How you doing? Oh very well

One of the quirkier Penn Athletics personalities--if not the quirkiest--is football game day coordinator Dan "Lake" Staffieri. Or for those of you that don't recognize the name, the guy in the funny hat and pants that drives around campus in the helmet car on Fridays before home games screaming "Let's Go Penn!" He also always has a word taped to his forehead that's a key to the game.

Well Coach Lake, as everyone knows him by, will be honored this Friday. But not by the football team. Instead, the United States Marine Corps will honor him at the USMC Scholarship Foundation Philadelphia Ball with the Sportsman’s Award.

Staffieri served in the Marines before coming to Penn, and will be honored by the Corps "for his unselfish generosity to the USMC Scholarship Foundation."

Since joining the staff at Penn in 1977, Coach Lake has seen 12 of Penn's 13 Ivy League football titles. (In case you want proof, just look at the rings that he always wears on gamedays.)

But by far my favorite Coach Lake fact is that he was a player on Maryland's sole National Championship team (the 1953 version of the Terrapins).