{"id":51463,"date":"2013-11-11T10:30:34","date_gmt":"2013-11-11T15:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=51463"},"modified":"2013-11-09T08:07:17","modified_gmt":"2013-11-09T13:07:17","slug":"raiders-hosting-football-reunion-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=51463","title":{"rendered":"Raiders Hosting Football Reunion Weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/COLGATE-C-GATE.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-39103\" alt=\"COLGATE C-GATE\" src=\"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/COLGATE-C-GATE-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/COLGATE-C-GATE-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/COLGATE-C-GATE.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\u00a0Two-Day Event Part of Lehigh Week; Highlights Include Celebration of Magical 2003 Season<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>By John Painter<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>(Hamilton, NY \u2013 Nov. 2013)\u00a0Colgate Football welcomes all Raider alumni, parents, friends and fans to a football reunion weekend next month in conjunction with this season\u2019s home game against Lehigh.<\/p>\n<p>Set for\u00a0Nov. 15-16, highlights include halftime recognition on the field of all football alumni in attendance, along with a postgame celebration of the 2003 Colgate team that advanced all the way to the NCAA Championship Final. The Raiders that year in the playoffs went from snow to sun, defeating Massachusetts and Western Illinois on home turf before beating Florida Atlantic in Miami to advance to the final.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis will be a great weekend, with events for all on both\u00a0Friday\u00a0and\u00a0Saturday,\u201d said Dick Biddle, head coach of the 2003 squad and last year\u2019s Patriot League Coach of the Year. \u201cI hope you can return to Hamilton, catch up with old friends and teammates, and watch us take on Lehigh.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt should be a great event and weekend together.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Other festivities over the two days include a\u00a0Friday\u00a0night reception at the Colgate Inn,\u00a0Saturday pregame tailgate and\u00a01 p.m.\u00a0kickoff, and the postgame function at Donovan\u2019s Pub to watch video highlights of the magical 2003 run to Chattanooga.<\/p>\n<p>Contact Debbie Rhyde at\u00a0315-228-7603\u00a0or\u00a0drhyde@colgate.edu\u00a0for more information.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Two-Day Event Part of Lehigh Week; Highlights Include Celebration of Magical 2003 Season By John Painter (Hamilton, NY \u2013 Nov. 2013)\u00a0Colgate Football welcomes all Raider alumni, parents, friends and fans to a football reunion weekend next month in conjunction with this season\u2019s home game against Lehigh. Set for\u00a0Nov. 15-16, highlights include halftime recognition on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[94],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51463\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}