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DeltaBoy

October 26, 2017, 10:40:26 am
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/24/nyregion/columbia-football-winning.html


When the Columbia Lions football team snapped its infamous 44-game losing streak on Oct. 8, 1988, Michael Rosenthal was among thousands in the stands who stood and cheered, "We won!"

Puzzled, Mr. Rosenthal, the associate dean, then turned to a friend and asked, "What's the protocol?"

Almost 30 years later, as the school is forging its best football season in recent memory, going 6-0 after the weekend's 22-17 win over Dartmouth, some Columbians are still grappling with how to celebrate gridiron success. Indeed, a few see no cause for celebration at all.
If the South should lose, it means that the history of the heroic struggle will be written by the enemy, that our youth will be trained by Northern school teachers, will be impressed by all of the influences of history and education to regard our gallant dead as traitors and our maimed veterans as fit subjects for derision.
-- Major General Patrick Cleburne
The Confederacy had no better soldiers
than the Arkansans--fearless, brave, and oftentimes courageous beyond
prudence. Dickart History of Kershaws Brigade.

Arkstfan

October 26, 2017, 08:41:15 pm #1
It's an Ivy in a city with two NFL teams.
 
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