GAMETIME CONDITIONS

• Location: Norton Shores, Michigan
• Date: October 9, 1970
• Game Location: Sailor Stadium
• Geographic Coordinate: 43°11′08″N 86°16′20″W
• Game Start: 7:00 pm ET
• Sunset:   6:11 pm ET
• Condition: Cloudy
• 63 degrees
• 16 mph wind speed
• SSW wind direction

Opponent Profile:

1970 Mona Shores Team Profile

Michigan Sports Classification:  Class A 

Colors: White, Navy Blue, Columbia blue

Nickname: Sailors

Year Founded: 1962

League:  Lake Michigan Athletic Conference (LMAC)

Head Coach:  Don Mosley

   Record Prior to MCC Game:    1 – 2

Record After MCC Game:         1 – 3

1970 Season Final Record:      1– 8

1970 Scores

Game Statistics

Game NOTES

• The 1970 MCC win against Mona Shores was the 3rd straight against Class A teams.
• The 1970 MCC defense held the Sailors to only 37  total yards and 2 first downs. 
• The 46 point winning margin by the 1970 MCC team was the largest  in the 50 game series against MS spanning between 1964 and 2013 and the second most total points scored by MCC in a single game against MS eclipsed only by the 2011 MCC team’s 48 points.
• MS Head Coach Don Mosley was admitted to the Muskegon Area Sports Hall of Fame (MASHF) in 2009 primarily from his legacy of being the MS Wrestling Coach as described in his profile: Between 1962 and 2001, his teams racked up a 489-186-4 record, winning an amazing 72 percent of their matches. During that span, the Sailors dominated the city wrestling meet, earning 20 city titles.
• Coach Mosley was MS Head Football Coach for only 3 years from 1968 through 1970.
• Head Coach Mosely’s best record in MS Football was 8 -1 in 1968 whose .889 winning percentage stood as best all time for a MS football team for 47 years  until the 2015 Sailor football team, with a 1o – 1 record/.909 winning percentage finally took the top spot.
• In Week 3 1070, MCC played Grand Rapids Union, one of the oldest Michigan High Schools founded in 1859. In Week 4 1970, MCC played Mona Shores (MS) that was one of the youngest Michigan High Schools at that time, founded in 1962.
• The Muskegon Chronicle article below was one of only two all season NOT written by Chronicle Sports Writer Mart Tardani.

Crusaders mentioned in the Muskegon Chronicle article below*:

• Jim Spilka
• Dan Ozios
• Bruce Bourdon
• Jim White

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

Newspaper Quote of the week:

“Coach Mosley, calling the Crusaders “a fine team”, said it was the worst defeat one of his teams had ever suffered.”

Muskegon Chronicle

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