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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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