Remembering the Youngstown City Series and Steel Valley Conference

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I have been unable to locate the 1966 All-City Series team, nor the 1969 and 1970 teams. As noted either here or in the basketball thread, Google Newspaper archives for some reason have a lot of Sunday editions missing. So if anyone can find those years and post them here it will be appreciated. Here's the 1967 team, with 1968 to follow on Wednesday.

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The above All-City team is comprised of a complete Offensive (14 players) & Defensive (13 players) team for the first time. An Honorable Mention section from each team was also added.

In 1967 Mooney upset a heavily favored Ursuline team, 22-6. The Cardinals then again lost to Chaney, who lost to Ursuline. Mooney won the title outright thanks to the East High Golden Bears managing an 8-8 tie with Ursuline in the last game of the season. The Cardinals finished 6-1 in the CS. Ursuline & Chaney both finished with 5-1-1 records as Chaney had a tie with South. 1967 also marked the last year of City Series membership for football for Mooney and Ursuline

1967 MOONEY ( LAST YEAR IN CITY SERIES )
ERIE CATHEDRAL PREP W 44-18
ALLIANCE L 0-28
EAST W 76-14
SOUTH W 16-12
URSULINE W 22-6
WILSON W 30-0
CHANEY L 22-26
NORTH W 20-12
RAYEN W 16-0
CANTON C.C. T 8-8
7-2-16-1 City
48-13-5 All-time City Series record

College players I know of:

Offense:

E - Ken Mogish - Chaney - Kent St.
E - Chip Zitello - Chaney - YSU
OT - Paul Lisko YSU
OG - Al Hutko - Mooney - Ga. Tech
C - John Young - Mooney - Akron
QB - Lou Angelo - Chaney - Pitt & N. Carolina - WFL
Back - Bob Mogulich - Mooney -jr. - Michigan
Back - Vince Julian - Ursuline - YSU
Back - Jerry Fields - South - BGSU
Back - John Sefcik - Chaney - Columbia
Back - Dick Banks - Wilson - YSU
Back - Julius Livas - South - BGSU

Defense:

DT - Mike North - North - Delaware St.
DT - Tom Ventresco - Mooney - Ohio U.
MG - Ron Scroggins - South - Panhandle St. Okla.
LB - Bob Susor - Mooney - Xavier
LB - Joe Briganti - Ursuline - YSU
LB - Bob Matey - Chaney - Iowa St.
LB - Randy Dotson - Rayen -YSU
DB - Don Cramb - South - YSU
DB - Dale Gresko - Mooney - DePauw

Honorable Mention:

Mooney: QB - Jamie Dunn - Walsh
Chaney: Defense - Bill Drahuschak & Joe Dulik - both to BGSU
East: HB - Ray Lewis - Norfolk St.
South: C - Larry Jordan
Ursuline: LB - Joe Gardner - soph - Miami (O)
Wilson: OT - Ray Sedita - YSU
 
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As these All-City teams show, and backed up by YTOWN's expansive knowledge, Youngstown and the Mahoning Valley produced a significant number of extremely talented football players, many whom went to to play for big-time college programs. They also show that many of these high school stars went on to ultimately become successful high school head coaches, assistant coaches, and athletic directors in the Mahoning Valley area and elsewhere. Also of note is that Youngstown State University (Youngstown College at the time) recruited heavily, naturally, in it's own backyard and found success with that formula in the 50's, 60's, 70's, and 80's. Another interesting observation is the number of brothers (and/or cousins) who appear on these teams; and in the case of a player below (Clinton Lynch), I'm thinking we may now have been witness to a third generation (?) of a Lynch running back in Youngstown high schools.

Continuing on in this series is the 1968 team below. (Note that I have been unable to locate the 1969 and 1970 teams on the internet...and may have to rely on YTOWN's extensive apparent hard-copy collection to fill in those blanks. I do, however, have the 1971 and 1972 teams on tap, but then a 5-year gap in the mid-70's with nothing until the 1978 and 1979 teams.)

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Looking at these teams i noticed there has not been more than 1 Wilson player selected each year. Was the program/coaches that bad or just had better basketball led by the likes of Yugovich,Carlson, etc.?
 
With the departure of Mooney and Ursuline in 1968 the CS went to a Shaughnessy System playoff to determine the league champion. The Shaughnessy System takes the top four teams in the league into a two round playoff. I think this was done primarily to add some games to the schedule as none of the CS teams had more than 6 games scheduled for the "regular" season.

Rayen beat all 5 of the other CS teams to earn the top seed and under normal conditions the CS title. Chaney was #2, North #3 and South #4. Wilson and East were on the outside looking in. They played each other in the week of the 1st round with Wilson reversing a 12-0 loss to East and beating the Bears by the same score.

Rayen beat North, 28-6 to advance to the title game while Chaney and South tied 6-6. Prior to the playoffs it had been agreed to that any tie game would be decided by total offensive yardage. Chaney had a big edge in that department so they were awarded the berth in the title game. The Cowboys had defeated the Warriors South 6-0 in the last week of the regular season. Chaney easily handled Rayen 28-0 in the title game to win the championship. The Tigers had beaten Chaney, 8-6 in the regular season.

1968 CHANEY
WILSON W 18-0
CAMPBELL L 6-20
NORTH W 36-20
RAYEN L 6-8
EAST W 28-8
SOUTH W 6-0
SOUTH (SHAUGHNESSY PLAYOFFS) T 6-6
RAYEN (TITLE GAME) W 28-0
5-2-15-1-1 City

College players I know of:

Offense:

E - Tony Bell - South - jr. - BGSU - drafted by the Colts (More about him in 69)
E - Richard Rajkovich - Wilson - YSU
OT - Frank Paden - Chaney - Hiram
Back - Randy Dotson _ Rayen - YSU

Defense:

DE - Jerry Fedorsin - Chaney - Hiram
DT - Mervin Teague - OSU
LB - Jim O'Malley - Chaney - Notre Dame - Denver Broncos
LB - Earl Hargrove - BGSU
DB - Gary Seeman - Chaney - BGSU
DB - Bill Drahuschak - Chaney - BGSU

A bunch of Honorable Mention guys that season played college ball but almost all of them were underclassmen and will be covered in 69.

Just to clarify the guys I am listing are not necessarily the only guys on these teams that went on to play college ball and beyond. There are the guys I know of. There were also some guys that never made the All-City team that went on to play big time college and even NFL football.
 
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Ytown
Any reason for the 1 vs 3 & 2 vs 4 format for the Shaughnessy playoffs? As opposed to a more traditional 1-4. / 2-3
 
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Ytown
Any reason for the 1 vs 3 & 2 vs 4 format for the Shaughnessy playoffs? As opposed to a more traditional 1-4. / 2-3
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Prior to the games it was said that it was usually 1-4 but just like when OHSAA went to 4 teams per region in 1985 the only hard rule was 1 would not play 2 and by extension 3 would not play 4. I was surprised when it was announced right after the Chaney-South game to end the season that they would play each other again the next week. Rayen played North in week one. I thought it would be 1-4, which would have been Rayen-South and Chaney-North in round one but that's not how they matched them up. At the time I wondered if they were trying to set up, or at least hoping for, a Rayen-South title game with that match-up but they used the 1-3 match-up again in 69 and Rayen did not even qualify.
 
The City Series once again used the Shaughnessy System playoff to determine the league champion. This year Chaney went in as the #1 seed as the Cowboys had defeated all 5 of the other CS schools. Wilson was #2, North #3 and South #4. Once again the first round saw a 1-3, 2-4 match-up with Chaney beating North and South beating Wilson. Chaney then beat South, 42-14 to win the title. The Cowboys had all they could handle with the Warriors in the regular season game escaping with a 19-18 win. Chaney opened the season with a 14-0 loss to Fitch in the first game ever played at the current Fitch Stadium.



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1969 CHANEY
FITCH L 0-14
CAMPBELL L 6-14
EAST W 20-0
SOUTH W 19-18
NORTH W 41-0
MOONEY W 27-12
WILSON W 27-0
RAYEN W 41-6
NORTH (SHAUGHNESSY PLAYOFFS) W 22-8
SOUTH (TITLE GAME) W 42-12
8-25-0 City

College players I know of:

Offense:

E - Tony Bell - South - BGSU - drafted by the Colts (Mr. Bell was also an All-City hoopster and he played at least one season of hoops at BGSU. He was another whose time was cut short as he had MS)
E - Rollen Smith - Wilson - Arkansas - drafted by the Bengals - played with the Charlotte Hornets in the WFL & the BC Lions in the CFL. Long time area coach.
OT - Jeff Romack - Chaney - Purdue
OT - Tome Perantoni - Wilson - YSU
OG - James Friendly - North - jr. - YSU
QB - Jerry Sanchy - Chaney - Columbia
Back - Michael Williams - North - Mt. Union
Back - Jim Calcagni - Chaney - Adrian
Specialist - Rich Chearno - Wilson - Colorado St.
Specialist - Ron Berdis - Chaney - Mt. Union (Long time Chaney HC)

Defense:

DE - Nazih Banna - Rayen - YSU
DE - Elvin Charity - North - jr, - Yale - Drafted by the Bengals
DT - Governor Bowers - East - jr. - New Mexico St.
MG - Don McDowell - South - YSU
LB - Joe Petretich - East - YSU
LB - Abe Welcher - South - jr. - Kansas St. Teachers (I believe this is now Emporia St.)
DB - Don Brunetti - Chaney - Hiram
DB - Gary McCullogh - East - N. Michigan

HM:

Chaney: Steve Fedorsin - Columbia
East: Henry LaRocca - Mt. Union
North: All juniors: Tom Hight - YSU, Richard Bevly - Ohio U., Vincent Smith - Mt. Union
South: Doug Floyd - South - jr. - Kansas St. Teachers
Wlson: Both juniors: Dave Collela - Columbia, Paul Motosko - Kansas St. Teachers
 
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Thank you YTOWN for adding your vast knowledge of Youngstown-area sports, and specifically for filling in the blanks (years) of the All-City teams that I have been unable to find on-line. If you will be so kind to post the 1970 team tomorrow or sometime soon it will be much appreciated.

My memory, which may be mistaken, of Tony Bell at Bowling Green was that he was a defensive back (safety) his senior season of 1973, which was the first year I arrived at BGSU. As a sophomore in the 1971 season, Bell had a limited but incredible stat line as an offensive dynamo--18 rushes for 179 yards, a 9.9 ypc average, and 2 TD's. And receiving he caught 6 passes for 127 yards, a 21.2 ypc average, and another 2 TD's. So from scrimmage, he had 24 touches for a 12.75 ypc average and 4 touchdowns--pretty darn productive! It's entirely possible that he may have played some defense in those years also.

Bell's offensive production in his junior season of 1972 tailed off some but he still caught 11 balls for 205 yards, an 18.6 ypc average, with 2 TD's. Those yards-per-catch averages were outstanding for that era. (The BG quarterback at the time happened to be Reid Lamport of Newton Falls). Bell must have been switched full-time to defense as a senior because sports-reference.com shows him playing all 10 games in 1973, but with only 2 rushes and no receptions.

And YTOWN is correct once again that Bell did play one season of college basketball at BGSU during the 1971-72 campaign, his sophomore year. He averaged 4.9 ppg and 2.3 rpg as a sub off the bench.
 
coldshoulder,

Tony Bell was indeed drafted as a DB by the Colts out of BGSU. At South he did a little bit of everything including handling kickoffs and returning punts and KOs. As I remember it he rarely left the field.

I apologize for partially cutting off the pictures of some of the players but I don't really want to fold the paper up anymore to get everything to fit.

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In 1970 the Shaughnessy Playoffs were scrapped and the CS went back to a normal football season. Led by a strong group of athletes North won its first ever CS title with a 5-0 league record and finishing 7-2 overall. They would be better in 71.

1970 NORTH
STOW W 22-3
KENT ROOSEVELT L 12-26
EAST W 40-0
CHANEY W 12-0
SOUTH W 32-6
LOUISVILLE AQUINAS L 6-28
WILSON W 20-0
RAYEN W 12-0
SALEM W 40-8
7-25-0 City

College players I know of:

Offense:

E - Cleveland Moutry - North - Ohio U.
E - Thomas Hight - North - Ohio U & YSU
OT - Paul Motosko - Wilson - Emporia St.
C- Bob Stelter - Chaney - YSU
C - Vincent Smith - North - Mt. Union
QB - Richard Bevly - North - Ohio U.
Back - Earl Taylor - North - jr. - Miami (O) & Ball St.
Back - Marty Gaudiose - Chaney - Ohio Northern

Defense:

DE - Elvin Charity - North - Yale - Drafted by the Bengals
DE - Lou Cimmento - Wilson - Iowa Wesleyan
DT - Governor Bowers - East - N. Mexico St.
LB - Abe Welcher - South - Emporia St.
LB - Curt Nether - South - Emporia St.
LB - Steve Fedorsin - Chaney - Columbia
DB - Cicero Lampley - North - YSU

HM:

Chaney: John Biastro - YSU, Van Mancuso - Capital, Jim Sefcik - Columbia
East: Ron Denson - YSU
North: Lamar Phillips - Heidelburg, C. T. Harvey - North - Ball St.
South: Doug Floyd - Emporia St., Ed Madison - Ohio U.
Wilson: Bill Diorio - Bucknell, Dave Collela - Columbia
 

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Happy New Year to all !

YTOWN am I correct that there have been three generations of Clinton Lynch that have excelled in football in Youngstown ? (See my post #64)

Next up, the 1971 All-City Youngstown City Series team:

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coldshoulder said:
As these All-City teams show, and backed up by YTOWN's expansive knowledge, Youngstown and the Mahoning Valley produced a significant number of extremely talented football players, many whom went to to play for big-time college programs. They also show that many of these high school stars went on to ultimately become successful high school head coaches, assistant coaches, and athletic directors in the Mahoning Valley area and elsewhere. Also of note is that Youngstown State University (Youngstown College at the time) recruited heavily, naturally, in it's own backyard and found success with that formula in the 50's, 60's, 70's, and 80's. Another interesting observation is the number of brothers (and/or cousins) who appear on these teams; and in the case of a player below (Clinton Lynch), I'm thinking we may now have been witness to a third generation (?) of a Lynch running back in Youngstown high schools.

Continuing on in this series is the 1968 team below. (Note that I have been unable to locate the 1969 and 1970 teams on the internet...and may have to rely on YTOWN's extensive apparent hard-copy collection to fill in those blanks. I do, however, have the 1971 and 1972 teams on tap, but then a 5-year gap in the mid-70's with nothing until the 1978 and 1979 teams.)

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Here's a 1968 game between Big Red and Youngstown South

 
I have been AWOL for a few days. Let me catch up.

In 1971 North repeated as CS champions and went into their final game in week 9 with undefeated #1 ranked AA team Steubenville Catholic Central at 8-0. I attended that game. The weather was terrible and as good as North was they couldn't get anything going against the Crusaders. SCC was the real deal and won the AA AP Poll title. The Bulldogs did have one drive of about 75-80 yards but they turned it over on downs in SCC's red zone. I think the most impressive player for North that night had to be MG Ed Cornwell. He made tackles all over the field. I don't know how many tackles he had officially but it had to be somewhere around 20-25 tackles. It seemed like whether it was for a 2-yard loss or a 20-yard gain Mr. Cornwell made the tackle. He did that every time I saw him play.

1971 NORTH
TALLMADGE W 18-0
KENT ROOSEVELT W 12-0
CHANEY W 20-12
SOUTH W 19-0
WILSON W 28-0
LOUISVILLE AQUINAS W 54-0
RAYEN W 40-6
EAST W 40-16
STEUBENVILLE C. C. L 0-31
8-15-0 City

College players I know of:

Offense:

E - Tony Chiarello - Wilson - YSU
Flanker - Jack Johnson - Rayen - YSU
OT - Alan Charity - North - jr. - Ball St.
OG - Carl Sims - North - Adrian
OG - Jesse Carter - North - Emporia St. & Heidelberg
C - Denny Brace - Chaney - Ohio Northern
QB - Sherman Smith - North - Miami (O) - Seattle Seahawks & SD Chargers - Compiled over 5900 yards of total offense in his NFL career.
QB - Gary Frost - East - Mt. Union
RB - Earl Taylor - North - Miami (O) & Ball St. - Set a Ball St. single game rushing yardage mark that stood for over 30 years.

Defense:

DT - Ben Guerrieri - East - YSU
DT - Burrell Charity - North - Ohio U.
LB - Mike Brown - East - Mt. Union
LB - Steve Krispinsky - Wilson - Ferris St.
DB - Chuck Willis - South - Emporia St.
DB - Ron Denson - East - YSU
S - Ray Hernan - Wilson - jr. - W. Va. & YSU

Most of the HM guys were underclassmen that moved up in 1972 so we'll get them in 72.

East: Rick Wright - YSU
North: Larry Dannals - YSU
Rayen: Sam Fant - Iowa Wesleyan, Rocco Greco - Adrian
South: Ed Madison - Ohio U., James Jordan - YSU
 
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In 172 Chaney won the CS title but the top 4 teams in the league finished at .500. I want to mention Mike McDowell of South. He was an All-City MG in 72. That was unique in that he was a sprinter on the Warriors track team. He had legitimate sprinter's speed playing on the DL. He might be the fastest DL I ever saw at the HS level.

1972 CHANEY
FITCH L 7-20
CAMPBELL L 7-28
WILSON T 14-14
RAYEN W 22-0
EAST W 23-14
OPEN
SOUTH W 9-8
NORTH W 23-10
URSULINE L 0-22
MOONEY L 0-36
4-4-14-0-1 City

College players I know of:

Offense:

SE - Ray Hernon - Wilson - W. Va. & YSU
OT - Alan Charity - North - Ball St.
OT - Roger Hafner - Wilson - YSU
OT - Ben Norris - Rayen - Ohio U.
C - John Pelusi - Chaney - Pitt
QB - Matt Cavanaugh - Chaney - jr. Pitt - Long NFL career as player and coach (More about him in 73)

Defense:

DE - North - Mike Cobb - Michigan St. - 1st round draft pick of the Bengals (#22 overall), played TE for the Bengals & Bears in the NFL & the Michigan Panthers in the USFL.
DT - Max Angelo - Chaney - Miami (O)
LB - Dave LoCicero - Wilson - Westminster
LB - Kevin Williams - South - Ohio Northern
LB - C. T. Harvey - North - Ball St.
DB - Ron Denson - East - YSU
 
The 1973 season was a great one for area fans as Mooney and Warren Western Reserve played each other in the AAA state championship making it an all Mahoning Valley title game. However it was a chaotic season for the City Series. Mooney played Chaney in week 10 and the Cowboys were undefeated coming in to the game but due to a strike, a damn near riot at the Chaney-North game and Chaney and Wilson refusing to play each other the next week, and a scheduled open date in week 9, the Cowboys had only played 6 games.

Chaney had allowed only 6 points in those 6 games but led by Ted Bell's 274 yards rushing and a great defensive effort Mooney beat Chaney 28-0. I was surprised by the margin. Mooney totally shut down Chaney's running game. QB Matt Cavanaugh did pass for a little better that 200 yards, his top target was soph. Gary DeNiro who had 10 receptions in the game, but Mooney QB/DB Dave Lockshaw also intercepted two of Mr. Cavanaugh's passes.

Chaney did not show up to play Rayen, the game they missed due to the strike, in week 11 and because they had also missed the Wilson game the CS title ended in a 3-way tie between Chaney, North and East with 6 points each using the formula the CS used for wins and losses. IMO Chaney was a much better team than any of the other CS teams but they chose not to play those games. Also, because of the mess at the end of the season the Vindicator changed the selection process for picking the All-City team and just had the 6 CS coaches select the top 5 players from their respective teams. The 30 players selected comprised the All-City team. This was done without regard to the positions of the players and that is why there are 4 QBs among the 30 players selected.

One thing about the 73 Chaney team of interest to me anyway is this. The Cowboys top 3 offensive players in 1973, especially in the Mooney game, were QB Matt Cavanaugh, RB Ron Calcagni and End Gary DeNiro. Fast forward 3 years and Matt Cavanaugh is the QB for Pitt. Tony Dorsett of course was the man on that team but Cavanaugh was the QB and led them to the National Championship with a victory over Georgia in the Sugar Bowl.

The next season Ron Calcagni was the QB at Arkansas and engineered that huge Orange Bowl upset of Oklahoma. The Razorbacks only loss that year was, 13-9 to Texas. The Longhorns went into the Bowls ranked #1 but Notre Dame hammered them in the Cotton Bowl 38-10 and won the National Championship thanks to Arkansas' big win over Oklahoma. Arkansas finished at #3 in the final AP Poll.

The next two seasons saw Alabama win back-to-back National Championships. Gary DeNiro was a DL on those teams. In a 4-year span those 3 former Cowboys won three National Championships and a final #3 ranking. Not too shabby.

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College players I know of:

Chaney:
QB - Matt Cavanaugh - Pitt (National Champion) - 13 year NFL career as a player (member of two Super Bowl teams) and another SB Ring as the OC for the Ravens first SB win. Long time NFL coach.
RB - Ron Calcagni - Arkansas - CFL
DB - Mike Sefcik - Hiram
LB - Tom Sefcik - Adrian

East:
QB - Sylvester Hall - YSU
RB - Eddie Barnes - YSU

North:

S - Bob Charity - Cincinnati
DB - Jerome Harrell - Central St.
QB - Ray Brown was a double state champion hurdler winning the 120 HH and the 180 LH.

Rayen:

QB - Rick Ward - Texas-Arlington and Akron I think. I also think this is the same Rick Ward that played guitar for the Ohio Players but I am not sure of that.
OT - Ben Norris - Ohio U.
LB - Derrek Penn - jr. - Duke
SE - Victor Mays - YSU

South:
FB _ Arnold Welcher - Ohio U.

Wilson:

S - Ray Anzevino - Emporia St.
RB - Mike Kacenga - Adrian
OT - Tom Farina - YSU
DE - Angelo Mosco - Ferris St.
OT - Mike Colucci - YSU.
 
Arnold Welcher was the Ohio University Bobcats' featured running back both as a sophomore and junior, rushing for over 1,000 yards in each of those seasons. He played in all 11 games as a senior, but split time with two other backs, finishing as Ohio's third-leading rusher that season. He still is in 10th-place for career rushing yards in Bobcats' history.
 
coldshoulder said:
Arnold Welcher was the Ohio University Bobcats' featured running back both as a sophomore and junior, rushing for over 1,000 yards in each of those seasons. He played in all 11 games as a senior, but split time with two other backs, finishing as Ohio's third-leading rusher that season. He still is in 10th-place for career rushing yards in Bobcats' history.
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So it appears North and South had the biggest offensive weapons in that period for the Bobcats. Rick Bevly early 70s then Mr Welcher during the mid 70s
 
Early 80's played against Bevly in the Y'town men's fast pitch softball league. He played for Margaret Linton Funeral Home. Johnny McElroy was on that team too.

Competitive play. :)
 
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In 1974 Chaney won the City Series title. In week 10 they played Mooney at South. Mooney was the SVC champion and both teams came into the game undefeated but Mooney had two ties. Big crowd, 13-14,000. Just before halftime, with Mooney holding a 12-0 lead, the Cardinals were punting from about their own 25-30. The snap was bobbled and dropped by the punter and the ball bounced behind him. The ball was picked up by Chaney and returned for a TD with about 10 seconds left in the half. The Cowboys added the 2-point conversion and it was 12-8 Mooney at halftime.

What I most remember about the second half was that Chaney ran 3 plays in the entire 3rd quarter. Mooney ran over 20 plays in the quarter and still had the ball in the 4th quarter when the Cards drove to the Chaney one-yard line. The Mooney QB, was hit as he pitched the ball, or the ball may have been tipped, but in any case it was behind Joe Croft, Mooney's soph. RB and was picked up by Chaney. The Cowboys subsequently went on to drive for the game-winning TD in a 14-12 final. Mooney pretty much dominated that game but Chaney shut the Cards out in the 2nd half and made the plays they had to to win the game and finish 10-0. The first 10-0 record in Chaney's football history. Mooney finished at 7-1-2.

1974 CHANEY
FITCH W 26-6
CAMPBELL W 34-7
EAST W 47-8
SOUTH W 19-0
NORTH W 40-0
CANFIELD W 32-18
WILSON W 40-0
RAYEN W 38-12
CANTON C.C. W 42-0
MOONEY W 14-12
10-05-0 City

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College players I know of:

Offense:

Receiver - Gary DeNiro - Chaney - jr. - Alabama (member of two national champions)
OL - Fred Saunders - South - W. Va. Wesleyan
OL - George Hlebak - Chaney - B-W
QB - Ron Calcagni - Arkansas - CFL with Montreal and Ottawa
Back - Dennis Mosely - Rayen - jr. - Iowa (more about him in 75)
Back - Jim Pelusi - Chaney - Columbia

Defense:

DE - Keith Rosser - Chaney - YSU
DL - Luther Foster - Rayen - jr. - Kent St. & S. Illinois
LB - Derek Penn - Rayen - Duke
LB - Jeff Pelusi - Chaney - Pitt (member of 76 national champions)
DB - Gary Stelter - Chaney - B-W
 
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Yes sir.
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We had a bunch of Chaney guys at BW when I was there. It appears that pipeline started in ‘74. If those two stayed, they would have been seniors on Lee Tressel‘s ‘78 National Championship team.
 
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