Historical Trivia

[Historian]

I started this thread to post the origin of the unusual name, customs and other things related to our sport. Here Goes:
The Bangtails
The origin of bangs (the word is occasionally found in the singular bang), referring to a fringe of hair falling over the forehead (especially if cut square), is uncertain.

A common explanation, and the most likely one, is that bang(s) is short for bangtail. A BANGTAIL is a horse's tail trimmed horizontally, so that the tail has a flat, even end, and hence a horse having such a tail. (By the early twentieth century, bangtail was used generically for 'a racehorse'.)

This leaves the question of the origin of bangtail. The word bang 'to strike violently' or 'a sudden striking blow or sound' has an adverbial sense 'suddenly; abruptly; completely; directly', as in "he walked bang up to me," "a slam-bang effort," or, closer for our purposes, "to cut (something) bang off." Our bangs is probably from this adverbial use, one way or another: either it comes directly from this adverb, or BANGTAIL itself is from this adverb and bang(s) is short for BANGTAIL.

[fdbuster]

Historian/History

noun: the aggregate of past events
noun: the continuum of events occurring in succession leading from the past to the present and even into the future
noun: a record or narrative description of past events
noun: the discipline that records and interprets past events involving human beings
noun: all that is remembered of the past as preserved in writing

[Petard28]

Petard: [Word History: The French used pétard, “a loud discharge of intestinal gas,” for a kind of infernal engine for blasting through the gates of a city. “To be hoist by one's own petard,” a now proverbial phrase apparently originating with Shakespeare's Hamlet (around 1604) not long after the word entered English (around 1598), means “to blow oneself up with one's own bomb, be undone by one's own devices.” The French noun pet, “fart,” developed regularly from the Latin noun pditum, from the Indo-European root *pezd-, “fart.”] taken from Dictionary.com

Isn't that appropriate. Pass the Genny Cream Ale

[redmanracer]

Petard---- Pee---- act of releiving one self, tard or terd act of releiving ones self from the other end. Put together you have Petard or another definition would be a wet fart--- Hence the Genesee Cream Ale.

Now pass me a Genesee Cream Ale !!

[F-Man]

Petard "Stupidion" used as a description.

Pe- Being first half of ones first name. Tard- Being last half of what ones actions make people believe he actually is

[Historian]

Holy Crap! I had no idea where this could go. Shame on me for underestimating the creativity of all of us...

PS- I really did want to know the derivation of Petard... Pass the Genny Cream Ale indeed. I need another.

Anyone care to explain Smokin' Jesus???

[Petard28]

Unfortunately, all definitions could fit. worst one being, that F-man has truth in it's origin. Thanks a lot buddy. Thanks a lot.

[Historian]

The most famous of all the units fighting in Cuba, the "Rough Riders" was the name given to the First U.S. Volunteer Cavalry under the leadership of Oyster Bay's Theodore Roosevelt. Roosevelt resigned his position as Assistant Secretary of the Navy in May 1898 to join the volunteer cavalry. The original plan for this unit called for filling it with men from the Indian Territory, New Mexico, Arizona, and Oklahoma. However, once Roosevelt joined the group, it quickly became the place for a mix of troops ranging from Ivy League athletes to glee-club singers to Texas Rangers and Indians. (not the Baseball players)

Roosevelt and the commander of the unit Colonel Leonard Wood trained and supplied the men so well at their camp in San Antonio, Texas, that the Rough Riders was allowed into the action, unlike many other volunteer companies.

The Rough Riders saw battle at Las Guásimas when General Samuel B. M. Young was ordered to attack at this village, three miles north of Siboney on the way to Santiago. News of the action quickly made the papers. They also made headlines for their role in the Battle of San Juan Hill.

[Historian]

Before European settlement, Roosevelt was a part of the great forest separating the Hempstead Plains from the meadows and marshes along the South Shore. After the colonists came, the stagecoach route from Hempstead to Babylon passed through the area, and in the late 1700s some entrepreneurs tried to take advantage of the potential business by building taverns.
Thus, the community got its first name - Rum Point
The more genteel Greenwich Point became the community's name about 1830. In 1902, when a post office was established, residents renamed it in honor of the current president of the United States, fellow Nassau County resident Theodore Roosevelt.

[F-Man]

And to think "Rough Riders" was just the name of a Landscaping Company in Oyster Bay........

[lpfdpanthers]

Does anyone know what a " Calumet " from Clayton is???


A "Calumet" is a indian peace pipe. Historian i will work on the " Smokin Jesus " thing ill ask him next time i see him!

[fdbuster]

A long-stemmed ceremonial pipe used by some Native American peoples.

[Historian]

I know this an old one, buy I found it unusual and interesting:

"Some years ago, in the not too distant past," goes the Lost Tribe's tongue-in-cheek legend, "there lived on the shores of Accabonac Creek, in the town of East Hampton, (a small stomping ground on eastern Long Island), a hardy tribe of Indians. Today the tepees are gone, but the legend lives on and is nourished by the latter-day 'Tribe of Accabonac,' better known as Bonackers.
"Bonacker'' originally meant a person who lived on Accabonac Harbor and was something of a hick. These days, East Hampton natives are proud to be called Bonackers.

[NANOOKS]

The Merrick " Buckeyes" Drill team name derived from a siren that was once used on one of their apparatus. The Buckeye exhaust whistle. Buckeye Iron And Brass Works manufactured the Buckeye Exhaust Whistle. Attached to the vehicle exhaust, the officer would pull a chain, sending air into the whistle creating a very loud screeching sound. The first tournemant they competed in was hosted by Seaford Hook & Ladder Engine Co. on June 30'th. 1923 in Seaford.

[NANOOKS]

Side note ........From their start, they were known as the Merrick Empire Hose Co. 3 Racing Team. Not until 1960 did they adopt the name "Buckeyes"