Wed 21 Oct 2009
The greatest professional football player of all time is speaking at Chapin next week.
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JeffZ says:
Awesome.
October 21st, 2009 at 9:45 pmnuts says:
Good get!
October 21st, 2009 at 10:30 pmHenry Bass says:
Joe Perrott ’57 played lacrosse against Jim Brown. He told Brown after their lacrosse game over 50 years ago that Brown was destined to be a very great football player. Long before lots of folks knew, Joe knew what was going to happen. Joe thinks that Brown was the greatest football player ever.
Joe’s recent novel SURE-KILL is available from Amazon. Not enuf of Eph jock types have bought Joe’s novel. Joe was from the golden era of Eph lacrosse. Come on folks give Joe a few sales.
October 21st, 2009 at 10:56 pmnuts says:
You can order it from Amazon SURE-KILL by Joseph S. Perrott.
Henry, who was on the lacrosse coaching staff in the mid 50’s?
October 22nd, 2009 at 12:41 amfrank uible says:
The late great Jim Ostendarp.
October 22nd, 2009 at 1:05 amPTC says:
Henry- My dad played against him in 57 as well. Jim Brown was better at Lax than he was at Football. That is not just blowing smoke either, it is widely recognized.
I have tried gathering info on those Williams lacrosse years. I think the data was lost. There is not a lot on it in the sports historic web page…
October 22nd, 2009 at 6:15 amfrank uible says:
Yesterday Dick Quinn mentioned to me that he has scoured the archives and can find no evidence of the Williams/Syracuse lacrosse game (scrimmage) on Cole Field in the spring of 1957, in which Jim Brown played and which I remember seeing.
October 22nd, 2009 at 7:53 amRonit says:
http://www.ephblog.com/2007/02/15/A-foot-of-snow-in-Williamstown/
October 22nd, 2009 at 12:35 pmHenry Bass says:
Frank,
Have him check previous years. I sort of think it was ’56 but it might have been earlier.
October 22nd, 2009 at 8:08 pmPTC says:
Henry… what was the great year when Williams picked up like four of the best high school players in the country? Was that 53/54/55/56/57?
October 22nd, 2009 at 8:33 pmPTC says:
of course… the three years after that year.. after those players matured.. were amazing…
October 22nd, 2009 at 8:33 pmDick Swart says:
Here is the 1955 season
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_F2JhECzxuEU/SuEDVdsNLiI/AAAAAAAAAUI/3_HEq-sES7s/s1600-h/lacrosse+1955.jpg
just click on the image to see it larger.
October 22nd, 2009 at 9:16 pmJr. Mom says:
Great photo, Dick…and it fills my screen.
Do you, or Frank, or Henry know any of those guys?
October 22nd, 2009 at 9:25 pmDick Swart says:
Look at who we played!!
Sure, I certainly knew the guys in my class plus a few more.
Smitty was my roommate freshman year when he was playing goalie for both hockey and Lax. Talk about a helmet head! Marco now lives in Geneva and has great stories about his ships on the Thames meeting the load line requirements by shifting the cargo to the non-inspected side. Hillary told very funny stories very well.
Knowing the guys was part and parcel of the experience. It is what holds classes together.
October 22nd, 2009 at 9:42 pmParent '12 says:
@Dick Swart:
As Jr. Mom said, that is a great photo. The background of the hills reminds me of that painting that you posted a few weeks ago of the original Lax players.
More to the point, it’s impressive how you’ve stayed in touch with classmates.
October 22nd, 2009 at 10:02 pmfrank uible says:
Knew about 2/3 of them fairly well, several being fraternity brothers, some being fellow footballers and one being my junior year rommate.
October 22nd, 2009 at 11:02 pmJr. Mom says:
Dick,
Did you play a sport?
Frank,
Did you play something other than football?
(Juxtaposed against the housing report, this thread is all the more interesting…and a window into a very different Williams)
October 22nd, 2009 at 11:45 pmDick Swart says:
Intramural volleyball between fraternities. Since the captain of the BB team was also playing, we did pretty well. Basically, I was an AMT flit and a member of the marching band, We could just about make a ‘W’ on a windy day. Irv Shainman from the music department was the bandmaster. We tried for a rock solid sound. And followed Irv’s very sound dictum. “Always put a stinger on the end”.
October 22nd, 2009 at 11:56 pmfrank uible says:
No other sport would be foolish enough to claim me.
October 23rd, 2009 at 1:48 amephling says:
A close friend of mine played on the 1956 and 1957 Syracuse lacrosse teams with Brown. My friend who is also in the Hall of Fame (six of them as he tells it) has maintained a life long involvement in the sport and told me recently that Brown was the best to ever play, and a great teammate as well.
October 23rd, 2009 at 10:06 amHenry Bass says:
I knew about 1/3rd of them, a few fairly well. Tony Furgeson came up to be at our 50th and asked me if I still believed in those absurd liberal politics. When I said “yes”, he suggested we avoid talking about the current state of the world. Of course, I’m still in close touch with Joe Perrott. We meet every year at the Met Opera. This April we are hearing the great Renee Fleming in Armida. Fleming Is the current Jim Brown of opera.
October 23rd, 2009 at 11:12 am