The 3rd periodic 340 Club Reunion has been postponed indefinitely

Before there was an Animal House there was a 340 Club; before there was a Dean Wormer there was a Harold "the fuck" Martin; before there was John Blutarsky or a Daniel Simpson Day there was Tim Lutter, Sil Simpson, Dan Joyce, Tim Getzloff, Dick Lichty, Jim Shay, Phil Zangari, Chris Joyce, Dave Petkosh, Mitch Herr, Kenny Giltner, Dean Staherski, Randy Brown, John Emswiler, Sue Krimmell Emswiler and myself; before there were any Delta Tau Chi pledge pins, there were 340 Club cards; before Otis Day & the Knights, the 340 Jukebox; before there were Delta Brothers there were the usual gang of idiots that congregated at 328, 340 (twice) and 338 West King Street in Lancaster, Pennsylvania for a decade beginning in August 1974. This blog is dedicated to those idiots and those times. God bless Kenny, Mitch and Chris; may they rest in peace.

















virtual 340 Club members

Tuesday, January 22, 2008

Was I A Jinx?

On Sunday, December 14, 1975, Tim Lutter & I drove to Baltimore to see the Colts win their 8th straight game – after a 1-4 start – with a rousing overtime win, 10-7, over the Miami Dolphins on Toni Linhart’s 31 yard field goal. Timmy (Baltimore) and I (Pittsburgh, which actually was the nickname Tim first knew me by) had also attended game seven of the 1971 series together. You think he would figure out I was a jinx. Although on this day I wasn’t. but as I hated both the Colts and the Dolphins overtime was an enjoyable circumstance as someone had to win. A couple of weeks later it was a different story. As Tim recalls, and I truly don’t, we hitchhiked to Pittsburgh (as City L and I had done the year before) to see an AFC playoff game. As the below piece indicates, my Pgh/Balt jinx was in effect:

Pittsburgh Steelers 28, Baltimore Colts 10
at Three Rivers Stadium, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

1 2 3 4 Total
Colts 0 7 3 0 10
Steelers7 0 7 14 28

The Steelers defense forced 4 turnovers and held the Colts to 154 total yards of offense, while Pittsburgh's Franco Harris shredded Baltimore's defense with 153 rushing yards and a touchdown. The Steelers scored first after linebacker Jack Ham's interception set up running back Harris' 8-yard rushing touchdown. Baltimore responded when Lloyd Mumphord returned a 58-yard interception to set up Glenn Doughty's 5-yard touchdown reception. With the Colts leading 10-7 in the third quarter, Pittsburgh cornerback Mel Blount intercepted a pass and returned to the Baltimore 7-yard line. From there, Rocky Bleier scored on a 7-yard rushing touchdown. Quarterback Terry Bradshaw recorded a 2-yard touchdown run, and Andy Russell picked up a Colts fumble and returned it for an NFL playoff record 93 yards to the end zone.

Scoring
PIT - Harris 8 run (Gerela kick) PIT 7-0
BAL - Doughty 5 pass from Domres (Linhart kick) 7-7
BAL - field goal Linhart 27 BAL 10-7
PIT - Bleier 7 run (Gerela kick) PIT 14-10
PIT - Bradshaw 2 run (Gerela kick) PIT 21-10
PIT - Russell 93 fumble return (Gerela kick) PIT 28-10
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