115th Monon Bell Classic

[BashBacker#16]

D3_DPUfan,

Unofficially...have "heard" Wabash has less then 800 tix and expecting to sell out by mid-week.  DePauw has less then that left.

Any of you DPU guys attending the Stag on Thursday?

[D3_DPUFan]

Found the following story on the DPU website and a link to a nice piece in the South Bend Trib...the LG's have quite a few players from the SB area...


http://www.depauw.edu/news/index.asp?id=22460

http://www.southbendtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081111/SPORTS10/811110395/1001/Sports

[wally_wabash]

That is a really good article in the South Bend Trib.  It's Bell week, I'm in a good mood...you're getting some karma for posting that link.   

[wabco]

Suggest all Wallies on this list serve email to Bambrey the concerns about the crush at the gate to get in at game start.  Mummert had no clue.  Hope if Tom is informed about the past crush situation he will be pro-active and alleviate it with perhaps another gate next to the Allen Center and/or putting ticket takers outside the gate so it can flow more freely ...

I may have a few extra trickets.. Had planned on bringing four footballers from our area down but they all are in the playoffs on Sat so I have their tickets.  If it sells out or you need one, I will have a couple ... just want to get ticket price back for the kids.  Look for red Dodge Ram truck with red tent in front next to House's extravaganza

[D3_DPUFan]

Unofficially...have "heard" Wabash has less then 800 tix and expecting to sell out by mid-week.  DePauw has less then that left.

That's good!

Any of you DPU guys attending the Stag on Thursday?

Have not heard of attendees from the Indy area....

[Li'l Giant]

If you have a minute or two...go over to the East Region board and read the posts for the 2008 Cortaca Jug. Funny stuff.

There is some funny stuff there. The state school/academic smack would get a bit old after a while.

[WAF78]

This from the Wabash website today

Tickets are $15 each and only about 600 tickets remain for the Wabash side of the field.

I'm sure there will be a good crowd...but depends so much on the weather.

[Breckenridgebear]

Depauw Fans, Alumni, and Friends,

I would like to remind you all of the importance of this game. As you know only one game counts every year. In preparation for the week, I would like you all to remember a few things.   

Let us remember this game is for those great classes who have played on the sacred field at Blackstock. Such as the Depauw team of 1973 who rushed against Wabash for 80 plays to win the game 28-21; or, the team who played from 1997-2000, winning 4 Monon Bells, including a 42-7 stomping in 1998; or, that team, who on November, 22, 1890 started the Monon tradition with an ass-kicking against Wabash, by beating the Wally's 34-5 in Crawfordsville; or, the 1914 team who in the middle of a snowstorm, wins 3-0, with a dropkick by the fullback; and let us never forget the class of 1933 who under Gaumey Neal went on to a 7-0 record having not lost, tied, or been scored upon during the whole season.

Let us remember this game for its historic players who have had so much success wearing the Black and Gold.  Players like Bart Simpson, who from 1971-1974 rushed for 2941 yards; or, Spud Dick, who will go down as one of DePauw's most prolific passers, a living legend; or Dan Ryan, who had three receptions for touchdowns in 4 different games between 2001-2002; or what about, Alan Hill with four interceptions for 159 yards against St Norbert on September 5, 1981; or, Jordan Havercamp, a backup kicker, who had never made a kick in college, nailing a 47 yarder for the win against the cavemen in 2007, becoming a legend; or who can forget, Tyler Kelley, who only had 71 receptions during his career from 1996-1999, but looked damn sexy while he was doing it. These men had hatred for those cavemen from Crawfordsville.  These are the men who the game is played for today.  These men are those who we should remember.   

Let us remember the shame that has fallen upon those classes who have lost to an all male college, those teams who have not shown their faces since losing to the cavemen. Personally, I would off myself if I ever lost to Wabash.

Wabash. A College of only men, governed by the "Gentleman's Rule". An all male (i.e. Boys) college where a student's only interaction with a female, during four years of college, is when they hug their mother (or, motherly figure in their father's partnership), see their sister during a break from college, or when they speak to the clerk at the local Kroger. Remember these boys of Wabash are not men (we all know when you become a man, these boys never get to experience that in college), they are weak humans scared of the fairer sex. This segregation from women does not make these "men" better, but puts them at a disadvantage. Not only are they socially awkward, but they grow up wondering why they have problems conceiving children, what a date is, and why they can not apply for employment benefits for their spouse (Mass., and Cal. Excluded). You must ask yourself, "What kind of world would we live in if Wabash was the norm?". I will tell you it is not a world I want to live in.

Not only is DePauw's maintaining the Bell at stake (36-34-6 Depauw lead), or the series record (53-52-9, Wabash lead), but the way of life for all men at co-ed Universities. A win for Depauw is a win for all men in the world who enjoy fraternity parties with women and beer in abundance, not just a Saturday night with the guys playing tummy-sticks. A win for Depauw is a win for all man who has hooked up with two, three, or even more women in one night/weekend. A win for Depauw is a win for ever man who has not worn a condom, because without a condom, it feels better.

For some of you, I do not need to explain the importance of Monon Week.  This is that time of year when you are allowed to eat only bloody, read meat for three meals a day and wash it down with ice cold domestic beer. This is the week where you get to fight random strangers for "bad eyeing" you, or merely for the fact that you didn't like the Crimson and Red in their tie, or that they drive a red car.  This is the week where showering with soap is purely optional. This is the week where any conversations with others must either concern, 1) discussions about beer, women, Depauw football, meat, or fighting; 2) a comparison of Spud Dick, Bernie Haskins, and Jason Lee; or, 3) your hatred for the color red. This is the week where human life becomes cheap, and only those who deserve it, are allowed to survive.

This is Monon Week. Ding Mother-****ing Dong.

In the words of a great man, UGOTTAWANNA

[BashDad]

that was spirited.

[wally_wabash]

Good for you, bear.  That right there, in just over 800 words, accounts for 98% of the spirit that the DePauw community collectively has for this game.  I'm just glad it got shared here...otherwise we'd all just keep on thinking that you guys just don't care about it.  At least you do, and that's gotta count for something.  I'm not sure what yet, but it's something. 

[wab64]

That was absolutely slanderous! DePauw to hell-get the bell.

[bashbrother]

"Over?! Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?"

[D3_DPUFan]

Breckenridgebear...epic...somebody needs to prop that effort up with more karma

[Breckenridgebear]

Long before the cannonball travelled through her towns
The state of Indiana owned the jewel of the crown
The train, they called the Monon, the stories they still tell
The Cavemen and the Tigers playing for her bell


It rode like a masthead on engine ninety-nine
Crawfordsville to Greencastle, then further down the line
The Cavemen came from Wabash, the Tigers from DePauw
Since eighteen-ninety they have played the last game ev'ry fall


Many years they played for pride, oh the stories they could tell
Then in thirty-two the Monon train gave up her precious bell
They said, "Here take this symbol of smoke and fire and grit
And give it to the winner, a symbol not to quit."


Ring the Bell for Wabash, ring for old DePauw
Ring the bell for victory in the last game ev'ry fall
Ring the Bell for Wabash, ring for old DePauw
Ring the bell for victory in the last game ev'ry fall


Suddenly the boys of autumn had fire in their eyes
Blood and spit, but never quit, fighting for the prize
The medal to the victor, the symbol to the school
Wabash and DePauw became a yearly duel


Ring the Bell for Wabash, ring for old DePauw
Ring the bell for victory in the last game ev'ry fall
Ring the Bell for Wabash, ring for old DePauw
Ring the bell for victory in the last game ev'ry fall


Now history has recorded the players and their games
And to this day they still play for the Bell in Monon's name
Those who've gone before return each November day
Swapping stories and the legends for those who did not play


Ring the Bell for Wabash, ring for old DePauw
Ring the bell for victory in the last game ev'ry fall
Ring the Bell for Wabash, ring for old DePauw
Ring the bell for victory in the last game ev'ry fall

[Geezer Citizen]

Even though he went to DePauw, I really do like Jimmy Ibbotson's recording of "The Ballad of the Monon Bell."

To reiterate, I have an extra ticket to the game. Look for me at Wabco's red truck.

BB16 - I am not going to be at the Stag, but I will be at the HoF dinner friday night.

Geezer