Dear Students, Faculty, Residents, Staff, Alumni, Board Members and Friends,
Good morning on a beautiful, crisp morning from our Elkins Park Campus! It’s been a busy week with folks taking final exams, practicals and preparing to head out to clinical rotations. Here are some items of interest:
NEW SLP FACULTY: A very warm welcome to our new Speech-Language Pathology faculty members, Anne Marie Ruckdeschel, MA, CCC-SLP; Jennifer Bergstrom, EdD, CCC-SLP; and Deanna Yoder-Black, SLPD, CCC-SLP. Click here to read more about our newest colleagues.
INTERPROFESSIONAL EDUCATION: The benefits of interprofessional education and practice at Salus University was never more apparent than in a recent online seminar on falls risk assessment and intervention, which combined expertise from both Audiology and Occupational Therapy (OT). Read more about it here.
MINDFULNESS THEME: Our Center for Personal and Professional Development’s (CPPD) Janeyshka Ortiz-Flores and Andrew Jaskot will be outside the cafe from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Monday, Dec. 12. Stop by and collect a mindfulness-themed goodie bag.
FINAL THOUGHTS: Philadelphia is poised this weekend to host the nation’s 123rd Army-Navy Game. Navy, happily leads the series 62-53-7. The history of this series is worth discussing.
West Point Cadets and Naval Academy midshipmen played the first Army-Navy football game Nov. 29, 1890 on "The Plain" at West Point. As the Navy had been playing organized football for over a decade, they handily defeated the newly established Army team, 24-0. The game has been an annual tradition since 1930. According to records, there were 10 times when the game was not played with the longest period between 1894 – 1898 purportedly due to an argument between an Army General and Navy Admiral that almost ended with a duel between the following the 1893 game! During World War I, games were also canceled.
On Nov. 27, 1926, the game was held in Chicago for the formal dedication of Soldier Field in honor of the American servicemen who had fought in World War I.
We often see Army and Navy Mascots at the games, which has been part of the tradition from the early days of the competition. The tradition of mules as mascots for Army dates back to 1899, when someone decided the team needed a mascot to counter the Navy goat (always trying to copy the Navy!) There’s also the “tradition” of each service academy attempting to “kidnap” the other’s mascots prior to the games. While discouraged by leadership, attempts still occur to this day.
The game was first played in Philadelphia, at Franklin Field, on 1899 and remained there through 1904, after which it was played at Princeton and then returned to Philadelphia for the next 7 years. This week’s game marks the 90th time it will have been played in Philadelphia. Philadelphia is located almost exactly between the two schools and is as close as any major city with a big enough venue.
After 1904 the game bounced around from New York’s Polo Grounds, Baltimore and Chicago until 1932 where it stayed in Philadelphia until 1942 where the next year the game was played at West Point and then Baltimore. From 1945 through 1982 the game remained in Philadelphia. In 1983, for the only time in the game’s history, it was played on the west coast at the Rose Bowl. For the remaining years, the game has predominately remained in Philadelphia with infrequent visits to Baltimore and New York. During the height of the pandemic, the game was played at West Point. It has never been played at the Naval Academy. This year marks the last year we will see the game in Philadelphia until 2027. For the next 4 years the game will be played around the Northeast, to Boston, Washington, Baltimore and New York before returning to Philadelphia.
So, if you’re not too busy tomorrow afternoon, try to catch some of this historical sports rivalry. It’s important to remember that you will be watching both Cadet and Midshipmen athletes who have voluntarily dedicated part of their lives to protecting our freedoms and the ideals of our American democracy. So GO NAVY – BEAT ARMY!!!
Have a great weekend – be safe, continue to follow CDC masking guidelines and remain SALUS STRONG!
-Mike
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