It’s been nearly 25 years since Eric Tippeconnic took his uniform off for the last time at Colorado State.
Tippeconnic, now a history professor at Cal-State Fullerton and a part-time artist, doesn’t remember everything from his football career, but there is one moment in particular he could never forget.
The revival
For decades, the Colorado State football program was mired in a state of not just mediocrity, but overall embarrassment. Following the then-Colorado A&M Aggies 21-20 loss to Occidental College in the 1949 Raisin Bowl, the program didn’t play in another bowl game under head coach Bob Davis, despite winning the Mountain States Conference championship in 1955 and rolling to an 8-2 record.