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Post by tums on Oct 27, 2018 21:06:31 GMT -6
What game it was that had to be finished on the practice field many years ago?
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Post by Trojan By Birth on Oct 27, 2018 21:16:18 GMT -6
I don't recall the exact game... but I remember it was talked about on here before. You are talking about the time the power went out?
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Post by tums on Oct 27, 2018 21:32:20 GMT -6
Yes, the lights failed.
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Post by Trojans1andAll on Oct 28, 2018 0:19:55 GMT -6
It was the '87-'88 season, that's all I know.
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Post by doc71 on Oct 28, 2018 7:57:57 GMT -6
It was 88 season I"m pretty sure. I finished playing 87, and was still in Troy. Believe it was SEMO? Wasn't playing ... but remember sitting on the hill watching. Pretty strange.
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Post by Trojans1andAll on Oct 28, 2018 15:40:07 GMT -6
I joined SOTS in fall of '88, and I don't remember that game. I do remember seeing football players wearing "I survived the Trojan black-out" t-shirts.
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Post by Troystet on Oct 30, 2018 8:19:28 GMT -6
1988 vs SE Missouri. Played in that game. Transformer blew up on the visitors side early in third quarter. Two hour delay trying to figure out what to do. Game resumed on bottom practice field. We beat the tar out of them on that practice field.
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Post by Trojan By Birth on Oct 30, 2018 11:46:01 GMT -6
I remember during the delay, they tried to move the game to a local high school but none of the fields were prepared. I was at that game but my dad made the call to go home. I remember the coaches show the next day and they talked about how the decision was made to use the practice field. One of the greatest stories in Troy football if you ask me.
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Post by Troystet on Oct 30, 2018 13:15:31 GMT -6
I remember coming out of the locker room onto the practice fields we would always kind of just jump off the hill down to the bottom of the top practice field, Southeast Missouri came out and they were tiptoeing down that Hill like it was made out of ice
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Post by tums on Nov 1, 2018 20:29:15 GMT -6
I remember coming out of the locker room onto the practice fields we would always kind of just jump off the hill down to the bottom of the top practice field, Southeast Missouri came out and they were tiptoeing down that Hill like it was made out of ice Thanks for bringing a memory of those days.
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Post by Troystet on Nov 2, 2018 6:04:55 GMT -6
That 1988 season was very frustrating. We went 4-6 but should have been 9-1. We lost several low scoring games because we couldn't muster much of any offense for several reasons. 1) No Mike Turk. You didn't replace him and the coaches didn't recruit any one to replace him and when they did recruit a qb they went for the smaller qb and while they were talented they just didn't run or throw like Turk. Bob Godsey had been a very effective back up but back in those days we went 6 days a week full speed, full contact for a whole month in Spring and we usually got four or five knee surgeries and Bob had a serious one in Spring. He came back for the 1988 season but he was at best 50% of what he had been. His speed and cuts weren't there. 2) very demanding OL coach. Three starters didn't return for the 1988 season because their bodies were done. Surgeries, Broken jaw, multiple injuries etc. He had also started recruiting under sized linemen that were quicker but ineffective in drive blocking. 3) Maddox while a great man and great assistant coach never assumed the role of HC. He didn't stand up to the assistant coaches in part because he had been one of them. Rhodes had been also but he made it perfectly crystal clear he was in charge and what he said went. Add all those up and we had a season we shouldn't have had.
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Post by erkerk89 on Nov 2, 2018 19:38:46 GMT -6
I remember that Troy was always tough against the GSU Eagles. Do you remember this game? It was 2nd year for GSU in the SB and the G5.
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Post by Trojan By Birth on Nov 2, 2018 20:04:44 GMT -6
I remember that Troy was always tough against the GSU Eagles. Do you remember this game? It was 2nd year for GSU in the SB and the G5. Troy is 11-6 all time vs you Southern boys. We have outscored you 300-269. I doubt you will make up those 31 points next week. I think Troy will get win #12 and will expand that point lead by 14+.
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Post by erkerk89 on Nov 2, 2018 20:20:50 GMT -6
I remember that Troy was always tough against the GSU Eagles. Do you remember this game? It was 2nd year for GSU in the SB and the G5. Troy is 11-6 all time vs you Southern boys. We have outscored you 300-269. I doubt you will make up those 31 points next week. I think Troy will get win #12 and will expand that point lead by 14+. I really didn't know you were 11-6 against Georgia Southern. I cant remember that we played each other 17 times. Now I have to go back and look it up. Can you give me the site? No matter, if you're 11-6 holds you will be 11 & 7 in a week & GSU will get the better bowl & it will be as it should be in the SB. You should not be thinking. When I want your opinion, I'll tell you what it should be. TALON (Talon Talk board)
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Post by Trojan By Birth on Nov 2, 2018 21:40:24 GMT -6
Troy is 11-6 all time vs you Southern boys. We have outscored you 300-269. I doubt you will make up those 31 points next week. I think Troy will get win #12 and will expand that point lead by 14+. I really didn't know you were 11-6 against Georgia Southern. I cant remember that we played each other 17 times. Now I have to go back and look it up. Can you give me the site? No matter, if you're 11-6 holds you will be 11 & 7 in a week & GSU will get the better bowl & it will be as it should be in the SB. You should not be thinking. When I want your opinion, I'll tell you what it should be. TALON (Talon Talk board) Check out Winsipedia. It is an awesome site that you can look up stats for every team and then can compare them.
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Post by erkerk89 on Nov 3, 2018 19:56:24 GMT -6
I really didn't know you were 11-6 against Georgia Southern. I cant remember that we played each other 17 times. Now I have to go back and look it up. Can you give me the site? No matter, if you're 11-6 holds you will be 11 & 7 in a week & GSU will get the better bowl & it will be as it should be in the SB. You should not be thinking. When I want your opinion, I'll tell you what it should be. TALON (Talon Talk board) Check out Winsipedia. It is an awesome site that you can look up stats for every team and then can compare them.
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