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Sunday, January 22, 2012
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Baltimore football championship seasons have always started in Westminster … so should we be worried?
Baltimore football championship seasons have always started in Westminster ... so should we be worried?
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Eagle Archive By Kevin Dayhoff, January 19, 2012 http://www.baltimoresun.com/explore/carroll/news/community/ph-ce-eagle-archive-0122-20120119,0,3298374.story
Many Carroll County residents are getting a case of nostalgic Super Bowl fever as they look forward to Sunday's AFC championship contest between the Baltimore Ravens and the New England Patriots.
For more than 120 years — since football debuted at then-Western Maryland College on Oct. 31, 1891 — football has been a part of the history of Carroll County.
Not to be overlooked is the fact that since July 1949, Baltimore football teams have held summer practice in Westminster. Names like Raymond Berry, Jim Parker, Art Donovan, Gino Marchetti, Lenny Moore, Eugene (Big Daddy) Lipscomb, Alan Ameche, and Wilbur (Weeb) Ewbank, just to mention a few, have become an important part of our Carroll County cultural history.
And yes, there is also that quarterback that was cut by the Pittsburg Steelers in 1956.
What was his name? Oh yeah, right. Johnny Unitas.
Unbelievable. According to an old history of the Baltimore Colts in my files, "Unitas was cut by… http://www.baltimoresun.com/explore/carroll/news/community/ph-ce-eagle-archive-0122-20120119,0,3298374.story
Related Read more: Of course, summer
practice in Westminster is probably why the Baltimore Colts won its first
National Football League division title in 1958:http://www.baltimoresun.com/explore/carroll/neighborhoods/westminster/ph-ce-eagle-archive-1211-20111207,0,828252.story
And: For over 120 years, since football
debuted at Western Maryland College on October 31, 1891, football has been
a part of the history of Carroll County…
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Wednesday, January 18, 2012
Eagle Archive: Gridiron beginnings 120 years ago were humble for 'Green Terror'
Eagle Archive: Gridiron beginnings 120 years ago were humble for 'Green Terror'
Eagle Archive: Gridiron beginnings 120 years ago were humble for 'Green Terror'
Eagle Archive By Kevin Dayhoff,
November 30, 2011
This season has marked the 120th anniversary of the football team at McDaniel College.
According to Dr. James Lightner's history of the college, "Fearless and Bold," the first football season at then-Western Maryland College, in 1891, consisted of five games.
"On October 31, 1891, the first WMC football game was played in Westminster" against Pennsylvania College, now known as Gettysburg College.
WMC lost that day, 64-0. Lightner reports…http://www.baltimoresun.com/explore/carroll/news/ph-ce-eagle-archive-1204-20111130,0,4142448.story
Baltimore football and Westminster have a long history together
Baltimore football and Westminster have a long history together
Baltimore football and Westminster have a long history together
Eagle Archive
By Kevin Dayhoff, December 7, 2011
Certainly many people were disappointed when the Baltimore Ravens announced Dec. 2 that the team will not be returning to its McDaniel College summer training camp.
In a Carroll Eagle article that day on ExploreCarroll.com, Westminster Mayor Utz spoke for many, "It's almost a 50-year tradition that's being broken… That's the sad part about it."
The tradition and history of Baltimore football and Westminster first began when the newspaper announced ran on Feb. 11, 1949, "College Campus To Be Used By Colts … Coach Isbell Expects to Bring 55 Players to Train, Starting in July … Baltimore's football Colts are going to train at Western Maryland College this year."
The article in the now defunct Democratic Advocate continued, "Dr. Lowell S. Ensor, president of the Methodist school, and Walter S. Driskill, Colts general manager, have signed a contract providing for the city's All-America Football Conference squad to use the Westminster College's campus as a pre-season base of operations, it was announced…"
The history of football in Baltimore — and Westminster — can trace one of its lineages to the All-America Football Conference in 1946 and another lineage to the NFL in 1944.
The first football team in Baltimore began on Dec. 28, 1946, when the bankrupt Miami Seahawks franchise, of the All-American Football Conference, was awarded to Baltimore.
Just over two-years later, according to the 1949 newspaper article, Coach Cecil Isbell said he expected to take a Colt squad to Westminster, "We plan to begin practice about five weeks before our opening contest..." Driskill said in the article… Read more: http://www.baltimoresun.com/explore/carroll/neighborhoods/westminster/ph-ce-eagle-archive-1211-20111207,0,828252.story
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Sunday, January 15, 2012
January 15: This day in history
1967: Packers face Chiefs in first Super Bowl
On this day in 1967, at the Los Angeles Coliseum, the Green
Bay Packers beat the Kansas City Chiefs in the first-ever world championship
game of American football... read more
American Revolution 1777: New Connecticut (Vermont) declares
independence
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/new-connecticut-vermont-declares-independence
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Automotive 1936: Ford Foundation is born http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/ford-foundation-is-born
Civil War 1865: Fort Fisher falls to Union forces http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/fort-fisher-falls
Cold War 1953: Dulles calls for "liberation of captive
peoples" http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/dulles-calls-for-liberation-of-captive-peoples
Crime 1981: Hill Street Blues begins run http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/hill-street-blues-begins-run
Disaster 1919: Molasses floods Boston streets http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/molasses-floods-boston-streets
General Interest 1559: Elizabeth crowned queen of England http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/elizabeth-crowned-queen-of-england
1870: First appearance of the Democratic donkey http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/first-appearance-of-the-democratic-donkey
1929: Martin Luther King Jr. born http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/martin-luther-king-jr-born
1970: Biafra surrenders to Nigeria http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/biafra-surrenders-to-nigeria
1970: Qaddafi becomes premier of Libya http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/qaddafi-becomes-premier-of-libya
2009: Sully Sullenberger performs Miracle on the Hudson http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/sully-sullenberger-performs-miracle-on-the-hudson
Hollywood 1993: Last episode of soap opera Santa Barbara
airs http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/last-episode-of-soap-opera-santa-barbara-airs
Literary 1831: The Hunchback of Notre Dame is finished http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/the-hunchback-of-notre-dame-is-finished
Music 1972: "American Pie" hits #1 on the pop
charts http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/quotamerican-piequot-hits-351-on-the-pop-charts
Old West 1933: The utopian Amana colony embraces capitalism http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/the-utopian-amana-colony-embraces-capitalism
Presidential 1973: Nixon suspends military action in North
Vietnam http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/nixon-suspends-military-action-in-north-vietnam
Sports 1967: Packers beat Chiefs in first Super Bowl http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/packers-beat-chiefs-in-first-super-bowl
Vietnam War 1962: Kennedy says U.S. troops are not fighting http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/kennedy-says-us-troops-are-not-fighting
1973: Nixon halts military action against North Vietnam http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/nixon-halts-military-action-against-north-vietnam
World War I 1919: Rebel leaders are murdered in failed coup
in Berlin http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/rebel-leaders-are-murdered-in-failed-coup-in-berlin
World War II 1951: The "Witch of Buchenwald" is
sentenced to prison http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/the-witch-of-buchenwald-is-sentenced-to-prison
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Wednesday, December 14, 2011
Baltimore football and Westminster have a long history together By Kevin Dayhoff
Baltimore
football and Westminster have a long history together By Kevin Dayhoff
Certainly many people were disappointed when the Baltimore
Ravens announced Dec. 2 that the team will not be returning to its McDaniel
College summer training camp.
In a Carroll Eagle article that day on ExploreCarroll.com,
Westminster Mayor Utz spoke for many, "It's almost a 50-year tradition
that's being broken… That's the sad part about it."
The tradition and history of Baltimore football and
Westminster first began when the newspaper announced ran on Feb. 11, 1949,
"College Campus To Be Used By Colts … Coach Isbell Expects to Bring 55
Players to Train, Starting in July … Baltimore's football Colts are going to
train at Western Maryland College this year."
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Friday, December 9, 2011
Ravens' move is blow to Westminster, but the right call for the team
Ravens' move is blow to Westminster, but the right call for the team
Steve Jones – Carroll Eagle: Ravens' move is blow to Westminster, but the right call for the team
December 8, 2011
http://www.baltimoresun.com/explore/carroll/sports/ph-ce-sideline-view-1211-20111207,0,3683646.story
Sideline View By Steve Jones
The decision last week by the Baltimore Ravens to move their summer training camp from Westminster's McDaniel College to the team facility in Owings Mills came down to hearts and minds.
To thousands of football fans in the Baltimore area whose hearts belong to the football team, the Ravens were presented with an easy choice.
Since coming to Baltimore from Cleveland in 1996, the Ravens conducted training camp at McDaniel every summer until this past one, when the club remained at its Owings Mills base due to a late resolution to the lockout. It seemed logical that the Ravens would return in 2012, because you don't break with tradition.
But tradition isn't what it used to be, especially in sports, and the world is light-years removed from 1996.
The Ravens' brass used their heads when finalizing last week's decision to move training camp to their spacious and comfortable Owings Mills complex. Sad as it may be to Carroll and Westminster, the decision makes sense on many levels...
Read more: http://www.baltimoresun.com/explore/carroll/sports/ph-ce-sideline-view-1211-20111207,0,3683646.story
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Certainly many people were disappointed when the Baltimore
Ravens announced Dec. 2 that the team will not be returning to its McDaniel
College summer training camp.
In a Carroll Eagle article that day on ExploreCarroll.com,
Westminster Mayor Utz spoke for many, "It's almost a 50-year tradition
that's being broken… That's the sad part about it."
The tradition and history of Baltimore football and Westminster
first began when the newspaper announced ran on Feb. 11, 1949, "College
Campus To Be Used By Colts … Coach Isbell Expects to Bring 55 Players to Train,
Starting in July … Baltimore's football Colts are going to train at Western
Maryland College this year."
Labels: History, History
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Monday, November 7, 2011
Westminster High Football Team Beats South Carroll, Loses Appeal to Overturn Manchester Valley Forfeit and more from Westminster Patch
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Saturday, November 5, 2011
UVA 31 UM 13 with 10 minutes left in the game. Looks like Jefferson triumphs
UVA 31 UM 13 with 10 minutes left in the game. Looks like Jefferson triumphs
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Friday, September 30, 2011
Apparently it's tougher to be a mayor than a pro football player
The Toy Department: Catching up with ... Michael Jackson - Baltimore sports: Ravens, Orioles, Terps.
weblogs.baltimoresun.comCatching up with ... Michael Jackson
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Fifteen years ago, the Ravens’ Michael Jackson arrived in Baltimore wearing one gold earring and driving a Mercedes convertible stuffed with a wardrobe of 30 suits, each with matching shoes.How his outfit has changed. Last month, as heavy rains pounded Louisiana, Jackson donned a rain slicker and rubber gloves and sloughed through a trough of stinking ooze to clear a clogged sewer line in the community of Tangipahoa.
That’s life for a small-town mayor.
“Football didn’t prepare me for this,” said Jackson, 42, who was elected in 2008. “The job is far tougher than playing in the NFL.” ...
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Sunday, July 12, 2009
History of McDaniel's Hoffa Field - The Raven's summer practice field
DAYHOFF: Hoffa Field and the Sheathing of the Sword
Published June 23, 2009 by Carroll Eagle, Westminster Eagle
Published June 23, 2009 by Carroll Eagle, Westminster Eagle
The dedication of Hoffa Field and the Sheathing of the Sword at McDaniel College in June 1922On Saturday, June 10, 1922, the formal dedication of the Hoffa athletic field took place on the campus of Western Maryland College - now McDaniel College.
Of course, many know the field as where the Baltimore Ravens hold their summer practices.
Others know the field for the great tradition of tailgating at McDaniel football games. The running track, which circles the field, is always a favorite spot for health conscious walkers and runners.
Today McDaniel College is accepted as presiding prominently in the center, more or less, of Westminster. However, this was not the case until around the 1970s when housing developments began to grow to the west of the campus.
In 1922, the campus was on the outer western edge of Westminster on the brink of a frontier of forest and farmland that stretched for ten miles until one arrived in Taneytown.
According to a definitive history of the college, “Fearless and Bold,” published just recently by Dr. James E. Lightner; the Geiman property, a 65-acre farm contiguously situated to the west of the campus became available to the college, in 1920, upon the death of W. H. Geiman.
As an aside, for anyone who is even remotely interested in the social, economic, political, or academic history of Westminster, McDaniel College, and Carroll County, “Fearless and Bold” is a must addition for your library.
Those of us, who were aware that Dr. Lightner was laboring to write the book, were very eager to lay our hands on a copy after it was printed in 2007.
We were not disappointed. Do not be put off by its sheer volume. At 713 pages, it can easily intimidate. However, it is well segmented. One may open the book to any page and find that Dr. Lightner packs facts together, in an easily read and engaging conversational approach that makes the book quite hard to put down.
It is a spellbinding story of intrigue and success against all odds; that will captivate even the reader who is not easily drawn to tomes of history.
It is chapter six that Dr. Lightner writes that the trustees of the college, “were always alert to possible campus expansion…”
After the death of Mr. Geiman, the property “suddenly came on the market, and the board authorized (college president Thomas Hamilton) Lewis to purchase it for $26,201…
“It was formally deeded on March 31, 1920, using endowment funds. The purchase agreement allowed Charles Geiman to lease back part of the farm, while a portion would be used for new athletic fields.
“At the June meeting (of the board of trustees,) the alumni visitors to the board stressed the urgent need for improving the fields, and the Buildings and Grounds Committee was empowered to act.”
And “act” they did. In the following chapter, Dr. Lightner reports that “on Saturday, June 10, a warm and sunny day, the formal dedication of the Hoffa Field was held before an audience of 5,000.”
The dedication was followed by the “presentation of ‘The Sheathing of the Sword: A Pageant of Peace,’” according to another local historian, Jay Graybeal.
Fortunately, in the late 1990s, Graybeal reprinted a June 16, 1922 front-page article which appeared in the now out-of-print American Sentinel newspaper. According to his introduction: “The community event (which followed the dedication) was written by Miss Dorothy Elderdice of Westminster. Her introduction provides an overview of her production:
“‘In The Sheathing of the Sword, I have endeavored to select from the different ages a few significant historical episodes that lend themselves to pageantry. Peace in panoply has been my quest---Peace heralded by song, attended by art, crowned by humanity.’”
This is where we will pick up the story in a future column. We are fortunate that Dr. Lightner and the June 1922 American Sentinel newspaper article have left us with an extensive and fascinating account of the “The Sheathing of the Sword.”
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Bringing Corbit's Charge, and Douglass, back to Westminster
Published July 5, 2009 by Carroll Eagle http://tinyurl.com/mxbkjp
http://explorecarroll.com/community/3099/bringing-corbits-charge-douglass-back-westminster/
DAYHOFF: Margaret Mitchell wrote what she knew; the rest is gone with the wind
Published July 2, 2009 by Westminster Eagle
... And that is all I know for right now. Hope you and your family have a great Fourth of July weekend. Kevin Dayhoff writes from Westminster. …visit him at http://www.westminstermarylandonline.net/....
Westminster was all abuzz for the great fly roundup of 1914
Published June 28, 2009 by Carroll Eagle
... reminds me that it was Groucho Marx who once said, "Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana." When he is not swatting flies, Kevin Dayhoff may be reached at … or visit him at http://www.westminstermarylandonline.net/....
DAYHOFF: Hoffa Field and the Sheathing of the Sword
Published June 23, 2009 by Carroll Eagle, Westminster Eagle
... . Lightner and the June 1922 American Sentinel newspaper article have left us with an extensive and fascinating account of the “The Sheathing of the Sword.” … visit him at http://www.westminstermarylandonline.net/....
'Year without summer' killed crops ... and created a monster
Published June 21, 2009 by Carroll Eagle, Westminster Eagle
... village folk that it's not a bad idea to keep a torch handy on these cool summer nights. When he is not playing with laboratory-harnessed lightning, Kevin Dayhoff may be reached at … or visit him at www.westminstermarylandonline.net. ...
Historic Blue Ridge College bell dedicated In Union Bridge
Published June 20, 2009 by Westminster Eagle
UNION BRIDGE — Several hundred folks braved threatening weather June 20 to witness the unveiling and dedication of the historic 1900 Blue Ridge College bell in Lehigh Square, the original site of the college which had thrived in Union Bridge from 1898 to ... ...
When city got 'sole' in the 1920s, it was cause for a celebration
Published June 14, 2009 by Carroll Eagle
... be the guest speaker. There will be a retirement ceremony for worn flags. Guests may bring old flags for retirement. When he is not waving the flag, Kevin Dayhoff may be reached at… or visit him at http://www.westminstermarylandonline.net/....
Remember when you could walk to work in Westminster?
Published June 7, 2009 by Carroll Eagle
... . When he's not on a "walk-about" in Westminster, Kevin Dayhoff may be reached …
Company H: from the Frizellburg greenhouses to the sands of Omaha Beach
Published June 3, 2009 by Westminster Eagle
… (have) come a long way from the old parade field in Frizellburg.” Kevin Dayhoff writes from Westminster.
Dayhoff: New councilmember tackles alleged hit and run driver
Published June 1, 2009 by Westminster Eagle, Carroll Eagle
... Westminster city police arrived and took control of the situation The accident is under investigation. All in a day’s work. Kevin Dayhoff writes from Westminster.
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