Page 4 of the '58 Photo Gallery
Page 4 Wake Forrest Game
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Home Coming - Despite
the downpour during the second half,
Navy 13 Wake Forrest 10
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| Gathering of the troops | Whitey Edwards helping Jack Adams with the Not-Blaze ticket agency |
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| George Jenkins, Roxanne Kessler, and Scotty Gibbons | Roxanne's "Beat The Deacons" pin. Two years old, but still relevant! |
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| Myron Kandra, Jackie Victor, Wayne McKee, Walt Mitchell, Rupe MacLean | Bob and Becky Caldwell |
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| George Coyne and Scotty with the "Guinness" | Harry at the trough |
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| Bruce Wilcox with son Wayne and grandsons Daniel and Greg | Paul Polski and Eileen Giglio |
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| Rupe MacLean with the Sea Scout team.. Great support form Sea Scout Ship 1009 (See Rupe's tailgate report ) | Sandy McMillan |
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| Ralph Buck and Marsh Greer | Walt Mitchell :Call to the game |
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| Beware of the Goat!! | The rains came down about 3 minutes before the end of the second half. |
Wake
Forrest Tailgate (From Rupe MacLean)
Every
game is a different experience and Wake Forrest certainly kept up that legacy.
For those of you who were not at the game, a couple of the highlights:
a.
On again, off again sun shine and rain showers punctuated the afternoon and our
Sea Scouts joined us for the first time. Class attendance was way down from
what we had anticipated and most were washed out before the game ended.
b.
Deciding upon prudence over valor with the forbidding weather forecast, we
elected to utilize the Sea Scout's service and begin a modified take-down before
going up to the game-- taking down the perimeter ropes, pulling the stakes,
and dropping the flags.
c.
With about three minutes left to go in the second quarter, the heavens burst
open with a tropical deluge which continued at various levels of severity long
after the game ended.
d.
Many, many spectators left at the half. We stacked the tailgate tables out of
the way and Paul Polski backed his Lexus in under the tent, turned on his
portable generator, mounted three flood lights, opened the car doors wide, tuned
his radio to the game, and turned up the volume full blast.
e.
After the game as we were loading the tailgate stuff into Bob Caldwell's pick-up
truck, a tremendous gust of wind violently yanked the whole east end of the
tent up into the air, poles and all, and collapsed the rest of it onto
the stragglers huddled under it. As classmates held up the center poles, the
valiant Sea Scouts pulled taught the side guy ropes, permitting us tent
guys to re-fix the tent pegs and re-attach the side tent poles.
The
porta-potty saga was much improved. Wayne McKee even brought in a huge, heavy padlock,
but we had to decline-- the porta-potty people require a batch of keys with each
lock so their people can service it, etc. We find it much easier to simply use
their locks and keys.
Our
new late-kick-off procedure appears to be working very well with everyone
doing all of their partying before the game. So, we will repeat it again
for the Temple Game-- everyone is requested to please pick up and pack away
all of their gear before going up to the stadium to watch the game.
Take-down
will commence immediately after the game. At the Wake Forest game we tried
another slight twist which worked out very well, a modified take-down. We
will repeat it again at the Temple game. As classmates are picking up and
packing away their gear before going up to the game, the Sea Scouts will be
dismantling the perimeter ropes, pulling the stakes, and dropping the flags. Also,
since next week's Notre Dame game is away, the tent will have to
come down.
Our
Sea Scouts, although soaked to the skin, performed valiantly. Next week, some will
be repeats and some will be new faces. The scouts will be easily
recognizable by their Sea Scout shirts and all are encouraged to
receive them warmly. Hopefully, some of these fine young people will go on to
become future Midshipmen.
A
novel element has been added this year for the first time, it is also Halloween.
Since we border Taylor Avenue, we could be receiving little visitors-- NAAA has
asked us to include the above attachment.
Please
note that the untangling from the jammed in parking will be taking place after
sunset. Everyone is urged to please exercise caution and patience and be on the
lookout for little goblins canvassing the residential areas.
Beat
Temple!
Rupe