Okay. This is a really fuzzy memory for me. And also a demonstration of my crap-crap-crappy football knowledge. So, here I am, exposing my stupidity for all to see. But someone in our class must have a much sharper memory of this and can fill in the missing details.
It was a football game. A really important one. And it either determined that we would get to compete in the state championship. Or it may have actually been the state championship.
And somebody named Todd (Michael Todd, maybe, but I won't swear to it) was the extraordinarily talented athlete who was the quarterback. (If memory serves, he wasn't the tallest kid in the world, but was also a star on the basketball team.)
And was this in our freshman year??
And there were only a few minutes left in the game. Or maybe it was only a few seconds. And we were down to the one yard line. Well, maybe not the one yard line, but it was really close.
And I remember screaming until I lost my voice.
But that's where my memory fails me.
I'm counting on one of you out there who will remember every last detail and can fill in the missing pieces.
Help!!
Hello Cathy and classmates of RHS'69:
ReplyDeletePerhaps the class archaeologist can assist in this bit of (ancient) history...
We were sophomores in 1967 when this happened. It was the semi-final game for the state class A championship between Russellville and Frankfort.
Russellville scored the winning points late in the 4th quarter to defeat Frankfort 16 to 9.
This game sticks in my mind because the Frankfort quarterback was the next door neighbor of my 1st cousin in Frankfort. Also I think this was the game in which quarterback Jim Welker broke his femur and spent a lot of time in a cast and rehab.
The Panthers then went to the State Class A Championship which was played at the University of Kentucky's old football field which was right behind the Anthropoloigy Department that was to become my home several years later. That game was lost when on 4th down, the Panthers made it to the 1 foot line and had to turn over the ball to Dayton (whoever they are!) and they ran out the 54 seconds on the clock. The Score was 6-2.
Wondering how the **** did he remember all of that? I didn't; its in our 1967 Yearbook. Being the absent minded professor type, I had no idea where it was within our library, but my wife found it for me quickly.
Looking forward to seeing all of you in October.
Cheers,
Lloyd
Man am I ever glad that you revealed your secret to remembering all of this. You had me thinking... Wow! I want some of whatever Lloyd is taking. Sometimes I can't remember from one room to the next what I went there for.
ReplyDeleteLloyd -- I give you the award of the week for even realizing it was in the yearbook!
ReplyDeleteThanks for the compliment. At some point, I discovered or realized that there is just too much informaton out there to remember everything (I think back to the difficulty I had reciting poems in 7th grade), so I decided to focus on where to obtain the info when I need it rather than trying to keep it all in my limited number of brain cells! (And Mrs. Piper would not be happy with that run-0n sentence....)
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