A couple of cool ones can be found in “ A Time-Trip with the Lions“, published in 2009. I’ve published other pictures during the 10 years the Nittany Turkey has been in existence as a blog.
The incoming freshmen got their own salute from Block S in 1964. The guys who helped with parking were given seats in the south stands under the scoreboard behind the south end zone.Ĭlass of ’68 – saluted in a 1964 game at Beaver Stadium The clock on the scoreboard was a gift of the recently graduated Class of 1964. This scoreboard, along with the stadium timer and a bronze plaque for the scoreboard, was a gift from the Class of 1926. It showed only game status, although the modest sign below asked for support for the alumni fund. Nittany and the ridges surrounding Happy Valley as a backdrop, the old scoreboard was a beautiful sight. In this age of JumboTrons and lots and lots of advertisements, it is tempting to want to simplify stuff to the way it was back in the day–at least for us geezers. It was pretty ordinary, but the Floating Lions Drill jazzed it up beginning in 1965. Dunlop, who served from 1947 through 1975. The Blue Band would always line up the same way under the direction of director J ames W. Nittany from inside the stadium, as there was on this day in 1964. There is no longer such a glorious view of Mt. Those are FSU, LSU, and Washington State. Only three FBS schools still use the twin posts instead of a single stanchion for supporting the goal posts. Note the wider goal posts, which were 23′ 4″ wide until 1991, when the present width of 18′ 6″ was adopted. The girls served coffee outside the Pattee Library and a few of us got lucky that night just by hanging around exuding team spirit - but not this freshman. In the Friday night/Saturday morning darkness the night before the game, a bunch of us students held an all-night vigil to guard the Nittany Lion shrine, as it was rumored that a contingent from Syracuse had loaded up a trunk with orange paint they were going to use to deface the holy shrine. Nittany, visible behind the east stands, on that glorious fall day. Syracuse was a running powerhouse in the 1950s and 1960s! Nevertheless, the sun shone brightly upon Mt. The following year, a converted linebacker named Larry Csonka would take over for Nance. (Syracuse was ranked #12, doggone it!) Floyd Little #44 was the stud runner for Syracuse that day, and it was only his sophomore year. Under head coach Rip Engle, the Nittany Lions went on to finish 6-4 that year and were ranked #14 in the final AP poll. Syracuse beat us three years in a row from 1964 to 1966. Guess who won? You’re right, it was Syracuse, 21-14. The Block S card section salutes the mighty Nittany Lions and the University, 1964-style, on Band Day. Now, both ends are closed and there is no view of Mt. Note the pennants flying from atop the east and west stands representing each of our opponents.īeaver Stadium photo above taken from what was then the freshman/sophomore section, at what was called “the closed end of the horseshoe” and is now referred to as the north stands. I’m glad I was a profligate spender back then, buying unaffordable color film for my photographic exploits that would live on for a half-century.
As it was Band Day, the stadium was filling up with multi-colored high school bands, undoubtedly conveyed to the stadium by those vintage school buses. Many were parked on the fields on which the Blue Band used to practice. Nevertheless, in addition to the Beaver Stadium as it was back then, you can find some vintage automotive machinery parked in the fields between my dorm ( East Hall E, now McKean) and the stadium. I had a brand-new 35 mm camera and a brand new 70-270 mm telephoto lens, but I obviously had no tripod with which to steady that rig for this shot. Please enjoy da photos and remember, they were taken by a 17 year-old freshman with illegal access to alcohol! If you wish to see larger pictures, just click on any of the photos below. The scoreboard is particularly appropriate in view of the recent brouhaha about our new scoreboards concentrating on scores instead of advertising. On the fiftieth anniversary of taking these glorious pictures of Beaver Stadium, I felt that it would be fun to re-post them for people who didn’t get a chance to see them way back when.Īctually, Todd Sponsler ( The Lion’s Den, Living the Eye Life) had posted a link to the original site of the pictures when he had a blog on at the time I first published them, so they got a lot of views, but maybe you missed them back then. I hope you will be the beneficiary of my efforts.Ībout seven years ago, I posted a link to some photos I took while I was a freshman at Penn State in 1864 (oops, typo) 1964. I was feeling kind of down today, so I thought I should do something that would cheer me up.
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