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On Hobo Day week a new book came off the press that was researched for every detail, by the SDSU Alumni Association Executive Director VJ Smith and he was assisted in the writing by Amy Dunkle, who formerly was a reporter for th Brookings Register. If you want details about all the great moments in sports, its in this book.
You find out about Charles Coughlin and all the good things he did for SDSU, including the purchase of silk pants for the 1935 football team The 1935 team is covered in a separate chapter.
You will read about a Tuskegee coaching legend, Cleveland Abbott who is the first person of color to grad uate from SDSU and did so in 1916. What an excellent athlete Abbott was and he was a very good student. He won 14 letters and would have had 16 if the SDSU basketball team had played intercolligate schedule the four years he was at SDSU. They played intramural amongst classes two years 1912 and 1913, I believe. Hard to believe, but we have come a long ways since 1913.
Cleveland is probably the first person to get national recognition on an all star team. There other details too.
The 1963 and 1985 teams are covered in detail as is the 2003 women's championship team.
In the last chapter of the book, you will find out a detail about one of our current Women's BB players, who claims to be the only female on campus that knows how to castrate a bull. That would be Shannon Schlagel who has grown up on a beef farm near Raymond, South Dakota.
We talked a great deal about the resistence of moving to D1AA. A much similar battle was fought in the late 1950's when they had the first organized fund drive for Staduim for State. I think part of the fallout from that controversy has been that until recently, little or few improvements have been made to Coughlin Alumni Staduim. That is one of my favorite chapters, because I was a high school student during the controversy and just could not understand why SDSU did not want a spectular football staduim.
If you wondered how much the USD-SDSU rivalry has played a part in state politics and all the attempts for USD to get ahead of SDSU, you will read about these events in "College on the Hill". The soft cover sells for less than 30 dollars a copy. I believe there are still some copies left. I have not read it from cover to cover but what I have read has been informative and enjoyable. Its a book that gives you super good feeling about being an SDSU Alum.
P.S. The Bob story from the 1985 regional tournament is not in the book but maybe it should have been.
You find out about Charles Coughlin and all the good things he did for SDSU, including the purchase of silk pants for the 1935 football team The 1935 team is covered in a separate chapter.
You will read about a Tuskegee coaching legend, Cleveland Abbott who is the first person of color to grad uate from SDSU and did so in 1916. What an excellent athlete Abbott was and he was a very good student. He won 14 letters and would have had 16 if the SDSU basketball team had played intercolligate schedule the four years he was at SDSU. They played intramural amongst classes two years 1912 and 1913, I believe. Hard to believe, but we have come a long ways since 1913.
Cleveland is probably the first person to get national recognition on an all star team. There other details too.
The 1963 and 1985 teams are covered in detail as is the 2003 women's championship team.
In the last chapter of the book, you will find out a detail about one of our current Women's BB players, who claims to be the only female on campus that knows how to castrate a bull. That would be Shannon Schlagel who has grown up on a beef farm near Raymond, South Dakota.
We talked a great deal about the resistence of moving to D1AA. A much similar battle was fought in the late 1950's when they had the first organized fund drive for Staduim for State. I think part of the fallout from that controversy has been that until recently, little or few improvements have been made to Coughlin Alumni Staduim. That is one of my favorite chapters, because I was a high school student during the controversy and just could not understand why SDSU did not want a spectular football staduim.
If you wondered how much the USD-SDSU rivalry has played a part in state politics and all the attempts for USD to get ahead of SDSU, you will read about these events in "College on the Hill". The soft cover sells for less than 30 dollars a copy. I believe there are still some copies left. I have not read it from cover to cover but what I have read has been informative and enjoyable. Its a book that gives you super good feeling about being an SDSU Alum.
P.S. The Bob story from the 1985 regional tournament is not in the book but maybe it should have been.
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