Love this thread. 

Interesting that our most prolific poster is silent as to this thread. Keep the photos coming. Our recent history does wonders for our morale!

Gwmayhem wrote:

Very clever GW0509.  I was wondering what you were going to do once you hit the 6-9 digits which are rare (and perhaps even not allowed) in the college game. 

That is correct. Only numerals 1-5 allowed (in either the tens or ones position) in college, presumably because refs at this level aren't ambidextrous enough to be able to indicate fouls using each hand twice. I only learned this maybe 5 years ago, and on this site.

Back to basketball the rest of the way after this one

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Colonel wrote:

He has great size for 1957.  When did he play?

He actually was on the 1957 Sun Bowl team

https://gwsports.com/honors/hall-of-fame/michael-sommer/137

Obviously a Baltimore Colt picture but at first thinking it might be a GW football picture and looking up at the stands, my immediate thought was that the football team drew about as well as the basketball team.

Anyone know roughly how many came out to watch GW Football in person?  Can't imagine it was more than several thousand but perhaps I'd be surprised.

Gwmayhem wrote:

Obviously a Baltimore Colt picture but at first thinking it might be a GW football picture and looking up at the stands, my immediate thought was that the football team drew about as well as the basketball team.

Anyone know roughly how many came out to watch GW Football in person?  Can't imagine it was more than several thousand but perhaps I'd be surprised.

When I was at the Hatchet I wrote an article about the 25th anniversary of GW dropping football. At its final game against Villanova at D.C. Stadium (now RFK), they drew 1,000 fans.
 

Hopped over to the GW Sports site to see if there was any official news on game times.

Under the basketball schedule tab, they have a countdown clock to the next game.  Not bad marketing.