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Game day from everywhere

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Welcome to Week 11!

Starting my day off by watching … yes, watching … the Curry/Coast Guard game on the Penn Atlantic video stream. Just saw Curry fake a punt and run for a first down, then bust open a long run which set up the game-tying touchdown. It’s 7-7 late in the first quarter.

You need a strong Net connection to get this video. There’s audio backup on our Scoreboard.

Last night I saw Rowan defeat William Paterson rather handily, and we might be ready to declare the return of the Profs’ offense. The young receivers are beginning to look halfway decent, though I can see why there hasn’t been a lot of confidence in them to date. Their hands weren’t perfect and sometimes their routes weren’t overly sharp.

Cortaca is tied at 7-7 with just under a minute to go in the first quarter. Game day doesn’t get much better than this.

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Old Funky Knickers

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It’s a great weekend for rivalries. And for every Cortaca Jug or Monon Bell or Shoes, there’s a Little Brown Bucket, an Old Musket, an Old Tin Cup, and Old Funky Knickers.

Sometime in the late ’20s, nobody really remembers when, the janitor cleaning out the locker room at State Normal School #2 came across a pair of pants left behind by someone from Central Mennonite College. The following year, when Normal’s team made the short trip over the mountains to play in their neighboring state, they attempted to return the knickers, which by now were less than sanitary, and were rebuffed. In the end, the battle was so fierce over them that they became a trophy symbol of the teams’ meeting, with the “trophy” going to the loser.

Seem unlikely? Absolutely. Totally made up? You bet. But the story isn’t all that unlike how many trophy games must have come about. The Goat Trophy? The Drum? The Shot Glass? The Wooden Shoes? They all have stories, too.

We’ve heard many stories about the Jug, the Shoes and the Monon Bell. But let’s hear from people with other tales to tell. What’s your local trophy game and your favorite memory?

By the way, State Normal School #2 and Central Mennonite College are/were actual Division III schools. State Normal #2 became Frostburg State, and Central Mennonite is now Bluffton.

NCAA’s updated regional rankings

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The NCAA’s regional rankings through Week 10 games:

People, please, note, the records are regional records, followed by overall record. Can’t tell you how many e-mails we get from people saying “you guys got the conference record wrong.” Conference record is not part of the regional rankings. The headers are here for you to read.

East Region
No. School, In-Region, Overall
1. Wilkes 9-0 9-0
2. Springfield 8-1 8-1
3. St. John Fisher 8-1 8-1
4. Union 7-1 7-1
5. Hobart 7-1 7-1
6. Rowan 5-1 6-2
7. Cortland State 7-1 8-1
8. Alfred 7-2 7-2
9. Curry 10-0 10-0
10. Ithaca 6-2 7-2

North Region
No. School, In-Region, Overall
1. Mount Union 9-0 9-0
2. Mount St. Joseph 9-0 9-0
3. Capital 8-1 8-1
4. Concordia (Wis.) 10-0 10-0
5. Wheaton 8-1 8-1
6. Franklin 8-1 8-1
7. Baldwin-Wallace 7-2 7-2
8. North Central 7-2 7-2
9. Wittenberg 6-2 6-3
10. Wabash 7-2 7-2

South Region
No. School, In-Region, Overall
1. Wesley 5-0 9-0
2. Trinity (Texas) 8-1 8-1
3. Mary Hardin-Baylor 7-2 7-2
4. Hardin-Simmons 7-1 7-1
5. Carnegie Mellon 8-0 9-0
6. Dickinson 8-1 8-1
7. Washington and Jefferson 7-1 8-1
8. Christopher Newport 7-1 7-2
9. Bridgewater (Va.) 6-2 7-2
10. Washington and Lee 7-2 7-2

West Region
1. UW-Whitewater 8-0 9-0
2. St. John’s 9-0 9-0
3. Central 8-0 9-0
4. Whitworth 8-0 9-0
5. UW-La Crosse 5-1 7-1
6. Occidental 8-0 8-0
7. Bethel 8-1 8-1
8. St. Norbert 9-0 10-0
9. Wartburg 8-1 8-1
10. Cal Lutheran 6-2 6-2