Tuesday, May 04, 2010
Monon Memories! One Incredible Feat!
Bill's blog from November 13, 2008:
Everybody has memories and you might ask, “Why blog about my memories?” Well, here’s how it is … sure I have a few Monon Bell memories of from my tenure at DePauw. Does losing all four games from 1950 - 53 by a combined score of 163 - 32 (and 20 of those came in my freshman year) really make for worthwhile memories? You decide.
Over the 114 year period of the rivalry there have been dozens of exciting-memorable games … last minute field goals, touchdowns, interceptions, defensive stops … the list goes on. Students and alumni alike may remember a play or a game or some other event surrounding the Monon Bell week at each campus, but nobody … absolutely nobody does Monon Memories like Ken Owen, DePauw ‘82, Executive Director of Media Relations at DePauw.
Ken has researched all 114 DePauw - Wabash games and has produced an absolutely amazing series of vignettes for every game played. That's right EVERY game ... One Incredible Feat! The story of the Monon Bell series is about more than football, Owen noted. Many of the "Memories" include references to events that were making news in a given year, and of course, the rivalry has produced many colorful stories. DePauw fan … Wabash fan … football fan - check out Monon Memories … you will enjoy the trip down memory lane.
Here’s one more bit of Monon Bell fun, “The Ballad of the Monon Bell". The video is classic mid-America circa 1950, the production top notch and you’ll want to note the credits at the end. See if you can guess the vocalist.
At video parties all over the country, fans from both schools will be watching the national telecast from Crawfordsville on HDNet to find out.
Who will ring the Bell in victory? Tigers you say … or the Little Giants (aka Cavemen in a bygone era)?
Everybody has memories and you might ask, “Why blog about my memories?” Well, here’s how it is … sure I have a few Monon Bell memories of from my tenure at DePauw. Does losing all four games from 1950 - 53 by a combined score of 163 - 32 (and 20 of those came in my freshman year) really make for worthwhile memories? You decide.
Over the 114 year period of the rivalry there have been dozens of exciting-memorable games … last minute field goals, touchdowns, interceptions, defensive stops … the list goes on. Students and alumni alike may remember a play or a game or some other event surrounding the Monon Bell week at each campus, but nobody … absolutely nobody does Monon Memories like Ken Owen, DePauw ‘82, Executive Director of Media Relations at DePauw.
Ken has researched all 114 DePauw - Wabash games and has produced an absolutely amazing series of vignettes for every game played. That's right EVERY game ... One Incredible Feat! The story of the Monon Bell series is about more than football, Owen noted. Many of the "Memories" include references to events that were making news in a given year, and of course, the rivalry has produced many colorful stories. DePauw fan … Wabash fan … football fan - check out Monon Memories … you will enjoy the trip down memory lane.
Here’s one more bit of Monon Bell fun, “The Ballad of the Monon Bell". The video is classic mid-America circa 1950, the production top notch and you’ll want to note the credits at the end. See if you can guess the vocalist.
At video parties all over the country, fans from both schools will be watching the national telecast from Crawfordsville on HDNet to find out.
Who will ring the Bell in victory? Tigers you say … or the Little Giants (aka Cavemen in a bygone era)?
Labels: ballad, cavemen, crawfordsville, depauw, greencastle, hdnet, ken_owen, little_giants, monon_bell, monon_miracle, tigers, wabash
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