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

Wednesday, February 6, 2008

Pigskin Classics

I attended two historical football games in the fall of ’76 –

November 26, 1976
Pitt 24, Penn State 7
It was the Panthers first win over the Nits since 1965. Pitt was paced by a Heisman clinching performance by Tony Dorsett (224 yards on 38 carries) in a game played at Three Rivers Stadium at night.

December 19, 1976
Pittsburgh Steelers 40, Baltimore Colts 14
This was the Rooney’s favorite Steeler team and thought by many experts to be the best of the decade despite four other Super Bowl winning teams from the City of Champions. What beat this team? In this very game both Franco Harris and Rocky Bleier suffered season ending injuries. Gratefully the game was a lopsided Steeler victory because it caused a lot of disappointed Colt fans to depart the stadium early. Minutes after the end of the game a small, twin engine plane crashed into Memorial Stadium’s upper deck where, had the game been competitive, thousands of fans would have still have been present. As it turned out no one was killed including the pilot, Donald Kroner, who was fined for dangerous and careless flying.
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