BayBuck
Buckeyes are best
Also, he'll be rockin on the guitar with Rick Derringer at the Shadowbox next week:
http://info.rockhall.com/rock-hall-roadshow
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http://info.rockhall.com/rock-hall-roadshow
ORD_Buckeye
Wrong glass, Sir.
In fairness to Ed Jennings, he could have rocked the highball of Jack Daniels eyeball to eyeball with Frank Sinatra.
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ScriptOhio
Everybody is somebody else's weirdo.
Interesting old photos, which point out some Ohio State history that you might not have known.
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ScriptOhio
Everybody is somebody else's weirdo.
Anybody else remember when they had the "bed races" (picture on left side) around the oval?
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ScriptOhio
Everybody is somebody else's weirdo.
Ever wonder who the French Field House was named after?
Thomas Ewing French
Thomas Ewing French – engineer, author, traveler, artist, gourmet, and hobbyist, to name a few of his areas of achievement, was a member of the outstanding class of 1895 and continued his active connection with the University until almost the day of his death, November 2, 1944. Including his student days, this was a span of fifty-three years. French was the son of a minister. He was born November 7, 1871 at Mansfield, but the family moved to Dayton where he showed an early talent for teaching and drafting.
French earned his way through Ohio State by working as a draftsman. . .in the department of architecture and drawing. Upon graduation in 1895 he was immediately given a full-time position as an instructor in drawing.
Eleven years later, Thomas French becomes a department chair . . .and some five years later, writes a textbook for McGraw-Hill that, as textbooks go, becomes a best seller and the standard work in engineering drawing.
French devoted himself to athletics. He loved the character sports instilled in students and organized an early athletic program at Ohio State. He recruited volunteer coaches for different sports and helped schedule games with nearby colleges.
Above all, French loved football. His brother, Edward, had been captain of the 1896 football team. French never missed a game and worked hard to promote the sport.
He was credited with having fathered the idea of the Ohio Stadium, completed in 1922. He was Ohio State’s first and only faculty representative in the Big Ten, from 1912 until his death in 1944. Thomas French, in 1912, became the second President of Ohio State’s Athletic Board and hired Ohio State’s first athletic director, John Richards. In the 22 years from Ohio Stadium’s inception until his death in 1944, French saw football attendance grow to 40-thousand at most games . . still well short of the dream and stadium capacity. French Fieldhouse is named in his honor.
https://wosu.org/2012/archive/horseshoe/men.htm#m2
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ScriptOhio
Everybody is somebody else's weirdo.
Brings back memories of having to walk from Smith Hall to the ROTC building for an 8 AM class both Winter quarters of my freshman and sophomore years.
And it was uphill both ways.....
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