When I was in grammar school and high school, my father kept saying he wanted me to go to college at Cornell. I always told him I didn't have any money and neither did he. My biggest concern was how was I ever going to get into Cornell. I could work my way through college, which I did, but I could never get in there. Besides it is too big a University. I'm too shy to make any new friends. I came up with all kinds of excuses. But despite my lack of self confidence and all the other negatives I was accepted.

In September 1954 I drove to Ithaca with a lump in my throat much of the way. This would be the first time I would be away from home for a long while.

I will be mentioning Cornell many times as you read on so I want to introduce you to this world famous university.

Cornell is one of eight universities in the Ivy League. The other seven are Harvard, Yale, Princeton, The University of Pennsylvania, Brown, Columbia and Dartmouth.

They are called the Ivy League Universities because it was agreed upon by the presidents of these eight institutions that intercollegiate football would be maintained to keep the values of the game, but they also wanted to keep in prospective the main purpose of academic life: teaching students.

There was always rivalry when it came to sports. I attended many of those competitive games. The one I remember most vividly was the non-Ivy League game between Cornell and Syracuse University.

To say that Cornell was the underdog is an understatement. When I was a freshman, the legendary Jim Brown played fullback for Syracuse. I will never forget watching him carry the ball, dragging three Cornell players down the field. I think the score was something like 50 to 0. And if I remember correctly, he did most of the scoring.