Another feel good story in March as the Furman Paladins advance to the field of 64. First time since 1980. Furman is a member of the Socon Conference, is an excellent school just north of Greenville, SC on the NC line. What is a Paladin?
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FURMAN PALADIN
The Furman football team as well as all Furman's sports teams were renamed "Paladins" or "Purple Paladins" in 1961. The football team had been named the Purple Hurricanes in the 1920s. The basketball team had previously been named the "Paladins" and the “Paladins of the court” by the late J. Carter (Scoop) Latimer, former sports editor of The Greenville News. The baseball team was previously known as the “Hornets” and the cross country and track teams were the “Harriers.”
Through the years many requests had been made to establish a common name for all Furman teams. Not until the spring of 1961 did the move attract enough interest to warrant a change. Under the leadership of Alvin Brown, Pep Club president; Tom Player, student body president; and head cheerleader Don Senteil, the Pep Club submitted the proposal to the student body by way of a campus poll which revealed that the majority of the student body preferred the name "Paladins" as the new name for the football team and all other sports teams wearing the Furman colors.[1] The student newspaper, The Hornet, was renamed The Paladin the same year.
Paladins refers to the knights of Charlemagne's Court who were men of courage and daring, persons of "outstanding worth or quality who are firm in support of some cause or objective."[2]
Source: “What is a Paladin? by Francis W. Bonner, Furman Magazine, Summer 1992, p. 36
Very happy for Furman after the heartbreaking way it lost in last year’s conference finals. Go Dins!
The Furman football team as well as all Furman's sports teams were renamed "Paladins" or "Purple Paladins" in 1961. The football team had been named the Purple Hurricanes in the 1920s. The basketball team had previously been named the "Paladins" and the “Paladins of the court” by the late J. Carter (Scoop) Latimer, former sports editor of The Greenville News. The baseball team was previously known as the “Hornets” and the cross country and track teams were the “Harriers.”
Through the years many requests had been made to establish a common name for all Furman teams. Not until the spring of 1961 did the move attract enough interest to warrant a change. Under the leadership of Alvin Brown, Pep Club president; Tom Player, student body president; and head cheerleader Don Senteil, the Pep Club submitted the proposal to the student body by way of a campus poll which revealed that the majority of the student body preferred the name "Paladins" as the new name for the football team and all other sports teams wearing the Furman colors.[1] The student newspaper, The Hornet, was renamed The Paladin the same year.
Paladins refers to the knights of Charlemagne's Court who were men of courage and daring, persons of "outstanding worth or quality who are firm in support of some cause or objective."[2]
Source: “What is a Paladin? by Francis W. Bonner, Furman Magazine, Summer 1992, p. 36
Very happy for Furman after the heartbreaking way it lost in last year’s conference finals. Go Dins!
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Let’s not forget the greatest Paladin of all time:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Have_Gun_–_Will_Travel
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Have_Gun_–_Will_Travel
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The Merrimack Warriors a small Catholic college north of Boston, defeated FDU to win the Northeast Conference Tourney last night on ESPN2. However because they are "transitioning " to D1, an archaic NCAA rule prevents Merrimack from receiving the auto-bid. By default, the loser FDU receives the NCAA invite. There are 10,000 transfers in the portal with few if any restrictions and the NCAA holds Merrimack's feet to fire over some "BS rule" penalizing the players, students and the school as a whole? Really, total complete BS IMO.
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purpleeagle5
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Dick Vitale on CBS today:
"Yes upsets are happening in many tournaments involving the Mid Majors . For example thus far 6 # 1 seeds have been beaten so they will not be part of March Madness . Youngstown St ,Bradley ,Hofstra, Southern Mississippi ,Eastern Washington ,Morehead St, all won the regular season championship’s of their respective conferences but were beaten in their tournaments.”
"Yes upsets are happening in many tournaments involving the Mid Majors . For example thus far 6 # 1 seeds have been beaten so they will not be part of March Madness . Youngstown St ,Bradley ,Hofstra, Southern Mississippi ,Eastern Washington ,Morehead St, all won the regular season championship’s of their respective conferences but were beaten in their tournaments.”
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SJU 59 Butler 43 with 12 minutes remaining.
Winner gets a rested #1 Marquette tomorrow.
Winner gets a rested #1 Marquette tomorrow.
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The Golden Eagles will crap all over the Redmen. ( oh, you can’t say that, sorry.)
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FINAL SJU 76-63.
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CGate takes the Patriot League auto-bid, our old rival in Hockey when BM and Burky were the sheriffs at NU... Why not have a holiday hockey tourney in Utica with CGate, NU, ROT, RPI and or a Hockey East squad like the old SIT days.
Anyways, good story on Boeheim per RP:
https://www.timesunion.com/sports/?IPID ... -HP-subnav
Anyways, good story on Boeheim per RP:
https://www.timesunion.com/sports/?IPID ... -HP-subnav
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Someone tell P-Eagle SJU took Marquette to the buzzer in OT losing 72-70.
Coach Andersen may have saved his job at SJU.
Coach Andersen may have saved his job at SJU.