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Message: [QUOTE="SWC75, post: 791253, member: 289"] The story behind the Zimmerman cover. First, here's Chuck talking about it, I'd guess about 2008, which would be 50 years after it came out: [url]http://videos.syracuse.com/post-standard/2011/05/chuck_zimmerman_of_liverpool_o.html[/url] The date of the issue is 10/27/58. Syracuse's most recent game at that juncture was a loss on the road to Penn State. The week before that, they'd beaten Nebraska in Archbold and I always sort of assumed that this was the Nebraska game. (The Huskers in the 50's had different uniforms with dark helmets rather than white- of course they would have been red but the Orange on the actual cover is a bit brighter than in the picture above so I though maybe the colors were off a bit). Chuck mentions that it's a Holy Cross game. Syracuse played at Holy Cross in 1958, not in Archbold. The full picture, (above), reveals that it's not a 1958 photograph at all, because Jim Brown's in it. The one year that Chuck was quarterback with Jim was 1956. We played the Crusaders at home that year and won 41-20. That's the game Chuck is talking about. But he's wrong that the team wore Orange just because Holy Cross came out in white: the team wore Orange jerseys many times in the 1950's, including in the huge upset over Maryland that opened the season. Perhaps it had been agreed that the Crusaders would be in dark jersies for this one and they forgot to bring them. Back in those days, it took a long to put a magazine together and much of the photography, especially the color photography, was from a previous event, often from the previous year's event. In this case, SI had on it's cover a shot from a game played two years before (11/10/56, to be specific). They cropped out Jim Brown not just to focus on Zimmerman but to avoid revealing that it was not a recent photograph, since Jim was well into his second year as a Cleveland Brown at that time. Ironically, on the Table of Contents page, next to a thumbnail of the cover, it says "The traditional request for silence by Syracuse quarterback Chuck Zimmerman was not honored by football's fifth week." Perhaps it was not honored because he made it two years before! [/QUOTE]

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