FB: Northwest Conference

[Cut City]

On a more serious note...some a-hole(s) are seriously causing some issue around Linfield's campus.  Second time within 7 days the Mac PD, bomb squad, FBI have had to make it out the campus to dispose of suspicious packages.  No joke.

Mrs 11 and myself were on our weekly Sunday morning walk with our dogs and when we hit campus the entire North end of campus was shut down with police tape, barriers, etc.  Students where kept in the dorms for hours while the bomb squad removed up to 5 packages. I hope they catch whoever it is and drop the hammer on them.

http://www.newsregister.com/article/42489-more+suspicious+packages+found+linfield+campus

Oh wow ... "curious how police would respond to finding several suspicious packages around campus."  Really?

I'm gonna go out on a limb and say she's probably had her curiosity more than satisfied.

[Linfield61]

Issued by The National Weather Service
Milwaukee/Sullivan, WI
3:21 pm CST, Mon., Dec. 7, 2009

... WINTER STORM WARNING IN EFFECT FROM NOON TUESDAY TO MIDNIGHT CST WEDNESDAY NIGHT...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN HAS ISSUED A WINTER STORM WARNING FOR HEAVY SNOW AND BLOWING SNOW... WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM NOON TUESDAY TO MIDNIGHT CST WEDNESDAY NIGHT. THE WINTER STORM WATCH IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT.

* TIMING: SNOW IS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP TUESDAY... AND WILL BECOME HEAVY AT TIMES TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY MORNING. THE SNOW WILL TAPER OFF TO SCATTERED SNOW SHOWERS AND FLURRIES BY WEDNESDAY EVENING.

* SNOW ACCUMULATIONS: 9 TO 12 INCHES IS EXPECTED BY WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON MOST PLACES... WITH 6 TO 9 INCHES ACROSS THE FAR SOUTHEAST.

* WINDS: EAST AT 10 TO 15 MPH ON TUESDAY... TURNING NORTHEAST AND INCREASING TO 15 TO 25 MPH TUESDAY NIGHT. THE WINDS TURN NORTHWEST WEDNESDAY MORNING AND INCREASE TO BETWEEN 20 AND 30 MPH... WITH GUSTS TO 40 MPH... THEN BECOME WEST AND SLOWLY DIMINISH TO 10 TO 15 MPH WEDNESDAY EVENING AND NIGHT.

* IMPACTS: TRAVEL CONDITIONS WILL DETERIORATE RAPIDLY TUESDAY EVENING... AND REMAIN HAZARDOUS THROUGH WEDNESDAY. SEVERE BLOWING AND DRIFTING SNOW WILL CREATE WHITEOUT CONDITIONS AT TIMES... ESPECIALLY ON WEDNESDAY.

* WHILE WIDESPREAD BLIZZARD CONDITIONS ARE NOT EXPECTED... THERE IS A POTENTIAL FOR A PORTION OF THE FORECAST AREA TO BE UPGRADED TO A BLIZZARD WARNING IF THE STORM INTENSIFIES MORE THAN CURRENTLY FORECAST. IT WILL BE IMPORTANT TO MONITOR LATER FORECASTS AND STATEMENTS ON THIS MAJOR WINTER STORM.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

A WINTER STORM WARNING FOR HEAVY SNOW MEANS SEVERE WINTER WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED OR OCCURRING. SIGNIFICANT AMOUNTS OF SNOW ARE FORECAST THAT WILL MAKE TRAVEL DANGEROUS. ONLY TRAVEL IN AN EMERGENCY. IF YOU MUST TRAVEL... KEEP AN EXTRA FLASHLIGHT... FOOD... AND WATER IN YOUR VEHICLE IN CASE OF AN EMERGENCY.

&&

More Information

... DEEPENING LOW PRESSURE STILL ON TRACK TO BRING HEAVY SNOW AND STRONG WINDS TO THE REGION TUESDAY AFTERNOON THROUGH WEDNESDAY EVENING...

STRONG LOW PRESSURE IS STILL EXPECTED TO DEVELOP OVER THE SOUTHERN PLAINS ON TUESDAY... AND WILL MOVE NORTHEAST TO LOWER MICHIGAN ON WEDNESDAY. THIS TRACK WOULD RESULT IN HEAVY SNOW OVER MUCH OF SOUTHERN WISCONSIN. TOTAL SNOWFALL WILL LIKELY EXCEED 8 INCHES IN MOST AREAS.

IN ADDITION... STRONG WINDS WILL RESULT IN BLOWING AND DRIFTING SNOW AND SEVERELY REDUCED VISIBILITIES TUESDAY EVENING... AND AGAIN ON WEDNESDAY. NEAR BLIZZARD CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED FOR SEVERAL HOURS.

SLIGHT VARIATIONS OF THIS TRACK ARE STILL POSSIBLE... WHICH COULD CHANGE SNOW AMOUNTS INCLUDING THE POTENTIAL FOR A RAIN AND SNOW MIXTURE IN FAR SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN AND NEAR LAKE MICHIGAN. HOWEVER IT IS LOOKING LIKELY THAT MOST OF SOUTHERN WISCONSIN WILL EXPERIENCE SEVERE WINTER CONDITIONS.

THIS WILL BE THE FIRST MAJOR WINTER STORM FOR WISCONSIN... AND WILL LIKELY HAVE A SIGNIFICANT IMPACT ON SOCIETY. MONITOR THE LATEST FORECASTS CLOSELY ON THIS DEVELOPING WINTER STORM... AND BE READY TO DELAY OR ALTER TRAVEL PLANS TUESDAY EVENING THROUGH WEDNESDAY.

No Additional Weather Alerts for Whitewater, WI

Up to a foot??? Dang.

[bleedpurple]

I was able to watch part of the UWW Witenberg game.  Witenberg stayed with UWW until the 4th quarter.  Was this because Witenberg was that great or was UWW on an off-start?  UWW posters?

The webcast and film for the UWW game was topnotch with sideline reports and even a halftime show.  However my internet speed did not allow me a continuos view as it kept pausing to rebuff.  Did you have this problem D O.C.?  I was then able to watch the Wildcat feed without any problems.

Will be a long week waiting for this game to happen.  Apparently UWW appears to be a heavy favorite but I really like how our Cats are rolling right now.  I think UMHB was the toughest team we played yet but their turnovers absolutely killed them.  I'm hoping forthe same outcome in this weekends game.  The ball will bounce our way.  I believe!

I don't think temperature will be much a factor.  I remember when we played a game in Minnesota with cold temperatures I never realized it was cold until during a timeout and I couldn't drink out of a waterbottle because it had frozen over.  The adrenaline and movement of the game will keep the players warm.  If it's rainy and cold then that could be a factor but it would be for both teams.  Gotta love the games in December.

Let's go Cats!    

Faraway,
I wrote up my take on the UWW-Wittenberg game in my blog. Take a look for one UWW backer's opinion.

www.uwwfootball.blogspot.com

[FarAwayCat]

02 and Bleedpurple, 
Thanks for the insight.  Two different views.  Would have been interesting if Wittenberg's qb had been in all game.
I imagine the Cats will be looking to do a little of the same with the passing attack.  No doubt WW will have been practicing for it.  Except Wittenberg didn't have the Rocketman and that will be the big difference.  Soon as the dbs start to focus on that short quick route passes, he'll catch em sleeping on the deep ball. 
Our WR's are due to start making some big catches.

Can't wait for the game.  Wish I could make it out.

[FarAwayCat]

I have one question about a ref call in the game that maybe someone can answer for me:

When we ran onto the field in punt formation late in the game why did the official stand over the ball after it had already been whistled into play?  I know in the NFL you have to allow for the other team to substitute if you make a substitution, does the same rule apply in college?

Good question Bubs, I was wondering the same thing.

[criswyly]

Make that 3....I was wondering that also....seems to me the only time the ref should do that if it was the end of a time out.

[02 Warhawk]

02 and Bleedpurple, 
Thanks for the insight.  Two different views.  Would have been interesting if Wittenberg's qb had been in all game.
I imagine the Cats will be looking to do a little of the same with the passing attack.  No doubt WW will have been practicing for it.  Except Wittenberg didn't have the Rocketman and that will be the big difference.  Soon as the dbs start to focus on that short quick route passes, he'll catch em sleeping on the deep ball. 
Our WR's are due to start making some big catches.

Can't wait for the game.  Wish I could make it out.

Rocketman huh....interesting 

Whatever floats your boat....    

[RedandPurple]

Pearl Harbor and Division III Football.
Remembering Pearl Harbor Day.


1941 Willamette Pearl Harbor Football Team
(Copied from the Bearcats web page)

As long as Americans remember Pearl Harbor, Willamette's 1941 football team will be in the minds of Salem-area residents and followers of the University. For many people, head coach Roy S. 'Spec' Keene's Bearcat team and Pearl Harbor go hand-in-hand.

On the gridiron that year, the bearcats forged an impressive 8-2 record; including six shutouts. They easily won the Northwest Conference title; outscoring their five opponents 218-7 The team included future Willamette University Athletic Hall of Fame selections Ted Ogdahl, Marvin Goodman, Dick Weisgerber (assistant coach) and Keene.

Willamette had 11 of 23 players on the NWC first-team all-star unit: ends bill Reder and Marshall Barbour; tackles Martin Barstad, Neil Morley and George Constable; guards Anthony Jo Fraiola and Gordon Moore; and backs Al Walden, Buddy Reynolds, Gene Stewart and Ogdahl.

After losing only to the University of Idaho on the mainland, the Bearcats thought they'd be in for a treat with a trip to Hawaii. The football teams from Willamette and San Jose were to play a series of games with the University of Hawaii called the Shrine Bowl.

In the first game of the Shrine Bowl on Dec. 6 Willamette lost a 20-6 contest against the University of Hawaii in Honolulu. The next morning, the Willamette contingent was preparing for a tour of the island when Japanese forces bombed Pearl Harbor. That led to the United States' Involvement in World War II.

After the initial attack, Keene volunteered his players and male supporters for 10 days of guard duty at Punahou School while the women on the trip were sent to a Navy hospital as nurses' aides. Most of the Willamette group left Hawaii two weeks after the initial bombing, arriving on the ocean liner President Coolidge in San Francisco bay on Christmas Day.

The 1941 football team was inducted into the Willamette University Athletic Hall of Fame on Sept.13, 1997. Also inducted that year were Wayne and Shirley (McKay) Hadley, longtime supporters of Willamette athletics who were with the football squad in Hawaii.

Since the 50th reunion of Willamette's 'Pearl Harbor' football contingent in 1991, there have been numerous feature stories written in newspapers up and down the West Coast. The most prominent stories appeared in The Oregonian (Portland), Statesman Journal (Salem) and the Honolulu Advertiser.

In November of 2000 the story of the football team in Hawaii was featured on a weekly ESPN show called "NFL Films Presents." The show entitled "The Moment of Impact," aired during the week of Nov. 24-28.

[D O.C.]

Rocketman huh....interesting 
Whatever floats your boat....

Funny!
But, (sorry Stoonk) he is better than Danny Jones at that position.

Some day...just maybe some day, LINFIELD is going to be able to put up 13-0 like the other three semi-finalists.  I have an inferiority complex building. One step at a time I guess - or one decade at a time.

[OldCatProf]

Weather and cold can be a factor. 

Maybe weather won't be a factor for the players, but this Arizona resident can assure all that it will be a factor for at least one fan.   It'll be like some of those worst-weather games at Whitworth.

I better rush out and buy some long underwear. Oh wait, where do you buy long underwear in Phoenix?

[MonroviaCat]

On a more serious note...some a-hole(s) are seriously causing some issue around Linfield's campus.  Second time within 7 days the Mac PD, bomb squad, FBI have had to make it out the campus to dispose of suspicious packages.  No joke.

Mrs 11 and myself were on our weekly Sunday morning walk with our dogs and when we hit campus the entire North end of campus was shut down with police tape, barriers, etc.  Students where kept in the dorms for hours while the bomb squad removed up to 5 packages. I hope they catch whoever it is and drop the hammer on them.

http://www.newsregister.com/article/42489-more+suspicious+packages+found+linfield+campus

Oh wow ... "curious how police would respond to finding several suspicious packages around campus."  Really?

http://www.oregonlive.com/news/index.ssf/2009/12/linfield_senior_turns_herself.html

How much do you want to bet this will have something to do with her Senior Thesis (she is an anthropology major after all).

[RedandPurple]

Weather and cold can be a factor.  

Maybe weather won't be a factor for the players, but this Arizona resident can assure all that it will be a factor for at least one fan.  It'll be like some of those worst-weather games at Whitworth.

I better rush out and buy some long underwear. Oh wait, where do you buy long underwear in Phoenix?

Here you go my fellow Zonie...located in Glendale, Arizona.  

Cabela's® Outfitter Series™ Merino Wool Base Layer

"For years, outdoorsmen have trusted wool outerwear to keep them warm in the toughest conditions. Hardcore hunters still don't trust their outer layer to anything less than wool. Now, they can trust it as a base layer. Our medium weight layer, made with 160-gram merino wool, is perfect for cold days when you're staying active. Our heavyweight layer, made with 225-gram merino wool, is perfect for extremely cold days when you're less active. Imported."

[Bearcat Press]

+K R&P

You can find a video that features interviews with a couple of the players from the Pearl Harbor team here:

http://www.willamette.edu/athletics/teams/football/pearl_harbor_team/

[D O.C.]

Imported

No. Sorry. Old Cat Prof only buys American. Got to find him a an Army-Navy store up in Flagstaff,

[bleedpurple]

02 and Bleedpurple, 
Thanks for the insight.  Two different views.  Would have been interesting if Wittenberg's qb had been in all game.
I imagine the Cats will be looking to do a little of the same with the passing attack.  No doubt WW will have been practicing for it.  Except Wittenberg didn't have the Rocketman and that will be the big difference.  Soon as the dbs start to focus on that short quick route passes, he'll catch em sleeping on the deep ball. 
Our WR's are due to start making some big catches.

Can't wait for the game.  Wish I could make it out.

Considering UWW gave up more than 14 points ONE TIME all year (they gave up 21 to UW-LaCrosse, 14 of which came in the fourth quarter of a 58-21 win), the "Rocketman" better be pretty darn good to be "the big difference".  

Neither UWW nor Linfield has been held to below 30 points in any game this year.

One possibility to consider would be that "the big difference" just could be that the Cats have allowed 165 more points  than UWW in 1 less game.  

In fact, if the "Rocketman" is good enough to overcome that, maybe you should officially change his nickname to:  "THE BIG DIFFERENCE"