{"id":4654,"date":"2011-11-03T11:34:08","date_gmt":"2011-11-03T18:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/?p=4654"},"modified":"2014-01-25T18:10:23","modified_gmt":"2014-01-25T23:10:23","slug":"looking-back-november-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/?p=4654","title":{"rendered":"Looking back: November 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_4655\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4655\" style=\"width: 274px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4655  \" title=\"nov-11-looking-back\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/nov-11-looking-back.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"274\" height=\"320\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/nov-11-looking-back.jpg 428w, https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/nov-11-looking-back-256x300.jpg 256w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 274px) 100vw, 274px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4655\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo (c) 1950 &quot;Seal&quot;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Here is, perhaps, the most \u201cfamous\u201d football photo in TCNJ history. Taken during a November 1949 game against Montclair State, the picture at left shows then-Head Coach George Ackerman firing his troops up with a halftime pep talk. The Lions trailed 0\u20136 at that point, but went on to win 7\u20136, thus securing the team\u2019s first victory in 11 years. News of the win spread far and wide: At the time, State\u2019s 45-game winless streak was the longest such stretch in college sports. <em>Life <\/em>magazine ran this photo as the \u201cPicture of the Week\u201d in the November 28, 1949, issue. In the accompanying caption, Life\u2019s editors asked whether it was Ackerman\u2019s rallying cry or the sign above his head\u2014it reads, \u201cIt\u2019s not the size of the dog in the fight. It\u2019s the size of the fight in the dog.\u201d\u2014that pushed the Lions on to victory. Perhaps you were among the players pictured here and can answer that question? Or maybe you just have a story to tell about that memorable day 62 years ago? We\u2019d love to hear from you. Write us at TCNJ Magazine, PO Box 7718, Ewing, NJ 08628-0718 or magazine@tcnj.edu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This month&#8217;s Looking back photo was &#8220;Life&#8221; magazine&#8217;s picture of the week in November 1949. Help us identify who&#8217;s pictured here.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":4655,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni-corner","category-november-2011"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4654\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}