GAMETIME CONDITIONS:
- Location: Muskegon, Michigan
- Date: October 23, 1970
- Game Location: Kehren Stadium
- Geographic Coordinate: 43°13′8″N 86°16′20″W
- Game Start: 7:00 pm ET
- Sunset: 5:49 pm ET
- Condition: Cloudy
- Temperature: 60 degrees
- MPH Wind Speed: 8 mph
- Wind Direction: E
Opponent Profile:
1970 Kalamazoo Hackett
Michigan Sports Classification: Class B
Colors: Kelly Green and White
Nickname: Fighting Irish
Year Founded: 1964
League: Lake Michigan Athletic Conference
Head Coach: Dick Soisson
Record Prior to MCC Game: 2 – 3
Record After MCC Game: 2 -4
1970 Season Final Record: 4- 5
Grand Rapids Union 1970 Scores
KH/MCC Game Statistics
1970 Kalamazoo Hackett (KH) Football Notes:
- After 5 straight Class A teams, KH was the first Class B team on the 1970 MCC Football Schedule.
- The win against KH guaranteed a winning season for MCC for the first time in 8 years.
- The MCC Defense held KH to only 34 yards rushing, the 5th straight game an opponent was held to less than 55 yards.
- The only touchdown of the game for KH was scored by Mike Holmes who became a legendary MCC Coach from 1978 through 2012 with 212 wins and had the MCC football field in Kehren Stadium named after him.
- 1970 was the last year that KH was a member of the LMAC and the last time KH played MCC.
- After finishing with a 4 – 5 record in 1970, KH went 9 – 0 in 1971 and 8 – 1 in both 1972 and 1973.
- KH was founded in 1964 making it the youngest school on the 1970 MCC Football schedule.
- KH Head Coach Dick Soisson, coached for a combined 41 seasons at Owosso St. Paul, Kalamazoo St. Augustine and Kalamazoo Hackett and posted his 200th win in 1984 en route to a 233 – 124 – 7 coaching record.
- KH Head Coach Dick Soisson was admitted to the Michigan High School Football Coaches Hall of Fame (MHSFCA) in 1983.
Crusaders mentioned in the Kalamazoo Gazette and Muskegon Chronicle clippings below*:
- Jim White
- Jim Spilka
- Frank Engle
- Bruce Bourdon
- Steve Spetoskey
- Tom Garzelloni
- Ted Kling
- Dan Ozios
- Frank Belmonte
- Tom Kroll
- Steve Jados
- John Zimmer
- Steve Coyne
- Neil Sweet
- Steve Lenar
- Jim Tejchma
*Let these Crusaders know that they are in the newspaper this week…only 50 years later!
Kalamazoo Gazette
KALAMAZOO HACKETT NEWSPAPER QUOTE OF THE WEEK:
“Third ranked Muskegon Catholic put a second half knockout punch on the forces of Hackett High School and roared to a 29 – 6 Lake Michigan Athletic Conference win Friday.”
Muskegon Chronicle
MUSKEGON CATHOLIC CENTRAL NEWSPAPER QUOTE OF THE WEEK:
“The results, MCC’s fifth straight win, brought happy smiles for the first time in months to its quarterback of only three seasons ago, Ted Kling.”
1970 Muskegon Catholic Central Crusaders Football 50th Anniversary 