CANYONS' LYON EXCITED ABOUT BIG HOME OPENER.Byline: Brian Dalziel Daily News Staff Writer If you pass College of the Canyons College of the Canyons is one of the fastest-growing community colleges in the state. According to the National Junior College Research Association, College of the Canyons consistently ranks in the top 50 community colleges in the nation. football coach Chuck Lyon Lyon English Lyons City (pop., 1999: city, 445,452; metro. area, 1,348,932), east-central France. Located at the confluence of the Rhône and Saône rivers, it was founded as the Roman military colony Lugdunum in 43 BC (see on campus this week, don't be surprised if he's smiling. He has good reason. The Cougars play their first game at home in 17 years Saturday when they take on Compton at 7 p.m. It will be a homecoming Homecoming Odyssey concerning Odysseus’s difficulties in getting home after war. [Gk. Myth.: Odyssey] You Can’t Go Home Again revisiting his home town, a writer is disillusioned by what he sees. [Am. Lit. for Lyon, a COC See chip on chip. graduate who was COC's running backs coach when the school decided to drop the program after the 1981 season. ``To be on this campus again is going to be exciting,'' said Lyon, who played from 1973-74. ``We get to play our first home game in 17 years. It's going to be awesome.'' Lyon said that bringing football back to COC has been a positive plus to the area. ``This is big for this sports community,'' he said. |
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