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Sunday, January 22, 2012
The Westminster Bunnies say 'Go Ravens!'
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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?
Related Read more: Of course, summer
practice in Westminster is probably why the Baltimore Colts won its first
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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
Baltimore football championship seasons have always started in Westminster … so should we be worried
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
Baltimore football and Westminster have a long history together
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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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Wednesday, December 14, 2011
Baltimore football and Westminster have a long history together By Kevin Dayhoff
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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."
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Wednesday, February 11, 2009
This Day in History for February 11, 2009
This Day in History for February 11, 2009
February 11, 2009 by © Kevin Dayhoff
February 11, 2009 by © Kevin Dayhoff
Years ago in the middle of February, the Baltimore Colts, graffiti, a new jail, going hungry and sweet corn were on the minds of Carroll Countians – not necessarily in that order.
The Baltimore Colts are coming to town.
On February 11, 1949 it was announced that the Baltimore Colts were coming to Western Maryland College – now known as McDaniel College - to practice in the summer.
The now out-of-print Democratic Advocate carried the headline: “College Campus To Be Used By Colts- Coach Isbell Expects to Bring 55 Players to Train, Starting in July.”
The article proclaimed: “Baltimore's football Colts are going to train at Western Maryland College this year. 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 …
“Driskill … cited a number of advantages in choosing Western Maryland. "The school's facilities are ideal," he explained, "and because Westminster is only 30 miles from Baltimore the fans will have a good chance to get acquainted with us.’
Children will be children.
The February 11, 1921 edition of the now defunct Union Bridge Pilot lamented: “The practice of defacing property with chalk and pencils… appears to be a favorite pastime with some children.
“Newly painted buildings and porch columns appear to offer special inducements for the practice. The town authorities as a rule do not care to resort to legal measures with children, yet it appears a few applications of this medicine might prove effective.”
New jail to be built.
On February 13, 1970, another local newspaper that has long since fallen by the wayside, the Community Reporter, reported that the Carroll County Board of Commissioners, Robert M. McKinney, Paul J. Walsh, and Scott S. Bair, Jr., “have officially approved the building of a new county jail in Westminster for Carroll County…
“The issue… has been debated for several years. In 1968 the State Jail Inspector stated the jail was not usable and ordered it closed. Since that time, the county has been transporting prisoners to the Baltimore city jail.”
Eventually somebody is going to go hungry.
The February 13, 1920 edition of the Union Bridge Pilot, helped spread the alarm that according to Prof. T. C. Atkeson, the Washington representative of the National Grange: “The Cities Must Experience Industrial Crash.”
Professor Atkeson warned that an “economic crash that will bring down the cost of living, must originate in the cities, and reach such an extent that those who have left the country sections for "big wages" will come back to the country…
“He says there is no cure for high prices that Congress, or anybody, can provide, but that the situation must work itself out...
“He says the labor situation is rapidly making it impossible for the farmers to feed the country, and that eventually somebody is going to go hungry.”
Carroll County was sweet on sweet corn.
Four years later, on February 1, 1924, the Democratic Advocate reported: “One of the largest crops produced by the farmer in Carroll (is) sweet corn…
“The average yield (was) close to 3 tons (per acre.) … The cost ran from $13.00 to $13.50 per ton. Allowing only .25 per hour for labor and .10 per hour for horse.”
Kevin Dayhoff writes from Westminster Maryland USA.
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