(you may need Quick Time to see the video) disclaimer: I graduated from DePauw -- GO TIGERS!!!
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OK, well I had to take a look. As I understand it, the winner gets the bell and the bell is originally from engine 99? Also, that the rivalry has been going since 1890? Final observation: the video shows DePauw winning various games right at the end of play, and Wabash is just there to fill out the scene, right?
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If the teams are evenly matched, Division III can be just as exciting as the big boys (awful lot of lop-sided scores this year even within the Big Ten).
But something's telling me that the most watched game tomorrow will be the two Big Ten Johnny Come Latelies going at it - but I don't think the reason will be the game as such even if it is #19 taking on #12.
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Gilbert, You're the master of this internet stuff! Your link worked perfectly; I'm amazed at your ability. But I'd still like to hear more about the bell.
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Yes, Tom -- you got it!! The rivalry has been going on for quite a while, and the winner keeps the bell from engine #99 -- of course, there have always been intercollegiate rivalries where some frat guys from the losing school will go to the winning school at night sometime and try to steal the bell back.
You will note that the video I posted was put together by DePauw!(I don't know if Wabash has their own version of it or not!) I'll be heading to a local alumni football telecast party up in Lake Mary in a couple hours -- sure hope DePauw does better than last year's LOSS of 36-0!!!!!
I'll let you know the outcome.
Gil -- where do you ever find all this stuff? The Quick Time video is rare enough, but you found a Windows version of it!!!
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Oh and Rich, FWIW; it looks like the other guys are also talkin' up the Bell (and to think that YOU got off the train en route to Reunion in THEIR town):
Finally, here is a quotation from the Monon Historical Society's page with regard to the on-line institutions of higher learning:
quote:The Monon served five major Universities in Indiana, Purdue University (West Lafayette), Wabash College (Crawfordsville), DePauw University (Greencastle), Indiana University (Bloomington), and Butler University (Indianapolis). The state's decision to put Purdue University at Lafayette in 1869 had partly to do with Monon service, there since 1852. So important was the college traffic that the road painted its passenger rolling stock the red and gray of Wabash College, and painted its freight engines black and gold of DePauw University (not Indiana University and Purdue University as is commonly thought). In 1959, after the Indianapolis to Chicago trains were discontinued, it didn't make sense to continue with two color schemes, and to economize, the red and gray passenger scheme was slowly converted to black and gold
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Yeah, the other guys did it again -- 44-7 Wabash!! This has GOT to stop!!!!!
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"Sorry 'bout that" Rich; even more lop-sided than Illinois being taken care of by Michigan.
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Doesn't sound like either one of you two had a good day. My team plays its arch-rival next weekend. If we win, I'll buy you both a beer; otherwise, I'll meet you at the bar, and we'll flip for who pays.
quote:March, march on down the field, fighting for Eli, Break through the crimson line, their strength to defy; We'll give a long cheer for Eli's men, We're here to win again. Harvard's team may fight to the end, but Yale will win.
To expand this topic in a rail related manner, the Yale Bowl is well to the North and West of downtown New Haven where the Yale campus is a walk from the train station. However, for my School, there were Football Specials from Chicago to Champaign even during my day. Anyone who has ridden the IC knows that the UofIll sports complex is within sight of the line; the trains were parked near the University's power plant; there are several photos that have appeared in TRAINS of this operation.
But no one ever topped this "Train to the Game', which I rode circa 1954:
Finally, have we any other graduates of Division I schools around here that can either recall or know of "trains to the game"?
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Gilbert, I don't know how you continually find this stuff, but I couldn't find a steam locomotive in the picture. I guess that's supposed to be at the Army/Navy game?
My wife's family is all Yale and it's taken me 28 years to get her to call the game by it's proper name: Harvard/Yale (not the other way around!)
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