This is a photo of an athletic team, but I’m not sure which one or when it was taken (1960s?). I think it may be the tennis team, because I’ve seen the coach in other pictures. Do you know? Can you identify the coach or any of the team members?
Posts Tagged ‘RPI athletics’
Mystery Image #19
Posted in unidentified photographs, tagged mystery image, RPI athletics on October 23, 2009 | 4 Comments »
sports history quiz
Posted in RPI Trivia, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute History, tagged homecoming, reunion, RPI athletics, RPI football, RPI Hockey, RPI lacrosse on September 25, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Reunion & Homecoming weekend is coming up and sports will be a hot topic with all the excitement surrounding the dedication of the new East Campus Athletic Village. With this in mind, I’ve prepared a little trivia quiz to engage you in some sports history. I’ll post the answers on Thursday, October 1st [check the [...]
at the beginning of the Hockey Line
Posted in Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute History, Uncategorized, tagged George Low, hockey tickets, Houston Field House, RPI athletics, RPI history, RPI Hockey, Student Senate, student traditions on September 8, 2009 | 6 Comments »
The Hockey Line is a long standing (no pun intended) tradition at RPI. When and why did it start? Before 1972, student tickets rotated through sections on the North and West sides during the season so that everyone had a chance to sit in the best seats on the North side. Brace poles, in place [...]
the mascot with a short life
Posted in RPI Trivia, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute History, tagged RPI athletics, RPI history, RPI mascots on April 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The “Engineers” moniker for athletic teams goes back to the 1920s. It was a good idea when the name summed up RPI quite well and an “image” of athletics was unnecessary. Marketing athletics can be tricky and fan support fickle, however, when there is no mascot to relate to. An attempt to fix this problem [...]
Big Red Freakout #1
Posted in Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute History, tagged Big Red Freakout, RPI athletics, RPI Hockey, student traditions on February 9, 2009 | 4 Comments »
The 32nd Annual Big Red Freakout is being held this weekend. Thirty-two consecutive years of the same tradition with the same purpose is relatively rare at the ‘Tute, so I had to find out how the event got started and what it was like the first time around.
Big Red Freakout was the brain child of [...]
1948 Lacrosse Team
Posted in RPI Trivia, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute History, tagged 1948 Olympics, Ned Harkness, RPI athletics, RPI lacrosse, Susan Blanchard on April 23, 2008 | 9 Comments »
Every month or so, I select an image to feature on our home page and today I chose a picture of the 1948 lacrosse team.
The fun fact about this team is that they represented the United States in a demonstration game against England in the 1948 Summer Olympics. So the match was essentially RPI vs. [...]
Nerdy Cheer?
Posted in RPI Trivia, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute History, tagged alma mater, cheer, math, pi, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, RPI, RPI athletics, RPI history, school spirit, songs on January 4, 2008 | 6 Comments »
Here’s a question about RPI’s alma mater — did the lyrics include the first few digits of pi? The answer is no, but there was a cheer that included it along with some other math lingo. Do you know it?
E to the X – DY -DX
E to the X – DX
cosine, secant, tangent, sine,
3 – [...]
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