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Jack Park's book has been very special to me.
I started attending Buckeye games in 1947 and reading about all those old games and the great players,many of whom I knew personally, really brought back some of the best mimories I have ever had in my life time.
Yesterday, Buckeye Classics showed the 1961 year when we were denied going to the Rose Bowl by the faculity council. All of the players interviewed, except Paul Warfield, I knew in the dorm, the class room and some were good friends also.
That was the year, of the riots and the march down High Street to the capital building. It was a wild time and as I was to graduate the following spring I was a bit fearful of getting kicked out of school as I had been arrested two years earlier for playing "spot cards" in the dorm and had gotten off with just a slap on the hand. I thought for sure someone would recognize me but I went along anyway.
I can't imagine the crap that would hit the fan in Columbus today if some faculity group kept our Buckeye from going to a BCS championship game,
Thanks for the post Junkie.
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