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THIS DAY IN REGION FOOTBALL HISTORY: 11/11

THIS DAY IN REGION FOOTBALL HISTORY - 11/11

1938 – Lew Wallace ends the year with a 6-0 win over Gary Froebel for the second straight season.

1949 – East Chicago Roosevelt moves to 9-0 with a 28-0 shutout of crosstown rival EC Washington, en route to a perfect season and their fourth state title in five years.

1955 – Pete Rucinski’s East Chicago Roosevelt Roughriders hold off SB Adams 14-7 to finish the season with an undefeated 9-0 record and would be voted as state champs for the fifth time in 11 seasons.

1966 – With a 14-0 win over EC Roosevelt, Eddie Herbert’s Lew Wallace Hornets finish the season at 10-0, with seven of the wins coming via the shutout.

1977 – The Portage Indians, coached by Les Klein, advance to the state championship game for the first time, by a way of a hard fought 14-7 win at SB Washington.

1983 – Hobart suffers its only loss of the year, a 17-0 shutout at the hands of the Penn Kingsmen. It’s the third of five straight seasons the Brickies only loss would come in the final game of their season. Penn would go on to win the first of many state titles.

1988 – In an unbelievable, back and forth thriller between two of the area’s most historic programs, the Hammond High Wildcats shock the defending state champion Hobart Brickies to win the school’s only regional football championship. The final score was Hammond High 31 Hobart 28. The difference in the game was an overtime field goal that won it for the Wildcats. 

1988 – One week after winning their first ever football sectional championship, the Crown Point Bulldogs, led by Mike Bauner, Nick Bird and several other starts, win the only regional in school history by defeating the Mishawaka Cavemen 28-27 in a thriller at the Cave.

1994 – By the margin of a field goal, Lowell knocks defending state champion Hobart out of the state tournament 28-25 at the Inferno, and in the process sent the Red Devils to the semi-state for the first time in school history.

1994 – Griffith wins it second ever regional title and the first under head coach Russ Radtke, by a score of 14-7 over SB St. Joe’s.

1994 – Under the direction of first year head coach Craig Buzea, Portage captures the regional championship with a 21-7 over Lake Central win over Elmer Britton’s Indians at the Burial Grounds on Rt 41 in St. John.

1996 – Portage suffers their only loss of the season on a Saturday night at Freed Field in Osceola. The final score: Penn 21 Portage 7.

2005 – Lowell wins their eighth straight game and captures the program’s third regional with a 30-23 victory at Concord.

2005 – In Jeff Yelton’s second to last game as Merrillville head coach, the Pirates beat the Penn Kingsmen 7-0 at Freed Field in Osceola. It is the third regional football title for the Pirates program.

2005 – The Griffith Panthers move to 13-0 by hammering Hamilton Heights 43-14 to win the third regional championship under head coach Russ Radtke.

2011 – A week after winning their fourth consecutive sectional title, and in a bid to repeat as regional champions, the Morton Governors fall to SB Washington by a score of 33-20 at the Governors Mansion on the campus of Hessville High.

2011 – The Crown Point Bulldogs hang with the Penn Kingsmen, but their season comes to end about an hour from home, by a score of 20-3.

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