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Congratulations John! John Gagliardi: 2007 Liberty Mutual Division III Coach of the Year
There is a big problem in NCAA D-III athletics. It’s not that there are booster programs run amok, or cheating scandals, or that athletes are being paid to play college sports. Rather, the problem is that D-III itself may be too big.
Huh?
To explain we first need a little history lesson.
It isn’t exactly common knowledge that […]
» Read “Curing the Cabin Fever: Splitting hairs—and splitting D-III?”
Here cometh the Esq’s annual telling of the tale of the BC-SJU rivalry. Yes, I did mean to say BC and not BU; no, the contents of the tale may not be 100% verifiably accurate and accounted for. But it certainly makes for a good story.
On this sun-drenched after-noon at old Norton, alongside the rail yards and switching stations, the number 6 left the dock.
The iron horse careened across the landscape, amidst the silver-capped bullets, it’s white-and-red striping gliding clear of any obstacles that dared cross its path.
Three times it would deliver its cargo to the end zone, racking up […]
Johnny “Blood”
Shake Down The Thunder, The Creation of Notre Dame Football is a book chronicling the beginnings of college football, football history and the mecca that has evolved on the South Bend, Indiana campus. On a smaller scale but in a parallel enviroment another catholic university was planting it’s own seed of college football immortality. It was the beginnings of the MIAC that brought football back to campus. But even then, it almost didn’t happen.
» Read “Shake Down the Thunder… From Johnny “Blood” McNally to the MIAC!”
Given my natural desire to learn stoked by four years in Collegeville, it is appropriate that I take on the assignment of examining historical times, persons, and facilities that helped shape St. John’s football in the present. I will begin by discussing the origins of football in Collegeville.
