College Football - KINGS POINT vs UNION (October 5, 1968) MPEG 2 High Definition 1920 x 1080p

This is a video of a College Varsity Football Game played between Kings Point (The United States Merchant Marine Academy at Kings Point, New York) and Union College. The game was played in Schenectady, New York on the Campus of Union College on Alexander Field. Kings Point was the toughest opponent that UNION faced in 1968. They had a great running back, as you will see in the video, in Bob Lavinia. When the 1968 college football season concluded, Kings Point ended up ranked #2 in the East (Lambert Bowl balloting for Division III supremacy) and Union ended ranked #4. In this game Kings Point intercepted five Union College passes and scored on one of those intercepted passes and that proved to be the difference in the game. The final score was KINGS POINT 19 and UNION 13 with the game ending with Union driving for the possible winning score. Unions scores can from Full Back Joe James (6'2", 223lb.) and wide receiver Art Jacobs. Union also played without the services of its starting defensive end Kevin Monahan (6'3", 232lb.) and its outstanding and leading receiver, Craig Carlson '70 who had a season ending injury early in the game. While a Division III team, the Merchant Marine Academy, as did many Division III schools back then, routinely played what would be considered today Division I schools. The previous year they played Temple University. The only loss Kings Point suffered in 1968 came at the hands of then Division I Lafayette (7-0) which had an outstanding team. The Lafayette coach later claimed that Kings Point was the one of the toughest teams they faced that year. "It became clear the following game just how good the Lafayette defense was when the Leopards faced one of the toughest opponents of the season in Kings Point."
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This same Kings Point Team went undefeated the following year and won the Lambert Bowl Trophy for the top Division III team in the east, where the overwhelming majority of Division III schools are located.

The video was originally taken with a Bell & Howell Super 8mm home camera. It was taken in color, which was new technology for Bell & Howell at that time. The video was taken by my dad, Leopold P. Oberst, an Executive for the New York Telephone Company. This was his first and only experience taking home video. The film lay dormant for 40 years. It was then processed in a lab in Arizona by taking a high definition video of the original film. By some miracle the original video was preserved. The high definition video was then encoded to MPEG 2 High Definition 1080p and downloaded to YouTube. The encoding was done with Roxio Creator 2011 Pro.

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[iancaruso]

@Zoberist - Sent you a message.

Thanks!

[iancaruso]

Thanks for posting this. My dad (Tyler Caruso, KP #11) passed this on to me. I'm very happy to have the chance to see him in "action." It is cool to see how he moved on the field.

Bob Lavinia (#16 KP) was indeed quite the runner.

[mcocozza1]

No kidding?!? Very proud of my old man. Thanks for that!

[mcocozza1]

That #66 in minute 7:30 has great hands. Pick 6!