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Message: [QUOTE="CaliCuse, post: 264535, member: 324"] My very first exposure to Syracuse football coincided with our first family television. My father bought it watch the 1953 Orange Bowl against Alabama. I remember hi cursing the our fatboys were way too slow to play with the Alabama speedsters. basketball was a transfer from the Nats to listening to the college guys and their losing streak which was setting records for futility. Carl Vernick was the star of the team. A good friend and I decided to go to a few home games . Then the announcement that a new coad by the name of Lewis was going to bring in a whole new set of recruits lead by a kid named Bing. My friend and I would go to watch the freshmen games. It was sad to see the crowd leave when the varsity came out toplay. I remember watching that great first team of Bong Penceal Richards and Rick Dean. Later Vaugn Harper and Val Reid would segue the greats we know today . Te hook was set in solid orange since my early days. BTW my first full year of football was 1959. I waited for the big name from the freshmen team to get bumped up to the varsity. I can't recall if the Colgate game was Ernie's first but it was one of hid great ones in any event. We wiped out Colgate and on my way to grab a soda I was high up in the endzone by the Archibold gym looking down on a play. Looking down on the play,it seemed like the whole team at the snap ran to MY lft view when I caught sight of one player running in the opposite direction . He turned the corner and ran the entire length of the field to MY right on the sideline. It was one of Ernie's longest runs from scrimmage . I could not have been more Orange from those moments. I also clearly remember watching Syracuse play UCLA for their last regular season game. I was sitting in front of that same television listening to Curt Gowdy talk about the best two teams in the country being Syracuse's first and second units of the team.;) [/QUOTE]

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