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Buffs football plays on the road at least five times this season, and the first step to聽victory is getting to the field.聽

Today鈥檚 travel team 鈥� nearly 200 players, coaches, trainers, managers and others 鈥� flies聽on a chartered United jet, usually in coat and tie and in more relaxed duds when the host聽team is truly far away, in Hawaii, say.聽

In the 1940s and 鈥�50s, travel and life in general tended toward formality. 贵谤补苍办听叠别谤苍补谤诲颈 (Bus鈥�55), who played for CU from 1952 to 1954 as a wingback, recalls flying聽on chartered Continental prop planes like the one pictured here (behind Coach Dal聽Ward鈥檚 1949 team), always dressed to impress.聽

Bernardi never missed a flight. But a train ride to the University of Kansas once gave him聽trouble. The team got off at Lawrence, but, sitting alone in a compartment, he didn鈥檛 notice.聽

When Bernardi reached the game, his teammates gave him a ribbing he still remembers.聽

鈥淒al Ward was nice enough not to make any comment,鈥� he said.聽

Photo courtesy CU Heritage Center聽