CSN Log
April 9th, 2009, 09:30 AM
04-09-2009 09:20 AM
Former Columbia QB Archie Roberts Still Making Big Plays
It was the Field of Dreams that Eli and Peyton Manning never saw. The “stadium” featured the oldest all-wood grandstand in the country. Each summer, long before the first kickoff, New York City sent its building inspectors through the grandstand to mark the planks that had to be replaced before the law would let the Columbia University Lions roar – or all too often whisper.
You took the Seventh Avenue IRT subway and got off at 215th Street. Columbia students sat on the stands facing west, the one that bore the full brunt of the wind whistling off the Hudson River. Long gone was the glory of the Rose Bowl victory of 1934. Year after year, Ivy League rivals could say with certainty, “Anemia, thy name is Columbia football.”
Read more ... (http://www.championshipsubdivisionnews.com/index.php/2009/04/09/former-columbia-qb-archie-roberts-still?blog=2#more4661)
Former Columbia QB Archie Roberts Still Making Big Plays
It was the Field of Dreams that Eli and Peyton Manning never saw. The “stadium” featured the oldest all-wood grandstand in the country. Each summer, long before the first kickoff, New York City sent its building inspectors through the grandstand to mark the planks that had to be replaced before the law would let the Columbia University Lions roar – or all too often whisper.
You took the Seventh Avenue IRT subway and got off at 215th Street. Columbia students sat on the stands facing west, the one that bore the full brunt of the wind whistling off the Hudson River. Long gone was the glory of the Rose Bowl victory of 1934. Year after year, Ivy League rivals could say with certainty, “Anemia, thy name is Columbia football.”
Read more ... (http://www.championshipsubdivisionnews.com/index.php/2009/04/09/former-columbia-qb-archie-roberts-still?blog=2#more4661)