For the first time in Ohio State history the Men’s Buckeye Lacrosse team advances into the second round of the NCAA Tournament after a 15-7 win against number 8 ranked Cornell.
This weekend’s game had an unusual but momentous start. Ohio State goalie Stefan Schroder put up the first point of the game by scoring on Cornell minutes into the fist quarter. His goal set a high intensity mindset for his fellow teammates that lasted throughout the entire game.
Stefan’s goal made the number 1 highlight on ESPN’s Sport Center, and the seventh best for the week, along with it holding the spot of “Play of the Day” on CNN.
This Sunday the Buckeyes travel back to Ithaca, NY to take on No. 1 seed Duke in the NCAA Quarterfinals.
The baseball jersey – No. 13 – of Marty Karow, a member of the American Baseball Coaches Association Hall of Fame and a 25-year coach of the Ohio State Buckeyes baseball team, was retired Saturday, May 10 by the athletics department…33 years to the date after his last home game as Ohio State coach.
Karow, a 1927 Ohio State graduate, seven-time Buckeye letterman (three each in football and baseball and one in basketball) and 1926 football captain and All-American, returned to Ohio State in 1951 after a successful coaching career at Texas, Navy and Texas A&M.
In his first season at the helm of the Ohio State baseball program, Karow led the Buckeyes to a conference-best record of 10-2 (23-15 overall) and their first appearance at the College World Series. Ohio State would make three more trips to the CWS under Karow, capturing the coveted national title in 1966.
After finishing as the national runners-up in 1965, falling to Arizona State, 2-1, Ohio State convincingly defeated Oklahoma State, 8-2, to bring home the program’s first national title in 1966 with a 27-6-1 record. Steve Arlin, Chuck Brinkman, Russ Nagelson, Bo Rein and Ray Shoup were all chosen as All-College World Series selections. As a team, the 1966 national champion Buckeyes posted the lowest earned run average in Ohio State history with a 2.11 ERA.
The Buckeyes won a total of five conference titles with Karow at the helm, including three consecutive crowns in 1965, 1966 and 1967. In all, the legendary coach led Ohio State to 16 Top 3 finishes in the Big Ten and, at the time of his retirement in 1975, he owned the school record for all-time wins with 479. His 25 years served as head coach are the most of any Ohio State baseball coach in the first 125 years of the program.
Karow retired with a .583 overall winning percentage, a mark that included a win in his last home game as coach: 1-0 over Michigan on May 10, 1975. He passed away in 1986, three months shy of his 82nd birthday.
In the summer of 1967, Karow was selected as one of three USA Baseball Team coaches. Team USA won gold that year in the Pan American games by becoming the first U.S. team to defeat Cuba in international competition. It was one of Karow’s proudest moments as a coach.
Karow was represented at the jersey retirement ceremony by a contingent of his former players including Ray Shoup, Arnold Chonko, Bruce Heine, Dick Ernst, Richard Clouse and Dick Finn, an Ohio State captain and assistant coach under Karow who took over as head coach for 12 seasons following Karow’s retirement.
Karow’s jersey number, and the retired jersey numbers of Fred Taylor (#27) and Steve Arlin (#22), are now permamently displayed at Bill Davis Stadium on the right field wall and also on the “arches” on the stadium concourse.
Team USA is well-represented with a host of Chicago Storm and Major Indoor Soccer League players as they spend this week in Fortaleza, Brazil, playing multiple exhibition matches against Brazilian club teams.
Storm representatives on the U.S. Futsal’s trip include goalkeeper and Fort Wayne, Ind., native Jeff Richey, midfielder Andy Rosenband (Former Buckeye - led in points in 2001 & 2002) of Hammond, Ind., and midfielder Matthew Stewart of El Paso, Texas. Head coach Keith Tozer of the Milwaukee Wave named 14 players for the trip.
The Brazilian trip is a tune-up for the CONCACAF Futsal Championship, which opens June 3 in Guatemala. The U.S. is in Group B with Haiti, Panama and Costa Rica. The top three teams in the regional tournament qualify for the FIFA Futsal World Cup, which runs Sept. 30 to Oct. 19 in Brazil.
Futsal features four field players and a goalkeeper on each team. Unlike the MISL, Futsal has no walls, the ball is smaller and has less bounce than traditional soccer balls, and the goals are much smaller. The game was invented in Brazil, and it is sanctioned by FIFA as the only form of international indoor soccer.
The New York Times published a story Tuesday about Ohio State’s first football game played vs. Ohio Wesleyan May 3, 1890 in Delware, Ohio. Ohio State defeated Ohio Wesleyan, 20-14.
Saturday, the two schools held a celebration to unveil a historical marker on the Ohio Wesleyan campus commemorating the game.
Below is the story that ran in the Times Tuesday.
[ On May 3, 1890, a group of Ohio State students rose early, boarded their horse-drawn wagons and made the 20-mile trip along the Olentangy River from Columbus to Delaware, the home of Ohio Wesleyan University, to play what that day’s Delaware Gazette described as “the first game of Rugby foot ball.”
Ohio State and Ohio Wesleyan now occupy opposite ends of the college football spectrum. The Buckeyes, whose Columbus campus has an enrollment in excess of 52,000, play in a stadium that seats more than 100,000 and field a team of players with N.F.L. aspirations. The Battling Bishops, who draw from a student body of 1,850, play in a stadium less than a tenth the size and offer no football scholarships. But the universities’ football programs began together on that spring morning 118 years ago.
The site of that first game was a mystery until last year, when Dick Gordin, a former Ohio Wesleyan athletic director who has studied the history of the university’s sports teams, uncovered a letter written by one player in that 1890 game, describing the playing field near a creek called Delaware Run. This weekend, Ohio Wesleyan has scheduled a ceremony to install a historical marker at the site, with dignitaries from both universities attending.
“Ohio Wesleyan, as the first team Ohio State played, is extremely important to our football history,” said Archie Griffin, the Buckeyes’ two-time Heisman Trophy winner, who was scheduled to attend the dedication. “They really got it started for Ohio State.”
The teams played for the final time in 1932, when Ohio State won, 34-7, ending the series with 26-2-1 advantage. By then, the Buckeyes were playing Michigan and Wisconsin, and the Battling Bishops were playing Wittenberg and DePauw.
Ohio Wesleyan was an important part of the early days of college football. In 1897, it gave Fielding Yost, a founding father of the sport, his first coaching job. In 1906, it was a charter member of the Intercollegiate Athletic Association of the United States (later renamed the National Collegiate Athletic Association). Ohio Wesleyan has played Ohio State more than any other Ohio team.
“The two schools both started out as Midwest football powers in the late 19th century, early 20th century,” Roger Ingles, the athletic director at Ohio Wesleyan, said. “The first game that Ohio State ever played was at Ohio Wesleyan, and we were the first visiting team to play at Ohio Stadium in 1922. A lot of our past has been intertwined.”
At that first game in 1890, the ball was round, forward passes were outlawed, touchdowns were worth 4 points and “goals after touchdown” worth 2. Wedges — plays in which players locked elbows and ran into each other en masse, often causing serious injuries — were commonplace. Players wore no pads.
Gordin said: “In those days, it looked more like a rugby game, where they have the scrums with the players down close to each other and push each other around, and all at once the ball comes out of there. The biggest problem was the number of injuries.”
Those injuries — and professors’ concerns that students should focus on their classwork — nearly prevented Ohio State’s players from making that trip to Ohio Wesleyan.
“Faculty didn’t want players leaving the campus,” Gordin said. “For Ohio State to come up here and play was a big thing.”
It was big enough that an estimated 700 people attended, watching from a hill overlooking the field. Ohio State won, 20-14, with four touchdowns and two goals after for the men of Columbus against three touchdowns and one goal after for the home team.
The Delaware Gazette reported afterward, “The game was a spirited one, and, from the interest aroused, it is safe to say that foot ball has taken a firm hold upon both students and citizens.” ]
From the national ballot of 75 candidates and a pool of hundreds of eligible nominees, Archie Manning, chairman of The National Football Foundation & College Hall of Fame, announced the 2008 College Football Hall of Fame Football Bowl Subdivision (formerly Division I-A) Class, which includes the names of 13 First Team All-America players and two legendary coaches.
Among the induction class is former Buckeye football coach John Cooper. Cooper was the first coach in history to lead both a Big Ten and a Pac-10 team to victories in the Rose Bowl. He ranks second only to the legendary Woody Hayes in all-time wins at Ohio State.
Under Cooper’s watch, Ohio State teams finished the regular season ranked in the Top 25 in 12 of his 13 seasons in Columbus. He tallied at least a share of nine conference championships, including five at Tulsa, one at Arizona State and three at Ohio State. A four-time American Football Coaches Association (AFCA Regional Coach of the Year, Cooper led his teams to 14 bowl games in 24 seasons.
A Tennessee native and former MVP on the Iowa State football team, Cooper coached Heisman Trophy winner Eddie George and two-time Lombardi winner Orlando Pace as well as 20 First Team All-Americans, seven NFF National Scholar-Athletes and one NFF Draddy Trophy recipient during his career.
Cooper formerly served as the president of the American Football Coaches Association and as a professional scout in the NFL. He currently acts as a college football analyst for ESPN and resides in Columbus, Ohio.
“I want to commend the NFF Honors Court and its Chairman Gene Corrigan for their hard work,” said Manning. “The 2008 class represents six decades of football’s finest athletes, and they are all exceptionally worthy of having their accomplishments preserved forever in the College Football Hall of Fame.”
The 2008 College Football Hall of Fame Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) Class will be inducted at the NFF Annual Awards Dinner on December 9, 2008, at the Waldorf=Astoria in New York City. They will be officially enshrined at the Hall in South Bend, Ind., during ceremonies in the summer of 2009.
2008 COLLEGE FOOTBALL HALL OF FAME CLASS PLAYERS
• TROY AIKMAN – QB, UCLA (1987-88)
• BILLY CANNON – RB, LSU (1957-59)
• JIM DOMBROWSKI – OT, Virginia (1982-85)
• PAT FITZGERALD – LB, Northwestern (1994-96)
• WILBER MARSHALL – LB, Florida (1980-83)
• RUEBEN MAYES – RB, Washington State (1982-85)
• RANDALL McDANIEL – OG, Arizona State (1984-87)
• DON McPHERSON – QB, Syracuse (1984-87)
• JAY NOVACEK – TE, Wyoming (1982-84)
• DAVE PARKS – SE, Texas Tech (1961-63)
• RON SIMMONS – NG, Florida State (1977-80)
• THURMAN THOMAS – RB, Oklahoma State (1984-87)
• ARNOLD TUCKER – QB, Army (1944-46)
COACHES
• JOHN COOPER – 192-84-6 (.691) – Tulsa (1977-84), Arizona State (1985-87), Ohio State (1988-2000)
• LOU HOLTZ – 249-132-7 (.651) – William & Mary (1969-71), NorthCarolina State (1972-75), Arkansas (1977-83), Minnesota (1984-85), Notre Dame (1986-96), South Carolina (1999-2004)
Dan Potokar is an Ohio State Football student-athlete and Grove City High School alum who is battling cancer. Diagnosed in November of 2007, Dan underwent three rounds of chemotherapy treatments. Dan recently learned that his type of cancer is highly resistant to chemotherapy. It was recommended that Dan undergo stem cell/high dose chemotherapy treatments at Indiana University Medical Center. His first of two such treatments began in March.
In light of Dan’s situation and the financial strain that these treatments present, the NCAA has granted a waiver to allow for individuals and groups to conduct fundraisers and/or donate money to help defray the cost of Dan’s treatment. The following fundraisers are planned for Dan Thursday, May 1:
Buffalo Wild Wings
• Date - On Thursday, May 1, 2008, 10% of all food purchases at the locations listed below will be donated to help the Potokar family. A silent auction will take place in every location at 8 p.m. • Time - 11am to Midnight
• Locations and Contact Numbers
1. Whitehall (614) 453-9464
2. Dublin (614) 766-8464
3. Gahanna (614) 478-7972
4. German Village (614) 221-4293
5. Georgesville (614) 870-8220
6. Delaware (740) 363-9454
7. Polaris Pkwy (614) 885-3164
8. Graceland (614) 880-9348
9. Campus (614) 291-2362
10. Marysville (937) 642-1452
11. Worthington (614) 841-9093
Also: OSU Alumni Day at the Track - Golf Outing
• Date - May 8, 2008 • Time - 8 a.m.
• Location - The Brickyard Crossing Golf Club (Indianapolis)
• http://www.indybuckeyes.com/
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If you are unable to attend the fundraising event Thursday or May 8, but would like to make a donation, please send a check or money order made payable to Ohio State with “Dan Potokar” in the memo line and mail to:
Amy Burgess
Ohio State Football
Les Wexner Football Complex
535 Irving Schottenstein Dr.
Columbus, OH 43210
All of the proceeds from the fundraising efforts will be deposited in a fund managed by the Ohio State Athletic Department. These donations are not tax deductible and are not eligible for University gift credit.
Ohio State’s final home Big Ten Conference weekend of the season – May 9-11 vs. Illinois – will be a celebration of 125 years of Ohio State baseball that will feature two legendary coaches being honored for their accomplishments.
Marty Karow, Ohio State skipper from 1951 until 1976 and who led the Buckeyes to four College World Series, winning the national title in 1966, will have his jersey – No. 13 – officially retired by the athletics department in a ceremony between doubleheader games May 10. Bob Todd, the winningest coach in Ohio State history with more than 800 wins in his 21 seasons as Ohio State coach, will be honored before the Friday, May 9, game on his induction into the American Baseball Coaches Hall of Fame.
Karow, who won a then-record 479 Ohio State games, will be only the third individual to have his jersey retired. Fred Taylor, Ohio State’s first baseball All-American, had his No. 27 retired in 2003. Steve Arlin, the great Ohio State pitcher who led the Buckeyes to back-to-back College World Series and to the 1966 CWS championship, had his jersey No. 22 retired in 2004. Karow’s jersey will be retired 33 years to the date of his last home game as coach: a 1-0 win over Michigan May 10, 1975. He passed away in 1986, three months shy of his 82nd birthday.
Todd, who has 947 career victories in this, his 25th season as a collegiate head coach, has guided Ohio State to six of its 14 Big Ten Conference championships and he has also led the team to a Big Ten record eight Big Ten tournament titles. In addition, he has led the team into 12 NCAA tournaments. Todd has done more than win championships at Ohio State, though. He was the driving force behind the fund raising efforts and the building of the majestic Bill Davis Stadium.
The Illinois weekend will also be an opportunity to celebrate the current student-athletes as well as the past accomplishments of those before them. Among the efforts planned for the weekend:
Ohio State’s baseball captains –151 different individuals have served as captain over the years including this year’s captains, Dan DeLucia and Justin Miller – will have their annual captain’s breakfast Sunday morning.
This year’s four seniors– DeLucia, Tony Kennedy, Chris Macke and Rory Meister – will be honored on the field prior to the 1 p.m. Sunday game.
In conjunction with the Diamond Club, the baseball program’s booster organization, a BBQ picnic will take place on Saturday and will be open to the public for a minimal charge with all proceeds benefiting the baseball program.
A display of past Ohio State baseball trophies, including Big Ten Conference championship trophies and the 1966 College World Series trophy, will be assembled at Bill Davis Stadium throughout the weekend.
CWS and Big Ten Recognition Plaques
Permanent recognition will also be added to Bill Davis Stadium. The retired jersey numbers will have a permanent place on the outfield walls and jersey plaques and bios for Taylor, Arlin and Karow will be placed on one side of the arched wall in the stadium concourse.
On the other side of the arches, the side facing Borror Drive and the entrance to the stadium, Ohio State’s College World Series years – 1951, 1965, 1966 and 1967 – will be displayed along one end and Ohio State’s Big Ten Conference championship years – 1917, 1924, 1943, 1951, 1955, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1991, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1999 and 2001 – will be displayed on the other end.
In addition, “Ohio State” and “Buckeyes” will adorn the tops of the dugouts similar to the way those brands are displayed in the end zones at Ohio Stadium and on the end lines on the basketball floor at the Jerome Schottenstein Center. A new back stop behind home plate will also be installed.
Tickets for the weekend games are available at the Ohio State University ticket office in the Jerome Schottentein Center, online at OhioStateBuckeyes.com or by calling 1-800-GO-BUCKS.
First, I have to say that reducing the time limit on the first round picks from 15 minutes to 10 minutes was a genius move. The pace picked up and it wasn’t so agonizing that I could actually watch the whole round without thinking the world was passing me by. The first day was reduced from 6.5 hours to just fewer than 4. Great job Mr. Commissioner!
Congratulations to Vernon Gholston! The 6th overall pick to the New York Jets in the first round. Great decisions all around. I’m not a big fan of a player leaving early unless he is assured a first round selection and if he is legitimately ready for the next level at his position. Vernon is ready to play in the NFL and he went where expected, to a team that can really use a player with his abilities. Now it’s time to prepare for a much longer season in a whole new world. Good Luck Vernon!
We knew with so many Buckeyes electing to return for their senior season, the draft would be thin for the Bucks but I was glad to see Kirk Barton and Larry Grant get drafted. After the first couple of rounds, it is impossible to predict where you may go. There are so many trades and moves, that in some instances it is sometimes a good idea to wait and sign as a free agent, so you can pick a team that would give you the best chance of making a roster. But on the other hand, it is very hard to reject an offer to be drafted, regardless of the team.
Larry Grant was the first of the two to go in the 7th round (214 pick) to the San Francisco 49ers. Grant is from California and went to San Francisco Junior College, so he gets to go home and even though he didn’t get the spot light at OSU, I think the 9ers will be pleasantly surprised with their last pick. Good luck Larry!
Barton was the 247 selection in the 7th round to the Chicago Bears. This may be a tough place for Kirk to make the roster but a good place for him to prove his worth to the league and if he doesn’t make the cut, he could get picked up down the line by another team looking for a tough, well coached, high quality young man with great credentials. Hope he makes the cut but I still see him spending some time in the league. Go getem’ Kirk!
I thought the feel good story of the draft was Caleb Campbell from Army going in the 7th round to the Detroit Lions. Obviously he is a long shot to make the team as a DB but may make the roster as a special team player. The reason this is so cool, is that for the first time, the military has changed their policy on athletes going to the pros after their military commitment has ended. Caleb, if he makes the roster, will be able to stay with the team and serve his country in the off season in a domestic role as a recruiter or the like. Good PR move Mr. Chief of Staff.
Then there is always the Mr. Irrelevant pick. This is the last man selected in the draft. This goes to Davis Vobora, a DB from Idaho to the St. Louis Rams. Now, even though he did get drafted and has a very low chance of making the Rams roster, he does get a shot at stardom since Mr. Irrelevant gets a guest spot on the David Letterman show. Maybe he can sing or dance?
As far as the rest of the draft, beyond moving much faster, it went pretty much as planned. There were a couple very good moves for some teams moving up to get there picks. I think that Washington and Baltimore did well. I think the Brown and Bengals improved their opportunities and the Colts, Giants and Pats filled some of their holes. I thought it was interesting that the “character” issue was so pronounced in the league and with the media. I know it’s a lot of rhetoric for the “analysts” to waste hour upon hours talking about but I hope it makes the up and comers more aware of the off-the-field exploits in the future. We’ll see how it all falls out. A lot of guys go in every year and most of them end up preparing for the real world.
On the rest of the Bucks, only the two fullbacks, Dionte Johnson and Tyler Whaley signed free agent contracts on draft day. Dionte went to the Cardinals where his father’s teammate Maurice Carthon now coaches the running backs. Tyler was picked up by the Bengals where his dream will continue after walking on at OSU. Good luck guys, give’em your best.
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