BGSU Football Traditions!

TG1996 · Post by **TG1996** » Sun Oct 01, 2006 12:43 pm

Schadenfreude wrote:
orangeandbrown wrote:I believe that Doyt Perry turned down the chance to coach Ohio State.
I've never heard that one.

I have heard it said that when [strike]John Cooper[/strike] Woody Hayes and Bo Schembechler (who did a short stint as a Bowling Green assistant before getting the top job at Miami) wanted to talk, they'd meet at Doyt Perry's house.

Great bunch of posts, Schad!

A few things to add... While I don't know for sure, I wouldn't be surprised if Doyt put his hat in the ring for the head job before Hayes was hired. He was coaching high school football in Columbus at the time, and ended up as an assistant on Hayes' first staff before getting the head job at BG in 1955.

The "meeting at Doyt's house" story came after Woody punched that kid at the Gator Bowl, the OSU administration gave him a "resign or be fired" ultimatum, and he was being stubborn. Schembechler wanted to meet with him to convince him that resigning would be the best move at that point, so they met at Doyt's house to talk, either because it was in the middle of the two, or as some tales go, Woody didn't want to go to Ann Arbor to talk. After they met, he handed in his resignation at Ohio State.

As far as the BEST BG-OSU story... in the early days of BG's history, Ohio State was pretty cranky about the state setting up teacher training schools in Kent and BG, and spent quite a bit of effort trying to undermine their credibility. It came to the point where they sent a panel to investigate the training schools to prove to the state that they were subpar and shouldn't be allowed to train secondary teachers, which Ohio State had been doing/offer degrees as a full four-year institution (going off my head, it's one of these two, I think it was the former).

The panel from Ohio State was surprised when they got to BG to find that they were quite qualified, and backed down a little. But in one of the greatest "dick moves" of all time, BG's president (Williams?) sent a panel of his own to investigate Ohio State and found that their standards and facilities were below what BG was offering. From that point on, Ohio State was happy to have BG and Kent State around.

orangeandbrown · Post by **orangeandbrown** » Sun Oct 01, 2006 12:54 pm

tekekini wrote:THIS is why I HATE BGSU Fans..

Ouch. That hurts.

The Niz · Post by **The Niz** » Sun Oct 01, 2006 1:23 pm

buckeyeryn wrote:
Rightupinthere wrote:
The Niz wrote:
buckeyeryn wrote:Thanks a lot everyone for the "traditions." We really do appreciate it and it will help to make our preview accurate.

Keep the urine coming, guys. We just had a new field installed and it needs watered, frequently!!!
WTF is "traditions" supposed to mean? If I were out trying to be congenial towards an opponent I wouldn't be patronizing them by giving a mocking attitude towards the things they hold dear. I guess the only real traditions come from you larger schools, and us smaller ones are just stuck with our "traditions".
I think you should read buckeyeryn's post directed towards two different camps. He wasn't mocking the traditions, but more mocking the folks who have been a bit contentious in this thread.
Thanks RUIT, I appreciate your kindness. I guess some guys in Bowling Green have no repsect for opponents (even female ones.)

I am actually an OSU fan, I have been my whole life and probably will stay that way as long as they aren't playing BG. So many OSU fans I know are a real pain in the azz and have a real better than thou attitude. Sorry I took your message the wrong way, thats the problem with typing and not talking I guess.

Falconfreak90 · Post by **Falconfreak90** » Sun Oct 01, 2006 7:05 pm

SF and TG, as well as others, have pointed out many BGSU traditions.

We have a very proud tradition at BG> But in a state where the media basically ignores the other 7 1-A programs to cover OSU at all costs, it gets sickening. Couple the fact that BG could easily be 2-1 lifetime against OSU...but we're not.

I've been to all 3 BG/OSU games at the Shoe and wouldn't miss this one for the world, either.

GO FALCONS!!!

Schadenfreude · Post by **Schadenfreude** » Sun Oct 01, 2006 7:18 pm

A bit more.

Trophy games: Bowling Green has two.

One is with a certain commuter school in Toledo. The trophy is called the Peace Pipe.

There was an actual peace pipe once. I believe it was introduced after our football series with the commuter school was halted from 1936-47 because of some extremely bad blood. (They ran up a 63-0 score on us in 1935).

The original peace pipe was stolen or lost. Now it's just a trophy. Bowling Green leads the series 36-30-4.

The other trophy game is with Kent State, our sister school, founded by the same act of the General Assembly in 1910. This isn't much of a series. Bowling Green leads 52-16-6.

Not many people know this but before Bowling Green joined the MAC in the early 50s, we had a pretty serous rivalry going with Baldwin Wallace, Tressel's dad's school. The last game was played in 1957. That one was ugly: a 60-7 rout. But B-W still (and probably permanently) leads the series 8-10-3.

TG1996 · Post by **TG1996** » Sun Oct 01, 2006 7:21 pm

The original peace pipe was a basketball trophy, and was stolen from a hallway in Eppler Gym, and was never seen again. It was 6 feet long. I think someone posted a pic of it here earlier.

Falconfreak90 · Post by **Falconfreak90** » Sun Oct 01, 2006 7:25 pm

TG1996 wrote:The original peace pipe was a basketball trophy, and was stolen from a hallway in Eppler Gym, and was never seen again. It was 6 feet long. I think someone posted a pic of it here earlier.

They smoked some mean grass back in that day! LOL!

Schadenfreude · Post by **Schadenfreude** » Sun Oct 01, 2006 7:26 pm

Falconfreak90 wrote:
TG1996 wrote:The original peace pipe was a basketball trophy, and was stolen from a hallway in Eppler Gym, and was never seen again. It was 6 feet long. I think someone posted a pic of it here earlier.

They smoked some mean grass back in that day! LOL!

I was gonna say: I saw something like that at an Ann Arbor frat house once.

TG1996 · Post by **TG1996** » Sun Oct 01, 2006 7:27 pm

Falconfreak90 wrote:They smoked some mean grass back in that day! LOL!

Come to think of it, I might have seen the original peace pipe in the second floor window of the courthouse...

Tommy Glantz Is A Sniper · Mon Oct 02, 2006 9:56 am

TG1996 wrote:Come to think of it, I might have seen the original peace pipe in the second floor window of the courthouse...

Sure. You saw it in the "second floor" of the "courthouse".

Uh-huh.

bgmaggot00 · Post by **bgmaggot00** » Mon Oct 02, 2006 11:03 am

How about this? We have two Mascots, male and female. For the Buckeye fans, those would be Freddie and Frieda Falcon. I know of few schools that have more than one official mascot, let alone male and female ones.

Dayons_Den · Post by **Dayons_Den** » Mon Oct 02, 2006 11:06 am

bgmaggot00 wrote:How about this? We have two Mascots, male and female. For the Buckeye fans, those would be Freddie and Frieda Falcon. I know of few schools that have more than one official mascot, let alone male and female ones.

Good point. The only m/f mascot combo I can think of is NC State.

osusushichic · Post by **osusushichic** » Mon Oct 02, 2006 11:15 am

Gee, tough crowd over here! Do you guys hang out with the Bearcat fans often? They were just as venomous towards us! (BTW -- I have several relatives who are BG alums, so I have a lot of respect for your school, so I come here in peace!)

Anyway, I'm helping BuckeyeRyn write the Traditions section of the BuckeyePlanet previews. It's been fun to learn about the opponents' traditions every week and meet other (friendly) fans. It also allows us to showcase your school, and we write it in a professional manner, so it's not like we're going to take this material and turn it into a smack session. Thanks to those of you who have contributed. We have some good stuff for our preview!

Go Bucks!

Zom · Post by **Zom** » Mon Oct 02, 2006 11:25 am

I suppose tradition includes the "soon to be" SEBO centre, which promises to bring a whole new era of improved facilities to "The Doyt".

http://www.bgsu.edu/offices/mc/news/2005/news16376.html

thewebboy · Post by **thewebboy** » Mon Oct 02, 2006 11:38 am

Another tradition I can think of is the firing our ROTC cannon after every touchdown at home.

I'm not sure how long that has been going on for. I'm sure someone else may have more insight into this tradition than I do.