chuckie1980
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Baltimore Bird
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That was such a fun time. My four years were the same as Galvin, Jones and Yarbrough. Donewald stifled that run for a few years and then he really got it going too with 3 NCAA trips in a row.
GO BIRDS!
GO BIRDS!
My grandfather went to high school with Gene. He was 2 years older than Gene so it was interesting looking through his old yearbooks a couple nights ago at his house. It was such a different era back then and the basketball pictures / descriptions of the team were priceless. If I get a chance I'll snap some pictures of them sometime soon and post them up for everyone to see.
I had a couple of shirts made for this weekend for my grandfather and I to wear bearing the MTXE so if you see us at the game, say hello.
I had a couple of shirts made for this weekend for my grandfather and I to wear bearing the MTXE so if you see us at the game, say hello.
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The glory days of ISU basketball when the sport was still manageable. And the best thing on the football field was BRMM.
Times sure have changed. Now...I LOVE REDBIRD FOOTBALL....I still love BRMM....and basketball...just seems to not be able to get it right (I blame the NCAA).
Times sure have changed. Now...I LOVE REDBIRD FOOTBALL....I still love BRMM....and basketball...just seems to not be able to get it right (I blame the NCAA).
What a wonderful promotion.. Kudos to our sports admin for putting this together. This is right in my wheelhouse, having graduated in 1977. I mentioned before I did some artwork for Coach Smithson, along with team artist Roger Barnes. Always thought it was cool Gene had a team artist, maybe because I was at art major. Got to know Ron Ferguson at that time, who was an assistant and became the AD at Bradley and we became friends. Fergie was one of my referrals to become a basketball official. What great games and great players, I also drew a lot about this team when I was the staff artist for the Vidette. This is going to be a fun game and night!
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bb fan said:
BB fan, did you do any of the artwork for the media guides back then? I have a couple from the Smithson era and some of the cover artwork is awesome.
Don't know if you have anything still that you did, but would be cool to see if you still had anything.
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me, too...redbird art!!
Actually, Rico I have been trying to figure out how to post some Vidette art I did during that era of the team. I will keep trying. I posted it on the old forum board. And I did do a few things for the media guides, but all I can remember was some for football stuff. I had the honor of working a little bit with the great Roger Cushman, the SID at that time. What I did for Gene was paint some Running Redbird logos on his office walls with some big MTXE's. Again, assisting team artist Roger Barnes. Roger was one of the best Illustrators to come out of ISU. I would wager some of the cover are you are talking about was drawn by Roger.
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Great days, great teams and players, great to think of Horton rockin!!
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fdbird83 said:
Seemed like those temporary north "end zone" bleachers went on forever!!
