A couple of vaguely related football items

As you know, the only non-football related link in my blog is to Dave Barry's column in the Miami Herald. He has recently scouted the Miami Dolphins.

Key quote:"The Dolphins lost 15 games and won only one, which I believe was against Princeton."

In what the rest of the world wrongly calls football, Austria beat Germany 10-5 in girls soccer game----topless. Sorry guys, link is totally work safe.

UMass History--- 1973 Scans

As related in Monday's post, Ed Hajdusek was kind enough to send us some scans of UMass historical material. The two posts below are scans from 1973. Right Click and Blogger displays a larger view.

In '73 UMass finished 6-5 and 4-2 in the Yankee Conference.

Captains were John Jones and Peil Pennington.

A milestone that year was UMass' 300th win, over Villanova 21-20 on Sept. 15, 1973.

I've blogged before about Dick MacPherson and Bob Pickett, but was not able to get any hits on the assistant coaches. Anyone have any information they wish to share with us?

UMass History----1973 Team Photo

UMass History 1971

A former UMass player Ed Hajdusek, who played for UMass 1971-'73, was kind enough to send us scans of some UMass historical material.

The following are scans of the 1971 team photo and the 1971 football roster. Right click and Blogger displays a larger view.

1971 was Dick MacPherson's first year as UMass coach. The 1971 UMass squad went 4-4-1 and 3-1-1 in the Yankee Conference. That was UMass' 7th Yankee Conference championship.

Special thanks to Ed for taking the time to provide us with these scans. I don't have any material earlier than 1976.

UMass History---1971 Football Roster