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Welcome to National Innovation Day!
National Innovation Day, which is observed annually in the United States every February 16, was created to encourage children and young people to be creative and innovative.
- Way back in 1873, teenager Chester Greenwood, of Farmington, ME, a grammar school dropout who liked to ice skate, grew tired of his ears freezing in cold New England winters. When wrapping a scarf around his head didn’t do the trick, Chester created a wire frame, got his grandmother to sew animal skins to it, and voila, the first earmuffs were created.
- When Frank Epperson was eleven years old (in 1905), he left a batch of powdered soda and water with a stir stick in it out on his family’s Oakland, CA porch one cold night. Frank went out the next morning to find that he had accidentally invented a frozen pop, which he called the “Epsicle.” Frank’s school friends became fans as did his own kids, who called the frozen treat “Pop’s ‘sicle.” After introducing the treat at a Fireman’s Ball in 1922, Frank applied for a patent in 1923 and eventually sold the rights to the brand Popsicle®(link sends e-mail) to a company in New York.
(Football) Recruiting Roundup: SU Offers More Cass Tech Football Prospects (the juice; Cheng)
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Syracuse offered several Detroit (MI) Cass Tech prospects (11 in all) who took visits to Syracuse this weekend. Let’s start with 2018 linebacker DeAndre Square, who tweeted that he had received his second offer from the Orange. He tells At their request, this network is being blocked from this site.’s Mike McAllister that SU is the early leader for his services.
His teammate and fellow linebacker, Zach Morton, also tweeted his Orange offer. He also holds offers from Iowa State and Cincinnati, and is rated 3-stars by Scout.
Keeping with the Cass offers, 2018 CB/WR Kalon Gervin also received an offer, which Gervin said was his 11th on Twitter. Among those 11 include Michigan, Penn State, Pitt and Illinois.
Gervin wasn’t the only defensive back to get an offer. 2018 safety Jaylen Kelly-Powell tweeted his offer out. The four-star prospect holds offers from Michigan, Michigan State, Notre Dame, Ohio State and Northwestern, among others.
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Most Undeserved Heisman in History
Reflecting on Racism in Heisman Voting During Black History Month (news-gazette.com; Tate)
The coincidence of Black History Month and the death of 83-year-old John Lattner revives a time in sports that is better forgotten.
Seldom has racism and Notre Dame favoritism joined forces in a more obvious way than when Lattner received the Heisman Trophy in 1953, and Illini great J.C. Caroline finished seventh in the voting.
Lattner was an excellent all-around athlete for the Irish, whose 9-0-1 campaign in 1953 was marred only by a 14-14 tie with Iowa, then a 3-3 Big Ten team.
Lattner rushed for 651 yards and nine touchdowns, adding two TDs on kickoff returns. In Heisman voting, he edged Minnesota’s triple-threat tailback, Paul Giel, a two-time Big Ten MVP.
Giel was even more versatile. He was Big Ten MVP in 1952 and, as a senior, passed for 590 yards and ran for 749. He was a workhorse in an era when many teams still used the single-wing formation featuring versatile tailbacks.
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In 1956, Paul Hornung became the fifth Notre Dame winner and the only one ever to perform for a losing team (the Irish went 2-8). He passed for 917 yards and three TDs, and ran for 420.
The same year, somebody named Jim Brown averaged a still-standing school-record 6.2 yards per carry while gaining 986 yards and scoring 14 TDs in eight games for Syracuse.
Brown also kicked extra points (seven in one game) as he spearheaded a 7-1 team that lost to Pitt 14-7 but posted big wins against Maryland, West Virginia, Army and Penn State.
Brown finished fifth behind four white players in the Heisman voting before turning pro and being proclaimed by The Sporting News in 2002 as the “greatest football player of all time.”
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Jim Brown: 'The Good Thing About Football' (vikings.com; Peters)
NFL Hall of Famer Jim Brown is one day away from turning 80 years old.
A celebration — “Jim Brown: 80 Years & Running” — of the former Cleveland Browns fullback is scheduled to air at 7 p.m. (CT) Wednesday on NFL Network.
Brown led the NFL with 12,312 rushing yards and 106 rushing touchdowns when he retired after his ninth season. He established an acting career after football and founded The Amer-I-Can Program, which helps teach life management skills and improve self-esteem in participants.
Brown also has reflected on race relations in America, from his earlier experiences to what he observes today.
Enshrined in Canton, Ohio, in 1971, he said in “Jim Brown: Life and Football” audio on the Pro Football Hall of Fame website:
“At that time, America was not 100 percent pleasant to African Americans, and each day of our lives, we had to deal with being looked upon as a second-class citizen, so the good thing about football is that it was less of that kind of attitude in the game of football than maybe in the game of life.
“But on the other hand, the people that reached out and were very generous did not come from the world of football,” Brown continued. “They came from the world of life, so I applied my life in football, I applied those things that people taught me in life in general, so it was kind of a little different way that I looked at things. The big picture was life. The smaller picture was participating in sports as a football player.”
Brown was born in Georgia in 1936, raised in New York and starred collegiately at Syracuse before he was drafted by Cleveland with the sixth overall pick of the 1957 NFL Draft. Brown was named rookie of the year that season, led the NFL in rushing yards and was named All-Pro in eight of his nine seasons.
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How to Get Free Admission, Parking for SU Men's Lacrosse Game Against Army on Sunday (PS; Kramer)
Fans who time it right can watch two of the elite teams in Division I lacrosse play a combined three games for free on Sunday in the Carrier Dome.
At noon, the SU women host Wagner. There is no charge to watch that game.
Anyone who shows up to that game by halftime can park for free and will be allowed to stay for the men's game against Albany at 4 p.m. for no charge.
Fans who come strictly for the men's game will have to pay regular parking and admission prices after halftime of the women's game.
At 7:30 p.m., the SU women will host Marist. Like the first women's game, that contest is free. So if you show up by roughly 1 p.m., you can hang around for all three contests for absolutely nothing.
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