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1970 MCC Football Game 2: Muskegon Catholic Central Crusaders at Portage Northern Huskies

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Gametime Conditions:
  • Location: Portage, Michigan
  • Date: September 25, 1970
  • Game Location: McCamley Field
  • Geographic Coordinate:  42.198013 | Longitude : -85.586285
  • Game Start: 7:00 pm ET
  • Sunset:   6:34 pm ET
  • Condition: Fair
  • 66 degrees
  • 5 mph wind speed
  • ESE wind direction

Opponent Profile:

1970 Portage Northern Team Profile

Michigan Sports Classification:  Class A 

Colors:  Brown, White, Orange

Nickname: Huskies

Year Founded: 1965

League:  Big 6

Head Coach:  Bud Breed – 1982 MHSFCA Hall of Fame Inductee

   Record Prior to MCC Game:    1 – 0

Record After MCC Game:         1 – 1

1970 Season Final Record:      8- 1

1970 Scores

1970 Portage Northern Football Notes:

  • Portage Northern lost only 1 game in 1970 – to Muskegon Catholic Central.
  • The 22 – 6 MCC/Portage Northern final score represented the the worst Portage Northern offensive and defensive effort in 1970.
  • MCC held Portage Northern to 2 yards rushing.
  • In 1970, Portage Northern played one common MCC opponent, Grand Rapids Union.  MCC beat that team.
  • In game 9 Portage Northern beat Grand Rapids Union 18 – 0.
  • Portage Northern Head Coach Bud Breed is a dual Michigan High School Football Coaches Association (MHSFCA) inductee as one of the original Board of Directors and as a Football Coach.
  • The original McCamley Field built in 1959, home to Portage Northern, was torn down in 2018 and upgraded to a new facility at the same location (pictured above).

Crusaders mentioned in the Kalamazoo Gazette and Muskegon Chronicle articles below*:

  • Bruce Bourdon
  • Tom Kern
  • John Zimmer
  • Tom Holmes
  • Dave Komosinski
  • John Dombrowski
  • Mark Carslake
  • Frank Belmonte
  • Steve Jados
  • Dan Ozios
  • Jim Spilka
  • Frank Engle
  • Jim Tejchma

*Let these Crusaders know that they are in the newspaper this week…only 50 years later!

Kalamazoo Gazette

Muskegon Chronicle

Next Game:

Game 3

Grand Rapids Union Red Hawks

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Muskegon Catholic Central Crusaders

Friday, OCTOBER 2, 1970 7:00 pm

1970 MCC Football Game 1: Muskegon Catholic Central Crusaders at Grand Rapids Catholic Central Cougars

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Gametime Conditions:
  • Location: Grand Rapids, Michigan
  • Date: September 18, 1970
  • Game Location: Houseman Field
  • Geographic Coordinate:  42.9660°N 85.6462°W
  • Game Start: 7:00 pm ET
  • Sunset: 6:48 pm ET
  • Condition: Partly Cloudy
  • 61 degrees
  • 13 mph wind speed
  • WSW wind direction

Opponent Profile:

1970 Grand Rapids Catholic Central

Michigan Sports Classification:  Class A

Colors: Royal Blue and White

Nickname: Cougars

Year Founded: 1906

League:  Grand Rapids City League

Head Coach: Jerry Sieracki

Record Prior to MCC Game:    0 – 0

Record After MCC Game:         1 – 0

1970 Season Final Record:      6- 3

GRCC 1970 Scores

1970 Grand Rapids Catholic Central (GRCC) Football Notes:

  • Out of their 6 wins in 1970, GRCC shut out 4 teams (including MCC)  and allowed only 2 points against Lansing Everett because of a snap over the head of their punter in the end zone spoiling a 5th shut out of their 6 wins.
  • The 1959 MCC Football team lost the state championship to  GRCC 6-0 on November 13, 1959…the same date, day and time 11 years later, in 1970, that MCC played Muskegon High School.
  • In 1970, GRCC played two common MCC opponents.  MCC beat both.
  • In game 5 GRCC beat Grand Rapids Union 27 – 0
  • In Game 9 GRCC lost to Traverse City Central  28 – 20

Muskegon Catholic Central Crusaders at Grand Rapids Catholic Central Cougars Program

COVER

To enlarge: MCC vs GRCC Program Cover

ROSTERS

 

To enlarge:  MCC vs GRCC Program Rosters

 

Crusaders mentioned in Grand Rapids Press and Muskegon Chronicle articles below*:

  • Tom Kern
  • Bruce Bourdon
  • Jim Spilka
  • Steve Coyne
  • Tom Holmes
  • John Zimmer

*Let these Crusaders know that they are in the newspaper this week…only 50 years later!

Grand Rapids Press

Muskegon Chronicle

Next Game:

Game 2

Muskegon Catholic Central Crusaders (0 -1)

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Portage Northern Huskies (1 – 0)

Friday, September 25, 1970 7:00 pm

1970 Muskegon Catholic Central Football Preseason

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Scrimmage Participants

Host:

  • Muskegon Catholic Central High School- Class B

MCC Regular Season Opponents:

  • Game 8 – Muskegon Reeths Puffer High School – Class B – 1970 Record: 4-3-1
  • Game 9 – Muskegon High School – Class A (LMAC) – 1970 Record: 7-2

Scrimmage Only Opponents:

  • Grand Haven High School – Class A (LMAC) – 1970 Record: 8-1
  • Grand Rapids Godwin Heights High School – Class B- 1970 Record: 2-7
  • Detroit Redford St. Mary’s High School -Class B – 1970 Record: 3-5
  • Chicago Mendel Catholic Prep High School – Illinois Class AA (equal to Michigan Class B) – 1970 Record: N/A

Scrimmage Notes:

  • The 1970 football season was the first that Grand Haven and Mona Shores were in the LMAC playing 2 league games – 1 against each other and 1 other league game.  Both teams came from the defunct Valley-Coast League.
  • Chicago Mendel was an all-boys Catholic Prep School that was founded in 1953; the same year as Muskegon Catholic Central.  The school closed in 1988.

Clippings:

Muskegon Chronicle – September 11, 1970

Next Game:

Game 1

Muskegon Catholic Central at Grand Rapids Catholic Central

Friday, September 18, 1970 7:00 pm