FOOTBALL NIGHT IN THE REGION: Munster at Hanover Central – Football – Week Six – 9/25/26

1936 - Behind the blocking of the great Eddie Herbert, Tom Harmon and the Horace Mann Horsemen, claw their way past the Hammond High Wildcats 6-0. The Horsemen, and their future Heisman Trophy winner Harmon, finish the season at 8-1. Some still wonder how anyone beat them. 1936 - EC…

1976 - Defending 3A state champion Valpo improves to 5-0 with a 30-16 win at Chesterton. 1976 - The Merrillville Pirates double up on the Portage Indians by a score of 20-10. The Pirates get their fifth win of 11 wins en route to the school\'s only football state title.…

1949 - Pete Rusinski’s Roughriders ride rough shot over the Horsemen of Horace Mann 31-0. It’s the third of 10 straight wins for ECR, who would add another mythical championship to the collection for their efforts during the ‘49 season. 1966 - The Wirt Troopers moved their winning streak to…

1967 - It was close, but quarterback Jerry Perkins and the Wirt Troopers won their 17th straight game - a 7-6 nailbiter at Bulldog Turf in Crown Point. 1972 - Harry Szurlborski and his Golden Tornadoes of Emerson High School beat Gary Wallace 29-0 at Gilroy Stadium. The Tornado went…

1929 - The Hobart Brickies open up their third season of football with a 36-0 home shutout of Valpo. These were the years before Brickie Bowl. Does anyone know where in Hobart this game would have been played? 1945 - Hobart and Lowell battle it out in a black and…

1952 - Morton High School plays its first ever varsity football game. The Governors, coached by Maury Zlotnik, travel to the shores of Lake Michigan where they lose to the Whiting Oilers 52-18.   1963 - Tom Kurt and his Griffith Panthers get the best of a good Gary Wirt…

1964 - Russ Deal, the first Hobart coaching legend, picks up his last win over Gary Emerson, a 20-0 shutout against Harry Szurborski and the Golden Tornadoes.   1965 - Gary Tolleston plays Gary Roosevelt on a Saturday afternoon at Gilroy Stadium in Glen Park. The Blue Raiders of Tolleston…

1961 - Don Elser\'s Horseman of Horace Mann narrowly escaped the Lew Wallace Hornets, coached by former Elser assistant Eddie Herbert, 7-6 at Gilroy Stadium in the Glen Park section of Gary. Elser\'s club finished 8-1, while Herbert\'s Hornets were hot on their heels, posting a mark of 7-2.   1972…

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1964 - The Andrean 59ers open the season with a Saturday contest at Gilroy Stadium where they get a 21-14 win over the Blue Devils of Gary Froebel.   1975 - The River Forest Ingots and Wirt Troopers go to overtime before the Ingots finally score a touchdown to win…

1964 - The Golden Tornadoes of Gary Emerson, notch their only victory of the season; an 18-14 squeaker over the Highland Trojans at Gary\'s Gilroy Stadium.   1981 - The Griffith Panthers shut out the East Chicago Roosevelt Roughriders 21-0. Despite the loss, ECR, which is coached by Bill Bork, finishes…

1993 - RDP comes to life in a 49-0 Lowell blowout of Morton at the Inferno. The Devils improve to 3-0 - for the first time since the Les Klein club of \'69. It\'s also just the third time in the post World War II era the Lowell program hasn\'t…

1966 - Eddie Herbert\'s Hornets of Gary Lew Wallace opened the 1966 season with a dominating 49-0 shutout win at home over Valpo. It was the first of 10 straight wins for Wallace, who went undefeated with a 10-0 record that season. All told, Wallace would win 19 straight across…

1989 - Dave Templin\'s 2-0 Wallace Hornets, hosted Jerry Vlasic\'s 2-0 Bishop Noll Warriors in a week three contest along 47th Avenue in Glen Park, where a close, hard fought, low scoring battle ensued, with Lew Wallace coming out ahead 13-11. The Hornets improved to 3-0 on the season with two…

1973 - Don Howell\'s Hobart Brickies traveled to Barney Hill Field on Columbia Ave in Munster where they beat the Mustangs in overtime by a score of 26-19.   1984 - The Hobart Brickies defeat the Valpo Vikings 27-8 in front of 6,000 fans at Brickie Bowl. The Boys of…