116th Monon Bell Classic

[gobash83]

Let's see.  My first was as a freshman in 1978.  Haven't missed one.  So this weekend will be 32 consecutive years, right?

If the overall record is 53-53-9, that means that I have been present for 27.6% of all the games ever played.

BayernFan, you have me by 1...my first Monon Bell was as a freshman in 1979 and I haven't missed one since, including the 1994 game which was three days before my wife's due date with our second child.  She paid one of my pledge brothers to hold the beeper for me and promise to drag me out if it went off.

It was also the only Monon Bell game where adult beverages were prohibited at our tailgate.   

[smedindy]

With all due respect to your 2 girls, too bad they can't attend their dad's alma mater.

Nah, they'll be fine. Plenty of all-female schools if they choose that, even in MN (St. Kate's and St. Benedict's).

[BayernFan]

Let's see.  My first was as a freshman in 1978.  Haven't missed one.  So this weekend will be 32 consecutive years, right?

If the overall record is 53-53-9, that means that I have been present for 27.6% of all the games ever played.

BayernFan, you have me by 1...my first Monon Bell was as a freshman in 1979 and I haven't missed one since, including the 1994 game which was three days before my wife's due date with our second child.  She paid one of my pledge brothers to hold the beeper for me and promise to drag me out if it went off.

It was also the only Monon Bell game where adult beverages were prohibited at our tailgate.   

That game I was sitting in the home stands.  I remember that the plan pre-game was to "take over" those home stands.  So Wabash fans had about maybe a fifth of them.  The Dannies were looking to control the game, but a frosh by the name of Dave Kennedy returned a KO for a TD that started a Wabash rally to win the game.

LOL on your situation in '94.  I remember doing some "planning" when conceiving our kids.   Never during those first two weeks of February.  No matter how much she begged.  lol

[gobash83]

Let's see.  My first was as a freshman in 1978.  Haven't missed one.  So this weekend will be 32 consecutive years, right?

If the overall record is 53-53-9, that means that I have been present for 27.6% of all the games ever played.

BayernFan, you have me by 1...my first Monon Bell was as a freshman in 1979 and I haven't missed one since, including the 1994 game which was three days before my wife's due date with our second child.  She paid one of my pledge brothers to hold the beeper for me and promise to drag me out if it went off.

It was also the only Monon Bell game where adult beverages were prohibited at our tailgate.   

That game I was sitting in the home stands.  I remember that the plan pre-game was to "take over" those home stands.  So Wabash fans had about maybe a fifth of them.  The Dannies were looking to control the game, but a frosh by the name of Dave Kennedy returned a KO for a TD that started a Wabash rally to win the game.

LOL on your situation in '94.  I remember doing some "planning" when conceiving our kids.   Never during those first two weeks of February.  No matter how much she begged.  lol

I sat in the home stands as well.  We had quite the crowd on the DPU side of the field.

It was a great return, sprung by a fantastic block by Dave "Kid" Galloway.  I also remember the game clock stopped working, so we didn't know how much time was left to play.

[Danny Boy]

A&M?  Really?  Has Wabash ever conferred a degree that comes even close to "agricultural" or "mechanical"?  You can do better than this, DB.  Or maybe you can't.  DB. 

You're right.  Crawfordsville Community College it is!

[Matt Gaunt]

A&M?  Really?  Has Wabash ever conferred a degree that comes even close to "agricultural" or "mechanical"?

Well there is the unofficial Dabash degree in sheep husbandry -- bereft of the human female, it is well known that common cavemen often finds a measure of gratifying solace in his intensely personal "study" of these docile, bleating creatures.

[1837Tigers]

This Day (November 10) in Monon Bell History:

2007:

http://www.depauw.edu/news/index.asp?id=20365

2001:

http://www.depauw.edu/news/index.asp?id=11760

1990:

http://www.depauw.edu/news/index.asp?id=13679

1984:

http://www.depauw.edu/news/index.asp?id=13709

1979:

http://www.depauw.edu/news/index.asp?id=13691

1973:

http://www.depauw.edu/news/index.asp?id=13686

1917:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VgDUBm3R18

[Ryan Tipps]

I decided that my own thoughts on cheering for Dabash would get me kicked of the board.

Well there is the unofficial Dabash degree in sheep husbandry ...

Why do so many of the DePauw guys insist on combining their school name with Wabash's to create Dabash? Man, that's clingy 

[BashBacker#16]

Where's Coach Walker?

Any Dannies concerned about the number of points your D has given up on the season?  Take out the shutout in the monsoon/mud bowl and it's comfortably over 20 per.

[Fripp52]

Ryan, it's not on purpose.  And wouldn't it be DeBash ?  

Whoever asked the question, I don't have a long consecutive streak.  Kudos to the Wabash guys who do.  I played from 81 to 84 and then attended 85 and 86.  85 was a heartbreaker.  DePauw had a clear shot at the playoffs after coming off a huge win at Dayton.  Wabash had 2 or 3 losses and this looked like a relatively easy win for them.  The Wabash TB ran the ball a 100 times and they beat us pretty good.  I think I hit one or two more in the late 80's, then I came back for the 100th.  After moving out of the area, I did not make it to any games in the mid 90's through the mid 2000's.  I attended the 05 game since my oldest was looking at DePauw and Indiana as part of her college search.  Then I have been to the last 2 with my son now playing.

One thing that has not come up.  Does anyone remember the Alumni flag football games that started in the mid-80's in Lincoln Park (Chicago) ?  They lasted until the early 90's or so.  At some point, they moved them to the day of the game at the game's location.  I stopped playing in them around the early 90's and then I think they died sometime later in the 90's.  Those were some rough contests.  It was not traditional flag where you had 7 or 8 on a side and threw the ball 90% of the time.  This was 11 on 11 with running plays.  And we had no pads on.  Anyone who posts on here play in any of those ?

[Fripp52]

Bashbacker, I was waiting for that one.  You guys are still concerned over that one.  As far as I know, Long told me he is still in Greencastle as of a few weeks ago.

And no, we are not concerned about our defense's points allowed.  We gave up 27/game a year ago before the Monon game and look what happened.  The defense is better this year.  8 or 9 starters returned, so it's basically the same guys.

[Sturdybeggar]

Where's Coach Walker?

Yeah, what the hell happened there? Not concerned, just curious where y'all are hiding him and why.

As for statistics and who won the game after a year when the score was a 30.5 point spread under the first blue moon (that's a 13th full moon in a 12-month cycle, DeBear, just so you don't have to go look it up in your 20-year-old Encyclopedia Britannica) after the autumnal equinox....Anybody who's been around this rivalry more than 5 minutes has to know that it counts for nothing. As Raider asked a few days ago: What are the intangibles? It's all intangible. That's what makes it such a great rivalry and so utterly unpredictable.

[Danny Boy]

One thing that has not come up.  Does anyone remember the Alumni flag football games that started in the mid-80's in Lincoln Park (Chicago) ?  They lasted until the early 90's or so.  At some point, they moved them to the day of the game at the game's location.  I stopped playing in them around the early 90's and then I think they died sometime later in the 90's.  Those were some rough contests.  It was not traditional flag where you had 7 or 8 on a side and threw the ball 90% of the time.  This was 11 on 11 with running plays.  And we had no pads on.  Anyone who posts on here play in any of those ?

Small world.  I live in Lincoln Park now and am pleased to report that I have seen no administrative assistants dressed as candy canes around here.  Shame that tradition faded away.

[Breckenridgebear]

Monon Week Schedule at Depauw:
http://media.www.thedepauw.com/media/storage/paper912/news/2009/11/10/News/Monon.Week.Schedule-3827534.shtml?reffeature=htmlemailedition

I know there is a flag football game in Denver every year. They call it the Monon Bell Flag Football Classic, and it is usually on Saturday morning the day of the Bell Game in City Park Behind the Natural History Museum.

[Breckenridgebear]

But I've already taught my daughters (7 and 4) - "DePauw To Hell - GET THE BELL!"

Why would you teach you daughters such a thing? Since they have no chance of going to DaBash (Unless . . . ) there is a high probability that they end up at DePauw.
Your girls will most likely date and eventually marry a DePauw football player, and have many, many, many children who will be named after DePauw Football legends, such as, Nick Mourouzis Dasmedindy; Raymond "Gaumey" Dasmedindy; Bart Simpson Dasmedindy;  Spud Dick Dasmedindy; Ryan McMurffey Dasmedindy; Jeremiah Marks Dasmedindy; and, Tyler Kelley Dasmedindy. These boys will all eventually go to DePauw and play football, and thus erase the Dasmedindy Dabash legacy. 

Karma is a bitch. Stop filling your girls' heads with nonsense.