{"id":4865,"date":"2006-12-07T13:43:49","date_gmt":"2006-12-07T17:43:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/batesviews.net\/?p=4865"},"modified":"2019-07-10T10:16:29","modified_gmt":"2019-07-10T14:16:29","slug":"football-sports-illustrated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2006\/12\/07\/football-sports-illustrated\/","title":{"rendered":"How ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ College football got into Sports Illustrated"},"content":{"rendered":"

It took equal parts good and bad, plus a bit of ugly, for an iconic image from the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½-Colby football game at Garcelon Field on Oct. 28, 2006, to appear in Sports Illustrated<\/em>‘s special issue, “Football America” (Dec. 4, 2006).<\/p>\n

The photograph, featured across pages 46 and 47, shows Jamie Walker ’07 of Needham, Mass., moving a pile of Mule defenders, one of his 43 carries on the day, just two shy of his own ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ single-game record.<\/p>\n

\"Later<\/a>

Later featured in Sports Illustrated, this iconic ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ photograph shows Jamie Walker ’07 of Needham, Mass., moving a pile of Colby Mule defenders during a game at Garcelon Field on Oct. 28, 2006. (Daryn Slover for ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ College)<\/p><\/div>\n

Here’s the good. Daryn Slover, a staff photographer for the Sun Journal<\/em> newspaper on freelance assignment for the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ Office of Communications and Media Relations, persevered despite the wind and rain, only calling it quits after several lenses became too wet to work.<\/p>\n

Slover shot the iconic image about two hours into the game. The following Monday morning, ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ Communications offered the photograph to the Sports Illustrated<\/em> photo editors.<\/p>\n

Now for the bad: The weather. Some 4.62 inches of rain fell on Oct. 28, including 2 inches during the 3-hour and 15-minute contest, resulting in a flood warning being issued for the nearby Androscoggin River the next day.<\/p>\n

\"Images<\/a>

Former equipment manager Jim Taylor slogs through the mud and standing water on Oct. 26, 2006, as the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ team awaits the start of overtime vs. Colby at Garcelon Field. (Daryn Slover for ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ College)<\/p><\/div>\n

A southeast wind blew at 20 to 30 mph all afternoon, and despite the look of the photograph, the main obstacles on Garcelon Field were huge puddles, not mud.<\/p>\n

And the ugly? The ending, at least from the Bobcat perspective, with Colby winning the four-overtime contest with Brian Bachow’s 22-yard field goal, giving the Mules a 10-7 win.<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Toned<\/a>

Toned by the magazine to make the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ garnet appear a bit more red, this is how the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½-Colby photograph appeared in the Dec. 6, 2006, issue of Sports Illustrated.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It took equal parts good, bad, and ugly for a photograph from the 2006 ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½-Colby football game at Garcelon Field to make its way into Sports Illustrated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":104,"featured_media":125723,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"bates_author_byline_override":"","_estimated-read-time":"","_post-template":"\/usr\/local\/webserver\/webpve\/htdocs\/new-www.bates.edu\/wp-content\/themes\/b\/news\/single-big-header-image.php","_header-color":"#000000","_photo-credit":"Daryn Slover","_header-effect":"parallax","override_related_with_tag":"","_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[24,224],"tags":[1431,2060,3748],"class_list":["post-4865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","category-society-culture","tag-bates-football","tag-cbb","tag-garcelon-field"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/104"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4865"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":125728,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4865\/revisions\/125728"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}