As if scanning the pages of a photo album, he recalls vividly the homecoming parade on Main Street. There were three marching bands and a group of Shriners. Also marching were representatives of every UB athletic team, a group of Korean UB students in native costume, playing native instruments and an African-American student step group. As a program grows and prospers, outside interest increases.
People join only when it becomes a positive thing.
Townsend fast forwards to the homecoming football game in which the UB Bulls took on the Big Red of Cornell University, whose statutory colleges are funded in part by state tax dollars. And we won the battle. I opponents since the 1959 squad. Everyone is talking about Michigan, Notre Dame and they are talking about football. They don't come into the room asking how your math department and chemistry department are doing.