Youth soccer club
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Good stuff. I wish they had club soccer when I was at TU. I think it would have been a ton of fun. I know the team even won the national title at one point.
Fighting Jumbos to be accurate. Story is PT Barnum preserved his famed elephant Jumbo through taxidermy and donated her to Tufts. Stuffed elephant was a fixture in the library until a devastating fire destroyed all but the tail, which was saved by a professor who went into the fire to try and "rescue" Jumbo but only the tail remained. I believe the tail is still on campus. In honor of Jumno, Tufts had a bronze sculpture of her made and it stands outside the library (it's pretty damn cool actually) and that's how Tufts became the Jumbos as the nickname/mascot.Looking forward to the soccer updates for the Tufts Fighting Elephants and especially Z. Yeah…I looked up the mascot.
I always love cool stories about how schools got mascots/nicknames like this one and Tulsa's
Game 2 was Sunday out in Springfield, MA. Springfield is way out west (about 2 hrs west of Boston) and south almost on the Connecticut border. It's closer to Hartford than it is to Boston. It's also out towards the Berkshires so little mountains. They played Springfield College and won 6-0. They ate at a Jamaican restaurant in Springfield after the game and apparently the guy was ecstatic to have them. Took pictures with them and posted stuff on IG with them. Apparently the group has stopped in at this restaurant before.
I knew the 2 club teams at Tufts were pretty good just looking at past records and it's not like they're only playing little tiny liberal arts colleges. My son's squad plays against a Harvard team later on in the season. The other club team seems to have drawn a division where they play Boston University, Northeastern, UMASS Lowell, all D1 schools with much higher UG enrollment than Tufts (Tufts has about 6500 UGs, and about 6000 grad students between it's law and policy grad schools, business school, and dental school (the dental school is apparently very highly rated among the best in the country). Anyway, they'll be part of a regional later on with a chance to advance to a collegiate cup championship tournament in Round Rock TX in November. Last year their region was represented by Northeastern (apparently they have a really good club program at Northeastern as 1 men's team and 2 women's teams made it to the top flight and open tournaments. Babson represented the region in the men's open bracket. (Don't ask me how they determine cup and open). My son has been told the games that will really be tight and competitive will be against Babson, Harvard, WPI, and the other Tufts' team.
You can follow their exploits on IG. My son's team is @tuftsuniversityfootballclub and the other team is @tuftsclubsoccer_brown
I knew the 2 club teams at Tufts were pretty good just looking at past records and it's not like they're only playing little tiny liberal arts colleges. My son's squad plays against a Harvard team later on in the season. The other club team seems to have drawn a division where they play Boston University, Northeastern, UMASS Lowell, all D1 schools with much higher UG enrollment than Tufts (Tufts has about 6500 UGs, and about 6000 grad students between it's law and policy grad schools, business school, and dental school (the dental school is apparently very highly rated among the best in the country). Anyway, they'll be part of a regional later on with a chance to advance to a collegiate cup championship tournament in Round Rock TX in November. Last year their region was represented by Northeastern (apparently they have a really good club program at Northeastern as 1 men's team and 2 women's teams made it to the top flight and open tournaments. Babson represented the region in the men's open bracket. (Don't ask me how they determine cup and open). My son has been told the games that will really be tight and competitive will be against Babson, Harvard, WPI, and the other Tufts' team.
You can follow their exploits on IG. My son's team is @tuftsuniversityfootballclub and the other team is @tuftsclubsoccer_brown
I referees 7 games this weekend, 3 rec games, 4 ECNL games. I got to show 4 yellows in my U13 rec game. I had another one I could have shown a player a 2nd yellow/red but chose to talk to him about being in control. His coach yanked him from the game anyway. For a game that ended 12-0, it had way too much drama and chippiness.
ECNL Weekend: First, Scheels is getting there in terms of being the best in the state. A couple of the grass fields have some patchiness in terms of their grass consistency, but overall WAY better than when my son played out there. They probably need to repaint the lines in the turf fields a little more often. Tough to see in a high sky. Other than that, of the 4 games TSC only won the U13B game vs FC Westlake (Austin). U13G got curb stomped (8-1) by a Sting team yesterday. String scored in the first 30 seconds and then were up 3-0 before 5 minutes had been played. U16B lost to FC Westlake 6-0 and TSC maybe had 1 shot on frame. Westlake had a striker who was just a phenomenal player. Found space, created space, played with his head up and created chances for his teammates. Excellent work rate and he was exceptionally quick on and off the ball. TSC's coach was former TU player Chris "Critter" Taylor. He and I spoke for a few minutes before the game. He actually remembered I had a son about college age (Chris was a coach at one of the camps my son attended and had him in his group). Chris is a good coach and he's good with this age group and understands the game exceptionally well.
U13B won 6-2 and were in control for most of the game. TSC coach sort of called off the dogs and let subs play a while and he had them playing possession in the back trying to hold the ball.
Then I had the U13G again today against a different Sting team. Closer game but this TSC team really struggled to hold onto the ball and string passes together. And they were in disarray for much of the game. GK was trying to set a wall for a free kick just outside the box. Wall didn't listen to her and left a wide gap on the near post open, and Sting striker stung a nice free kick into the net.
Speaking of my son, his club team moved to 7-0 on the season. 26 GF, 0 GA and currently ranked #2 in the east region behind Boston. College.
ECNL Weekend: First, Scheels is getting there in terms of being the best in the state. A couple of the grass fields have some patchiness in terms of their grass consistency, but overall WAY better than when my son played out there. They probably need to repaint the lines in the turf fields a little more often. Tough to see in a high sky. Other than that, of the 4 games TSC only won the U13B game vs FC Westlake (Austin). U13G got curb stomped (8-1) by a Sting team yesterday. String scored in the first 30 seconds and then were up 3-0 before 5 minutes had been played. U16B lost to FC Westlake 6-0 and TSC maybe had 1 shot on frame. Westlake had a striker who was just a phenomenal player. Found space, created space, played with his head up and created chances for his teammates. Excellent work rate and he was exceptionally quick on and off the ball. TSC's coach was former TU player Chris "Critter" Taylor. He and I spoke for a few minutes before the game. He actually remembered I had a son about college age (Chris was a coach at one of the camps my son attended and had him in his group). Chris is a good coach and he's good with this age group and understands the game exceptionally well.
U13B won 6-2 and were in control for most of the game. TSC coach sort of called off the dogs and let subs play a while and he had them playing possession in the back trying to hold the ball.
Then I had the U13G again today against a different Sting team. Closer game but this TSC team really struggled to hold onto the ball and string passes together. And they were in disarray for much of the game. GK was trying to set a wall for a free kick just outside the box. Wall didn't listen to her and left a wide gap on the near post open, and Sting striker stung a nice free kick into the net.
Speaking of my son, his club team moved to 7-0 on the season. 26 GF, 0 GA and currently ranked #2 in the east region behind Boston. College.
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