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On This Day In Penn State History

July 1, 1994

Jim Tarman retires as Athletic director and is succeeded by former football walk-on Tim Curley.

 

July 1, 1980

J.T. White, the last assistant coach from the Rip Engle era except for Joe Paterno, retires after 26 years of coaching defensive ends.

 

July 1, 1974

Penn State formally withdraws from the Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference in a dispute over ECAC financial arrangements with 214 member schools. Penn State athletics refuses to pay 1/5th of the ECAC's total budget plus ten percent of all television and bowl revenues.

 

- Information obtained from the Penn State Football Encyclopedia by Lou Prato

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Hey guys

Let me know if you find this kind of stuff interesting. I don’t think I’ll do this every day, but it’s interesting to look back on Penn State history from time to time. I think the younger generation of Penn State fans is missing out on this stuff. If it gives them a better appreciation of our roots I think it’s a good exercise.

I just got a copy of the encyclopedia as a gift and it’s full of really interesting stuff. I don’t know if I’ll ever get a chance to read the whole thing from cover to cover. The book itself is really cool for anyone thinking about buying a copy. My wife got me a copy by emailing Lou Prato himself. He was gracious enough to sign it for me and included a personal letter with it.

By the way, thanks Lou and Sarah.

by BSD on Jul 1, 2008 9:45 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

This is great idea

It may not get high comments but i think people will enjoy getting reminded of stuff that happened.

by psuphiman80 on Jul 2, 2008 12:17 AM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

whew

I thought maybe someone died today. This is very interesting to me, I love trivia about PSU. Screw you ECAC!

Boom goes the dynamite.

by psu on Jul 2, 2008 9:42 AM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

Haha

Screw the ECAC indeed!

by BSD on Jul 2, 2008 10:11 AM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

Lou Prato

I’d love to hang out with him on a porch, with some beer, and just listen.

the idiot formerly known as "joepadon"

by nittanyroar on Jul 1, 2008 11:34 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

yeah...

i can dig it, especially for your sake on those extra-slow news days… thanks for the tidbits

For the glory

by lionalum05 on Jul 2, 2008 12:26 AM EDT reply actions   0 recs

Nice post

I really like learning about PSU history…and not just the football side

Keep up the good work Mike and Kevin

(any chance you are gonna keep going with the adventures of Link posts on the BSD website???)

by Lion Alum on Jul 2, 2008 9:32 AM EDT reply actions   0 recs

I've thought about it

I just need to run it by Mike and make sure he’s not a Zelda fan.

Also trying to make some time for one or two more Profiles in Playger-Agism.

by Kevin HD on Jul 2, 2008 9:56 AM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

Word

It’s been said that history teaches us that we learn nothing from history (see RUTS’ citation of our performances, if you can call them that, in Columbus), but mostly I think that’s a copout. This is a good idea for bridging the generational gap here at BSD as you noted, for a little format variety, and also because it’s good for us all to learn a little history.

Convivite Nudem!

by jtothep on Jul 2, 2008 2:14 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

Penn State Football History....

keep up with the tidbits. its good for everyone…especially the youngins like me.

by Stately NOVA Lion on Jul 3, 2008 2:49 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

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