Day 149, "Every picture has a story"
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| The Letterman's Club officers for 64/65 |
It was Monday, August 24, 1964. As I drove into the parking lot at Sargent Central I thought back to that Monday of October 21 a year ago. Our football team had been co-champions of the conference and had gone to the Twin Cities to watch the Vikings play the Colts. Our superintendent, Mr. Thunem, had given us a free trip for our football wins. On that Monday we had met with coach Hanson for the last time. He said that he always allowed his team to vote for the next year's captain. After the vote was counted I was IT. I was so proud and happy as I loved football and felt that of all the returning players I could do the best job. We would lose many of our team. The class ahead of us had some very good athletes so we all knew the next year would not be the same but still we had 3 or 4 returning starters and some good kids in the grades below.
But today was the start of my senior year of school or should I say "sports" as that was more my focus than studying!!! We had a new coach and I was not too excited about that. Mr. Hanson had left Sargent Central for another school. Mr. Hanson had been my favorite teacher and was a great football coach. Mr. Murray came on as the new coach and was only one of the many many disappointments as the fall wore on. John, our quarterback, broke his arm and was pretty much out for the fall. Dan, one of our big lineman, was out for most of the season. Mike (not his real name) was a freshman and according to the county elevator scale weighed in at over 400! I thought he may be a HUGE asset for the team but it turned out that he had a hard time putting one foot ahead of the other. THEN coach Murray decided to replace John, with the broken arm, with a freshman quarterback, not a good idea "for sure".
The season was a disaster from start to finish. We won 1 game and lost 6. There was NO reward at the end of the season. Perhaps the highlight for me was getting to plant a kiss on Nancy's cheek as I crowned her Homecoming Queen! There were some rewards for being the captain!
Fast forward to basketball and that was much more successful but ended in a 5th place district tournament which was a disappointment.
Another restful day on day 2 of the weekend. Yesterday I ran did some shopping and got some more books from the library. Once again just some "mindless" books that one can pick up and put down at any time but entertaining.
FP history, breakfast finished so time for a couple of swims and maybe finish my book.
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