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"...a blogger, who is just a bullsh*tter with an IP address."
-Anonymous, Ace of Spades Blog, 2021.
"Gutless and talentless. (sic) It's your trademark since 1977."
-Redacted, 2021.
"Friendship, physics, and philosophy---this blog has it all."
-Anonymous, 2011.
"I enjoy what you are doing with this blog. It is truly the only reason to have a Facebook account." -Darryl Jones.
"Light yourself on fire and then roll in broken glass to put out the fire!" -from Isaiah Harris's Twitter Feed, explaining how to replicate the feeling after an 800M race. "Even pit bulls call him Coach." -Brian Mount, reacting to a visit to Coach Groves from Hunter Backenstose's pit bull, Blanche.
"Your blog is amazing and I’ve always loved your humor. Thanks for continually bringing me a smile." -Don Ziter, two-time winner of the Coach Groves Golf Tournament.
"Your blog is amazing." -Bob Trump.
"Keep up the great work." -Nick Scarpello, after winning the 2016 Carlsbad 5K.
"Goodbye to all that. (Politics) I am turning into Jeremiah Johnson, a shunner." -Rob Whiteside, walking the Appalachian Trail.
"I'd rather see you laying in a gutter with your head split open than to see you run like that." -Coach Groves, following a poor showing of 800M runners at a Beaver Stadium Meet, late 70's.
"You do a fantastic job." -Phil Caraher.
"You are amazing at blogging." -Walt Chadwick.
"Best blog out there." -Phil Passen.
"...it tops all sites I've seen with its sense of humor." -George Brose, author of the website Once Upon a Time in the Vest, about our humble blog.
"Great post as usual DFB!" -Darryl Jones.
"You just don't f*** with a f*****." -sage advice from Coach Groves, as told to Tim Backenstose and me, 5/17/14.
"When I was a kid, I saw an illegal dice game in the bathroom at Franklin Field." -Matthew Groves, 2013, remembering the Penn Relays Carnival.
"Don't sit next to Balkey and Artie at a track meet...You'll end up talking about hockey for 3 hours." -Coach Groves to Rebecca Donaghue, 2013.
"The first 45 mile week I ever ran, I ran in the first 3 days at PSU- Thank you very much, Bruce Baden!" -Larry Mangan, 2012.
"If it takes longer than a paragraph, you don't have anything to say anyway." -Coach Grovesat the 2012 Track Alumni Dinner
"If you can't get excited for The Penn Relays than damn it, you aint got no soul!" -Coach Groves, as reported by Matt Lincoln at the 2012 Penn Relays.
"Athletics is for education and recreation, nothing else. Winning is important only in that you learn more." -Coach Harry Groves, 5/21/2011 at the Alumni "Run". "... for a brief time, I'm the greatest Track Coach in the world." -Coach Harry Groves, at his Retirement 2006.
"You must do something about the cheating!" -Coach Harry Groves, after golfing two holes with each foursome in 2009.
"We made Harry cry." -Randy Moore, remembering the 1985 Penn Relays 4 X 800.
"Even my mother calls me Coach." -Coach Harry Groves, circa 1977, whenever a student/athlete dared call him Harry.
The post from the 1978 NVTC Marathon brought Official PhysicistBrian Boyer out from his lair in the land of edelweiss and Ahhnold. He brings us this great pic of 3 FreshmanSophomores at the 1977 XC meet at hilly Belmont Plateau! (I even knew that 1977 was MY Freshman year yesterday, but when I got up this morning I forgot!)
Updates via Facebook: 1977 AAU meet at Belmont Plateau was the day before the NCAA Championships in Washington. The top 7 were there. The rabble still won the meet at Belmont and traveled to Berwick for the Thanksgiving Day run after. I ran the Millersville Turkey Trot and had my second best race ever (by IAAF standards). I also won a turkey randomly!
Kelly O'Brien, Ray Krombel, Brian Boyer.
And because Brian was injured and didn't run that 1978 NVTC Marathon he ran this recent race sporting his Alumni Singlet!
2023 Indoor National Champion, Olympic Silver Medalist 2016, 2020(21), 2024 2-time World Champion and 2022, 2023 Diamond League Champion, 2023 Bronze Medalist World Championship
"First Light"- I took the best photo of the Lion Shrine I've ever seen!*
click on photo to download and then go ahead and print a masterpiece on your own! *(except the one with the naked twins in the 70's!)
