Conference 7.286::sports_90

    Is this Colby College in Waterville, Maine ???
    
    I have an uncle who used to teach English at Colby College.  Late
    1960s, early 1970s, I think.  We took a family vacation through Quebec
    and came back down through Maine and saw him and his family.
    
    Nice school.  Nice campus.
    
    I have no idea about "While Mules".  I've got three kids so sterilty,
    obviously, is not something I'm familiar with.
    
    Bob Hunt

    
    A white mule is:
    
          A) One of a twenty-team caravan washed with borax.
    
          B) A drink made with grain alcohol and milk that will
             knock you on your ass.
    
          C) The allegorical entity persued by Sheriff Ahab and his
             Indian companion Queequeg in a Herman Melville story, 
             adapted by Zane Grey.
    
          D) A caucasian SPORTS noter.
    

    How many plates cain you stack on a white mule?
    
    Mark.

    
    Is it true that white mules are better hung than their black and
    brown counterparts?
    
    

Dickster...

I'm you know what on the Ahab thing!!!!


White Mule:

	A form of women's slipper....
        

'Saw

    I'm wif  the Saw, Dickster, too funny, the bahA thang was me
    drawlloR
    
    JD

Wow, a note for us White Mules.  Geee, thanks guys, you really made my day.

Any other White Mule football players (will you admit to it??)??  CBB Champs
2 years running, gotta love it!!!  And how 'bout that hoop team - 26-1 last
season and ECAC Champs.  

IF YOU'RE NOT A WHITE MULE THEN YOU WANT TO BE ONE !!!!!!!!!!

Scott

    re:3   Dickster, you were sooooooo close - but the answer is
    	   a 30-team caravan!!
    
    re:4   Six
    
    re:5   Offensive foul   (JHendry, go to your own note!!)
                                     
    
    Scott, you mean the football team actually had a winning season??
    It never happened while I was there!! (1979-1982)
    
    Yes folks, we're talking quality sports action here!! The Colby College
    White Mules from Hooterville, Nardland (translation: Waterville,Maine)
    
    PJ
    aka David Strage (ATO '82)
    
    PS  To be fair, though, we did have some stunning successes...
    
    	ECAC Soccer Champions 1979
    	Hoop teams were always ranked highly
    	Womens rugby won several tournaments (actually the women's rugby
    		team had some of the schools best looking women....so
    		you can imagine what the rest looked like!!  I ought
    		to be more charitable in case any alums actually married
    		a White Mule.....sorry, sorry..a Colby girl!!)
    	Frolf World Champions
    	Perenial runners up at the Woodsmen Tournaments (which included
    		such riveting sports as Axe-Throwing, Wood-Chipping
    		and Maple-Syrup Making!!)

Well, PJ, I'll tell ya, my four years (85-89) never really saw what you could
call a winning season.  Freshman year we were 0-8, not even any close ones.
To use proper OURGANG::SPORTS terminology, we sipped through LOTS of straws.
The next year, with a new coach, we really improved, to the point where we 
almost won a couple, but the refs robbed us ;^) and we were 0-8 again.  Next 
we went 2-6.  That first win, Colby's first in 3 or 4 years, was quite an 
emotional thrill.  Senior year we improved to 4-4, AND we beat Bates and 
Bowdoin for the CBB Champoinship.  Last year they were supposed to be great 
and take the conference, but they lost a few close ones in the beginning of 
the season and finished 4-4 again, but not before beating Bates and Bowdoin 
(blew 'em out) for another CBB Championship (the first repeat ever for the 
White Mules).  Next year they probobly won't even have a team because my frat, 
LCA, was caught existing (frats are underground since they were all given the 
boot in '84) and they kicked almost everyone out for a semester and the rest 
aren't allowed to play sports for a year or something.  Since there were only 
like 10 guys on the team that weren't brothers, I guess the team is done for 
next year.  Also made it tough on the baseball team this spring since 6 or 7 
out of 9 starters were LCA's.  It will be interesting to see what they do 
now...


Scott

    There's always WOMEN'S RUGBY, Scott... unless the Choppers started
    initiating women (or 'near-women' (tm) to use the correct description
    for female rugby players)!!!
    
    What's your National's stance on the Fraternity issue and do you
    know how the ECAC is reacting...They will lose revenue if Colby's
    season is cancelled.
    
    To be honest though, it doesn't surprise me.... Bill Cotter has
    been trying to get rid of the football team ever since he arrived
    on Mayflower Hill.  From his point of view, it is nothing but a
    financial drain - very expensive in terms of equipment, grounds,
    travel expense, scholarships, etc which is not compensated by alumni
    contributions.  I'm sure he has done a study that measures the effect
    on alumni giving if he cancels the football team entirely!!!
    
    PJ 

     
    >There's always WOMEN'S RUGBY, Scott... unless the Choppers started
    >initiating women (or 'near-women' (tm) to use the correct description
    >for female rugby players)!!!
    
Careful now, my girlfriend was captain of the women's rugby team (you wouldn't
know it though, she's about 5'3" and about 105 lbs - it helps to be sick in
head!).  I do know the one's you mean though (5'6", 230 lbs, and more hair on
their legs than I have on my head)


    >What's your National's stance on the Fraternity issue and do you
    >know how the ECAC is reacting...They will lose revenue if Colby's
    >season is cancelled.
    
To tell you the truth, I haven't follow it much since the story was in USA Today
and Bryant Gumball metioned it on the Today show (he went to Bates, ya know) 
back in April.  I do know that ever since the Nationals for I think LCA, DKE, 
and one or two others lost to the college in court in about 1986 or so, they 
pretty much backed away from Colby.  Zeta Psi was the only one left with 
national backing until last year they got caught doing something dumb and the 
college said publically and privately recind your existence or take a walk.  I 
have no idea of any reation from the ECAC.  I know that Coach Austin must be 
having a sh!t fit over it though.
    
    >To be honest though, it doesn't surprise me.... Bill Cotter has
    >been trying to get rid of the football team ever since he arrived
    >on Mayflower Hill.  From his point of view, it is nothing but a
    >financial drain - very expensive in terms of equipment, grounds,
    >travel expense, scholarships, etc which is not compensated by alumni
    >contributions.  I'm sure he has done a study that measures the effect
    >on alumni giving if he cancels the football team entirely!!!
    
I don't think it is so much the football team, as LCA (and frats in general) 
that he has been after.  Did you know Colby was the first choice as the site
to film Animal House?  Cotter nixed that real fast.  I know that the college 
gives NO scholarships for athletics due to NESCAC rules (hockey is different 
because they are in Hockey East Div II or something).  There is tuition money
for football players but that comes from an alumni fund where the money is 
given specifically for football.  In fact, my sophmore year, when we got a new 
coach, Cotter seemed to be doing all he could to promote the team.  But I also 
think that losing the football team for a year is a worthwhile price to pay for 
getting rid of LCA in his view.

I glad I graduated when I did, otherwise I'd be wondering what to do with my
fall off right about now...

Scott

    If Colby was the first choice for Animal House, then it would have
    been nixed by Cotter's predecessor Robert E.L. Strider.  (I would
    be showing my age if I admitted I had met the man, but I did.)
    
    Anyway, thanks for the update on the situation on the Hill.  If
    you get any more news, I'd appreciate if you'd keep me posted.
    
    PJ  
    
    P.S.  Did the ATO's go underground as well??
    

�    There's always WOMEN'S RUGBY, Scott... unless the Choppers started
�    initiating women (or 'near-women' (tm) to use the correct description
�    for female rugby players)!!!
    
    You've gone and done it now.  We have a semi-regular contributor to the
    conference who is a female rugger.  Having played in a college with
    both a men's and women's team I realize you must be kidding.

    >If Colby was the first choice for Animal House, then it would have
    >been nixed by Cotter's predecessor Robert E.L. Strider.  (I would
    >be showing my age if I admitted I had met the man, but I did.)
    
Being an oldtimer, you may be right ;^) but the way I heard it was that it was
one of Cotter's first acts as president, which clued a few people into his 
stance on frats.
    
    >P.S.  Did the ATO's go underground as well??
    
ATO did not exist (actively) when I got there in 1985.  The ones that did were 
LCA, DKE, Zeta Psi, DU, Phi Delta Something-or-other (known as "phi delt"), 
and Tau Delta Something-or-other (I think they are Tau Delta Kappa but they 
were known as "tau delt").  LCA and Zeta Psi were probobly the most active and 
biggest until the incidents of the last 12-18 months.  I don't know what the 
status of the others were this past year.

I'll let you know what else I hear...

Scott

   Wow! PJ
   	What you said!
   		You are some kind of daredevil!

   I'd sooner dive 70 feet into a vat of Buffalo boogers than to get the
   Lady Ruggers mad at me!

   We'll send ya flowers
   Mike JN

Quite seriously, I agree with Mac.  I've seen some women ruggers
who are *quite* attractive.  Long, lean, in-shape...  Plus the fact
that they can run their a__ off, hit like there's no tomorrow...I think
it'd make for a pretty interesting girlfriend....

'Saw

    Some of my best stablemates.....sorry, roommates.... were women
    rugby players.
    
    When they get their legs wrapped around you and squeeeeeeze...Oh Baby!!!
                                                    
    (Much more fun than field hockey players who get really upset when you
    mess up their hair and spill beer on the pillow!!)!!
                                                    
    
    PJ_who_has_fantasies_about_women_rugby_players!!

    re: a few back on Animal House...
    
    Had to have been Robert E. Lee Strider - 'cuz I definitely remember
    forgetting one *hell* of a to-ga pahty in Phi Delt my freshman year...
    
    A. House had just come out that summer, and we did some justice to it!
    Too bad the cameras weren't rolling for the sequel!  I remember
    stumbling to Louie-Loo-I, in a soaking bed sheet, barefoot, in about an
    inch of beer on the floor...  In fact that was about my last memory
    that night!
    
    ML

 >>    I remember stumbling to Louie-Loo-I, in a soaking bed sheet,   <<
 >>    barefoot, in about an inch of beer on the floor...             <<
    
    Oh, now I remember who you are!!!!
    
    PJ

    Yeah, I remember you, too, Dave....   And I managed to hold my keyboard
    back when you were talking about your Rugger exploits, so be nice :-)
    
    ML

    I see from the most recent CURRENTS newsletter, that the Mules won
    the New England Division III Basketball Championship (Overall record
    26-1!!)
    
    Also, the SKI TEAM won the NCAA Title!!  (Where was the ski team
    when we were in Waterville???)
    
    PJ