Snow Bowl 1968 comes to mind… Obviously I was not around but I have heard many stories… I believe it was a 6-0 Marceline victory.
— Jody Graff
The year was 1987. I was serving as a member of the Brookfield R-III Board of Education and signed a contract to teach middle school math at Marceline. It was written into my contract that I had to wear black and gold to the Bell Game. I loved the teaching job, but the Bulldogs were still mine as well. Therefore, to comply with job requirements my mother got out the sewing machine and stitched a pair of pants with one black leg and one white leg. The blouse was half gold and half royal blue. Needless to say it wasn’t worn often, but in the five years I was at Marceline it came in pretty handy that one night of the year.
— Debbie Fite
Dear Sirs,
I would like to correct a statement from the Daily News Bulletin dated Monday, November 13, 1967. The Marceline Tigers defeated the Brookfield Bulldogs 14-0 on the previous Friday. The Tigers scored two touchdowns in the second quarter and then held off the hard-hitting Bulldogs for the rest of the game. The second touchdown for the Tigers occurred when on defense “Marceline was penalized for offside, putting the ball on the Bulldog 22. Mike Murphy lost a yard on an attempted run on which no blocking developed, so Applegate had to punt. The Tigers rushed ten men, leaving only Kem Cavanah back in single safety. The middle of the Marceline line blocked the punt, and Jack Whisenand picked up the loose ball around the Bulldog 10, and raced untouched into the end zone for a cheap but hard earned — touchdown.”
The statement “The middle of the line” was wrong. It was the right defensive end who blocked the punt and who heard Jack Whisenand say “It’s mine!” I hope you do not think I am hubristic but I would like my “ten seconds of fame.” I was that right end. The punter had set up too close to the line. I could not catch a football but defense was fun that year for me. We finished the season with a 6-3 record and the Bell. By the way the Tiger Tales school newspaper got it right by printing “the ball was blocked.” Sometimes the less said is correct. Go Tigers!
— Joe Still, Jr.
P.S. My father beat Brookfield his Senior year in the 1938 Bell Game as did my older brother, Stephen, in 1963, as well as my younger brother, Curtis, did in 1971. We were 4-0!
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