Football ... If a lost freshman trudges past the Bamboo caf table any afternoon, he may imagine himself in Madison Square Garden, rather than at Queens College. Discussions vary in subject from hockey, volleyball, basketball, football, and baseball, to golf, tennis, and bowling. In the past, House of Bamboo has been viewed by some CASTLE skeptics as an insignificant athletic factor on campus, but with the aid of a nucleus of lower classmen, it is fast becoming a major athletic power. In the summer of 1968, Bamboo began its drive to the top. Led by hard-driving coach Ron Levine, the Bamboo football team opened its training camp in the sweltering July heat. The weeks of intense, drilling conditioned our minds and bodies and convinced us that we could go all the way in the 1968-69 intramural season. Finally, the Fall came, and in the crisp autumn air the Bamboo eight methodically picked apart House of York, the perennial football champion of Queens College. The unheralded Bamboo pigskin went on from there to finish a strong third, although losing a bruising battle in sub zero weather. After the defeat, Bamboo's hard-nosed all star center, Len Sklerov, could be seen slumped over in front of his locker weeping quietly, shunning the press, as his last year of eligibility came to an end.

Volleyball .... Following a tumultuous third place finish in 1968 the volleyball team took off where it left off by spiking its first two opponents in 1969. Inspired by the graceful contortions of "Spike" Berkowitz and the calmness of Richie Schecter, the six man squad relied on accurate passing and precise teamwork to up-end its taller opponents. After defeating Random House in their third game, the Bamboo team lost a closely contested match to the eventual champion. Another second place finish was locked up.