![]() ![]() They were rebound reclamations and walk-on high school nose guards – like Friese – who wound up playing cornerback. ![]() They were the whole package: the good, the great – guard Ed Simmons would play 11 years in the NFL – and the where’d-they-find-this-guy sleepers. Their accomplishments are nothing but legit, but there may not be an entity so thoroughly Eastern as the ‘85 Eags. It’s an eclectic class going in at halftime of the EWU-Portland State game: All-American gymnast Jo McDonald, sharpshooting guard Dick Edwards, basketball coach and scholar Jerry Krause and the running Carpines – Vic, Tony and Fred. It’s not the only reason the ‘85 Eagles are being inducted en masse Saturday into the school’s athletic hall of fame – hey, they did go 9-3 and make Eastern’s first appearance in the NCAA Division I-AA playoffs – but it may have been the clincher. “That’s where the good acoustics are.”Įvery college with a quad and an endowment has a fight song and an alma mater, but the 1985 Eastern Washington football team had its own folk song, plinked out on the edge of the tub and the toilet seat. “You know, we recorded the first cut of that in the bathroom,” Rob Friese revealed. No one’s writing the next “Save Eastern.”Įven though we’re half-a-mil in the hole. They’ll raise relief funds for Darfur refugees and boot Taco Bell back to the strip mall, and at Calvin College of all places some seniors got a little gnarly about the president politicizing their graduation.īut where are the protest songs? Where are the new anthems? No one’s singing the next “Masters of War” or “Waist Deep in the Big Muddy.” ![]()
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