Broncos stehen im Swiss Bowl 2010!

Rick Taylor, the retired Northwestern director of athletics and an assistant football coach at Dartmouth (1971-76) under Jake Crouthamel, has enjoyed a successful return to coaching in Europe. He has his undefeated Calanda Broncos in the Swiss football championship game against the Basel Gladiators. Taylor's Broncos advanced with a 30-7 win over Bern in the Swiss league semifinal.

Before playing the Gladiators, however, the 14-0 Broncos will face Sweden's Carlstad Crusaders in an historic EFAF Cup Final. It marks the first time a Swiss team has played for a European title.

Taylor, the former head coach at Boston University and then the AD at BU and Cincinnati before moving on to Northwestern, conducted an external review of the Dartmouth football program for the college last year (scroll down this link) before making his successful return to the sidelines with the Broncos.

Although Taylor has been emailing highly entertaining missives detailing the travails and travels involved in his European adventure, there's nothing quite like using Google translations to try to fill in some of the details. I think the following – after a teeth-grinding, 6-0 win a few weeks back – sums things up quite nicely (italics are mine):

What the audience got to see it was undoubtedly unique in the 25-year-old Swiss Football Football History: The kick was blocked by Defense Lineman Daniel wedge, the ball rolled into the end zone - and the rest is history. Trades Tissi Robinson took the ball deep in the own end zone and returned the ball at expiry time over 103 yards into the end zone of the Grizzlies to the only touchdown of the game - the already second return over 100 + yards from Robinson in the last two games! As the season was over, not even the additional test was performed - the Broncos had won 6-0 and happy to keep their unbeaten. "A win is a win," head coach Rick Taylor said after the game sober, "all realize that today we played on offense is not good. But of course we take such a finish to you. Good teams find a way to win, no matter how bad looks like the starting position.

After the game sober. How good is that?