FB: Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference

[johnnie_esq]

Joe Hall used to be where Sexton Commons is now, correct?

That is correct.

There was an urban legend that the tundra dorms were also built on wheels so they could move them if necessary as well.  I have no idea as to the veracity of that one.

[royalachilles]

Anybody have the words to that UM-YA-YA song . I looked in the Lutheran Hymnal but to no avail..  I just cant wait to hear it...   

[royalachilles]

I thought that was what I was hearing, but maybe it was Um-Ga-Wha.  Yum Yum, eat em up.....

[sjusection105]

Cobbernation-

We're 16-4 if you remove St. Thomas.  Those Tomcats are a putrid 0-3 having trailed 21-rip in all three games!

Very valid point OAS- you know what all the Johnnie fans say about the Tommies....
Well they're providing no resistance this season.

Are you going to make it up to a Stiftungfestivities this season? Cobbers, Oles or Tommies. Your choice

[stanbob]

Great article from tomorrows strib:

http://www.startribune.com/150/story/1436635.html

[FightingCoBB]

Anybody have the words to that UM-YA-YA song . I looked in the Lutheran Hymnal but to no avail..  I just cant wait to hear it...   

I believe it goes:


We come from St. Olaf, we sure are the real stuff.
Our team is the cream of the colleges great.
We fight fast and furious, our team is injurious.
Tonight Carleton College will sure meet its fate.
Um Ya Ya! Um Ya Ya!
Um Ya Ya! Um Ya Ya!
Um Ya Ya! Um Ya Ya! Um Ya Ya YA!
Um Ya Ya! Um Ya Ya!
Um Ya Ya! Um Ya Ya!
Um Ya Ya! Um Ya Ya! Um Ya Ya YA!

My buddy goes to St. Olaf, and the Cobbs enjoy our little Norwegian rivaly with Oles too... but its not the Johnnie Rats. 

See you boys at the Stiffy Fest eh?

[repete]

Perhaps some of the more senior veteran posters on the board will recall a previous Cobber-SJU tilt, this one basketball back in the venerable Rat Hall. They did the spotlight introductions back then and when the Cobbers took the floor, they were showered (pelted?) with hundreds of cobs as soon as they hit the spotlight. The Rat Pack had distributed bags of them throughout the gym.

I'm sure the reception will be a bit nicer for the C-M crowd at the tailgate ....

Repete, were you there for that?  That was in my Dad's era!

Yeah, I'm an old man. As it mentioned on the next page or so, it was '73 or' 74.

Those were wild times. Another Rat Hall moment, when Bob Rozier, the Tommies' 7-3 or 7-4 guy, was standing under the hoops during warmups a Rat Packer was down on all fours sniffing around, then he crawled over to Rosier and  lifted his leg.

And that was one of the milder things ... I'll save the rest for my next Stiftungsfest because they are best told while holding a red cup.

Rat Hall also had a bowling alley. We'd take a cooler down there in the middle of the night. Brother Willie(?) would come down and we'd tell him we were the JV squad preparing for the MIAC tourney.

Only problem was you had to load the pins back into the setter by hand ... and it could get dangerous standing in the well during later rounds

Excuse me now while I change my Depends.

[retagent]

One of the endearing memories I have of old "Rat" Hall was the stands being as close as they were to the floor, that periodically as some nubile young Bennie walked passed the east side (I Think) stands, the crowd would start chanting "Pass her up! Pass her up!" Some brave lad would grab her and start passing her overhead up, then down the stands, much like the mosh pit crowd surfing that has happened since. Ah ! The good old days.

[Touchdown Tommy]

You old guys lived at SJU in the Glory Days.  Man the basketball crowds were quiet like a library when I was in school....

[Willy Wonka]

Frank or Wonka--Either of you going to the GAC game this weekend?  I'm missing it due to a wedding.  I still don't understand why people get married during football season. At least on Saturdays during football season.  Priorities people!

I'm a no go, Mongo. I have to (get to?) shoot a sweet "granny" basketball event this weekend in town. Lansing, Iowa vs. Red Wing, Minn. baby! The game is preceded by the Sviggum brothers taking on old stars from Red Wing.

Cobbers - I'll be wearing my maroon and puke yellow beanie hat I stole from Papa Wonka (a Cobber legend) this weekend even though I can't make the trip. Meanwhile, you can expect to hear the heckling from former Cobber Jim Johnson (my coworker) all the way up in Moorhead, once he gets some libations in him. Or before.

TDT - The basketball crowds were still sweet in 2000 and 2001, before you guys started sucking (aka the Kevin Buth Era). We got chanted at 90 minutes before the game by a full house in 2001 and an SJU professor was giving a GAC doll the old elbow drop 3 feet from the end of our bench, as fans literally lined the court for the MIAC title game.

[Johnnie]

One of the endearing memories I have of old "Rat" Hall was the stands being as close as they were to the floor, that periodically as some nubile young Bennie walked passed the east side (I Think) stands, the crowd would start chanting "Pass her up! Pass her up!" Some brave lad would grab her and start passing her overhead up, then down the stands, much like the mosh pit crowd surfing that has happened since. Ah ! The good old days.

I remember one time, just before gametime with the lights off for the national athem or player annoucements, one of the rats turned the hand crank (near the top of the stands) a couple of times to raise the opponents bucket a few inches.   The interesting part was trying to lower it during halftime with the lights on.  They were looking for the tallest students to stand in front of the crank to hide the guy who was lowering the bucket.
circa 1969...

Johnnie

[TC]

Some of my finest SJU memories are from Rat Hall.  First and foremost, the food taste-testing days, where all the new food vendors allow us to sample their wares.  Remember those?  Those kicked ass.

Then there was the time that The Record--officed in Rat Hall at the time--endorsed the 5 candidates that I was running against for Senate, but not me.  I dominated (LOL, duh--obvious).

[Touchdown Tommy]

TC I can only remember that miserable upper division econ/theology class we took.  I wanted to shoot myself daily...

[stanbob]

TC I can only remember that miserable upper division econ/theology class we took.  I wanted to shoot myself daily...

econ/theology?  Talk about a conflict of interests.  I would imagine two shots at the La may have been in order.

[TC]

TC I can only remember that miserable upper division econ/theology class we took.  I wanted to shoot myself daily...

WTF did you bring that up for?  I had repressed those memories all these years.  Best part is I was trying to double major so I took as many combo classes as I could so I ended up taking econ/philosophy with the same prof.  Those were the two lowest grades I got at SJU because I literally could not stay awake during class.