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TRINITY REPORTER VOLUME 8 NUMBER 1
TRINITY COLLEGE, HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT
SEPTEMBER, 1977
1OOth Anniversary Of Trinity Football
"MOTION IN THE ARTS" was the title of a dance course offered as part of the "Trinity Alive" program this summer. Margaret Rubino '78, Renez Greene '78, and Emily Twadell '77 are reflected in the windows of the Albert C. Jacobs Life Sciences Center. (Photo by John Long, The Hartford Courant)
Summer Arts Festival Has Successful Debut 'Trinity Alive," the College's summer arts festival, concluded its inaugural season on July 30. The seven week program, which encompassed theatre, dance, film, art exhibits, free concerts and credit and non-credit courses, generated tremendous enthusiasm in the greater Hartford community as well . as on the campus itself. The festival's centerpiece was Summerstage, which attracted almost 10,000 people to the Goodwin Theatre. The Summerstage company, composed of professional and student actors, performed Anthony Shaffer's "Sleuth," Shakespeare's 'Twelfth Night," and Preston Jones' "The Oldest Living Graduate." Particularly well received were three plays for children by the Traveling Playhouse· of ·New York, which were sold out for every per-
formance. Dance was a major component of "Trinity Alive." Assistant Professor of Dance Judy Dworin headed a staff which included guest artists in T ai Chi and English country dancing. Credit and non-credit courses for amateurs were supplemented by performances by professional companies such as the Hartford Ballet and the Dance Alliance. For the last 28 years, summer at Trinity has meant Wednesday evening carillon concerts. The warm weather and general atmosphere of excitement on the campus drew record crowds to the quadrangle for eleven successive weeks. The Chapel was also the site of four chamber music concerts and the premier performance in this country of the St. Hallvard Boys' Choir of Oslo, Norway.
College Awarded $250,000 By Kresge Foundation The Kresge Foundation of Troy, Michigan has awarded Trinity a $250,000 challenge grant toward the building expansion of the College Library. The gift, which will be credited . toward the $12 million Campaign for Trinity Values, is one of the largest received thus far by the College for the Library project. The Kresge Foundation was created through the gifts of the late Sebastian S. Kresge, founder of the S.S. Kresge Company, now known as K mart Corporation. During the last 54 years, the Kresge Foundation has made appropriations of more than $283 million to institutions in the fields of higher education, health services, the art_s, social welfare, and the care of the
young and aging. Construction and major renovation of facilities are the Foundation's primary concerns, and grants are usually made on a challenge basis to encourage further fund-raising efforts. The Library addition will provide 250 seating spaces, shelving for 250,000 volumes, and 2,650 square feet of work space. Construction is expected to begin in the fall, and is estimated to cost $3,000,000. The Kresge Foundation conditioned the grant on Trinity's obtaining the balance of the funds by September 15, 1978. President Lockwood expressed optimism in the College's ability to meet this challenge.
The opening of the football season on September 24 will begin the celebration of the lOOth anniversary of Trinity College football. One hundred years ago, in the Fall of 1877, Trinity sent its first intercollegiate football squad against Yale University for its only game. The legendary Walter Camp was a member of that Yale team which beat the Bantam eleven despite being surprised and confused by the tight canvas jerseys greased with lard which the Trinity men wore. The Ivy Leaguers were able to tackle the slippery Bantams well enough to prevent any scores while they produced 13 touchdowns and seven goals (points after) . Yale proved to be an always tough opponent for the Trinity gridders. The Elis defeated the Bantams 18 straight times from 1877 to 1917, and there was a zero 'iinder Trinity on the scoreboard at the end of every one of those games. The early years were rough for Trinity football. As the College moved to its present site there was much student disapproval, and interest in athletics diminished; there was no varsity football team from 1879 through 1883.
Trinity did not win a football game until it defeated the Amherst Aggies (now the University of Massachusetts) 32-4 in 1887, the sixth football season in Trinity history. Twenty years later the Bantams won by their biggest margin ever with a 94-0 victory over the College of New York . Trinity produced its first undefeated football team in 1911 with a record of six wins, zero losses, and two ties. The 1915 squad was also undefeated with a 5-0-2 record. In 1932 Daniel E. Jessee became head coach of the Bantams and this began an important era in Trinity football. From 1932 through 1966, the 32 squads that Jessee coached won 150 games, while losing only 76 and tieing seven. Only seven of the 32 teams had season records under the .500 mark, while four teams (1934, 1949, 1954, 1955) produced undefeated and untied records . Trinity made the national record books in 1969 with a game against Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. The
final score, 43-43, stands as the highest tie score in the entire history of American intercollegiate football. The first 100 years of Trinity College football have been interesting and enjoyable. There have been 92 seasons and 648 games played in the hundred year period. Twenty-five coaches have directed Bantam teams to 335 wins, 273 losses, and 40 ties against opponents ranging from Ivy League schools to New York Agricultural College and the Waterbury YMCA, Army, the traditional Little Three rivals and many other institutions, large and small . The game, the College, and the competition have changed since 1877, but, as Trinity enters its second hundred years of football competition, the one thing that remains the same is the Trinity athlete. A scholar first, an athlete second, the Trinity football player lives in an environment which is not a stepping stone to professional sports. The "fun element" of athletic competition is vivid at Trinity, as it has been in the past, and will be in the future. The 1977 season will provide a fine
setting for celebrating Trinity's football history. The four nome -games will showcase fine football competition against Bowdoin, and traditional rivals Williams, Coast Guard, and Wesleyan .
Three Named Full Professors The College has announced the promotion of three members of the faculty to the rank of full professor. They are: Thomas Baird, professor of fine arts, part-time; Donald B. Galbraith, professor of biology; and Stephen Minot, professor of English, part-time. Baird received the B.A. and the M.F.A. from Princeton. He has studied French 17th Century theatre design as a Fulbright Fellow in Paris. Prior to joining Trinity in 1970 he was associate director of Harvard University's (continued page 2)