On April 10, 1912, the Saint Joseph’s College baseball team defeated the Philadelphia Athletics, then Major League Baseball’s reigning World Champions, during a preseason exhibition game.
The Athletics,...
A headline on the front page of the first-ever April Fools’ issue of The Hawk, published in 1953, reads: “Red Birds Flushed Out By Hawk Agent.”
The article was poking fun at McCarthyism, an early...
A 1933 issue of St. Joe’s long-running literary magazine, Crimson and Gray, offers an unexpected glimpse into what life was like for St. Joe’s students at that time.
“Hello Frosh!” a short story...
In the spring of 1967, the United States was two years into an escalating conflict in Vietnam. At St. Joe’s, three students were focused on Vietnamese children who had been orphaned by the war.
Marty...
Audiences poured into Philadelphia Metropolitan Opera House in April 1916 to experience St. Joseph’s College’s production of Clay Greene’s critically acclaimed show, “The Passion Play.”
This...
A photograph of a track meet at St. Joe’s offers a glimpse of track in the 1970s, showing five runners racing toward a chest-high white string stretched across the track.
It’s not clear who won...
