SMALL TOWN FOOTBALL: MY CAREER – 27 GAMES AT TIGHT END – CATCHES – 0
SMALL TOWN FOOTBALL PART 7 HIGH SCHOOL VARSITY FOOTBALL We played keep-a-way for five years in grade school. We played two hand touch, and flag in junior high. We learned how to put on gear, line up and kind of play a real game as freshmen. Now it was time to man up and play […]
SMALL TOWN FOOTBALL: FRESHMAN FOOTBALL-PLAYING AN ACTUAL GAME
SMALL TOWN FOOTBALL PART 6 LEARNING THE GAME OF FOOTBALL – OUR FRESHMAN TEAM So, now we had a group of 16 freshmen. We had uniforms, such as they were. We had two coaches with the unenvious task of making us into a real football team. We also had a place to practice far away […]
SMALL TOWN FOOTBALL: PUTTING ON THAT UNIFORM
SMALL TOWN FOOTBALL PART 5 FRESHMAN FOOTBALL: LEARNING THE GAME – PUTTING ON THAT DAMNED UNIFORM Now, it was the fall of 1961. The school’s powers that be, had decided that our class would have their own team. The sophomores and juniors were not happy with this decision and called us chickens and other names. […]
SMALL TOWN FOOTBALL: GETTING READY FOR HIGH SCHOOL
HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL: A RUDE AWAKENING When my classmate and I were in grade school we went to all the home games, but only watched a few plays. We gathered behind the visitors grandstands and played a game we called “pass-tackle. This was an easy version of two hand touch. In this game the quarterback […]
SMALLTOWN FOOTBALL: JUNIOR HIGH
SMALL TOWN FOOTBALL PART 3 FOOTBALL: THE JUNIOR HIGH EXPERIENCE – TWO HAND TOUCH AND FLAG We did not play organized, with pads, against other schools, football in our junior high years. The larger towns, Centralia and Chehalis, had Pop Warner Football funded by different organizations, but were not school affiliated. They also played junior […]
SMALL TOWN FOOTBALL: GRADE SCHOOL KEEP AWAY
SMALL TOWN FOOTBALL PART 2 FROM THE GRADE SCHOOL PLAYGROUNDS TO THE REAL FOOTBALL FIELD So, how did I become a Mossyrock High School football player? It started on the grade school playground, playing keep-a-way. Keep-a-way is a pretty simple game that involves a red rubber play ground ball, about 30 kids, divided equally and […]
SMALL TOWN FOOTBALL: FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS
SMALL TOWN FOOTBALL: PROLOG FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS Small town football is awesome! It is Friday Night Lights without the distraction of college recruiters and kids or parents worrying about getting scholarships. In our league of high schools with less than 200 students, about once every ten years was there someone good enough to play in […]
SMALL TOWN FOOTBALL: PREFACE
MY FOOTBALL CAREER PREFACE I played for Mossyrock High School in the seasons from 1961 to 1964, graduating in 1965. I missed being on the 1960 state championship team. I have mixed feelings about that. I could have said I was on the state championship team, but would have never played nor lettered. But, I […]
LITTLE LAEGUE ALL STAR
Or, Careful what you wished for: A detailed description of my one ill-fated at bat as an all star. LITTLE LEAGUE ALL-STAR or BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR 5th In A Series About Baseball By the time I was 12, I had played Little League for five years. I knew the names, mascots and […]
THE (almost) JOY of Victory
From almost a home run to an out at first: My Little League Career summed up in one play. MY LITTLE LEAGUE CAREER 5TH IN A SERIES ABOUT BASEBALL AND LITTLE LEAGUE When I was 10, a life changing event took place. Two brothers, Marvin and Norman Howard, who made a lot of money in […]