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Old Sat Jan 03, 2004, 08:44pm
Mark T. DeNucci, Sr. Mark T. DeNucci, Sr. is offline
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For those of you who do not know where Youngstown, Ohio is, it is located on the Ohio Turnpike exactly half way between Cleveland and Pittsburgh. It is on the southern edge of the Lake Erie snow belt and the weather can be pretty nasty for football games in late November and December.

YSU were the NCAA Div. II Football National Runnersup in 1979. The Penquins (as the second seeded team in the tourament) hosted a quarter-final game on the Saturday after Thanksgiving. The night before the game a snow storm dumped 18" of snow and the temperature at kick-off was below 20F and you do not even want to know what the wind chill was. YSU played Alabama A&M, and those A&M players did not know what hit them that bitterly cold afternoon.
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