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Message: [QUOTE="Orangedontrhyme, post: 4670401, member: 459"] Memories of Jim Brown I am a grad SU class of 64 and my father a grad SU class of 26 (Dad knew Vic Hanson). I saw my first SU football game at age 6 in 1948 in Archbold, and could not see over the heads and shoulders of the people sitting in front of me. In the fall of 1954, in an early football game in Archbold, a number 44 comes into the game as a third stringer and proceeds to do some fine running. After seeing this guy run a few plays, my father said that this 44 is really good and should be starting. This was our first look at Jim Brown. It's November 17, 1956, SU vs Colgate, and Dad and I are privileged to be in attendance at Archbold to see Jim Brown score 43 points, then an NCAA record, composed of six touchdowns and seven extra points. Brown kicked the extra points on the team, and played good defense. I have the program and can tell the weather; the day was not rainy because the program is wrinkle-free. In early 1962, I am a soph living on Sadler 2. Back then, the athletes lived in the regular dorms with the rest of us, although they ate high cuisine in Slocum. In the east wing were top players who were on our #1 59 team, including next to my room Dick Easterly and Bob Stem, across the hall Pete Brokaw and John Brown, and in room 264, first room on the right in the west wing, John Mackey and the great Ernie Davis. (If the students living in 264 today only knew). This one morning, the body of a woman was found in Thornden Park, and the campus was buzzing and nervous. I come back to Sadler 2 from class, climb the stairwell opening to the Sadler 2 lounge, enter, and spot a sinister looking stranger sitting there. I go to my room and think I should call the campus cops because maybe this is the crime perpetrator, when I decide to look at the guy again, which I did. Thank goodness I did not call the cops, because the sinister looking stranger was Jim Brown. He was in town and was looking to visit Ernie. Well neither Ernie (or John) showed, and in the meanwhile I got several floor mates to the lounge (I knocked on some doors and said "Come see who's in our lounge, you won't believe it.). We spent about an hour with Jim and he discussed what he was doing in the off-season, including working for Pepsi, in promotions and I think doing a radio show on sports. Jim Brown was a great athlete. Imagine him running against skinny, preppy (back then) lacrosse players, like a bowling ball through the pins. The boxing industry tried to get him into a professional boxing career. He refused, explaining that he did not want to hurt people. Ironic. Hope you found this interesting. I'll try to scan a few informative pages from the 1956 Colgate program and pass them through. [/QUOTE]

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