Posted on 11/22/2014 11:23:48 AM PST by afraidfortherepublic
This Season, the Engineers Are Going to Playoffs, but They Once Competed in Hand-Me-Downs
CAMBRIDGE, Mass.—In the 1970s, on this campus known for scientific innovation, Massachusetts Institute of Technology students engineered a rather unlikely experiment: a football team.
MIT had no intercollegiate football squad at the time. The student body in 1901 voted 119-117 to discontinue it. So one day in 1978, a group of MIT students huddled and created a team that would play its first game that fall. No one else at the school had any clue.
There were times when fielding a football team at MIT seemed like rocket science. The students wore uniforms that once belonged to another college. They borrowed their playbook from a local high school. They were known as both the Beavers and the Engineers. Either way, they lost every game they played that year, and even one they didn’t play.
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MIT? They named a college after Romney? And look, they got Harvard to spell it.
Nooooo.
Howard went to MIT.
(He didn’t get a PhD though.)
(He didn’t get a PhD though.)
But....he did become an astronaut!
I’m impressed, you’re impressed but Sheldon’s not!
Sheldon is at Cal Tech, not MIT.
And he is not a student.
It seems even the WSJ has writers that cannot write a coherent article.
I had friends on the first team and was at that first home game vs. Sienna. I don’t remember the nerdy cheer, none of us would be caught dead saying it (this was several years before nerds became cool), but I do remember the cheer “That’s all right, that’s okay, you still go to Sienna!”
I had no idea we have a varsity team now, but I wish them well! Go Beavers!
Thanks for posting this.
Au contraire! That’s a HORRID story about the premature death of a great man at his own hand (or at the hands of Greenpeace, depending how you look at it). So sad.
The substance of the story is indeed horrible. That doesn’t make the story horrible. It is great as a cautionary tale about the harm caused by the radical environmental movement.
Yes, indeed. But, so sad. Such a light, snuffed out too soon.
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