Harkness-Lacrosse-RPI
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Harkness-Lacrosse-RPI
Posted by: marty (---.sub-166-248-10.myvzw.com)
Date: July 13, 2012 11:54AM
Dr. Martin Davis, better known for removing my tonsils, weighs in on the RPI team at the '48 Olympics:
Times Union
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Re: Harkness-Lacrosse-RPI
Posted by: TimV (---.nycap.res.rr.com)
Date: July 13, 2012 06:56PM
Great article. Ned coached the same way 20 years later- conditioning, all movement, all the time. Thank God, he can't see me now.
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Re: Harkness-Lacrosse-RPI
Posted by: Jim Hyla (---.twcny.res.rr.com)
Date: July 14, 2012 03:45PM
I can't disagree with this:
How many NCAA Div I teams win Olympic Gold?
Davis wants to add one thing: He and his living teammates wish RPI would induct the entire 1948 team into the school's athletic Hall of Fame. Maybe then future generations can tell the story of RPI's trip to the Olympics as well as he can.
Read more: [www.timesunion.com]
How many NCAA Div I teams win Olympic Gold?
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Re: Harkness-Lacrosse-RPI
Posted by: Al DeFlorio (---.metro.volia.net)
Date: July 14, 2012 04:07PM
American college crews won every Olympic eight-oar with cox gold from 1920 through 1956 (three for Cal, two Yale, one each Navy and Washington).Jim Hyla
I can't disagree with this:
Davis wants to add one thing: He and his living teammates wish RPI would induct the entire 1948 team into the school's athletic Hall of Fame. Maybe then future generations can tell the story of RPI's trip to the Olympics as well as he can.
Read more: [www.timesunion.com]
How many NCAA Div I teams win Olympic Gold?
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Re: Harkness-Lacrosse-RPI
Posted by: billhoward (---.hsd1.nj.comcast.net)
Date: July 22, 2012 03:28PM
Didn't realize lacrosse was a demonstration sport 60+ years ago. Sometimes that leads to it being an Olympic sport. But you can't have just 3-4 countries playing. Now the IOC also wants it to be telegenic and preferably not take up a lot of time. Beach volleyball was a gimme once the IOC saw what the uniforms looked like.
Re: Harkness-Lacrosse-RPI
Posted by: RichH (---.hsd1.ct.comcast.net)
Date: July 22, 2012 09:18PM
billhoward
Didn't realize lacrosse was a demonstration sport 60+ years ago. Sometimes that leads to it being an Olympic sport. But you can't have just 3-4 countries playing.
That's what I don't understand about baseball & softball being taken away as an Olympic sport. Besides North America, it has a very strong presence in many latino countries as well as the Pacific rim countries. There have been major leaguers emerging from Australia as well.
Most recent news is detailed here: [sports.espn.go.com]
Re: Harkness-Lacrosse-RPI
Posted by: jtn27 (---.nycmny.fios.verizon.net)
Date: July 22, 2012 09:28PM
RichH
billhoward
Didn't realize lacrosse was a demonstration sport 60+ years ago. Sometimes that leads to it being an Olympic sport. But you can't have just 3-4 countries playing.
That's what I don't understand about baseball & softball being taken away as an Olympic sport. Besides North America, it has a very strong presence in many latino countries as well as the Pacific rim countries. There have been major leaguers emerging from Australia as well.
Most recent news is detailed here: [sports.espn.go.com]
From what I heard, baseball got the axe because the IOC wanted pro players like in basketball and hockey, but the MLB isn't willing to take a break like the NHL. Softball got lumped in with baseball.
Edit: I just read that article and it basically says the same thing.
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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 07/22/2012 09:30PM by jtn27.
Re: Harkness-Lacrosse-RPI
Posted by: RichH (---.hsd1.ct.comcast.net)
Date: July 22, 2012 10:12PM
jtn27
RichH
billhoward
Didn't realize lacrosse was a demonstration sport 60+ years ago. Sometimes that leads to it being an Olympic sport. But you can't have just 3-4 countries playing.
That's what I don't understand about baseball & softball being taken away as an Olympic sport. Besides North America, it has a very strong presence in many latino countries as well as the Pacific rim countries. There have been major leaguers emerging from Australia as well.
Most recent news is detailed here: [sports.espn.go.com]
From what I heard, baseball got the axe because the IOC wanted pro players like in basketball and hockey, but the MLB isn't willing to take a break like the NHL. Softball got lumped in with baseball.
Edit: I just read that article and it basically says the same thing.
And that completely goes against the "olympic ideal" of amateur athletics that I grew up believing in. But, whatever, </MONEY>
Re: Harkness-Lacrosse-RPI
Posted by: ugarte (207.239.110.---)
Date: July 23, 2012 03:51PM
hahahahahahahahahahahaRichH
jtn27
RichH
billhoward
Didn't realize lacrosse was a demonstration sport 60+ years ago. Sometimes that leads to it being an Olympic sport. But you can't have just 3-4 countries playing.
That's what I don't understand about baseball & softball being taken away as an Olympic sport. Besides North America, it has a very strong presence in many latino countries as well as the Pacific rim countries. There have been major leaguers emerging from Australia as well.
Most recent news is detailed here: [sports.espn.go.com]
From what I heard, baseball got the axe because the IOC wanted pro players like in basketball and hockey, but the MLB isn't willing to take a break like the NHL. Softball got lumped in with baseball.
Edit: I just read that article and it basically says the same thing.
And that completely goes against the "olympic ideal" of amateur athletics that I grew up believing in. But, whatever, </MONEY>
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Re: Harkness-Lacrosse-RPI
Posted by: ugarte (207.239.110.---)
Date: July 23, 2012 03:51PM
hahahahahahahahahahahaRichH
jtn27
RichH
billhoward
Didn't realize lacrosse was a demonstration sport 60+ years ago. Sometimes that leads to it being an Olympic sport. But you can't have just 3-4 countries playing.
That's what I don't understand about baseball & softball being taken away as an Olympic sport. Besides North America, it has a very strong presence in many latino countries as well as the Pacific rim countries. There have been major leaguers emerging from Australia as well.
Most recent news is detailed here: [sports.espn.go.com]
From what I heard, baseball got the axe because the IOC wanted pro players like in basketball and hockey, but the MLB isn't willing to take a break like the NHL. Softball got lumped in with baseball.
Edit: I just read that article and it basically says the same thing.
And that completely goes against the "olympic ideal" of amateur athletics that I grew up believing in. But, whatever, </MONEY>
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Re: Harkness-Lacrosse-RPI
Posted by: KeithK (---.external.lmco.com)
Date: July 23, 2012 08:23PM
And thank God for that! It would be utterly ridiculous would it be for MLB to take two weeks off in the middl a pennant race for an international tournament. Especially for Sydney in 2000, when the games were in late September.jtn27
From what I heard, baseball got the axe because the IOC wanted pro players like in basketball and hockey, but the MLB isn't willing to take a break like the NHL.
It kind of works in hockey because the regular seaosn has always been something of an afterthought.
Re: Harkness-Lacrosse-RPI
Posted by: jtn27 (---.nycmny.fios.verizon.net)
Date: July 24, 2012 11:56AM
KeithK
And thank God for that! It would be utterly ridiculous would it be for MLB to take two weeks off in the middl a pennant race for an international tournament. Especially for Sydney in 2000, when the games were in late September.jtn27
From what I heard, baseball got the axe because the IOC wanted pro players like in basketball and hockey, but the MLB isn't willing to take a break like the NHL.
It kind of works in hockey because the regular seaosn has always been something of an afterthought.
I think it might work to make baseball a winter Olympic sport so that it's in the offseason and the pros can participate like with basketball. Plus, it would mean an end to the WBC. The biggest problem would be infrastructure since it would require the construction of one or more indoor baseball stadiums in each host city.
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Re: Harkness-Lacrosse-RPI
Posted by: KeithK (---.external.lmco.com)
Date: July 24, 2012 02:34PM
You want to play Olympic baseball in February indoors. I'm not sure this even merits a response.jtn27
KeithK
And thank God for that! It would be utterly ridiculous would it be for MLB to take two weeks off in the middl a pennant race for an international tournament. Especially for Sydney in 2000, when the games were in late September.jtn27
From what I heard, baseball got the axe because the IOC wanted pro players like in basketball and hockey, but the MLB isn't willing to take a break like the NHL.
It kind of works in hockey because the regular seaosn has always been something of an afterthought.
I think it might work to make baseball a winter Olympic sport so that it's in the offseason and the pros can participate like with basketball. Plus, it would mean an end to the WBC. The biggest problem would be infrastructure since it would require the construction of one or more indoor baseball stadiums in each host city.
Re: Harkness-Lacrosse-RPI
Posted by: jtn27 (---.nycmny.fios.verizon.net)
Date: July 24, 2012 03:32PM
KeithK
You want to play Olympic baseball in February indoors. I'm not sure this even merits a response.jtn27
KeithK
And thank God for that! It would be utterly ridiculous would it be for MLB to take two weeks off in the middl a pennant race for an international tournament. Especially for Sydney in 2000, when the games were in late September.jtn27
From what I heard, baseball got the axe because the IOC wanted pro players like in basketball and hockey, but the MLB isn't willing to take a break like the NHL.
It kind of works in hockey because the regular seaosn has always been something of an afterthought.
I think it might work to make baseball a winter Olympic sport so that it's in the offseason and the pros can participate like with basketball. Plus, it would mean an end to the WBC. The biggest problem would be infrastructure since it would require the construction of one or more indoor baseball stadiums in each host city.
Better than not playing at all.
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Re: Harkness-Lacrosse-RPI
Posted by: Robb (192.206.89.---)
Date: July 24, 2012 04:05PM
Wait - Olympic baseball on skates? I'm liking the sound of this....jtn27
KeithK
And thank God for that! It would be utterly ridiculous would it be for MLB to take two weeks off in the middl a pennant race for an international tournament. Especially for Sydney in 2000, when the games were in late September.jtn27
From what I heard, baseball got the axe because the IOC wanted pro players like in basketball and hockey, but the MLB isn't willing to take a break like the NHL.
It kind of works in hockey because the regular seaosn has always been something of an afterthought.
I think it might work to make baseball a winter Olympic sport so that it's in the offseason and the pros can participate like with basketball. Plus, it would mean an end to the WBC. The biggest problem would be infrastructure since it would require the construction of one or more indoor baseball stadiums in each host city.
Re: Harkness-Lacrosse-RPI
Posted by: ugarte (207.239.110.---)
Date: July 24, 2012 04:05PM
Yeah, we'd miss out on all of those Olympic baseball memories.jtn27
KeithK
You want to play Olympic baseball in February indoors. I'm not sure this even merits a response.jtn27
KeithK
And thank God for that! It would be utterly ridiculous would it be for MLB to take two weeks off in the middl a pennant race for an international tournament. Especially for Sydney in 2000, when the games were in late September.jtn27
From what I heard, baseball got the axe because the IOC wanted pro players like in basketball and hockey, but the MLB isn't willing to take a break like the NHL.
It kind of works in hockey because the regular seaosn has always been something of an afterthought.
I think it might work to make baseball a winter Olympic sport so that it's in the offseason and the pros can participate like with basketball. Plus, it would mean an end to the WBC. The biggest problem would be infrastructure since it would require the construction of one or more indoor baseball stadiums in each host city.
Better than not playing at all.
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Re: Harkness-Lacrosse-RPI
Posted by: ursusminor (---.washdc.east.verizon.net)
Date: August 09, 2012 12:53PM
Al DeFlorio
American college crews won every Olympic eight-oar with cox gold from 1920 through 1956 (three for Cal, two Yale, one each Navy and Washington).Jim Hyla
I can't disagree with this:
Davis wants to add one thing: He and his living teammates wish RPI would induct the entire 1948 team into the school's athletic Hall of Fame. Maybe then future generations can tell the story of RPI's trip to the Olympics as well as he can.
Read more: [www.timesunion.com]
How many NCAA Div I teams win Olympic Gold?
Then perhaps the question should have been how many D-III schools have won Olympic Gold medals? (I realize that there were no NCAA divisions in 1948.)
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