This nostalgic stroll had been great fun for me. But, back to the present with tonights game.

Those pics of the tailgate on the Enhanced Game Day Experience thread are great. Looks cooler than I know it is. Hope sundown drastically lowers the temps. I doubt Lehigh will be at much of a disadvantage, their part of the world gets plenty hot and humid during August practice.

Thanks for the backup video links folks posted. Pluto working now, but it has been flakey at times in the past for me.

(Alfalfa) HAY! I resent that! Unless my driving one of the cars to the Boise State game when I was a freshman in 1973 made me part of the band-uh.

Athletic department budget didn't include a seat on the plane for the student trainer, so I hitched a ride with the band. A full bus and three or four cars. No one wanted to drive, preferring to imbibe/inhale, I was 17, not yet much of a beer drinker, and volunteered.

Oleo Margarine; Oleo Butterine!

Kathy's Korner, of course. A few months back I was racking my brain trying to remember that name, scouring the DavisWiki.org articles about closed business. I'd eaten literally hundreds of sandwiches there over the years, from high school through trips home. You'd think I'd remember; somehow despite the similar hundreds of beers at Mr. B's and the Grad I didn't forget them.

I'm so old, I remember when the Grad opened.

Thanks for both those links recalling the 1977 game. I had borrowed my dad's battery operated TV, and we could watch the TV instant replays.

I remember Foster had a photo in his office for years, of the D stopping a Lehigh runner. He'd say, 'there're eleven gold hats on that guy; that's Gang Tackling!'

But I haven't seen this photo in years, from that last article above. Wally Loving's mom had this one framed in their kitchen (she and my mom were great friends).


15 QB Mike Moroski; 81 TE (at 180 lbs) Wally Loving; Head Coach Jim Sochor.

As well as young, we were all so skinny back then!

Thanks for all the welcomes. I generally get back to Davis a few times a year, until the last five years health problems (fortunately not permanent and now resolving) have limited my travel. If I'm in town in the fall, I hit a game. But it seems, often I don't get far past the south end, always run into a fellow townie, or alum, and then another wanders by, and instead of watching football it's catch up and reminisce. Funny, just like the south endzone grandstand at Toomey was the designated old Davis High alums spot.

I'll be back soon, and will look forward to meeting you folks.

NCagalum, wait, you went from Band-uh to the team? That's uncommon. I wonder if you were aware of Dick Lewis' opinion of the Band-uh? He was not a fan; Dick was as straight laced as the come, and I had to change my ways to work for him. Had he known, he might have cracked more than your back. But he was a consummate pro, he may have known and it wouldn't effect how he treated you. I still use things he taught me about medicine and about life, all the time.

Steve Brown and Jim Bowin were on the baseball team that year, pitchers. We were close friends in high school, roommates in college, and remain close friends. Not more than a couple of weeks go by w/o me talking to them on the phone. I won't be surprised if there are lots of other people we knew in common.

Now I gotta study that 77 team picture, see how many I can name. Mikey Johnson, John Sharper and Moroski jump out of the page at first glance. And the coaches, so young!

So Keelan has that UC Davis t-shirt permanently affixed to his chest, right? Bravo.

Hi guys:

Name is howard, I've lurked for about four years during football season. I am moved to post not just by the return of Hawk to the program and the resurgence of the program, but by the memories of the last Lehigh - Aggies scrap. What was that, like ten, twelve years ago right? What do you mean 42 years? Impossible!

I was a local, moved to town in 1967, when I was ten. Davis High, then attended UCD for 2 1/2 years, transferred to Santa Barbara to finish up. I was a student trainer under my main man Dick Lewis, and was there for three football seasons, '74-'76. I was the skinny black kid with a big afro next to Lewis.

Drove up from SB for the Reno game and those playoff games in 77, Bethune Cookman and Lehigh. Sure was a lot more fun in the stands of Toomey rather than working with Dick, patching 'em up and getting them back on the field. Working the games was a different kind of fun.

I came to New York for grad school, and settled here, but over the decades spent plenty of time back in the valley, visiting family and occasionally for work. I gradually trailed off following the team, particularly as Sochor, Foster, and then Bobby Biggs retired. But I had met Hawk when he was playing, worked out with him and the other guys one summer I was back home for a few weeks. I'm so happy he is the man leading this return to top of the league and playoff status. Hope this becomes a new golden age.

I look forward to swaping memories with you folks who were students at that time. I'll bet at least a couple of members here I'll remember.

Lehigh - UCD, 1977. The fog game was the week before, right? My most prominent memory is right(?) cornerback Ricky Boyer getting torched twice early. I was sitting just below the press box, and defensive coordinator (and the last man to cut me from a baseball team) Phil Swimley was, as his usual, expressing his displeasure quite loudly. And I remember a couple of nice punt returns by my roommate from the previous year, Tib Belza.

Just two games we've already had plenty of excitement. And a corresponding bookend, separated by the same 42 years, Rich Martini '77 and Keelan Doss, from Aggies WR to Oakland Raiders, (at least last I checked on Doss.)

Sorry if this is too long, please let me know if there is a thread for introductions of new posters that I missed.