Week 3: Lehigh @ UC Davis 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.