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IPFW
Feb 23, 2007 0:34:00 GMT -5
Post by indyvalpo on Feb 23, 2007 0:34:00 GMT -5
Joining next season IPFW brings little basketball success to the table. They were seldom a force in D2 and have not been so far as a D1 independent. There has been a definite improvement under Dane Fife and with winning I think the Mastodons could draw pretty well in Fort Wayne. We have been playing these guys home and home for awhile and I see at least one game a year going forward.
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IPFW
Feb 23, 2007 9:40:31 GMT -5
Post by fwalum on Feb 23, 2007 9:40:31 GMT -5
For obvious selfish reasons I would like to see VU continue to play IPFW. Continuing to play lets say every other year in Fort Wayne also continues a connection between the community that started VU and the university.
A little VU history lesson some of you may not be aware of..... a group of Lutheran laymen in Fort Wayne, Ind., organized the American Luther League (ALL) just for laymen, not clergy. It was brought to their attention that there was a school in Valparaiso on the verge of bankruptcy for sale cheap. The Fort Wayne Lutherans had built a high school and a hospital, and now they wanted to build a college. So it was decided this was what they wanted to do next. The leaders of the ALL created the Lutheran University Association with the idea they would purchase Valparaiso University. They actually bought the university by putting their signatures on a line of credit for a couple hundred thousand dollars at a Fort Wayne bank that lent them the money on their own reputations.
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IPFW
Feb 23, 2007 12:39:47 GMT -5
Post by valpofan56 on Feb 23, 2007 12:39:47 GMT -5
A little VU history lesson some of you may not be aware of..... a group of Lutheran laymen in Fort Wayne, Ind., organized the American Luther League (ALL) just for laymen, not clergy. It was brought to their attention that there was a school in Valparaiso on the verge of bankruptcy for sale cheap. The Fort Wayne Lutherans had built a high school and a hospital, and now they wanted to build a college. So it was decided this was what they wanted to do next. The leaders of the ALL created the Lutheran University Association with the idea they would purchase Valparaiso University. They actually bought the university by putting their signatures on a line of credit for a couple hundred thousand dollars at a Fort Wayne bank that lent them the money on their own reputations. . . . thus keeping the Valpo from being the "National Ku Klux Klan University."
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IPFW
Feb 23, 2007 16:24:51 GMT -5
Post by fwalum on Feb 23, 2007 16:24:51 GMT -5
That is correct. They out bid the KKK for ownership of the university... or so the legend says.
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IPFW
Feb 24, 2007 0:46:09 GMT -5
Post by TD on Feb 24, 2007 0:46:09 GMT -5
If you ever get a chance you should read Dick Baepler's book on the history of VU which I once read peices of because my father, the VU archivist, was proof reading on different occasions. The part about the Lutherans from Ft Wayne racing to purchase the University before the Klan did is true and a very fascinating chapter. The whole thing might have hinged on the fact that the Grand Dragon of the Indiana Klan was linked to the governor of Indiana in the 1920's. If a certain scandle about the Klan leader had not been exposed in 1926 Valparaiso might have been a Klan university. www.statelib.lib.in.us/WWW/ISL/indiana/Klan.html See this history of the Klan in Indiana in the 1920's and remember that VU was purchased by the Lutherans in 1926.
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