… helped build Chicago’s image as a top destination for serious-minded graduate students and faculty. Over 80 Nobel Prize winners have studied, taught or researched at Chicago. “That’s part of the magic of Chicago,” says Robin Lester, who wrote a book about … Chicago football. “That’s their thing. It’s still a serious place for kids to get an education.”
… “We’re still being true to the notion that it’s not in the interest of universities to create mass-entertainment spectacles,” says John Boyer, dean of Chicago’s undergraduate college.
November 2nd, 2009 at 12:41PM
Link is broken (starts with http://http:// and might otherwise not parse).
This is the fortieth anniversary of the return of football to the Midway, albeit not in the scholarship, big-time form.
November 2nd, 2009 at 12:53PM
Thanks, Stephen. I’ve fixed it.
November 3rd, 2009 at 9:58AM
My first year at Chicago, our kicker was rumored to be a wizard at biochemistry with a low GPA, since he blew off all of his core courses in the humanities and social sciences. Puts the academic scandals at other schools to shame, doesn’t it? I remember a thrilling game that year in which Chicago fumbled just before the end zone in overtime with Carnegie Mellon. CM returned for the touchdown. Who says DIII football isn’t fun?