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1970 MCC Football Game 8: Reeths-Puffer Rockets at Muskegon Catholic Central Crusaders

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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

1970 MCC Football Game 1: Muskegon Catholic Central Crusaders at Grand Rapids Catholic Central Cougars

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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

Next Game:

Game 2

Muskegon Catholic Central Crusaders (0 -1)

at

Portage Northern Huskies (1 – 0)

Friday, September 25, 1970 7:00 pm

1970 Muskegon Catholic Central Football Preseason

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Scrimmage Participants

Host:

  • Muskegon Catholic Central High School- Class B

MCC Regular Season Opponents:

  • Game 8 – Muskegon Reeths Puffer High School – Class B – 1970 Record: 4-3-1
  • Game 9 – Muskegon High School – Class A (LMAC) – 1970 Record: 7-2

Scrimmage Only Opponents:

  • Grand Haven High School – Class A (LMAC) – 1970 Record: 8-1
  • Grand Rapids Godwin Heights High School – Class B- 1970 Record: 2-7
  • Detroit Redford St. Mary’s High School -Class B – 1970 Record: 3-5
  • Chicago Mendel Catholic Prep High School – Illinois Class AA (equal to Michigan Class B) – 1970 Record: N/A

Scrimmage Notes:

  • The 1970 football season was the first that Grand Haven and Mona Shores were in the LMAC playing 2 league games – 1 against each other and 1 other league game.  Both teams came from the defunct Valley-Coast League.
  • Chicago Mendel was an all-boys Catholic Prep School that was founded in 1953; the same year as Muskegon Catholic Central.  The school closed in 1988.

Clippings:

Muskegon Chronicle – September 11, 1970

Next Game:

Game 1

Muskegon Catholic Central at Grand Rapids Catholic Central

Friday, September 18, 1970 7:00 pm