These are some questions about those years that some people
have wondered about. Now I
should meantion that since the Timberg book (see the LINKS
tab) I have been giving some thought to those football
years and talked to some people about it. What I've learned
in the process is that if you have forgotten something
where you are drawing a complete blank on an event someone
else's remembering it, while it might be helpful (that's
why I've included the questions section) it really doesn't
serve as supplying the sense of: YES NOW I REMEMBER. My
experience is that If you remember some of the event than others
can help
you along filling in gaps.
But when dealling with the complete blanked out incidents I
haven't been too sucessful in feeling as if I have achieved
that sense of remembering the event that I intially hoped
would be possible.
However, that is simply my exeperience and I would like to
hear from others. How do you experience the result of
effortly trying to remember--did it really happen that way?
Having said the above I must admit: IT IS GREAT FUN.
Q1 Freddie Paulus--Freddie and I exchanged
a few emails over this one. He remembers playing
quarterback in the Seniors when Jimmy Gantz was hurt in the
game (required stiches under his chin). While he was
quaterbacking there were a bunch of fumbles between Freddie
and the center.
The only time I remember a lot of fumbles on the exchange
between quaterback and center was during a Senior scrimmage
against Rego Park. John Dougherty was the center and I
thought Jimmy was the quaterback--it was a controlled
scrimmage. We ran 10 plays then they ran 10 plays. About
half of our plays resulted in fumbles. Now Freddie doesn't
think this is the same incident.
Does anyone else remember anything?
Q2. When was Jimm Gantz hurt? Torchy
remembers Jimmy getting cut under the chin in a game, going
to the hospital, getting stiches and arriving back while
the game was still in progress and wanting to get back into
the game! Does anyone remember when this happened? Was it
in the juniors in 1959? Or the seniors?
Q3. Why was Roger Smith wearing #33 against the
Lynvets in 1962? This may sound like a strange
question but I finally obtained films where I could
identify myself in a game. Tom Wilson had excellent films
of the 1962 game, which was our first senior victory agains
the Lynvets. But to my surprise I am wearing jersey number
33! I have absolutely no recollection of why? Did I forget
my own jersey that day?
If I can't remember, I doubt that anyone else will, but I
put it out here as one of the big gaps in my own memory.