Published 1/14/2009
by Jake Novak
at Bleacher Report - MLB
Mission Hills, Home of the Grizzlies This report in Riverside, California's North County Times says standout running back Eddy Sihavong is "leaning toward Columbia." In addition to putting up some record stats for Mission Hills High School, Sihavong has overcome some adversity in his life as he had to transfer to Mission Hills from St. Augustine High School after his family's Rancho Bernardo home burned down in the 2007 wildfires. Something tells me playing Ivy League football won't seem so hard after all that. Back to History Moving on with the page-by-page look at the 1961 Columbia-Penn game program leads us to pages 2-3 and the pictures of the top Columbia and Penn admnistrators. On page 2 we have Columbia President Grayson Kirk and Penn President Gaylord Harnwell. On page 3 we see Columbia College Dean John G. Palfrey and Columbia College Associate Dean John W. Alexander. Grayson Kirk's sad ending to his Columbia career masks a meteoric rise from a very ...
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