I know John Pont's name from his coaching Northworstern,

I know John Pont's name from his coaching Northworstern,
by G.K.Chesterton (2020-03-04 22:13:40)
Edited on 2020-03-04 22:14:08

In reply to: off the front page (link) posted by olson

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since I grew up in the 70's.

Those teams were awful. He never lost fewer games than the previous year. I just looked and his Wikipedia page has him at 5-6 his first year, but Northwestern's 1973 page shows he went 4-7 his first year, so his record is even worse than I thought.

He coached against ND in the first four of his five years at Northworstern and lost by a combined total of 172-10.

Click here for link at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1973_Northwestern_Wildcats_foo

Johnny Pont was a Realist

In the fall of 1974 I was in grad school at Northwestern. On Friday nights before home games the NU coaches would stop off for a few beers at Meier’s Tavern on Lake Street. The night before the ND game, after a few pops at the bar I wandered over and asked Coach Pont “Coach I went Notre Dame and am in grad school at Northwestern. Who should I be for tomorrow?” (I was just trying to be polite, I could have cared less about NU sports.) He said with a smile “Be for the Wildcats, we need you a helluva lot more than they do.” He was right, the next day the Irish won 49-3.

Was it DAB and tots back then? *

And ever thus

It was then and it still is - there also was a jukebox on the west wall back then which is long gone

Good on him. At least he didn't tell you off. *