{"id":1267,"date":"2008-04-07T22:16:37","date_gmt":"2008-04-08T03:16:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/?p=1267"},"modified":"2008-04-15T21:53:42","modified_gmt":"2008-04-16T02:53:42","slug":"back-in-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/?p=1267","title":{"rendered":"Back in the day…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Are Unitarian Universalists sports-deficient as I have claimed<\/a>? It turns out that back in the day, Universalists played some serious basketball. A denominational history expert sent me an email message to which was attached a scan of a newspaper clipping dating from 1960, just before the Universalists and the Unitarians consolidated into the Unitarian Universalist Association:<\/p>\n

First Universalist has won the Somerville [Mass.] Y.M.C.A. Junior Church Basketball league championship for the third straight year by defeating West Somerville Baptist, 70-14.<\/p>\n

By winning three successive years, First Universalist retired the Somerville Elks Trophy, which was presented to Rev. Elmer D. Colcord by “Y” President Norman Ray….<\/p>\n

College Avenue Methodist finished in second place, one game behind, when it defeated West Somerville Congregational, 47-18….<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The article goes on to state that First Universalist finished the 1960 season with a 13-1 record. That’s an impressive record, but what I find most impressive is the score of that final season game — the Universalists kicked some serious Baptist butt.<\/p>\n

This raises an interesting question: were the Unitarians<\/em> actually good at any sport? The man who president of the American Unitarian Association at the time of consolidation did play varsity football at Harvard, but one wonders if he was an exception rather than the Unitarian rule.<\/p>\n

As always, your comments and speculations on this subject — a subject of great import — are more than welcome.<\/p>\n

(For the record, I played on my college’s ultimate frisbee team. I don’t think we ever won a game.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Are Unitarian Universalists sports-deficient as I have claimed? It turns out that back in the day, Universalists played some serious basketball. A denominational history expert sent me an email message to which was attached a scan of a newspaper clipping dating from 1960, just before the Universalists and the Unitarians consolidated into the Unitarian Universalist […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[204],"class_list":["post-1267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberal-religion","tag-universalist-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1267\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}