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 From: Joe Sweeney '49 Here's a true story about my brother-in-law, Roy Bernard Hovel '35, a star student and a star athlete at Campion in the 1930's. There's a fine restaurant in Glenview, IL, on north side of Lake Street and just east of Waukegan Road). It's name is Hackney's. (There are three or four Hackney's restaurants in the Chicago area, but the one I'm talking about is the one on Lake just east of Waukegan.) At any rate, if you ever happen to stop by there, be sure to go down the long and somewhat dark hall towards the main dining room. Just before entering that dining room, on the wall on the right-hand side, there is a 11" by 8-1/2" framed photo of the Campion High School Football team (the official Team Photo, I would imagine) from the year 1934. I know this for a certainty because my brother-in-law (Roy Bernard Hovel, class '35) was one of the star linemen on that team. He is shown clearly in the picture as is "The Box," as we all fondly called Coach Hoffman. (If you ever had met Hovel--later a famous lawyer in the Sun Prairie and Madison, Wisconsin, areas), you would have spotted him as a football player first from look at the size of the man (he was a giant--in more ways than one), and secondly from shaking hands with him. He had the biggest hands that I've ever seen or tried to shale. Hovel came from Sun Prairie, Wisconsin--about 18 miles northeast of Madison. I've never been able to find out who it was that saw to it that the Campion Footballl Team picture of '35 is hanging--to this very day--on the Hackney's wall. Unfortunately he passed away before I had even noticed the picture was there, so I was unable to ask him about it. I suspect that some other members of the team that year were also in the picture and perhaps one was the original owner of Hackney's or one of it's original patrons. (It had a very popular bar!) Hovel graduated from Campion in 1935 and went on to play football at Marquette University, in the days when M.U. still had a football team. As a matter of fact, the Marquette team must have been pretty good because it was selected to play in the very first Cotton Bowl Game: Scroll down a few lines to see the record. Unfortunately, the Knights lost to TCU by a score of 16 to 6. Cotton Bowl Results Date Won Pts. Lost Pts. ------- ------------ ---- ----------- ---- 1/1/37 TCU 16 Marquette 6 1/1/38 Rice 28 Colorado 14 1/2/39 St. Mary's (CA) 20 Texas Tech 13 1/1/40 Clemson 6 Boston College 3 1/1/41 Texas A&M 13 Fordham 12 1/1/42 Alabama 29 Texas A&M 21 1/1/43 Texas 14 Georgia Tech 7 1/1/44 Texas (tie) 7 Randolph Field 7 1/1/45 Oklahoma State 34 TCU 0 1/1/46 Texas 40 Missouri 27 1/1/47 Arkansas (tie) 0 LSU (tie) 0 1/1/48 SMU (tie) 13 Penn State 13 1/1/49 SMU 21 Oregon 13 1/2/50 Rice 27 North Carolina 13 1/1/51 Tennessee 20 Texas 14 1/1/52 Kentucky 20 TCU 7 1/1/53 Texas 16 Tennessee 0 1/1/54 Rice 28 Alabama 6 1/1/55 Georgia Tech 14 Arkansas 6 1/2/56 Mississippi 14 TCU 13 1/1/57 TCU 28 Syracuse 27 1/1/58 Navy 20 Rice 7 1/1/59 TCU (tie) 0 Air Force 0 1/1/60 Syracuse 23 Texas 14 1/2/61 Duke 7 Arkansas 6 1/1/62 Texas 12 Mississippi 7 1/1/63 LSU 13 Texas 0 1/1/64 Texas 28 Navy 6 1/1/65 Arkansas 10 Nebraska 7 1/1/66 LSU 14 Arkansas 7 12/31/66 Georgia 24 SMU 9 1/1/68 Texas A&M 20 Alabama 16 1/1/69 Texas 36 Tennessee 13 1/1/70 Texas 21 Notre Dame 17 1/1/71 Notre Dame 24 Texas 11 1/1/72 Penn State 30 Texas 6 1/1/73 Texas 17 Alabama 13 1/1/74 Nebraska 19 Texas 3 1/1/75 Penn State 41 Baylor 20 1/1/76 Arkansas 31 Georgia 10 1/1/77 Houston 30 Maryland 21 1/2/78 Notre Dame 38 Texas 10 1/1/79 Notre Dame 35 Houston 34 1/1/80 Houston 17 Nebraska 14 1/1/81 Alabama 30 Baylor 2 1/1/82 Texas 14 Alabama 12 1/1/83 SMU 7 Pittsburgh 3 1/2/84 Georgia 10 Texas 9 1/1/85 Boston College 45 Houston 28 1/1/86 Texas A&M 36 Auburn 16 1/1/87 Ohio State 28 Texas A&M 12 1/1/88 Texas A&M 35 Notre Dame 10 1/2/89 UCLA 17 Arkansas 3 1/1/90 Tennessee 31 Arkansas 27 1/1/91 Miami (Fla.) 46 Texas 3 1/1/92 Florida State 10 Texas A&M 2 1/1/93 Notre Dame 28 Texas A&M 3 1/1/94 Notre Dame 24 Texas A&M 21 1/2/95 USC 55 Texas Tech 14 1/1/96 Colorado 38 Oregon 6 1/1/97 BYU 19 Kansas State 15 1/1/98 UCLA 29 Texas A&M 23 1/1/99 Texas 38 Mississippi St 11 1/1/00 Arkansas 27 Texas 6 1/1/01 Kansas State 35 Tennessee 21 1/1/02 Oklahoma 10 Arkansas 3 1/1/03 Texas 35 LSU 20 1/2/04 Mississippi 31 Oklahoma State 28 1/1/05 Tennessee 38 Texas A&M 7 1/2/06 Alabama 13 Texas Tech 10 1/1/07 Auburn 17 Nebraska 14 1/1/08 Missouri 38 Arkansas 7 1/1/09 Mississippi 47 Texas Tech 34 1/1/10
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