116th Monon Bell Classic

[smedindy]

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.

Well, since they both live in Minnesota now, with my wife and I, odds that they go to DePauw aren't very high.

[DPU3619]

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.

Not especially.  This is, for the most part, the same personnel group that gave 24 ppg in it's first nine one year ago.

[Breckenridgebear]

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.

Not especially.  This is, for the most part, the same personnel group that gave 24 ppg in it's first nine one year ago.

Silly Wally, you know stats don't matter in the Bell game.

[DPU3619]

The hell'd you call me?

[Breckenridgebear]

The hell'd you call me?

Not to worry Wes, I was talking to Dabashbacker.

[Caveman # 95]

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 ?

I played in 5 or 6 of those games in the early-mid 90's...there are several other posters (bashbacker16?) who played in those games as well.  They were a great deal of fun and very, very rough! Generally speaking, it could have been considered a tackle football game.  Always seemed to be guys bleeding (seriously), and I saw several broken noses and broken bones (bashbacker16?)...   The last game I played in a buddy shattered his thumb (surgery and 2 pins!) 

[1837Tigers]

On This Day (November 11) in Monon Bell History:

2007:

http://www.depauw.edu/news/index.asp?id=20368

2006:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9__M6mcb0gs


2000:

http://www.depauw.edu/news/index.asp?id=13699


1995:

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

1989:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAA70N0Rj4w

1978:

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

1972:

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

1967:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmPAoUPVX7Q

1916:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-Bt4PusBn4

1901:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SkOkxcHmc4

1893:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2pLFK7_v_8

[1837Tigers]

Here's a demo version of the "Ballad of the Monon Bell":

http://www.depauw.edu/news/?id=23828

[Caveman # 95]

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.

What is funny about this post is that Raymond "Gaumey" Neal graduated from Wabash (and was captain of the football team)...then eventually became a legendary head coach at DePauw.  The irony is just thick...

[cave2bens]

http://www2.wabash.edu/blog/dear_old_wabash/2009/11/whose_bell_is_it_anyway.html 

[Breckenridgebear]

3 days

[Breckenridgebear]

Monon "Policies":
http://www.wabash.edu/news/docs/2009%20Monon%20Bell%20Fan%20Information.pdf

Saturday's Weather Forecast:
http://www.wunderground.com/US/IN/Greencastle.html

[bashbrother]

Operation Frijoles

Prior to the 1965 meeting between the two teams, Wabash student Jim Shanks '67 scheduled a meeting with DePauw University President William H. Kerstetter, claiming to be representative from the US Information Service in Mexico City. During the meeting with Kerstetter, Shanks was able to convince the president to offer two full scholarships for Mexican students. To "seal the deal" Shanks asked to take photos of various points of interest on campus to show the "prospective" Mexican students more about DePauw University.

One item Shanks asked to photograph was the Monon Bell, in the Tigers' possession after a 22-21 victory in 1964. The dean of the college was the only person on campus who knew the location of the Bell, but was reluctant to tell Shanks of its location. "I don't know whether I should show this to you or not," he said with laugh. "The last time I showed it to someone, they stole it."

Taking Shanks to the second floor of a quonset hut near the football field, Shanks took careful notes that were provided to a group of Wabash students who entered the building and took the Bell back to Crawfordsville. The Bell was eventually "found" by the Wabash administration and returned to DePauw the day before the 1965 game.

Saturday afternoon the Little Giant football team made certain it was a short visit. Wabash defeated DePauw 16-6. At the conclusion of the game Wabash fans stormed the field, many wearing sombreros and ponchos, throwing taco shells onto the field and wielding posters congratulating President Kerstetter for the loss of the Bell and the two scholarship offers.

Classic!

[gobash]

Monon "Policies":
http://www.wabash.edu/news/docs/2009%20Monon%20Bell%20Fan%20Information.pdf

Man, they could've saved a lot of ink there by just saying "If it's fun, it's prohibited".

[Breckenridgebear]

Monon "Policies":
http://www.wabash.edu/news/docs/2009%20Monon%20Bell%20Fan%20Information.pdf

Man, they could've saved a lot of ink there by just saying "If it's fun, it's prohibited".

I honestly think the more restrictive they are during Monon, the more problems they create.