My father, Bill Young, passed away in the early morning of Valentine's day this year. He had suffered with Pancreatic cancer for the past year. But he battled it well, and was very active up until the end.
My dad was a huge Syracuse sports fan. He graduated from SU in 1960, and had the fortune of attending Syracuse during both the era of Jim Brown and Ernie Davis. He was fortunate to be a student when the Orangemen won the National Football championship in 1959. He got to follow guys like Floyd Little, Jim Nance and Larry Csonka carry on the running back tradition for the Orangemen.