FOOTBALL NIGHT IN THE REGION: Penn at Crown Point – Football – Regional Champ – Audio – 11/13/26

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.…

1968 - Andrean nips Hobart 7-6 at Gilroy Stadium in Gary to close out the campaign with a perfect 10-0 mark, a record they would achieve again the following season. 1979 - In what many call Brickie Bowl\'s greatest game, Hobart upsets #1 Penn, a team that would send six…

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1971 – Third year program Gary West closes out the season at 8-1, their best single season mark in history, with a 13-2 win over Andrean at the West Side Football Grounds. 1971 – In front of packed house on the campus of Hessville High, the Morton Governors win the…

1961 - The Andrean 59ers win the first ever \"Battle of Broadway\" by a 14-7 score over the Merrillville Pirates. 1972 - Munster kicks a field goal and Lowell doesn\'t, so Munster wins 3-0 down on Commercial Ave. 1978 - In a sectional championship battle of unbeatens, 10-0 Hammond High,…

1926 – Ty Cobb resigns as manager of the Detroit Tigers. He is replaced by George Moriarty who becomes the first person in baseball history to have been a player, umpire, scout, and manager. 1953 – The MLB Rules Committee restores the sacrifice fly rule, which was eliminated in 1939,…

1895 – The first organized auto race in the United States is held in Chicago as six cars compete on a 52 mile course by the lake front. Only two cars finish due to blizzard like conditions. 1950 – The Roosevelt Panthers cap off an undefeated season with a 27-0…

1941 – The Hobart Brickies shutout the Griffith Panthers 20-0 at Franklin Field on Broad Street in Griffith. It’s the sixth time in seven meetings that Hobart has held the Panthers scoreless. 1958 – Carl Adams closes out his one and only season as Griffith head coach with a 13-6…

1938 – At old Gleason Field, Gary Froebel shuts out a Gary Wallace 25-0. The Blue Devils did not allow the Hornets quarterback – future pro football hall of fame coach Hank Stram (Kansas City Chiefs), to matriculate the ball downfield. 1949 – On their way to a perfect season,…

1930 - Whiting losses to Hammond High 6-0 - the first of three straight 6-0 losses for the Oilers to close out the first campaign of the Great Depression. 1955 - Gary Lew Wallace tops Gary Roosevelt 12-6 at tiny Tolleston Field on the city\'s west side. 1974 - Led…

1914 – The Gary high school football team, made up of players from Froebel and Emerson, travel to Chicago where they lose to Hyde Park High 21-0.1936 – Hammond Catholic (now Bishop Noll) beats Griffith 18-2.1947 – The Roosevelt Roughriders, who would go on to a 9-0 season, shutout out…

1960 – Michigan City hands Hobart their first loss of the season – a 19-18 nail biter played at City High School. 1960 – Bernie Krueger’s Hammond Wildcats blank EC Washington 20-0 to remain undefeated. The ‘Cats would finish the season a perfect 10-0. 1988 – Hammond High beats Lowell…

1939 – Just a week after winning for the first time ever at brand new, but yet-to-be named Brickie Bowl, Hobart travels to Valpo where they are shutout by the Vikings 20-0. 1950 – The Brickies blank the Bucs 13-0 at Brickie Bowl. Hobart moved to 6-2 with the victory,…

1907 – Hammond High shuts out Crown Point 21-0. 1912 – Gary High, coached by Jack Gilroy, falls to Hammond High 13-0. 1923 – Gary Froebel travels south to play tiny Morroco High School (now North Newton), where they fail to score any points and lose 7-0. 1934 – Gary…

1935 – Behind the spectacular running of future Michigan star Tom Harmon and the stellar blocking of pulling guard sensation Eddie Herbert, the Horsemen of Mann travel to East Chicago Roosevelt, where they shutout the Roughriders 14-0. 1957 – On their way to an 8-0-1 season, the Roughriders of EC…