Hello,
Now that my site is finished and we put on the remaining content, I am starting up our Single Wing Football Fanatic News Blog. I will be having different daily issues on single wing football.
Our first series deals with Rivalries of Single Wing Football teams from past decades and beyond. This will also be a way to introduce all of you to some retired legends of the game that you may not have heard about and rivalries that still exist or have went the way of the dinosaur.
What we will do is introduce you to the coaches and the teams and then do a week by week,(daily for us) of one of their seasons. We will take you through the season with articles and such until the end of their season with or without playoffs. I will have articles to read etc. and combine with some pictures of our 2008 single wing football tour.
Please post comments here and on the blog. It is gonna be fun.
The first season, teams and coaches I will be taking you through is the following:
Single Wing Blast From the Past Rivalry:
Colorado:Trinidad Catholic HS vs Hoehne Farmers
Coaches:
Hoehne Farmers-Jasper Butero mentored by Coach Bear Wetzel
Trinidad Catholic Tigers-HC Gene Salbato, assistant coach Bear Wetzel
Rivalry-dating back to the 40s and 50s.
Season Recap: 1981: Both teams have been in the same conference for years and years. This year is interesting for many factors:
1. In the past only one team made the playoffs and it was either one of these 2 teams or Sargent who was then coached by Coach Rice another Single Wing Coach who is now in Akron.
2. New conference means Sargent nemesis is no longer in the league and now 2 teams will make the playoffs.
3. New teams are powerhouses including Springfield and Walsh.
4. Hoehne won its first state championship ever going undefeated in 1980 under legendary Coach Jasper Butero. TC Tigers almost knocked them out of the right to go to the playoffs the year before and has a nice winning streak going but lost a lot of its players from that team.
5. Walsh, who now joins the conference lost the state championship to Hoehne at the Farmers homers home field. Walsh felt they threw it away and is hoping for revenge as they bring a stud lineup back in 1981 featuring to fo the best tandem RB in the state of Co even for small school CO football.
6. The TC Hoehne game at the end of the season is at Hoehne and as usual Jasper Butero has put what he thinks is the hardest game on the schedule for Homecoming as his philosophy is you never want to lose your homecoming so you have motivation to play harder.
7. This game matches mentors as Jasper Butero played under Coach Bear Wetzel at Trinidad State Junior College where they ran the single wing. Jasper will now face his 2 rival coaches again as the Farmers have a target on their back from winning state before.
8. Rivalry is tough because most of these kids are from the same communities but choose to go to either the private TC Tigers or the rural school Hoehne but most kids grow up hanging around each other and this rivalry is one of the best in single wing history.
So please join me as we get underway on our blog and look into the past with single wing lore!
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