Case Western Reserve is doing something pretty interesting this weekend, celebrating its heritage by putting its players in throwback jerseys.
The men will wear jerseys from Case Institute of Technology for one of the weekend’s games and Western Reserve University for the other. The women will wear jerseys from Mather College both times out. They are playing in an old gymnasium as well.
Read more about the history of the school and the throwback weekend at their Web site.
Meanwhile, I’m really interested to know how Trenton State, Carnegie Tech, Upsala, Fredonia Teachers College, North Adams State, Western Maryland, Glassboro State, Beaver, Allentown and Penn Military do this weekend.
Pat,
Upsala will surely wear ghostly-white uniforms as they go against the Allentown “Centaurs.”
Don’t forget Bishop College, the historically black Baptist school in Dallas that had some good teams and made a couple of D3 tourney appearances before closing its doors in 1988.
I don’t think North Park will do this throwback thing anytime soon, as I suspect that the P.A. announcer would have a lot of difficulty getting “Swedish Evangelical Mission Covenant Church College” out of his mouth.
Now c’mon! Those are not 1972 men’s throwback uniforms! They are historically inaccurate!
The tops are too baggy!
And, for historically accurate uniforms, I want to see “Glory Road” length shorts!
Gregory, the Bishop College campus is now the home of Paul Quinn College, the A.M.E. affiliated college who moved from their Waco campus to Dallas in 1990.
I would love (or hate???) to see a throwback game in Randolph-Macon’s Alumni Gym, still attached to the recently renovated Crenshaw Gym. No bleachers. Only a wood running track about 15 feet above the gym floor for spectators.
You know what, I love those old kind of gyms. I’ve seen yours and I’ve seen Hampden-Sydney’s. You guys should definitely play the series that way one year.
Maybe they will bust out the Jersey City Normal School uniforms Circa 1935 or so at NJCU this weekend.
Ralph, the tops are too baggy, they need the John Stockton shorts and if I remember correctly womens basketball jerseys used to have sleeves.
Leads to another question: IWU fans, did they ever call Illinois State — you know, the one in your neighoring town — Illinois-Normal? Normal Normal? Illinois State-Normal?
Always found the various ways of referring to “teachers’ colleges” interesting.
I found a link with a picture of some of Warrens former students.
http://www.unialum.org/justfun/historicphotos/pre1920/pages/11.shtml
Pat, IIRC it used to be called Normal Teachers College.
Ralph, I knew that Paul Quinn had taken over Bishop’s campus on the south side of Dallas. Bishop had actually relocated to that campus in the early 1960s from Marshall, TX, which is where the school was founded in the late nineteenth century. I followed the Bishop story because they’d had a couple of epic battles with North Park, one in the 1982 tournament and another a few seasons later in the North Park gym in which all sorts of school scoring records were set (Bishop had brought in a new coach who turned them into a run-and-gun team that substituted five at a time).
Pat, Illinois State University was called Illinois State Normal University from 1857 to 1964. In 1964 it became Illinois State University at Normal, and took its present name in 1968.
I’ve been in Randolph-Macon’s old gym, connected to the current one – I played a game of one-on-one in there actually while IWU was practicing the day before the 2003 sectional game. You feel like you’re in Hoosiers in that gym and can just feel the history.
Another neat old gym I’ve been in is at Roanoke College. Same kind of place as R-M’s.
Illinois Wesleyan knocked down Fred Young Fieldhouse, the Titan’s home from 1962 to 1994, when the Shirk Center was completed. Beyond the history and memories in the building, it really wasn’t a very good facility at all. IWU did have an old school gym on campus though that was very cool. Before 1962 the Titans played at Memorial Gymnasium – a brick fortress of a building with columns in front and on the inside the old fasioned balcony seating. When I was on campus, it was still fuctioning as a gym (the women played there until the Shirk Center opened actually). Four years ago Memorial Gym was rennovated into the state-of-the-art Hansen Student Center, which includes the bookstore.
I often wished the Titans would have played a “turn back the clock” game at Memorial gym before it rennovated. It couldn’t have been done for a CCIW game or even a Hanover-type non-conference game since IWU draws 2500-3000 for those games, but maybe for an early season non-conference it would have been cool.
http://titan.iwu.edu/~hansen/building/qtvrtour.html
http://www2.iwu.edu/aboutiwu/campus/hansen.shtml
http://www2.iwu.edu/iwunews/magazine/pastissues/Summer_2002/oldhansen.shtml
‘stalker:
How on earth did you ever find that photo of my sainted aunts? Talk about “baggy shorts” …. 🙂
It would be nice to see Gettysburg in throwback T-shirt jerseys. For that matter, it would be nice to see ANY team in T-shirt jerseys; they look classy.
As I said in Posting Up, I think that this is a great idea and I wish the school had done it while I was a student there. But to make the trip back in time even more convincing, I think we should have brought in some opponents from the old Presidents’ Athletic Conference, like John Carroll, Hiram, or current UAA foe Carnegie Mellon.
I recall D-I Evansville’s men’s team wore jerseys with sleeves through most of the 90’s. Have they scrapped those? When?
Right. I believe the Purple Aces were the very last D1 team to wear T-shirt jerseys. A couple of years ago, the University of DC (D2?) also wore them.
BTW perhaps 40 or so years ago, Evansville, despite their colors of purple and white, wore orange jerseys (apparently their famous coach at the time liked that color — he’s so famous that I’ve forgotten his name :().
I’m also old enough to remember that LaSalle, Villanova, Texas A&M, and LIU at one time sported sleeves. Possibly the Tarheels, too.