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Article: GROH'S TALENT POOL RUNS DEEP; HIS VIRGINIA CAVALIERS, WHO PLAY SATURDAY AT SU, ARE, TOP TO BOTTOM, A SOLID TEAM.(Sports)
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- The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY)
- Article date:
- September 13, 2005
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Byline: Dave Rahme Staff writer
The date was Nov. 20, 1954, and the Syracuse University football team and a sophomore running back by the name of Jim Brown were in the Polo Grounds to face Fordham. A .500 record was at stake for SU and its sixth-year head coach, World War II hero Ben Schwartzwalder.
The Police Boys Club in Manhasset, Brown's hometown, piled a bunch of youngsters into a van and drove over to the stadium to join an announced crowd of 10,423 at the game, which SU won 20-7. Among them was Al Groh, then a 10-year-old fan of Brown and SU football.
"I was lucky enough to see one of my first college football games that day," said the ...
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