First In The Nation's Capital
"The earliest roots of football were not far behind, where in the fall of 1874 students banded together at Georgetown University to bring the new game to its campus. This was not a foregone conclusion, however."
Tragedy On The Gridiron
"Reports do not show Bahen carried the ball, but in the scrum two things happened: he was speared in the stomach and, while on the ground, someone forcefully thrust his foot into Behan's back, fracturing his C5 vertebrae and rendering him paralyzed from the waist below."
Curley's Big Idea
"A player, a coach, a college president, and the first college quarterback to master the forward pass. H.C. ("Curley") Byrd was all of these."
The Hometown Hero
"It was Georgetown's greatest gridiron achievement in the college's athletic annals, and it cannot be said that the victory was not a deserved one. Georgetown clearly outplayed the lads from Hanover."
The Seven Rivals
"Traditions are a lot like archaeological ruins - there are layers on top of other layers that tell a story all its own. That's true when peeling back the pages on one of Georgetown's more popular artifacts from its football past: its fight song. It's no easy song: at 208 words and almost two minutes, it's not for the faint of memory, and is a world apart from fight songs that fit the television age."
Sgt. Stubby
"A Georgetown dog, an American hero."
The Little Giant
"In three decades of coaching, Hall of Famer Lou Little coached at only two schools. But there was always more to him than just a coach."
Undefeated & Untied
"Georgetown's only undefeated, untied season was the 1938 season, which was remembered in a series of features from the College yearbook, Ye Domesday Booke."
The Hoya Hercules
"The son of a 300 lb. day laborer, young Al used his awesome physical inheritance to become a four sport star...first recruited by Georgetown, Blozis offered this initial interest as his reason for choosing to enroll at the Hilltop in 1938. His second choice, Notre Dame, was the most prominent loser."
Salad Days
"Students were on spring break. The HOYA did not announce the story until April 11, where its headline "Georgetown Drops Football" was placed aside the tragic death of three students in an airplane crash. Student disapproval was also tempered by the times--publicly questioning the decision of a Jesuit president in the 1950's would be grounds for expulsion."
Football For Fun
"On September 20, 2014, more than 200 former Georgetown football players assembled on campus to mark the 50th anniversary of what is referred to as the "modern era" of the sport at the University... But the story of how it even got this far is as much Georgetown lore as the game itself."
Football's Second Founder
"Rory Quirk has been graduated as have Ed Moses and Steve Langhoff, Sky MacGuire, John Drury and John Quirk, but theirs was a triumph Georgetown will not soon forget."
The Story Of #35
"Early on September 11, 2001, Joe Eacobacci's commute to Manhattan was uneventful. He arrived early, as traders do, and took the bank of elevators to Tower 1, the home of the securities firm of Cantor Fitzgerald... Joe was one of 658 people at Cantor that morning within the firm's 101st to 105th floors. None survived."
The Rocky Road
"Outspent by as many as three to one by PL schools that offer 60 full football scholarships, Georgetown has been spending the past quarter century sharpening its knife for what has become a gun fight... It still plays Marist every year and can't seem to figure out why that's not enough anymore."
The Greatest Game You (Probably) Never Saw
"But there it was: a free wheeling, unexpectedly exciting game that even led to ESPN interrupting coverage of a game on another network to show it. Largely forgotten today, the meeting between Georgetown and Princeton was one of the most memorable games in the last 50 years of Hoya football, if only you saw it."
Forward In Football
"It's not enough to complain about football without understanding how it got here in the first place and what Georgetown University is prepared to do and what it is prepared not to do. It is vital, however, to raise the issues which Georgetown seems glacially slow to discuss, and ask instead how it can be elevated."
What If...
An alternate view of Hoya football history.