EasyEd
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Post by EasyEd on Feb 22, 2010 14:04:58 GMT -5
easyed: # 1941- Georgetown falls to Mississippi State 14-7 in the 1941 Orange Bowl. Ten members of this Georgetown team would go on to play in the NFL. # 1943-Varsity play is suspended for three years due to World War II. # 1945- Al Blozis, the greatest player in Georgetown football history, is killed in battle during the last months of World War II. # 1950- Georgetown is invited to the Sun Bowl in El Paso, Texas, falling to Texas Western (now Texas-El Paso) 33-20. As usual my rumors turn out to be correct. Rumor also has it that Georgetown quit intercollegiate football entirely some months after the Sun Bowl. It's also a rumor that it's never been resumed.
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joey0403p
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Post by joey0403p on Feb 22, 2010 14:10:39 GMT -5
I heard a rumor that since Yates was underground it was going to self cool and would not need an airconditioning unit.
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rosslynhoya
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Post by rosslynhoya on Feb 22, 2010 14:28:34 GMT -5
I also seem to recall in the late 80's that the Healy Tower clockhands were swiped (definitely true), but that the rumor was they were mailed the White House. eegads! Everyone knows that if you steal the hands off the Healy clock tower, you mail them to the Pope.
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rosslynhoya
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Post by rosslynhoya on Feb 22, 2010 14:31:38 GMT -5
I heard a rumor that since Yates was underground it was going to self cool and would not need an airconditioning unit. Also, solar panels were installed on ICC so that it would be entirely self-sufficient for electricity. There were also plans once to build some kind of co-generation plant on campus so that Georgetown could essentially be the Alaska of the mid-Atlantic, pumping megawatts of electricity into the surrounding community at minimal cost, earning the ceaseless gratitude of the surrounding residents.
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SSHoya
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Post by SSHoya on Feb 22, 2010 14:33:24 GMT -5
easyed:
# 1951- With crushing losses to Penn State, Miami, and Maryland, home attendance slumps below 6,000 a game. Citing a $100,000 shortfall from ticket sales, Georgetown drops the sport and cuts 81 football scholarships. Class intramurals are the only gridiron play at the University for the next thirteen years. # 1963- A student drive to reinstate football at a non-scholarship level is approved by a reluctant University administration, which sanctions a game on November 23, 1963 against Frostburg (Md.) State Teachers College. The game is cancelled in the wake of the death of President John Kennedy and the two teams never meet. # 1964- Georgetown returns to intercollegiate football with a 28-6 win over NYU before an overflow crowd of over 8,000 at Kehoe Field, the school's track facility. The game begins the "club football" era at Georgetown
joey0403: I had also heard that rumor re: Yates. I had also heard that it was modelled after a similar underground athletic complex at BC but didn't take into account the higher heat/humidity in DC v. Boston. .
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Bando
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Post by Bando on Feb 22, 2010 14:57:20 GMT -5
I heard a rumor once that there was a secret society at Georgetown, allegedly dedicated to service and tradition, but whose members were actually just a bunch of self-important LNS types who never really did anything of note. Obviously hogwash. Haven't read the rest of this thread, but this wins.
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hoyatables
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Post by hoyatables on Feb 22, 2010 15:34:14 GMT -5
I heard a rumor that since Yates was underground it was going to self cool and would not need an airconditioning unit. Also, solar panels were installed on ICC so that it would be entirely self-sufficient for electricity. There were also plans once to build some kind of co-generation plant on campus so that Georgetown could essentially be the Alaska of the mid-Atlantic, pumping megawatts of electricity into the surrounding community at minimal cost, earning the ceaseless gratitude of the surrounding residents. Cogen was actually approved by the BZA, upheld by the DC Court of Appeals, and made its way through the permitting process only to be held up by political machinations. A shame -- would have been a major sustainable accomplishment.
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Post by Nevada Hoya on Feb 22, 2010 15:51:54 GMT -5
I also seem to recall in the late 80's that the Healy Tower clockhands were swiped (definitely true), but that the rumor was they were mailed the White House. eegads! Everyone knows that if you steal the hands off the Healy clock tower, you mail them to the Pope. That's right. It used to be that usually on a nice spring day you would look up to Healy to find whether you were late for class and voila, the hands of the clock were gone again. And the rumor was that they were mailed to the Pope; no rumor that they were COD.
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Post by The Stig on Feb 22, 2010 16:02:21 GMT -5
I heard a rumor that since Yates was underground it was going to self cool and would not need an airconditioning unit. Also, solar panels were installed on ICC so that it would be entirely self-sufficient for electricity. There were also plans once to build some kind of co-generation plant on campus so that Georgetown could essentially be the Alaska of the mid-Atlantic, pumping megawatts of electricity into the surrounding community at minimal cost, earning the ceaseless gratitude of the surrounding residents. The story I heard was that the solar panels had to be taken off the ICC roof because the reflections off them were distracting airplane pilots on the approach to National. So we essentially got a free building from the government because it was supposed to be solar powered, and it ended up not being solar powered. I've also heard the New South prison story. The spookiest place at Georgetown isn't the tunnels, it's the old Jes Res.
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Post by dajuan on Feb 22, 2010 16:24:48 GMT -5
I always heard the rumor that it was Harbin which was modeled after a prison (specifically a women's prison). The logic was that the clusters were helpful in preventing riotous behavior of the inmates.
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Post by NorthCarolinaHOYA on Feb 22, 2010 16:25:27 GMT -5
This is not a rumor question so please forgive me but can anyone tell me where GU ranks in basketball wins? How many wins does the university have all time.
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Post by hoyasexy on Feb 22, 2010 16:29:52 GMT -5
Roscoe=HOYA
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Post by williambraskyiii on Feb 22, 2010 16:41:42 GMT -5
<thumbs up> williambraskyiii likes this.
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Post by redskins12820 on Feb 22, 2010 21:29:33 GMT -5
Heard a rumor about a trap door into Riggs. Also, personal experience that Reiss was/is a funky building-tons of weird rooms and ways to get around/up to the roof.
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CTHoya08
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Post by CTHoya08 on Feb 22, 2010 21:59:35 GMT -5
I was tempted to post that one myself.
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Post by Coast2CoastHoya on Feb 22, 2010 22:02:40 GMT -5
I heard that Jon Wallace is neither athletic enough to play high-major ball, nor able to lead a team to victory if he does.
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Post by HoyaInsomniac on Feb 22, 2010 23:15:13 GMT -5
I heard a rumor once that there was a secret society at Georgetown, allegedly dedicated to service and tradition, but whose members were actually just a bunch of self-important LNS types who never really did anything of note. Obviously hogwash. Rumor has it they once installed a plaque on campus commemorating their self-importance. But you can't find it anymore, so it is just a rumor. Complete rumor. Nothing to that one at all.
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ksf42001
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Post by ksf42001 on Feb 23, 2010 0:14:36 GMT -5
Heard a rumor about a trap door into Riggs. Also, personal experience that Reiss was/is a funky building-tons of weird rooms and ways to get around/up to the roof. Still the best place I ever watched the fireworks on the 4th.
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hoyasexy
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Post by hoyasexy on Feb 23, 2010 8:16:15 GMT -5
I was tempted to post that one myself. I won't even pretend to think that I was the only one thinking of that one. When I went through 3 pages of this thread without seeing it, I was more than a little surprised.
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hoyaalf
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Post by hoyaalf on Feb 24, 2010 8:01:01 GMT -5
The student or the ghost? It was ghost written, of course.
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