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The Hoya gridiron tradition began in 1874. Georgetown is a football-only member of the Patriot League.

 
 
 

Much has justly been written about Georgetown's 1940 team, from the Orange Bowl game against Mississippi State to the seven players that played in the NFL and 11 drafted overall from the 22 man starting roster. Comparatively little is in the historical record on the 1950 Sun Bowl team that was forgotten amidst Hunter Guthrie S.J.'s rush to judgment to scrap major college football a season later.

The Sun Bowl has not forgotten, however, and named Georgetown WR Gus Fornaciari (C'52) to its 75th anniversary all-star team. Fornaciari, wearing #81 in the photo to the right, played two seasons on the varsity through the 1950 season, Georgetown's last team until 1964.

Fornaciari's football story at Georgetown is somewhat obscure--he is not in the Athletic Hall of Fame nor cited amongst the award winners of the day. But on Jan. 2, 1950, Fornaciari had a career game, catching four passes for 114 yards as Georgetown battled from behind in a loss to homestanding Texas Western (UTEP). The sellout at the old Sun Bowl Stadium is to this day the largest crowd to see a Georgetown football game since 1942.

The MVP of the game went to Miner halfback Harvey Gabrel, but the Sun Bowl web site lists Fornaciari among such former Sun Bowl standouts Tony Dorsett, Merlin Olsen, and LaDainian Tomlinson as some of the best individual efforts in the 75 year history of the annual game.

After Georgetown, Fornaciari settled in his home town of Framingham, MA as a school teacher and administrator. Congratulations to Mr. Fornaciari and his family on the honor.

The Sporting News football annual has listed its Patriot League pre-season poll, with Georgetown in a familiar role. Of course, the won-loss record has to improve before national publications will take notice.

1. Fordham
2. Holy Cross
3. Colgate
4. Lafayette
5. Lehigh
6. Bucknell
7. Georgetown

With his playing career ended, offensive lineman Dan Osterhout is featured in this story from Northwestern University.

Osterhout completed his eligibility in 2008 but hopes to be a volunteer assistant at Georgetown this fall. He is interning at a suburban Chicago office of the John Hancock Co. this summer. "I thought that with a Georgetown degree, it would set me up later in life that no matter what I do, I could pay it back," he said.

"Some kids get it, some kids don't,” said Michael Fitzgibbons, Osterhout's former high school coach. ”He gets it.”

The pre-season prospectus has been posted to the GUHoyas.com website. From the list of returning players, 12 underclassmen from 2007 will not be returning to the 2008 roster.

Not shown on the 2008 roster is RB Alex Carroll, who started two games in 2007 with 191 total yards, safety Arius Ford, who also started two games with 16 tackles last season. Fullback Matt Burgner, who played in six games last season, transferred to Colorado in the spring.

Additional absences from the 2007 roster include reserve quarterbacks Brad Hartung and Barney O'Donnell, offensive lineman Jamie O'Brien, running backs Stephen Hillgren, and Luke Lagera (the latter a transfer from Navy), linebacker Michael Marotta, and cornerback Anthony Ford. Junior linebacker Robert Helt suffered a season ending knee injury in the 2007 season opener and apparently will not return in 2008.

As a result of an extra week for the NCAA I-AA/CS playoffs beginning in 2010, the Patriot League office has adjusted its future schedules and has posted them on its web site.

Some items of interest to Georgetown fans (the GU portion of the lists are at our Future Schedules page):

• Where some PL teams have as many as five Ivy opponents in a given year, Yale will be the only such team on a Georgetown schedule through 2011. The two schools began a "two and four" (two at GU, four away) agreement last year.
• Howard and Georgetown announced a four game series this spring, but the PL site lists Davidson as the season opener in 2010 and 2011.
• This season's game at Richmond will be returned as a home game for the Hoyas in 2011.

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