It's not really a bowl, it's more like a Big 10 style trophy game. And there will be a trophy, a bronze bust of a young Honest Abe that was donated by Jim Edgar, a former Republican governor of Illinois.
And as long as we are on the subject of Republicans, Eureka's best-known alumnus is Ronald "Dutch" Reagan, who was a member of the football team, his brother Neil was a teammate.
The schools have ties to Lincoln. Eureka and Knox were founded by abolitionists in the 1850s. Galesburg hosted a Lincoln-Douglas debate and the Railsplitter spoke at Eureka in 1856.
Galesburg has Reagan connections too. Dutch lived there for a year as a boy. Nancy Reagan's father, Loyal Davis, was born in Galesburg and the future first lady often visited her grandparents there.
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| Eureka College, 2011 |
Something has to give.
Oh, when will the Ronald Reagan Bowl be played?
UPDATE September 2: Wow, something really did give. Eureka won the game, 62-55. And Red Devil quarterback Sam Durley passed for 736 yards, which is a new all-levels NCAA record.
Eureka of course brings home the Abraham Lincoln Bowl trophy. Lincoln--and Reagan--are smiling in Heaven this morning.
Related posts:
- Ronald Reagan Trail: Galesburg
- Ronald Reagan Trail: Eureka College
- Ronald Reagan Trail: Returning to Eureka College and the 1982 address
- Ronald Reagan Trail: Eureka College's Reagan Museum
- Ronald Reagan Trail: The town of Eureka
- Thirty hours in Lincoln's Springfield, Illinois
- Abraham Lincoln birthplace site
- Abraham Lincoln birthplace site's log cabin
- "My earliest recollection is of the Knob Creek place"
- My Mississippi Manifest Destiny: Jonesboro, site of the third Lincoln-Douglas Debate
- Review, Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination That Changed America Forever
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