Asst. Coach Ralph Bradley (left), Asst. Coach Frank Gawkowski (standing), Head Coach Waldo Keating (seated)
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Tag: 1970 Muskegon Catholic Central Football
1970 MCC Football Game 9: Muskegon Catholic Central Crusaders at Muskegon Big Reds
GAMETIME CONDITIONS:
- Location: Muskegon, Michigan
- Date: November 13, 1970
- Game Location: Hackley Stadium
- Geographic Coordinate: 43°13′29″N 86°14′46″W
- Game Start: 7:00 pm ET
- Sunset: 5:24 pm ET
- Condition: Cloudy
- Temperature: 44 Degrees
- MPH Wind Speed: 13 MPH
- Wind Direction: N
Opponent Profile:
1970 Muskegon High School
Michigan Sports Classification: Class A
Colors: Cardinal and Cream
Nickname: Big Reds
Year Founded: 1872
League: Lake Michigan Athletic Conference
Head Coach: Roger Chiaverini
Record Prior to MCC Game: 6 – 2
Record After MCC Game: 7 – 2
1970 Season Final Record: 7 – 2
Muskegon High School (MHS) 1970 Scores
MHS/MCC Game Statistics
1970 Muskegon High School (MHS) Football Notes:
- MHS was the 7th Class A Team played by Class B MCC in the 1970 season.
- MCC had already clinched the LMAC Championship before the MHS game. MHS finished second.
- The two losses on the 1970 MCC Schedule were to Class A MHS (#5, 12-20) and Class A Grand Rapids Catholic (#1, 18-32-2)) who are both in the top five in most games played against MCC and the only two schools in the top five that have a winning record through 2020 against MCC.
- The 32 points scored and 285 yards gained by MHS was the most given up by MCC in the 1970 season.
- Between 1964 and 1970 MHS Coach Chiaverini was 7 – o at MHS vs. MCC lifetime
- After the 1970 football season, MHS Coach Chiaverini left MHS and moved to MCC . It took him until the 1973 season to beat MHS. Between 1971 and 1978 he was 4-4 at MCC vs MHS lifetime.
- MHS Coach Roger Chiaverini was honored three times by the Michigan High School Football Coaches Association (MHSFCA) as a West All Star Coach and Hall of Fame Coach in 1983, and as a Jim Crowley Award winner in 1993. He was also inducted in the Muskegon Area Sports Hall of Fame in 1998, the same year as MCC track star Jerry Fitzpatrick and MCC running back Bobby Morse.
- 1970 MCC JV Football Coach Larry Sellers wrote tributes to both MHS Coach Chiaverini and MCC Coach Waldo Keating for their MHSFCA Crowley Awards.
- Chiaverini coached for 7 high schools and 1 college (Western Michigan University) in his 31 year coaching career.
Crusaders mentioned in the Muskegon Chronicle clipping below*:
- Bruce Bourdon
- Mark Carslake
- Tom Holmes
- Dave Komosinski
- John Zimmer
- Frank Engle
- Jim White
- Steve Jados
- Jim Spilka
- Dan Ozios
*Let these Crusaders know that they are in the newspaper this week…only 50 years later!
Muskegon Chronicle
MUSKEGON CATHOLIC CENTRAL NEWSPAPER QUOTEs OF THE WEEK:
“Well it was quite a season for us just the same. We had a great bunch of seniors and we’ll miss them all. We’ll still be accepting the Lake Michigan Athletic Conference trophy at our league meeting on Monday” said the coach (Waldo Keating).
“The last time I was involved in a state championship game was 1959. I hope it’s not another 11 years before we get the same opportunity” he remarked (Waldo Keating).”
Click link for large view: Muskegon Catholic vs Muskegon, Muskegon Chronicle, Nov. 14, 1970
Next Post:
1970 Muskegon Catholic Central Football Postseason Final Rankings /Awards
- Final Rankings
- Individual Honors
- 1970 Muskegon Catholic Central Football Season Epilogue
1970 MCC Football Game 6: Kalamazoo Hackett Fighting Irish at Muskegon Catholic Central Crusaders
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.”
Next Game:
Game 7
Muskegon Catholic Central Crusaders (5 -1)
at
Benton Harbor Tigers (4 – 2)
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1970 7:00 PM
1970 MCC Football Game 5: Traverse City Central Trojans at Muskegon Catholic Central Crusaders
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.”
- Please Zoom In on Clipping to Enlarge for Reading
Next Game:
Game 6
Kalamazoo Hackett (2 – 3)
at
Muskegon Catholic Central Crusaders (4 -1)
Friday, October 23, 1970 7:00 pm
1970 MCC Football Game 4: Muskegon Catholic Central Crusaders at Mona Shores Sailors
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
Next Game:
Game 5
Traverse City Central Trojans (3 – 1)
at
Muskegon Catholic Central Crusaders (3 -1)
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1970 7:00 PM
1970 MCC Football Game 2: Muskegon Catholic Central Crusaders at Portage Northern Huskies
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
Next Game:
Game 3
Grand Rapids Union Red Hawks
at
Muskegon Catholic Central Crusaders
Friday, OCTOBER 2, 1970 7:00 pm
1970 MCC Football Game 1: Muskegon Catholic Central Crusaders at Grand Rapids Catholic Central Cougars
Gametime Conditions:
- Location: Grand Rapids, Michigan
- Date: September 18, 1970
- Game Location: Houseman Field
- Geographic Coordinate: 42.9660°N 85.6462°W
- Game Start: 7:00 pm ET
- Sunset: 6:48 pm ET
- Condition: Partly Cloudy
- 61 degrees
- 13 mph wind speed
- WSW wind direction
Opponent Profile:
1970 Grand Rapids Catholic Central
Michigan Sports Classification: Class A
Colors: Royal Blue and White
Nickname: Cougars
Year Founded: 1906
League: Grand Rapids City League
Head Coach: Jerry Sieracki
Record Prior to MCC Game: 0 – 0
Record After MCC Game: 1 – 0
1970 Season Final Record: 6- 3
GRCC 1970 Scores
1970 Grand Rapids Catholic Central (GRCC) Football Notes:
- Out of their 6 wins in 1970, GRCC shut out 4 teams (including MCC) and allowed only 2 points against Lansing Everett because of a snap over the head of their punter in the end zone spoiling a 5th shut out of their 6 wins.
- The 1959 MCC Football team lost the state championship to GRCC 6-0 on November 13, 1959…the same date, day and time 11 years later, in 1970, that MCC played Muskegon High School.
- In 1970, GRCC played two common MCC opponents. MCC beat both.
- In game 5 GRCC beat Grand Rapids Union 27 – 0
- In Game 9 GRCC lost to Traverse City Central 28 – 20
Muskegon Catholic Central Crusaders at Grand Rapids Catholic Central Cougars Program
COVER
To enlarge: MCC vs GRCC Program Cover
ROSTERS
To enlarge: MCC vs GRCC Program Rosters
Crusaders mentioned in Grand Rapids Press and Muskegon Chronicle articles below*:
- Tom Kern
- Bruce Bourdon
- Jim Spilka
- Steve Coyne
- Tom Holmes
- John Zimmer
*Let these Crusaders know that they are in the newspaper this week…only 50 years later!
Grand Rapids Press
Muskegon Chronicle
1970 Muskegon Catholic Central Crusaders Football 50th Anniversary 