GAMETIME CONDITIONS:
- Location: Muskegon, Michigan
- Date: October 16, 1970
- Game Location: Kehren Stadium
- Geographic Coordinate: 43°13′8″N 86°16′20″W
- Game Start: 7:00 pm ET
- Sunset: 6:00 pm ET
- Conditions: Cloudy
- Temperature: 40 degrees
- Wind Speed: 3 MPH
- Wind direction: South
Opponent Profile:
1970 Traverse city central
Michigan Sports Classification: Class A
Colors: Black and Gold
Nickname: Trojans
Year Founded: 1853
League: Lake Michigan Athletic Conference
Head Coach: Jim Ooley
Record Prior to MCC Game: 3 -1
Record After MCC Game: 3 – 2
1970 Season Final Record: 7 – 2
Traverse City Central (TCC) 1970 Scores
TCC/MCC Game Statistics
1970 TCC Football Notes
- The MCC game against TCC was the 5th straight game against a Class A opponent.
- The MCC game against TCC was the 4th straight win against a Class A opponent.
- The MCC win against TCC broke a 13 game, 3 year LMAC winning streak by TCC and Head Coach Jim Ooley.
- The MCC team spent every day between the Mona Shores and TCC game studying TCC game films to dissect the TCC offense. During the TCC game, MCC Linebackers were able to point out exactly where the TCC play was going before the snap. TCC tried to change their offense scheme at halftime with no success.
- MCC held TCC to only 68 total yards and 7 first downs.
- After MCC Head Coach Waldo Keating moved north to coach Traverse City St. Francis, Coach Ooley asked Coach Keating how he was able to stop the potent 1970 TCC offense….Coach Keating just smiled.
- In 1970 TCC was only 4 points from an undefeated season because of a 2 – 0 loss to Bay City Central and the 8 -6 loss to MCC.
- The MCC defense held TCC scoreless. The 6 points scored by TCC was a defensive return of an MCC fumble for a TD. TCC missed the tying 2 point conversion against the MCC defense.
- TCC beat both Grand Rapids Catholic and Muskegon High School, the only two losses and “Away” games on the MCC 1970 schedule.
- TCC was founded in 1853…exactly 100 years earlier than MCC in 1953.
- TCC Head Coach Jim Ooley coaching honors in his 40 year career included being named Michigan High School Football Coaches Hall of Fame (MHSFCA) Regional Coach of the Year twelve times, MHSFCA Class A Coach of the Year three times, Detroit Free Press Coach of the Year, Associated Press Coach of the Year, induction into the MHSFCA Hall of Fame and the University of Wisconsin-Stout Hall of Fame with his last honors being named as the MHSFCA 1992 Coach of the Year and Crowley Award winner.
- The MHSFA Crowley Award was presented to Coach Ooley by 1970 MCC JV Coach Larry Sellers.
- TCC Head Coach Jim Ooley was famous in Traverse City for his motto: “Conceive It, Believe It, Achieve It,”
- The TCC football fans had a special cheer for Head Coach Ooley:
“Big O, Little O, L – E – Y Ooley,Ooley, He’s our Guy!”
Crusaders mentioned in Grand Rapids Press and Muskegon Chronicle articles below*:- Jim White
- Bruce Bourdon
- Bill Hotwagner
- Jim Spilka
- Tom Kern
- Jim Tejchma
- Dave Komosinski
- Frank Engle
- John Dombrowski
- Steve Jados
- Steve Spetoskey
- Neil Sweet
- Dan Ozios
Traverse City Record-Eagle
Traverse City Central Newspaper Quote of the Week:
“It had to happen sometime and last night was the night.”
Muskegon Chronicle
Muskegon Catholic Central Newspaper Quote of the Week:
“The victory, easily the school’s most symbolic since that last minute 27 -21 win over Flint Northern 12 years ago, means that Catholic has returned to its former status as one of the state’s grid powers for the first time in nearly a decade.”
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1970 Muskegon Catholic Central Crusaders Football 50th Anniversary 