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Welcome to the Blazing State, where there are more fires than anyplace this side of hell ~G. Eldon Smith
Truckers are advised to use I-40 in New Mexico or I-80 because I-70, the main highway west-east through Colorado, is blocked by fires close to the highway, firefighting equipment, and traffic waiting for hours for their turn to go.
The sun rising is an unusually bright, color of red, Very pretty, if you don't mind the smoke it is shining through.
Hardy and Bernardi
With the death of Caroll Hardy this past week, memories of CU football legends Hardy and Bernardi come into sharp focus. As a high school wanna-be athlete (didn't quite make it) my teammates and I considered Hardy and Bernardi as ultimate role models.
Hardy played Tailback in coach Dal Ward's single wing offense. Single wing Tailbacks both ran and passed in an offense that eventually evolved into the single back offense that is popular seventy years later. CU was 26-11-3 during his football playing days.
In baseball Hardy was CU's all-time career batting average leader for 200 or more bats (.392), twice batting over .400 including .447 as a senior. As a sprinter on the indoor track team, he once ran a 9.8 in the 100-yard dash, one of the fastest times posted for the day, and he was proficient in the broad jump. Hardy earned 10 varsity athletic letters.
Frank Bernardi played two sports, football and baseball. He was a wing back in the same backfield with Hardy. In a 46-0 win over Colorado State in 1954, he gained 152 yards and scored twice—on only five carries for a gaudy 30.4 yards per carry .
Both Hardy and Bernardi were drafted in the NFL draft. Bernardi played six years with the Chicago Cardinals and one year with the Broncos. Hardy was drafted by the 49ers and played one season for them before switching to pro baseball. He thought a baseball career would last longer than a football career. In baseball he is remembered as the only player to pinch hit for Ted Williams. He also hit once for Roger Maris.
Welcome to the Blazing State, where there are more fires than anyplace this side of hell ~G. Eldon Smith
Truckers are advised to use I-40 in New Mexico or I-80 because I-70, the main highway west-east through Colorado, is blocked by fires close to the highway, firefighting equipment, and traffic waiting for hours for their turn to go.
The sun rising is an unusually bright, color of red, Very pretty, if you don't mind the smoke it is shining through.
Hardy and Bernardi
With the death of Caroll Hardy this past week, memories of CU football legends Hardy and Bernardi come into sharp focus. As a high school wanna-be athlete (didn't quite make it) my teammates and I considered Hardy and Bernardi as ultimate role models.
Hardy played Tailback in coach Dal Ward's single wing offense. Single wing Tailbacks both ran and passed in an offense that eventually evolved into the single back offense that is popular seventy years later. CU was 26-11-3 during his football playing days.
In baseball Hardy was CU's all-time career batting average leader for 200 or more bats (.392), twice batting over .400 including .447 as a senior. As a sprinter on the indoor track team, he once ran a 9.8 in the 100-yard dash, one of the fastest times posted for the day, and he was proficient in the broad jump. Hardy earned 10 varsity athletic letters.
Frank Bernardi played two sports, football and baseball. He was a wing back in the same backfield with Hardy. In a 46-0 win over Colorado State in 1954, he gained 152 yards and scored twice—on only five carries for a gaudy 30.4 yards per carry .
Both Hardy and Bernardi were drafted in the NFL draft. Bernardi played six years with the Chicago Cardinals and one year with the Broncos. Hardy was drafted by the 49ers and played one season for them before switching to pro baseball. He thought a baseball career would last longer than a football career. In baseball he is remembered as the only player to pinch hit for Ted Williams. He also hit once for Roger Maris.
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100 Years of Women's Suffrage
As the nation celebrates on Aug. 18, the centennial anniversary of the adoption of the 19th amendment, people still see much remains to be done. Women today vote at a consistently higher rate than men. In the 2018 midterms, 55 percent of eligible women turned out to vote, compared with 51.8% of men, according to a Pew report. Yet more men are elected than women.
The women’s suffrage movement was a decades-long fight to win the right to vote for women in the United States. It took activists and reformers nearly 100 years to win that right, and the campaign was not easy: On August 18, 1920, the 19th Amendment to the Constitution was finally ratified, enfranchising all American women and declaring for the first time that they, like men, deserve all the rights and responsibilities of citizenship.
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In Colorado
Ellis Meredith, an accomplished journalist who led Colorado’s suffrage movement, was widely known as the “Susan B. Anthony of Colorado.” She attended the Women’s Congress in Chicago in 1893. While she was there, she convinced Susan B. Anthony to send organizer Carrie Chapman Catt to Colorado, saying, “If Colorado goes for woman suffrage, you may count on a landslide in that direction throughout the West."
The Colorado Territorial legislature passed the Referendum of 1893. ”The act itself was drafted by lawyer
J. Warner Mills of Denver and sponsored by Rep. J.T. Heath of Montrose County. In the end, 55% of the electorate turned out to vote on the referendum, with 35,798 voting in favor and 29,551 voting against. Thus, the bill passed and Colorado women were able to vote in all elections that men were eligible to vote.