November 26, 2019
Looking back on a Conference Championship
50 year ago
BY TYSON SMEDSTAD
BY TYSON SMEDSTAD
Maybe football causes memory loss? At least it seems so if you were on the GHS 1969 football team.
After several attempts to learn more about the 1969 football team and its trip to state, it became clear that even though it was a big deal to win a championship, the excitement wears after 50 years.
When I asked team member Mike Zimmerman about his memories of the big day he said, “Not much, I was a sophomore.”
Ok, maybe that was just one guy.
Roger Affeldt, had a similar story because he was a freshman at the time. He said he “played Junior Varsity that year and didn’t remember much.”
Nope, it’s multiple guys.
To refresh everyone’s memory of the championship, it was the time GHS won a football title.
On the opening drive of the 1969 Missouri Basin Conference game, Tom Sorenson went 52 yards on a pass from Warren Staehr for the first of six Troopers touchdowns.
“Our kids surprised the devil out of me,” GHS Head Football Coach Pat McNally said in the Independent about the Troopers 8-0 season when Garrison beat the Wilton Miners 36-14. That win secured the Missouri Basin Conference Title.
After several attempts to learn more about the 1969 football team and its trip to state, it became clear that even though it was a big deal to win a championship, the excitement wears after 50 years.
When I asked team member Mike Zimmerman about his memories of the big day he said, “Not much, I was a sophomore.”
Ok, maybe that was just one guy.
Roger Affeldt, had a similar story because he was a freshman at the time. He said he “played Junior Varsity that year and didn’t remember much.”
Nope, it’s multiple guys.
To refresh everyone’s memory of the championship, it was the time GHS won a football title.
On the opening drive of the 1969 Missouri Basin Conference game, Tom Sorenson went 52 yards on a pass from Warren Staehr for the first of six Troopers touchdowns.
“Our kids surprised the devil out of me,” GHS Head Football Coach Pat McNally said in the Independent about the Troopers 8-0 season when Garrison beat the Wilton Miners 36-14. That win secured the Missouri Basin Conference Title.
