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
1970 Muskegon Catholic Central Crusaders Football 50th Anniversary 
Can recall the chant from the stands: “The Huskies Eat Mush!” Drove to the game with a few other fans, where we almost got into a fight with some yokels at a rest stop just south of Grand Rapids after the game. Was told that the Upjohn family lived in Portage and attended Northern- noted their gym resembled a dome more than a barn.
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