Temple University: 125 years, 125 facts

By Mike Gibson
Anyone who was flooded out on the Schuylkill Expressway yesterday, probably remembered seeing one of the billboards the university rented.
For the school's 125th anniversary, they are putting 125 facts about the school that most people don't know but would find interesting.
It's a marketing plan to get the Temple brand out there, but there are some really interesting facts involved.

Some of the obscure ones include:

• Three of the four members of Sister Sledge ("We are Family") hold Temple degrees;
  
• Hall and Oates met while students at Temple;
  
• The Temple School of Dentistry receieves 4,500 applications for 125 available slots each year;

As it relates to football, though, the uni also notes that Bill Cosby lettered in both football and track and that the school played in the first Sugar Bowl game.
Interesting, but even more relevant to this year's Owls is the following:
Temple is the 28th largest university in the United States;
Approximately 12,000 students live in and around the Main Campus and 33,000 full-time students overall;
Living Temple alumni number 260,000 in all 50 states, 250,000 of them within driving distance of an Owl game;

It's time that a university in the top 30 in terms of size in the country has a football team in at least that upper echelon.
Once that happens, and we believe that string of winning seasons starts one month from today, it's up to the alumni and the students to support them.
It all goes hand-in-hand.