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Date Posted: 18:46:21 04/25/08 Fri
Author: sundayamqb
Subject: Re: New (Natural) Turf At Goodman
In reply to: ?? 's message, "Re: New (Natural) Turf At Goodman" on 15:27:33 04/25/08 Fri

The stadium was built around a natural grass bowl -- like a massive crater -- which was used by JV football and I believe soccer team pre-Goodman days. Thus, there was a field long before the stadium super/infrastructure.

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[> [> [> [> Re: New (Natural) Turf At Goodman -- 808Lehigh, 22:30:50 04/25/08 Fri

I played/practiced in that grass bowl in 1970 - 73...it was always a mud pit.

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[> [> [> [> [> Re: New (Natural) Turf At Goodman -- ngineer, 19:18:14 04/28/08 Mon

Yes, Freshman football and JV Football played there going back to the 1960's. Spring Game was held there, too.
While we need a new scoreboard, especially due to the sun shining on it, bleaching it out, I don't really care for all the 'jumbo video boards' that are springing up--especially with obnoxious sound systems. It's like making artificial excitement..like the old laugh tracks on sorry sitcoms. As if we have to tell the fans when to get excited? I prefer to hear our Marching '97 blaring forth. It's what makes Lehigh's football atmosphere unique--especially in the PL. No one else has a marching band and I love the tradition of their half time show. It's what makes college football so much better than pro. There's always room for new ideas with fan activities, and I think Lehigh does a pretty good job with the diversity of food stands, and child activities, which could be changed I guess. Of course, re-establishing a winning tradition will go long way to adding some excitement at the old bowl..

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[> [> [> [> [> [> Re: New (Natural) Turf At Goodman -- Band in the Stands, 21:01:45 04/28/08 Mon

Lehigh '05 Alum here...former Marching 97 member, as well. I have to agree with ngineer. While our current scoreboard has some inadequacies, the Jumbotrons used by Princeton and Easton Junior College are gaudy, and take away from the sincere atmosphere of the games. Did anyone else notice that the game information on Princeton's scoreboard lacked logic in its placement? Personally, I'd like to see Goodman Stadium get some lights to enable night games. Why, year after year, that doesn't happen? I'm not sure. I know I would have rather donated lights as a class gift when I graduated, than the cafe we funded in Linderman.

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[> [> [> [> [> [> [> Re: New (Natural) Turf At Goodman -- ngineer, 18:37:20 05/07/08 Wed

Maybe Holy Cross has a band, but I don't recall ever seeing a marching band...I know Bucknell has about 20 students in rugby style shirts play in the stands, and stand in front of the stands at halftime, but I was referring to a marching style band. Even with those schools that only have pep bands in the stands, I prefer hearing them to the obnoxious 'thump, thump' of a sound system..

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[> [> [> [> [> [> Re: New (Natural) Turf At Goodman -- Bando Bob, 09:11:36 04/29/08 Tue

>I prefer to hear our Marching '97 blaring forth. It's
>what makes Lehigh's football atmosphere unique-->especially in the PL. No one else has a marching band ...

Oh really now?? I present to you the (drum roll please) ...

The Holy Cross Crusader

Hit and Run
Giant Killer
Neutral Field
Pull Through the Clutch
Never Say Die
Have Ticket Will Fly
Have Coffee Will Sober
Legendary and Notorious
Tug of War
Apple Corps
Halloween Howling
Rugby Shirt Erasing
Only Undefeated
Papally Blessed
Award Winning
Lost in Paramus
Cigar Smoking
Push It
Tone Deaf
Waterlogged
Got There, Got There
Our Power is Beyond Your Understanding
Lush and Haunting
Feeling the Unit
Topless on the Turnpike
Visually Stimulating
Sublimely Sybaritic
What About Bob?
Band is Safe Sex
Maximum Capacity
March to the Arch
Turning Over a New Rob
Holy Cross College High School
Harnessing Our Inner Chu
Brrreakdown
Less Poncho, More Feeling

"Goodtime" Marching Band


http://college.holycross.edu/studentorgs/band/index.html


They may be no Marching '97, (we usually have 30 - 40 members) but at least our name is accurate! I though you Engineer types knew how to count! Check out this histroy of the name:

http://college.holycross.edu/studentorgs/band/name.html

I do agree that bands are one fo the things that make the college atmosphere so much superior to the stand around and wait for the commercial to end NFL!

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[> [> [> [> [> [> [> Re: New (Natural) Turf At Goodman -- Psyche!, 10:24:36 04/29/08 Tue

Of course the Holy Cross band's name is accurate. Doesn't everybody associate the Jesuits with good times?

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[> [> [> [> [> [> [> [> Re: New (Natural) Turf At Goodman -- Bando Bob, 10:45:07 04/29/08 Tue

> Of course the Holy Cross band's name is accurate.
> Doesn't everybody associate the Jesuits with good times?

It is the Holy Cross Band, not the Jesuit band and you've obviously never hung around with too many Jesuits and if you have, they were definitely not at Holy Cross!

Story goes that upon entering the Jesuit residence on campus a diocesan priest - who does not take a vow of poverty as Jesuits do - remarked ...

If this is poverty, I can't wait to see chasity!

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[> [> [> [> [> [> [> Re: New (Natural) Turf At Goodman -- goodman mole, 12:53:50 04/29/08 Tue

Soooo - I don't ever recall seeing the HC band at our place - the M97 travels with the team - all _____(fill in the #)of them!

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[> [> [> [> [> [> Re: New (Natural) Turf At Goodman -- Bando Bob, 13:22:54 04/29/08 Tue

> Soooo - I don't ever recall seeing the HC band at our
> place - the M97 travels with the team - all _____(fill
> in the #)of them!

Well I guess that settles it. Lehigh is the only school in the PL with a band because the Holy Cross doesn't count having never played in Bethlehem, PA.

And from the Marching 97's own website, it doesn't look like all _____(fill in the #)of them go to every game either.

http://www.marching97.org/about.php#4

> Do you really play at every game? [ top ]
> We play at every home game and Lafayette, when an away
> year. In addition, we'll also play at one other away
> game, determined in spring of the year before. For all
> other away games, attendance is not mandatory, but
> keeping in the rowdy, fun atmosphere, we usually send a
> delegation of the marching band to those games as well
> to heckle, play and keep the team motivated. These
> trips, called flames, are some of the most fun times of > band-we don't put on a full show at a flame, so it's a
> pep-band style performance.

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[> [> [> [> [> [> [> Re: New (Natural) Turf At Goodman -- LUEngineer, 11:58:55 05/04/08 Sun

Would like to see the full band at Villanova and Princeton this year. Both are great away games with Lehigh fans about equal to the home team fans.

Both games are in September with only 3 total games in September this year and only 1 home game. Good year for the band to take 2 bus trips.

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[> [> [> [> [> [> [> Re: New (Natural) Turf At Goodman -- Band in the Stands, 19:39:49 05/04/08 Sun

The 97 usually gets about 1/2 to 2/3 of the band to attend away games unofficially. I remember traveling to Holy Cross my senior year for a game played in monsoon-like conditions. We had as many members make the 5 hour trek to Worcester, as they had in their own band. Presence at away games, whether official or not, is never a problem for the 97. The Goodtime band should come down to Lehigh one of these seasons and put on a halftime show. Rarely do we get to see any marching bands other than Princeton's scramble band.

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[> [> [> [> [> [> [> [> Re: New (Natural) Turf At Goodman -- LUEngineer, 08:14:24 05/05/08 Mon

I was thinking more of the full band putting on a halftime show at Princeton and Villanova and not just the ragtag group.

Our band is very impressive when dressed and marching and a great chance to show that off in two great venues where there will be decent crowds that have never seen the Marching 97 perform. I would think that Princeton and Villanova would both alot time for a halftime performance if asked.

With only 5 home games this year and only one in September, this would be the year to show off our band at these away venues. If you had to pick only one to attend in full force, I would suggest the Princeton game at night in probably one of the finest stadiums to perform.

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