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dnc
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As a 30-something doog I have some appreciation for Husky history but my strong memories really only goes back to 87 or so (I have vague memories before that, the oldest being oranges being thrown on the field NYD 85 but no recollection of the game itself). I feel like I know a good amount about the Dawgs of the 80s, pretty good about those in the 70s and even a little about the guys in the 60s. Before that I really don't know much outside of King McElhenny, Gloomy Gil, George Wilson and the original doog injury excuse against WE WANT BAMA.

So @TTJ's efforts to poont out the GOAT Dawgs at various jersey numbers made me look up Wilson's number (33) which lead me to find out we only ahve three numbers retired - Wilson,s Chuck Carroll's 2 and Roland Kirkby's 44.

I'm vaguely familiar with Carroll, maybe because there was news on him when they brought his number out of retirement for Kasen. But I know like zip, zero, stingy with dinero about Kirkby. I'm not sure I've even heard his name. A quick Google search says he shared a backfield with McElhenny and Schloredt, two guys I would consider UW legends.

So here's my querey for Race and our other HH lemon party eligibles: WTF is Roland Kirkby, and why is his number retired when McElhenny and Schloredt's aren't?
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  • haie
    haie Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 24,427 Founders Club
    My guess is he played 5 different positions in the 1920's. Usually makes the P12 Network Top 15 list for your school.
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  • dnc
    dnc Member Posts: 56,855
    haie said:

    My guess is he played 5 different positions in the 1920's. Usually makes the P12 Network Top 15 list for your school.

    He played in the early fiddies
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  • JaWarrenJaHooker
    JaWarrenJaHooker Member Posts: 2,152
    ty-Willingham-who? dot gif
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  • DerekJohnson
    DerekJohnson Administrator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 69,760 Founders Club
    dnc said:

    As a 30-something doog I have some appreciation for Husky history but my strong memories really only goes back to 87 or so (I have vague memories before that, the oldest being oranges being thrown on the field NYD 85 but no recollection of the game itself). I feel like I know a good amount about the Dawgs of the 80s, pretty good about those in the 70s and even a little about the guys in the 60s. Before that I really don't know much outside of King McElhenny, Gloomy Gil, George Wilson and the original doog injury excuse against WE WANT BAMA.

    So @TTJ's efforts to poont out the GOAT Dawgs at various jersey numbers made me look up Wilson's number (33) which lead me to find out we only ahve three numbers retired - Wilson,s Chuck Carroll's 2 and Roland Kirkby's 44.

    I'm vaguely familiar with Carroll, maybe because there was news on him when they brought his number out of retirement for Kasen. But I know like zip, zero, stingy with dinero about Kirkby. I'm not sure I've even heard his name. A quick Google search says he shared a backfield with McElhenny and Schloredt, two guys I would consider UW legends.

    So here's my querey for Race and our other HH lemon party eligibles: WTF is Roland Kirkby, and why is his number retired when McElhenny and Schloredt's aren't?

    I actually wondered that when I was 12 years old obsessing over the media guide.
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  • DerekJohnson
    DerekJohnson Administrator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 69,760 Founders Club
    dnc said:

    As a 30-something doog I have some appreciation for Husky history but my strong memories really only goes back to 87 or so (I have vague memories before that, the oldest being oranges being thrown on the field NYD 85 but no recollection of the game itself). I feel like I know a good amount about the Dawgs of the 80s, pretty good about those in the 70s and even a little about the guys in the 60s. Before that I really don't know much outside of King McElhenny, Gloomy Gil, George Wilson and the original doog injury excuse against WE WANT BAMA.

    So @TTJ's efforts to poont out the GOAT Dawgs at various jersey numbers made me look up Wilson's number (33) which lead me to find out we only ahve three numbers retired - Wilson,s Chuck Carroll's 2 and Roland Kirkby's 44.

    I'm vaguely familiar with Carroll, maybe because there was news on him when they brought his number out of retirement for Kasen. But I know like zip, zero, stingy with dinero about Kirkby. I'm not sure I've even heard his name. A quick Google search says he shared a backfield with McElhenny and Schloredt, two guys I would consider UW legends.

    So here's my querey for Race and our other HH lemon party eligibles: WTF is Roland Kirkby, and why is his number retired when McElhenny and Schloredt's aren't?

    He must have had incriminating photos of Harvey Cassil
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  • ApostleofGrief
    ApostleofGrief Member Posts: 3,904
    I know I am a legend on these boreds, but a little known fact is that in high school, the coach gave me and a teammate recruit tickets for some OCC game, like Utah St. Game was a wipeout, but I got to go back to the locker room after the game. We went up the tunnel and backstage, basically. We stood with the other recruits, but nobody paid the slightest attention to us. You never know how later in life, that is as close as you get to big time cfb... This was in the late 70s.
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  • ApostleofGrief
    ApostleofGrief Member Posts: 3,904
    my first memory of major Husky football though was Sixkiller
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