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House of L podcast

6: U of C Sports History

House of L podcast

Laurence W. Holmes

History, Sports

4.91.5K Ratings

🗓️ 29 June 2018

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

The University of Chicago is known for its academic reputation, but it has one of the most fascinating Athletic histories. I had an incredible conversation with Dave Revsine about Amos Alonzo Stagg's rule of the university when it began, but a friend at U of C, told me another crazy sports story from Hyde Park, so I wanted to share it with you.   Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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0:51.5

today because it's a I love storytelling and I love

0:57.9

crazy sports stories and I love crazy sports stories about Chicago sports. I want to give you a little bit of background

1:04.8

before I drop some knowledge on you and then share the interview. The interview itself is

1:11.4

with Dave Rebsen and I'll explain momentarily.

1:14.0

So, last week I was at the car dealership.

1:20.0

I was just, you know, getting my oil changed and I ran to a friend of mine who I see over at the Ratner Center at the University of Chicago all the time.

1:29.0

He works in the physics department over there and we were talking he said hey I heard

1:35.4

about the interview that you did with Dave Revzin about University of Chicago

1:40.5

football and I said yeah you know it was a lot of fun you know the it was

1:43.7

great to have him on the score talking about that subject and subsequently I had

1:48.2

talked with a lot of people around you of see about that particular episode of my radio show and there were people like man I didn't know all of that about

1:57.0

University of Chicago football is really fascinating to learn all of those things about you of see football and as I'm talking to my friend

2:07.4

he said you know there's another cool you of see sports kind of weird connection that you might not know of and I said okay

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