Since this is still the top post on the page, we’ll go ahead and nominate two more moments for the losses at Missouri and Marshall. While I hope to develop this to a more general “Play of the Week” type moment, for now, I’m focusing on true “Tootsie Roll moments,” and as big as a couple of forced fumbles were against Missouri, they wouldn’t lead to the throwing of Tootsie Rolls. So for Missouri, the choice is Willie Geter’s one-yard TD run to open the second half. It capped a 73-yard drive out of the gate and gave BG a 20-6 lead and showed that BG was “in it to win it.” Unfortunately, that was the last we saw of the BG offense.

At Marshall, there’s obviously not much to choose from, Roll throwing-wise, so Chris Wright’s 50-yard TD catch from Tyler Sheehan gets the nod.

On to Homecoming and Ohio U., the play that sticks in my head is Barnes scoring after taking the snap on a designed draw.

My first co-TRMOW honor comes from the Kent State game. The last two scores, Barnes stiff-arming his way to a 45-yard touchdown and Tyler Sheehan scoring from nine yards out with :05 remaining. Both very Tootsie Roll-worthy moments!

He played professionally for 10 years, including eight with the St. Louis Hawks, where he captained three NBA championship teams and became one of the outstanding rebounders in the league.

He was inducted to the BG Athletic Hall of Fame in 1964.

(Taken from the October 24, 1964 BG football game program.)

In the 1990 season, Shale set four MAC records, including season (46.77) and career (43.09) punting average. Three of his games that season topped the Bowling Green record book for punt yardage in a game.

Shale was drafted in the 10th round by the Washington Redskins in the 1991 NFL Draft.

(Information on this page courtesy the BGSU Sports Information office and was compiled from information in the BGSU Football media guide.)

(Taken from a June 19, 2007 BGSU Athletic Department press release.)

As Schoeni began his career at BG, the football team was preparing to move into a brand new stadium on the far eastern edge of campus. Just to the north, the Schoeni was already at work as the co-architect of the university’s golf course, Forrest Creason Golf Course.

His efforts in those 35 years didn’t go unnoticed. He has been honored in numerous ways by BGSU, including earning the Dr. Michael R. Ferrari Award for service to the school, being named an honorary member of the Varsity BG Club, and having player awards named in his honor for both the football and baseball teams. In 1991, he was named an Honorary Alumnus of BGSU.

Schoeni was awarded the 1991 Ohio Turf Grass Association Award for Professional Excellence, and was inducted to the BGSU Athletic Hall of Fame in 1996. He retired from the university in January 2000.

He was named to the all-NFL team in 1958 and 1959, and played in the Pro Bowl those same years. After retiring in 1962, Schnelker served as a coach with the Los Angeles Rams.

He was inducted to the BG Athletic Hall of Fame in 1964.

(Taken from the October 24, 1964 BG football game program.)

Schiller was named to the All-MAC Tournament team in 1990, and in 1991 made the team again as tournament MVP, the only Falcon to earn that honor. She earned MAC Player of the Week honors four times, and was named Academic All-MAC in 1990. She twice participated at the U.S. Olympic Festival, leading the West team to a silver medal in 1990, with a team high .298 hitting percentage and 23 kills in four matches.

Schiller left her mark on the BG record books as well, setting a school record for kills in a season her junior year, and breaking that mark in 1991 with 591, which still stands as the most in school history. She also owns the top season hitting percentage in BG history (.393), as well as the third highest. She also holds the school record for solo blocks in a season, and set career records for kills, hitting percentage and attack attempts, which was later topped by Carlyn Esslinger in 1995. A career mark at the time, her 1,142 digs now rank fifth in school history.

She graduated from Bowling Green in 1992, and was inducted to the BG Athletic Hall of Fame in 1999.

(Taken from the 2004 BG Volleyball Media Guide, with some factual updating.)

A 1966 Helms Hall of Fame inductee, Sawdy also worked as a trainer for the United States at the 1956 Olympics in Melbourne, and at the 1959 Pan-American games in Chicago.

Sawdy passed away on March 9, 1967 and was inducted to the BG Athletic Hall of Fame in October of that year.

(Taken from The BG News, October 12, 1967.)

Ryan also was part of a fifth-place national finish the previous year, as he ran on the 1979 distance medley team which placed fifth in the NCAA.. He was a member of four different BGSU school-record relay teams, and still holds the BGSU indoor record in the 1,320 yards, with a time of 2:57.5.

In cross country, Ryan was the 1978 MAC champion after finishing eighth the previous season. He won two dual meets as a sophomore and the Miami dual as a junior.

Ryan placed third in the 1,500 meters at The Athletics Congress meet in 1980 and qualified for the Olympic Trials, finishing eighth.

(Information on this page courtesy a BGSU press release, August 13, 2001.)

He was inducted to the BG Athletic Hall of Fame in 1967.

(Taken from The BG News, October 12, 1967.)