The team traveled to Chicago the evening before the football game with the University of Chicago. On their trip, they stopped at the Topaz Cafe in Burr Ridge, IL., a short distance from the team’s hotel. It was a fun evening as several Trustees and their spouses, as well as President and Mrs. White, joined the coaches and players for dinner.
After dinner, all world linebacker and current Trustee Jim Kilbane ’84 gave the team a pep talk. It obviously worked!
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Senior year (fall 1967) we went up to Valpo for the opening football game. A few hours before show time, Coach Max Urick came around handing out cans of Nutrament–which tasted like chocolate milk poured over sawdust. He called it “liquid steak.” Most of us went down the hill to McDonalds–another reason we got schwacked on the field! Looks like kids today have a better situation going. Good story. JR
What a fabulous trip, not only because it literally was in my neck of the woods! It was wonderful to share a meal with the trustees, yourself and Mrs. Runge and Dr. and Mrs. White.