GAMETIME CONDITIONS:

• Location: Muskegon, Michigan
• Date: November 6, 1970
• Game Location: Kehren Stadium
• Geographic Coordinate: 43°13′8″N 86°16′20″W
• Game Start: 7:00 pm ET
• Sunset:  5:30 pm ET
• Condition:  Cloudy
• Temperature:  54 Degrees
• MPH Wind Speed:   16 MPH
• Wind Direction:  SW

Opponent Profile:

1970 Reeths-Puffer

Michigan Sports Classification:  Class B

Colors: Green and White

Nickname: Rockets

Year Founded: 1958

League:  Seaway Conference

Head Coach:  Gale Bolthouse

Record Prior to MCC Game:    4 – 2 – 1

Record After MCC Game:        4 – 3 – 1

1970 Season Final Record:      4 – 3 – 1

Reeths Puffer (RP) 1970 Scores

RP/MCC Game Statistics

1970 Reeths Puffer Football Notes:

• The 30 points scored by MCC was the most given up by R-P in 75 previous games.
• After 7 games, 6 against Class A opponents, game 8 against R-P was only the second and final Class B team on the 1970 MCC Football schedule.
• Mona Shores earned its only win of their season by beating R-P in the first game of the season.
• R-P played Fruitport HS to a tie in game 5 but came in second in the Seaway Conference to Fruitport due to a loss to last place Whitehall High School in game 7.
• The 1970 R-P team played only 8 games so the loss to MCC was their last game of the 1970 season.
• Head Coach Bolthouse was 1st team all Southwestern Michigan  Conference quarterback for Grand Haven HS in 1943, enlisted in the Navy in June 1944 immediately after graduating and, after serving, played center for the Michigan State Football squad for 4 years.
• Head Coach Bolthouse passed away in 1972  less than 2 years after the 1970  season at only 45 years old.
• R-P honored Coach Bolthouse by renaming their football field “Gale Bolthouse Stadium” in 1973.
• Gale Bolthouse Stadium was demolished in 1998 when R-P moved to the current Rocket Stadium.

Crusaders mentioned in the Muskegon Chronicle clipping below*:

• Jim Spilka
• Dave Komosinski
• Steve Jados
• Tom Holmes
• John Dombrowski
• Frank Belmonte
• Tom Kern

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

Muskegon Chronicle

MUSKEGON CATHOLIC CENTRAL NEWSPAPER QUOTE OF THE WEEK:

“The 17 – 8 deficit forced Catholic to demonstrate the mark of a true champion…the ability to come from behind.”

Next Game:

Game 9

Muskegon Catholic Central Crusaders (7 -1)

at

Muskegon Big Reds (6 – 2)

FRIDAY, November 13, 1970 7:00 PM