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It began with a 36-0 loss to the University of Rochester on
November 23, 1889, but that humbling debut proved to be an
aberration rather than an omen for Syracuse University football.
The Orangemen have since established themselves as the eleventh
winningest team in college football history, and more than two
hundred of their players have gone on to play professionally. Their
legendary success is celebrated in Syracuse University Football.
The Orangemen have participated in more than twenty bowl games.
In 1959, they went 11-0 under Hall of Fame coach Ben Schwartzwalder
and won the national championship. Through the years, Syracuse has
produced numerous stars, such as Heisman Trophy winner Ernie Davis,
and more than forty other All-Americans and a dozen College
Football Hall of Fame inductees. Along with Jim Brown and Floyd
Little, Davis helped make No. 44 one of football's most famous
jerseys, not to mention a permanent part of the university's zip
code. Syracuse University Football documents this outstanding
program with nearly two hundred photographs.
From the last-second heroics of Wilmeth Sidat-Singh in Archbold
Stadium to the last-second heroics of Donovan McNabb in the Carrier
Dome more than a half century later, this book is a chronicle of
the rich tradition of Syracuse University sports. There are games
that stand the test of time - performances that years, even decades
later bring a smile or in some cases a grimace, to a fan's face.
They are indelible moments that, when strung together, give you a
sense of a college's history. In ""Slices of Orange"", Sal Maiorana
and Scott Pitoniak recapture the heroics of running back Jim
Brown's 43-point performance against Colgate at old Archbold
Stadium; the pain of Keith Smart's jumper that denied Syracuse a
national title in 1987; and the joy of forward Carmelo Anthony's
levitation act in the 2003 NCAA basketball championship game. They
tell of the fierce SU-Georgetown basketball rivalry - and John
Thompson's incendiary comments that ignited it - and how the Gait
brothers, Paul and Gary, revolutionized the game of lacrosse and
laid the foundation for a college sports dynasty.
The son of a sheet-metal worker who led a big band on weekends, Lou
Gramm rose from humble, working-class roots in Rochester, New York,
to become one of rock ’n’ roll’s most distinctive and popular
voices. With the aid of best-selling author Scott Pitoniak, Gramm
poignantly recounts how he realized his dream as the lead singer
and co-songwriter of the iconic band Foreigner as well as his own
band and overcame a drug and alcohol addiction—along with a
life-threatening brain tumor—on his path to the Songwriters Hall
of Fame.
A behind-the-scenes perspective on Buffalo Bills history from
longtime broadcaster John Murphy As the longtime play-by-play voice
of the Buffalo Bills, John Murphy knows what it means to live and
breathe Bills football. In If These Walls Could Talk: Buffalo
Bills, Murphy opens up about his life and career in Buffalo and
provides insight into the team's inner sanctum as only he can, from
Jim Kelly to Josh Allen and beyond. Featuring conversations with
players and coaches past and present as well as off-the-wall
anecdotes only Murphy can tell, this indispensable volume is your
ticket to Bills history.
Surveying the university's chronological history, with special
focus on how Syracuse led the way in numerous important
matters-gender, race, military veterans, and science. Forever
Orange goes far beyond the parameters of a traditional
institutional history. Authors Pitoniak and Burton have utilized
exhaustive research, scores of interviews, and their own SU
experiences to craft a book that explores what it has meant to be
Orange since the school 's founding as a small liberal arts college
in 1870. Through narrative and hundreds of photos, Forever Orange
presents SU's glorious 150-year history in a lively, distinctive,
informative manner, appealing to alumni and university friends,
young and old.
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