1972 Game Action vs Cortland

1972 Game Action vs Cortland
Eagle QB Dennis Rosolowski around left end
Half a century ago we endured triple sessions in the August heat, pounded each other on a daily basis, and battled rugged competition weekly, all in spartan conditions. We bled green and gold.

And we had fun together, too.

Half a century later we have our memories and we have each other. We no longer flash the green and gold like we did in the day. Ours is the color that comes with age, experience, and some wisdom.

We are The Gray Eagles. Our stories are preserved here.

Wednesday, May 31, 2017

Brief Coach Bios
By the end of the 1976 football season Alfred University had fielded a team for 80 years; their inaugural season was 1897. At the end of that '76 season, Alex Junevich retired after 40 years as head coach. He had taken the reins in 1937 and led the Saxons to five undefeated seasons prior the 1960s. When we played Alfred, we played against an established football program.

(You can find a two-page Alex Yunevich biography in our 1968 scrapbook.)

 Beginning in 1968, Pete Mazzaferro coached the Bridgewater State Bears for 36 years, a tenure interrupted for the 1987 season by a dispute with a new college president. After the president was forced to resign for misappropriating funds that same year, Mazzaferro (known as Papa Bear) returned and coached through the 2004 season.

Here's a link to Coach Mazzaferro's wiki bio:    Pete Mazzaferro

Frank Connell, #75
Rochester, NY







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