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[Jonny Utah]

Ithaca has Karl Ravech of ESPN, actor David Boreanz, ABC News Anchor David Muir, Disney COE Bob Iger.

Oswego also has Al Roker, Steve Levy and Linda Cohn.

Cortland has Mankind (WWE) as an attendee, not grad I think.

That post made me laugh.......

[Knightstalker]

Ray Liotta attended JCSC, now NJCU for a year or two before transferring to Miami of FL.

[K-Mack]

Now we're cooking with gas.

RPI has someone famous from the film world ... Farrelly brothers maybe, or one of them.

Also, one of the SCIAC schools or Chapman had more than one legendary coach pass through. Don Coryell maybe ... hold on, now that I've thought of a name, let me Google that.

BLAM!

George Allen too.

Although it is highly unusual for a coach or athlete from a small college to go onto a coaching career in professional football, Allen is not the only Whittier coach or player to have done so.  Jerry Burns, backfield coach under Allen at Whittier during the 1950s, went on to become head coach of the Minnesota Vikings.  Don Coryell, who replaced Allen at Whittier, went on to become head coach for the San Diego Chargers.  Russ Purnell, who graduated from Whittier College in 1970, is special teams coach for the Indianapolis Colts, and Jim Skipper, who graduated from Whittier College in 1973, is running back coach for the Carolina Panthers.

... From Whittier.edu

Also, Springfield has about 1,000 assistant coaches in the NFL. And one of the Schottenheimers is a D3 guy.

Did a list a few years ago out of an NFL fact book. No idea where it is, plus all the staffs have probably turned over by now.

Anyway ...

I came on this thread for a new topic that has no home.

R.I.P. St. Peter's (N.J.) football ... that's two Jersey City football teams who have bitten the dust in five years.

Not sure if Salisbury had the I-AA non-scholarship program scheduled or not this year, but in reading about it I found out why they had so much trouble getting games. They played at a city-owned facility who only let them host on Thursday or Saturday night. Ouch.

P.S. Actual number may be smaller = 

[Pat Coleman]

Yep, Salisbury had them on the schedule:

http://www.d3football.com/school_info.php?school=Salisbury&year=2007

So did Western Connecticut:

http://www.d3football.com/school_info.php?school=Western+Connecticut&year=2007

Wonder if they can juggle their schedule and play each other.

['gro]

Since I lived in Binghamton for four years, it's mandatory that I say "there is no P in Binghamton."  And since I'm a cornball I'll add, "What do they do -- hold it until they leave the city?"

I knew something was not right about the way I spelled it.  It's only right, since it's pronounced BING-um-tin.

RPI has someone famous from the film world ... Farrelly brothers maybe, or one of them.

upon further review... it was Bobby Farrelly (only) that went to RPI.

[K-Mack]

It's amazing the stuff I kinda-sorta know about D3.

I think I read that he was big into RPI hockey in conjuction with the Matt Damon/Kinnear movie, and I was like 'what the?'

Gro, you got the Sopranos on tape/DVD? I saw the first three this season and the last two (liked the end fine, BTW), but I missed the demise of Chris Moltisanti, etc. ... looking for the middle episodes and saw your tagline.

['gro]

Gro, you got the Sopranos on tape/DVD? I saw the first three this season and the last two (liked the end fine, BTW), but I missed the demise of Chris Moltisanti, etc. ... looking for the middle episodes and saw your tagline.

negative... probably on eBay somewhere.   w/o turning this into the sopranos thread, I also had no problem with the ending (no proof that he lived or died... it ended!).

[tmerton]

Does anyone else remember an article about Colorado College football and one of its players in Sports Illustrated a long time ago?  Probably at least 30 years ago I'd think (yikes).  The thing I remember most was a story about how the young man who was the focus of the article had hung a sign in the visitors' locker room explaining that the CC field was named after a visiting player who had died when his lungs collapsed due to his failure to adjust to the high altitude.  (I believe this was shortly after the Mexico City Olympics when altitude adjustment had been pushed into the national consciousness.)  Will SI search for/provide articles from its archives?

[realistic]

the Farrley mention made me remember Rod Serling.  I don't believe he attended Ithaca but he was a professor there for a while and a number of his Awards (emmys, etc) were on display in the Park School.

[D O.C.]

$.02 from a kinder, gentler WILDCAT NATION:

What games, for those of you who have looked at a schedule, would you want us/Around the Nation to attend?

What's wrong with peddling out to McMinnville for the Hardin Simmons free-for-all? other than the fact 70 % of the people in the country live east of the Rockies.

Hey! Steely Dan=Bard College.

[Ralph Turner]

Does anyone else remember an article about Colorado College football and one of its players in Sports Illustrated a long time ago?  Probably at least 30 years ago I'd think (yikes).  The thing I remember most was a story about how the young man who was the focus of the article had hung a sign in the visitors' locker room explaining that the CC field was named after a visiting player who had died when his lungs collapsed due to his failure to adjust to the high altitude.  (I believe this was shortly after the Mexico City Olympics when altitude adjustment had been pushed into the national consciousness.)  Will SI search for/provide articles from its archives?

Colorado College plays on Washburn Field. Here's a description of its history:

Colorado College Athletics Facilities: Washburn Field

I kinda sorta remember the article you're talking about. I looked briefly but couldn't find anything in the SI archives, though I did run across this tongue-in-cheek article about the SI swimsuit issue in The Brushback:

http://www.thebrushback.com/uglywomen_full.htm

OxyBob

   School                                    Stadium                              Year


1.   Wesleyan University (CT)    Andrus Field (Nation's oldest field)    1881

2.   Williams College  Weston Field (Oldest in Massachusetts)  1883 (As if Williams needed another excuse to "gig" the defectors!!!  )

3.   Amherst College    Pratt Field    1891

4.   Univ. of the South    McGee Field(Oldest in the South)    1891

5.   Illinois Wesleyan University    Illinois Wesleyan    (Oldest in the Midwest!    )1893

6.   University of Pennsylvania    Franklin Field(Oldest Division I Field)    1895

7.   Bowdoin College    Whittier Field    1896

8.   Colorado College    Washburn Field(Oldest west of Miss. River)    1898

9.   Susquehannah University    Amos Alonzo Stagg Field    1899

10.   Bates College    Carcelon Field    1898

[Knightstalker]

$.02 from a kinder, gentler WILDCAT NATION:

What games, for those of you who have looked at a schedule, would you want us/Around the Nation to attend?

What's wrong with peddling out to McMinnville for the Hardin Simmons free-for-all? other than the fact 70 % of the people in the country live east of the Rockies.

Hey! Steely Dan=Bard College.

But you need to remember the line from My Old School, "Never going back to Annandale"  must of been a fun time.

[Knightstalker]

I didn't look it up, was just remembering off the top of my head.  Besides I'm only the bass player not the lead singer.  I just learn choruseseseses

[gordonmann]

Ralph:

I've been to six of the fields on that list -- the five NESCACs and Franklin Field.  Andrus Field (Google Map) is aptly named since it's basically a large quad in the middle of the Weslyean campus that the baseball and football teams share.

Susquehanna replaced Amos Alonzo Stagg field with the sparkling Nicholas A. Lopardo Stadium in 2000.  It's one of the nicest Division III stadiums I've ever visited (seen below).




On an unrelated note, Happy Father's Day to all the dads out there.

[Ralph Turner]

Thanks for the photo.  Did Susque move to a different location from Stagg Field?

That is beautiful...

Perhaps we can use Google maps to have a feature...

"Stadia of D3"


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