Regarding your November article on the 1964 football season, of which I have fond memories: I attended all the home games and went to New Haven, where I marched behind our band into the Yale Bowl while they played “crash through the line of blue,” which we did to the tune of 35-14. I went to the celebration after the season and took a six-inch-long white rubber football that I had the following sign: Bob Bedell ’66, Wendall Cady ’65, Charlie Gogolak ’66, Fred Gouldin ’65 *70, Jim Hackett ’65, Cosmo Iacavazzi ’65 *68, Dick Jones ’65, Bert Kerstetter ’66, Ron Landeck ’66, Don McKay ’65, Chuck Merlini ’66, John O’Brien ’65, Ernie Pascarella ’65, Roy Pizzarello ’65, Pete Riley ’65, Ned Porter ’65, Dick Reinis ’66, Don Roth ’65, Paul Savage ’66, Lynn Sutcliffe ’65, Doug Tufts ’65, and Ron (whose last name I cannot read). I would send a picture of the football, but it is totally deflated and out of shape, much like most of us who graduated 60 years ago!
I took 24 slides that fall. Three at Palmer Stadium at an unknown game, one of our band marching along Cannon Green, two of Cosmo scoring a touchdown at Yale, three of the wood being piled up for the bonfire, and 14 of the bonfire as it grew in intensity. A study of orange flames against the black sky!
For those who have recently stated that the bonfire should be eliminated I say Rah Rah Rah, Tiger Tiger Tiger, Sis Sis Sis, Boom Boom Bah Humbug!
Editor’s note: While PAW contributor Henry Von Kohorn ’66 did suggest modifying the Big Three bonfire tradition, the idea of eliminating it entirely was not a commonly expressed view among readers.
Regarding your November article on the 1964 football season, of which I have fond memories: I attended all the home games and went to New Haven, where I marched behind our band into the Yale Bowl while they played “crash through the line of blue,” which we did to the tune of 35-14. I went to the celebration after the season and took a six-inch-long white rubber football that I had the following sign: Bob Bedell ’66, Wendall Cady ’65, Charlie Gogolak ’66, Fred Gouldin ’65 *70, Jim Hackett ’65, Cosmo Iacavazzi ’65 *68, Dick Jones ’65, Bert Kerstetter ’66, Ron Landeck ’66, Don McKay ’65, Chuck Merlini ’66, John O’Brien ’65, Ernie Pascarella ’65, Roy Pizzarello ’65, Pete Riley ’65, Ned Porter ’65, Dick Reinis ’66, Don Roth ’65, Paul Savage ’66, Lynn Sutcliffe ’65, Doug Tufts ’65, and Ron (whose last name I cannot read). I would send a picture of the football, but it is totally deflated and out of shape, much like most of us who graduated 60 years ago!
I took 24 slides that fall. Three at Palmer Stadium at an unknown game, one of our band marching along Cannon Green, two of Cosmo scoring a touchdown at Yale, three of the wood being piled up for the bonfire, and 14 of the bonfire as it grew in intensity. A study of orange flames against the black sky!
For those who have recently stated that the bonfire should be eliminated I say Rah Rah Rah, Tiger Tiger Tiger, Sis Sis Sis, Boom Boom Bah Humbug!
Editor’s note: While PAW contributor Henry Von Kohorn ’66 did suggest modifying the Big Three bonfire tradition, the idea of eliminating it entirely was not a commonly expressed view among readers.