy]

I was checking my email tonight and saw that my son had received one from Cornell football. It seems that Coach Dillon has reviewed my son's highlight DVD, and feels he's just what the Rams are looking for at quarterback. He went on quite a bit about how his release, pocket presence and decision making were outstanding, and he had a bright future in Mount Vernon. I mention this because my son is finishing his first year at Wartburg, and is planning on attending the first spring practice tomorrow before leaving for Mexico for May Term. He last talked to Coach Dillon about 15 months ago. I'll make no judgements on this, but I wonder if anyone else has any comments?

Talked to my son last night and he said a coulpe of his buddies who are Wartburg football players also got emails from Cornell the other night. I know that there might be clerical errors in entering info into databases, but wouldn't they know that these players are already in college when they go to their high schools to talk to them? The other scenario is that Cornell is contacting 1st year players who may be unhappy and trying to get them to look at Cornell. Isn't that tampering? I don't know, I just think it's odd for one conference school to contact another team's players.

[TheOne89.1]

27 - How old Alfred E. Neumann wishes he was turning today

Happy Birthday!

[New Storm]

I was checking my email tonight and saw that my son had received one from Cornell football. It seems that Coach Dillon has reviewed my son's highlight DVD, and feels he's just what the Rams are looking for at quarterback. He went on quite a bit about how his release, pocket presence and decision making were outstanding, and he had a bright future in Mount Vernon. I mention this because my son is finishing his first year at Wartburg, and is planning on attending the first spring practice tomorrow before leaving for Mexico for May Term. He last talked to Coach Dillon about 15 months ago. I'll make no judgements on this, but I wonder if anyone else has any comments?

Talked to my son last night and he said a coulpe of his buddies who are Wartburg football players also got emails from Cornell the other night. I know that there might be clerical errors in entering info into databases, but wouldn't they know that these players are already in college when they go to their high schools to talk to them? The other scenario is that Cornell is contacting 1st year players who may be unhappy and trying to get them to look at Cornell. Isn't that tampering? I don't know, I just think it's odd for one conference school to contact another team's players.

Probably some secretary that got an old database