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Tuesday, May 09, 2006
After a three year absence from each others' schedules, Bucknell and Penn State will meet again next season, David Jones of the Patriot-News reports today in a .
Like Holy Cross and Boston College, this is a game that ought to be played every year. The series dates back to 1897, when club teams from the two schools first met. But despite being just 45 minutes apart, the two seldom met just once in the Charlie Woollum era (a 69-64 win in Davis Gym in 1976 during Woollum's first season).
Up until then, the two alternated home games for several seasons, some years even playing a home and home set.
We were not around when the two teams stopped playing, so we can't say for sure why the series ended. But in the later years of Woollum's tenure at BU, he made it clear he had no interest in playing Penn State, a program he felt Bucknell was very equal to, only in State College and State, Woollum said at the time, was not willing to come to Lewisburg.
The series was rekindled in Pat Flannery's first season in Lewisburg, and continued with annual Christmas week games -- all at Penn State -- for 10 years before ending its most recent run when Penn State coach Ed DeChellis took over the Nittany Lions program in the 2004-2005 season.
Next season's game shifts to a different holiday week. It will be played the Tuesday before Thanksgiving. Sadly, while it is good to see the game back on the schedule, the date continues to be bungled.
Penn State's Bryce Jordan Center holds 16,000-plus. But it is seldom even half full, especially during the annual preseason parade of cupcakes that the Nittany Lions seem to schedule every year.
This game should be played when the students are in full force on both campuses and when fans are not otherwise occupied with holiday preparations -- preferably on a Saturday afternoon. Bucknell has always traveled well, even before its recent run of NCAA Tournament appearances. Scheduled at the right time, this game would draw State's biggest non-conference crowd of the season.
It would also be a nice boost for the State College downtown businesses, with fans from Lewisburg staying after the game for dinner and maybe a little holiday shopping at some of the trendy little boutiques in town.
O.K., so the date is not perfect. Jones, who covers both teams, apparently helped get this game back on the schedule. Maybe he can work on the date for next season. Meanwhile, it is great to see two natural rivals playing again.
Now if Holy Cross fans could get Jones to call Al Skinner.
Like Holy Cross and Boston College, this is a game that ought to be played every year. The series dates back to 1897, when club teams from the two schools first met. But despite being just 45 minutes apart, the two seldom met just once in the Charlie Woollum era (a 69-64 win in Davis Gym in 1976 during Woollum's first season).
Up until then, the two alternated home games for several seasons, some years even playing a home and home set.
We were not around when the two teams stopped playing, so we can't say for sure why the series ended. But in the later years of Woollum's tenure at BU, he made it clear he had no interest in playing Penn State, a program he felt Bucknell was very equal to, only in State College and State, Woollum said at the time, was not willing to come to Lewisburg.
The series was rekindled in Pat Flannery's first season in Lewisburg, and continued with annual Christmas week games -- all at Penn State -- for 10 years before ending its most recent run when Penn State coach Ed DeChellis took over the Nittany Lions program in the 2004-2005 season.
Next season's game shifts to a different holiday week. It will be played the Tuesday before Thanksgiving. Sadly, while it is good to see the game back on the schedule, the date continues to be bungled.
Penn State's Bryce Jordan Center holds 16,000-plus. But it is seldom even half full, especially during the annual preseason parade of cupcakes that the Nittany Lions seem to schedule every year.
This game should be played when the students are in full force on both campuses and when fans are not otherwise occupied with holiday preparations -- preferably on a Saturday afternoon. Bucknell has always traveled well, even before its recent run of NCAA Tournament appearances. Scheduled at the right time, this game would draw State's biggest non-conference crowd of the season.
It would also be a nice boost for the State College downtown businesses, with fans from Lewisburg staying after the game for dinner and maybe a little holiday shopping at some of the trendy little boutiques in town.
O.K., so the date is not perfect. Jones, who covers both teams, apparently helped get this game back on the schedule. Maybe he can work on the date for next season. Meanwhile, it is great to see two natural rivals playing again.
Now if Holy Cross fans could get Jones to call Al Skinner.
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