. . .Hard to imagine all of the posters here with such fond memories of that 1970 game and to think just three months later on campus all of your worlds were turned upside down and lifetime memories of a very surreal kind are etched in the deep recesses of your minds.....
Well, I won't go into all the memories of May 1970 in the deep recesses of my mind, but I will take this opportunity to tell one story, that's actually just a little funny -- but still poignant -- after all this time. As I said in a post above that I was a graduate student at the time. My wife and I were living in the newly opened Mill Street Married Student Apartments (name at the time). I was walking to our appartment after coming back from the library. There were some little kids playing in the green space toward the front of the complex. There were four or five kids facing one way and four or five facing the other way. I heard one kid point to those on the other side saying, "You guys play the National Guard, and we'll be the be the Rioters." Far cry from "cops and robbers" or "cowboys and Indians." I don't recall the exact timing, but the riots on the Main Green had been going on for at least a few nights at that point, and the University would close down not too long after that. As I recall as graduate students we all stayed around and continued our studies.