The whole country was talking about UConn’s double-overtime victory over the Fighting Irish on November 21 in fabled Notre Dame Stadium in South Bend. Some 85,000 fans were on hand, not just a few of them UConn fans.
Some of us got to the game by taking the Husky Express, a train from downtown Chicago to South Bend. I met a lot of excited alums and fans on the train:
From: Craig Coleman
Mr. Hogan,
It was great to spend some time with you on a glorious Saturday while traveling to the UC vs. ND game. What a great treat for long time UC fans and alum to see their school play at the storied Notre Dame! To win was just icing on the cake. Attached is the image we took on the train. This will be another great memory from the weekend for all of us for years to come.
Have a great Thanksgiving and holiday season.
Go Huskies!
Class of 95: Craig Coleman, Matt Senatore, John Cross, Jeff Fraleigh, John Lightle, Andrew Cray, Jim Iannazzo, Chris Mclean, Juan DeChoudens
Friends of UC: Joe Pullia and Keith McMahon
In the station with Tom Sweeney.
The Pride of Connecticut was there, too, and our Band made a great contribution to the afternoon:
I even found Flat Mike in the stands:
After the game, some of our fans said this was the greatest UConn football victory ever. I don’t know about that, but it has to rank right up there. Coach Randy Edsall said: “[T]o come out here to Notre Dame, and to play in this stadium …. [T]he history, the tradition that goes with this place and to be seven years at an FBS school, just a remarkable feat by those young men.”
And the Notre Dame fans were great hosts and exemplary in their respect for our team and our fans. We should aspire to do as well. A great day for college football!
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The University of Connecticut and its Division of Athletics will honor the memory of Jasper Howard as the Huskies football team returns to Rentschler Field on Saturday for the first time since Howard passed away on October 18. UConn plays Rutgers at noon in a BIG EAST Conference game.
All fans who attend Saturday’s game will receive a “6″ card in honor of Jasper Howard’s jersey number. In addition, the first 15,000 fans who enter the gates will receive “Jazz Live 365″ wristbands. UConn students who attend the game will receive the same “eye-black” that the Husky team is wearing – one with a “6″ and the other with a “JH”. All UConn students will also receive a “6″ button.
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“For reasons players and fans on both sides seemed to understand, this game was truly about more than football.” Sean Hamel, New York Times, Oct. 24, 2009.
I want to congratulate our UConn football team on an outstanding personal effort on Saturday in Morgantown, under the eyes of the entire nation and the weight of last week’s devastating loss of cornerback Jasper Howard. I also want to congratulate the West Virginia coaches, players, and fans, who demonstrated the true essence of sportsmanship. It was a great day for college football in Morgantown, even as we watched with heavy hearts.
Michael Switzer/AP
Everyone associated with the UConn football program will attend Jasper Howard’s funeral this morning at 11:00 at New Birth Baptist Church in Miami. The service will be webcast at http://newbirthbaptistmiami.org/ The Huskies return to Rentschler next Saturday when we host Rutgers at noon. Let’s show the same support for players and fans as we received at Morgantown, and an even stronger effort.
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On Sunday, October 4 a team of Army ROTC cadets from the University of Connecticut finished second in the ROTC division of the 25th annual Army Ten-Miler in Washington DC. Running among a record 30,000 people from around the world, members of the Nathan Hale Battalion improved on its 10th place finish from a year ago. UConn was edged by a team of cadets from Virgina Tech, which won the ROTC crown for the second straight year. The ROTC division included 56 teams representing almost 50 schools. Out of 30,000 runners, all of our students finished within the top 1,000 – the top 3 percent!
Dan Le, a junior, turned in the team’s second-best time. Calling the experience “a blast,” he attributed UConn’s strong finish to training that had members endure hilly surfaces and made running the Ten-Miler’s relatively flat course easier. Connecticut cadets whose times counted toward the overall time were Steven Pawlowski, 57:58, Le, 1:03:55, Christopher Gibb, 1:05:49, and James Cameron-Denigris, 1:07:31. Other team members completing the race were Stephen Paniati, Douglas Palmer, Evan Malanga and Josiah Henning. UConn also had several other cadets and cadre members compete as individuals. These students have trained tremendously hard since the first day of the Fall semester, meeting every morning at 5:45am to ensure they were prepared. They’re already talking about next year.
The Army Ten-Miler is among the largest races in the country. Starting and ending at the Pentagon, the course crosses the Potomac River, running along the National Mall to loop around the U.S. Capitol building, forming a 10-mile circuit.
See the full up-to-date standings here
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