The Class of '73

Tom Cole

Description

The Class of '73 is about a fictional College called Hillside. This story represents a myriad of real colleges across America in the 70's. The Class of '73 is about events in the classroom, on the football field, in the dorms and the Frat houses. Events that happened to the main character Tommy Hawk Quarterback. The Class of '73 puts into clear view the highly unusual times that Hawk and his friends were living through. These college kids survived Vietnam, Woodstock and Watergate. They laughed and loved and learned.
College was never the same after The Class of '73......

Sujets

• Fútbol
• Classroom
• Tom Cole
• Hillside
• College
• Football
• Fiction

Informations

• Publié par: AuthorHouse
• Date de parution: 03 août 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781665566803
• Langue: English

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THE CLASS OF ‘73
 
 
 
 
TOM COLE
 
 
 
 

 
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Published by AuthorHouse 08/02/2022
 
ISBN: 978-1-6655-6681-0 (sc)
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CONTENTS
Acknowledgment
Prequel
Chapter 1Freshman Year...The Journey Begins
Chapter 2Hawk Meets Coach Parker
Chapter 3Mystery Man Vick Talmadge
Chapter 4Football Double Sessions Not For Everyone
Chapter 5Move To The Dorm “Webber Hall”
Chapter 6The State Highway Patrol Meets Vick Vick
Chapter 7The Freshmen 20
Chapter 8The Look Book
Chapter 9Barn Dances
Chapter 10The Td Pass That Did Not Count
Chapter 11No Car No Money No Date
Chapter 12Sam Huffington The Bear Foot Punter Moves In
Chapter 13The Band In The Next Room
Chapter 14Sopmore Year- The Frat, Ray Tay Red And The Stay Up All Night Gang
Chapter 151970 November 14Th Tragic Night
Chapter 16Not A Word Of French And The Canterbury Tales
Chapter 17Starting To Break Through
Chapter 18Cold Game
Chapter 19Football Disappoints Start Of Senior Year
Chapter 20Understanding That This Is Going To End
Chapter 21Karen Comes Into The Picture
Epilogue
ACKNOWLEDGMENT
I want to thank my wife Karen for her work on the Class of 73. Without her remarkable effort it does not happen. She is so very talented, as I have been told many times. I have out kicked my coverage. I also want to thank those incredible classmates from the Class of 73. I have changed the names and places in this novelette per publisher suggestion; but if you look closely, you just might recognize yourself in one of the characters in the Class of 73. . You are all a vital part of this story. My classmates were all so remarkably talented and fun to be around. It was an honor and a privilege to attend college with all of you. I would like to thank Jill Hunter for the rendering of the front cover art.
Tom Cole
73
PREQUEL A CHEESEBURGER AND FATE
Tommy Hawk had a very good senior year at St. John’s Jesuit High School. Hawk and his teammates made it to the championship game in the University of Toledo Glass Bowl. Hawk and his teammates lost that game but felt a great deal of accomplishment because they got there; for a new start up school that was unheard of. Hawk knew he wanted to continue football in college and maybe also play basketball.
Hawk received a walk-on opportunity at Indiana University. Indiana had just come off of a Rose Bowl appearance in 1968 but Hawk did not think he would be able to play there. He had about 30 letters from Division II and Division III schools to play quarterback but what really interested him was Marshall University. Hawk had visited Marshall three or four times, met coaches, teammates and spent a weekend. Tommy decided that was where he was going.
After his last visit he and his dad were headed home from Marshall when they stopped in Hillside and went to a little diner called L&K and had a cheeseburger. At the restaurant a coach walked up to Hawk and his dad, noticing his varsity jacket, and asked what school he played for. The coach was Jacob Parker better known as TNP (take no prisoners Parker.) Right there Coach Parker sold Tommy and his dad on Hillside, strong academics, outstanding football program and Hawk would also be able to play basketball if he liked. It all sounded great to Hawk because he really enjoyed basketball but knew he could not play football and basketball, both, at Marshall. The MAC was so competitive. So, Hawk decided to go to Hillside, play quarterback, some basketball and get a degree in History and teach and coach.
One year later the tragic Marshall Football team plane crash occurred. If Hawk had gone to Marshall, he would have been on the plane. So, it was a cheeseburger and fate that sent Tommy Hawk to Hillside College to try to play quarterback and a little basketball.
The Tragic Marshall event haunted Hawk most of his life. He always wondered why he was spared and others were not.
EXTRA POINT
Tommy Hawk received about 40 letters from colleges about playing qb for those schools Hawk felt very lucky and extremely fortunate.



1 FRESHMAN YEAR...THE JOURNEY BEGINS
“Easy to be hard” Three Dog Night 1969
“For What It’s Worth...Buffalo Springf ield
It was August 15 late in the summer of 1969. Hillside College was welcoming 65 freshmen football players alongside 75 upper class footballers. Hillside is a four year liberal arts college that has produced one vice President of the United States, a couple of Federal Court Judges and a bevy of excellent high school and college teachers plus a current governor of Arizona.
Hillside sits on 30 acres of some of the flattest land in the State of Ohio. Legend has it an early group of settlers in the 1890’s built many of their early homes out of mud and stone in the shape of small hills, hence the name of Hillside, Ohio. The College bookstore at Hillside sells a very popular t-shirt that says on the front with the Hillside College logo “Where are the Hills” on the back of the t-shirt it just says “Welker Hall.” Welker Hall is an all-girl dorm at Hillside. Hawk owned a couple of those t-shirts.
Hillside College is known as the Fighting Copper Heads. Copper Heads because those aggressive territorial snakes are indigenous to the Hillside area.