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[maxpower]

Awesome vid Pep, but are you serious with that music? Is Michael Bolton an Alfred grad or something?

[Yanks 99]

Awesome vid Pep, but are you serious with that music? Is Michael Bolton an Alfred grad or something?

I don't have access to the video...but are you telling us that Alfred's school song is "How Can We Be Lovers if We Can't Be Friends?"?

[Garnet]

It looks like the video was put on youtube by a Union guy.  There is another video by the same person vs. Kings Point, without music.

[Doid23]

Going back to ICAC days, Pep found a fabulous video on Youtube of an encounter between Union College and Alfred University played at Union's Alexander Field(?) Nov. 9, 1968. The Dutchmen won 6 games that year--most since an unbeaten 1949 season, while the Saxons (and Pep remembers the season well) finished at 2-5. If Pep remembers correctly, the ICAC was loosely organized then with some members choosing NOT to play others so an ICAC title was often disputed. But Union beat all the ICAC teams it played that year.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5sPadq_T0M

AU was not very offensive that year, but the defense was led by #55 LB Bill Assenhemer. This video is probably the best Pep has seen from that era. Small college football has certainly changed through the years! (Legendary) Coach Alex Yunevich likely had 50 men on his roster. Games drew big crowds as shown in this 13-minute video.

On Saxon Warriors!

Doid, weren't you on this Dutchmen team??

Man, I wish. Imagine if I was playing ball at 300 pounds back in 1968? I'd have been like Godzilla swatting down Japanese airplanes and stepping on buildings. Picking up running backs by the back of their necks and having them still running with their feet in the air.

[Doid23]

Doid, could that have been Bobby Ridings shooting the cannon after the Union scores that far back?

Since Bobby was 117 years old when we got there, he certainly would have been shooting the cannon in 1968. I will confirm when I watch it tonight.

Question: Abe Vigoda: Dead or Alive?
                 Bobby Ridings: Dead or Alive?

[Garnet]

Doid, could that have been Bobby Ridings shooting the cannon after the Union scores that far back?

Since Bobby was 117 years old when we got there, he certainly would have been shooting the cannon in 1968. I will confirm when I watch it tonight.

Question: Abe Vigoda: Dead or Alive?
                 Bobby Ridings: Dead or Alive?

you really can't see the shooter. all you see is the big blast of smoke.

I am going with Canadian.

[Jonny Utah]

Going back to ICAC days, Pep found a fabulous video on Youtube of an encounter between Union College and Alfred University played at Union's Alexander Field(?) Nov. 9, 1968. The Dutchmen won 6 games that year--most since an unbeaten 1949 season, while the Saxons (and Pep remembers the season well) finished at 2-5. If Pep remembers correctly, the ICAC was loosely organized then with some members choosing NOT to play others so an ICAC title was often disputed. But Union beat all the ICAC teams it played that year.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5sPadq_T0M

AU was not very offensive that year, but the defense was led by #55 LB Bill Assenhemer. This video is probably the best Pep has seen from that era. Small college football has certainly changed through the years! (Legendary) Coach Alex Yunevich likely had 50 men on his roster. Games drew big crowds as shown in this 13-minute video.

On Saxon Warriors!

Doid, weren't you on this Dutchmen team??

Man, I wish. Imagine if I was playing ball at 300 pounds back in 1968? I'd have been like Godzilla swatting down Japanese airplanes and stepping on buildings. Picking up running backs by the back of their necks and having them still running with their feet in the air.

Those Union d-linemen looked like they had some size though.

Funny how the kickoff team kind of lounged down there like a touch football game at recess.

[Garnet]

I don't know if you would catch the Remote Control reference.  I know Bobby went up to the big equipment cage up in the sky. Abe, not sure but  I am going with dead.

[AUPepBand]

Awesome vid Pep, but are you serious with that music? Is Michael Bolton an Alfred grad or something?

Pep found it on Youtube....can't take responsibility for it. But what a great find!

[AUPepBand]

It looks like the video was put on youtube by a Union guy.  There is another video by the same person vs. Kings Point, without music.

Seems the source , Zoberist, also has a film of the Williams-Union game of a week earlier. That was back when the NESCAC members were still sleepin' around.

[maxpower]

I don't know if you would catch the Remote Control reference.  I know Bobby went up to the big equipment cage up in the sky. Abe, not sure but  I am going with dead.

I think he's still alive, amazingly. he was in that snickers commercial with Betty White just this past super bowl, and i never heard of him dying since...

[maxpower]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abe_Vigoda

Yep... still alive. Only 89 and looking fab-u-lous...

[theoriginalupstate]

Awesome vid Pep, but are you serious with that music? Is Michael Bolton an Alfred grad or something?

Pep found it on Youtube....can't take responsibility for it. But what a great find!

You were what Pep?

25 when that was taped?

[AUPepBand]

Awesome vid Pep, but are you serious with that music? Is Michael Bolton an Alfred grad or something?

Pep found it on Youtube....can't take responsibility for it. But what a great find!

You were what Pep?

25 when that was taped?

Pep was approaching his 13th birthday when that game was taped. Pep was not in attendance...Saxons were down that year, having gone 6-1 in 1967 with their only a 20-15 loss at C.W. Post breaking up an unbeaten season. AU mustered a 17-0 win over Brockport and 16-0 over St. Lawrence for its only wins in 1968.

AU had graduated its star QB Mike Johnston from Elmira after the 1967 season and had very little offense. A year later, Jim Moretti and Charley Young made their appearance and the Saxons went 5-3 in 1969, 7-1 in 1970 (lone loss 16-14 at Wilkes) and 8-0 in 1971. After Moretti graduated, AU went 7-1 in 1972 and 7-2 in 1973.

[Knightstalker]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abe_Vigoda

Yep... still alive. Only 89 and looking fab-u-lous...

He looked that way back in the 70's when he was in the godfather and doing Barney Miller.