If you don't like sports you miss one of the most unifying forces on the campus. Of course 1969-1973 were a premium for home and away sporting events. Final four at the Astrodome in 1971, Marty Liquori v. Jim Ryun at the Penn Relays, Billy Walik, Mike Siani, Mike Polito, Duane Holland, John Babienez for football, Hardge Davis, Chris Mason, Donal Walsh, Kenny Schappert, track and field of course with Jumbo Elliot as coach. Hoop had Howard Porter, Ford, Inglesby, Hastings, Sammy Sims, Clarence Davis and Hank Semientowski, with Jack Kraft and his ball defense. Marching to Penn after humbling them 90-47 in Regional final.
Best advice I got before I got there was to get a season basketball ticket, you kept it for all 4 years. Fieldhouse games and all the Big 5 weekly double headers at Penn's Palestra. Not all fun and games you had to study but back then there were no TVs in every room, just in a community room, so you were able to find what ever you needed. And who can forget Simpson, the adopted dog by, wait for it, Simpson Hall. Student demonstrations against Vietnam war, Nixon breaking the news that Vietnam was ending, but doing it during the NBA all star game was heartless. All the stone buildings, it was quite the beautiful campus. Folk masses at St Thomas, singing Come Together, Sounds of Silence will also hold a special place in my heart
But the most important discovery of all was
Cheese Steak Hoagies.
Tell me I'm wrong
We could have written a great sequel to the Big Chill
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