MBB: Landmark Conference

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The great Kevin Southard was a SFU guy before the U

[NEPAFAN]

https://digitalprojects.scranton.edu/s/hist190/page/thejet


Ronk:

I found this...

Sports were much more popular on campus when Rhett played, then they are now, and anyone who went to a Scranton basketball game was amazed by "the Jet". It was also common for Jenkins to have an entire page dedicated to him in the newspaper.

[ronk]

https://digitalprojects.scranton.edu/s/hist190/page/thejet


Ronk:

I found this...

Sports were much more popular on campus when Rhett played, then they are now, and anyone who went to a Scranton basketball game was amazed by "the Jet". It was also common for Jenkins to have an entire page dedicated to him in the newspaper.

NEPA, thanks for the article.
 In baseball, Scranton used Schautz Stadium in Dunmore as its home field when Rhett and I were there. It had a rectangular shape - left field was ~ 370 down the line, center was ~ 450, right was short but it had a 30' screen about halfway to center. In center/left center was a softball field, facing the baseball field. I saw Rhett hit a home run over the 3rd base of the softball field, over the stands behind its 3rd base line and the fence behind the stands. Had to be 450' easy since it was just to the right of that 450' sign in center field. 

[NEPAFAN]

Not a bad poke. Looks like that article was part of a student run project on minority athletes at Scranton. Worth a read, if you click on some of the links.

[ronk]

 After hitting browse, I'll check out some of those links. The 1st 8 were by/about Louis D Mitchell, professor in the English Dept that I had for Literature. One of the course topics was Beowulf(?). Prof Mitchell was blind and he had to bring in this huge Beowulf tome in Braille. I remember him being a pianist as in one of those links. Thanks for the recommendation.