¢ 2 << Fernbrook Inn Main Street, Fernbrook 675-9618 Compliments of the Fernbrook Inn” OQ Old Shoe 50th Anniversary The Dallas Post October 29, 1997 A special week in the Back Mountain events every day during “Dallas Week.” Monday was Class Color Day, with students dressing in their class colors. Tuesday was tie-dye, hat day, when students wore tie-dyed clothes and were allowed to wear hats in school. A new event took place Wednes- day, Cross Dress Day. Thursday will be Decades Day, as stu- dents dress in the style of a chosen decade, such as the 50’s, 60’s etc. The Secret Cheerleaders’ assembly will be held, revealing which cheerlead- ers have been giving weekly gifts to players during the season. Friday is Black and Gold Day, with students dressing in - Aa ul black and gold, the school Volk nec mle colors, or in Halloween cos- sincerest wishes for their contmued tumes. There will be another assembly, this one with a pumpkin judging contest. A pep rally, complete with band and junior high students, will be ” This year's Old Shoe game will have a special format. For the first time, the Old Shoe trophy will be on display at the stadium entrance and through- out the game, which starts at 2 p.m. at the Dallas High School field. A special coin toss will include founding coaches Bob Dolbear (Dallas Twp.), George McCutcheon (Kingston Twp.) and Anthony Marchakitus (Lehman Twp.). The trophy will be presented to the winning team at the end of the game by Melissa Saxon, president of the Dallas Rotary Club, which provided the trophy 50 years ago. A raft of special events are planned, leading up to the 50th Old Shoe game. Here's a brief rundown. A special commemorative breakfast will be held at the Irem Temple Country Club Game Time: 2 p.m. Dallas High School field Celebrating 50 Years! The Dallas Gridiron Club will be selling commemorative buttons at the game for $2 each. We're marking 1949 of as your happiest, most prosperous all current players and their parents, coaches and former coaches and school officials. Dallas High School will be holding a bonfire, pep rally Wednesday starting at about 6 health and happiness this* New Tear. year. We KiowWhat Its LikeTo Put Huntsville Nursery [ i So Much Effort Into Making Numbers Grow: Congratulations. All your time, practice and determination has really added up. @ Wellon Bank p.m. HILL - the - florist Presents On birthdays, anniversaries, holidays, special celebra- tions, sick bed or for just plain every day thoughtful gifts. Celebrate 1997 with Cash & Carry Roses at $9.90/dozen HILL-the florist SHAVERTOWN, PA. TELEPHONE 213 696-1178 Friday morning. Hosted by the schools, invited guests include Lake-Lehman schedules 3 held at 2:30 p.m. A bonfire will start at about 7 p.m. : Plucked from the pile, his shoe lives on So, just whose shoe is preserved in bronze? Dean Johnson of Trucksville thinks he knows. “Everybody ”» lays claim to it,” Johnson said Monday. “When it was all said and done, I got a new pair of shoes.” The shoe was picked about midway through the season, Johnson said. Ted Zella, who coached the Kingston Twp. team at the time, asked his players to last week the creek don 9 toss one shoe each into a pile, and Zella pulled out the one that adorns the trophy to this day. Johnson still follows the local team’s progress. “I don’t miss very many games,” he said, including s win over Hanover. And he'll be at the 50th Old Shoe contest Saturday, “God willing and t rise. ”» The Old Shoe game has left players with memories that last a lifetime. Here are some of them: Dating back to the fine year of 1962, we talked very briefly to Dallas Township running back, Joe Noon about memo- rable moments of his Old Shoe days. The biggest he had was that the field in Dallas had to be plowed clear of snow before the game could take place. In 1963, Lake-Lehman quar- terback Larry Lettie threw for an interception that was run back for a touchdown in a 19- 0 Dallas win over the Black Knights. “Bragging rights was what made the game so spe- cial. We all grew up together, we were all friends, so winning was what we all wanted to do, to say, ‘We did it not you,’ “ said Lettie, who has stayed active in athletics, once serving as presi- dent of Back Mountain Base- ball Inc. “The funny thing is that my wife was in the band For players, years of memories for Dallas and obviously for them, but that was just the way it was then,” Lettie said. Jeff Townsend of the 1964 Dallas team remembers that it was always cold, wet and usu- ally snowing. “The way football was meant to be played,” he said. “We were the only team to still have leather helmets, which made for many jokes.” said Townsend. “We had a great running back that year, a guy by the name of Tony Bonomo, He was phenomenal! Also, Don Lawson, our offensive tackle, who weighed all of 150 pounds but was one of the toughest players You'll ever meet.” An interesting fact was that Jeff was the first guy to have what is called the cage face mask back in 1964. His sons Dave and Scott both played varsity football for the Mountaineers, and both earned college schol- arships. The 1969 Dallas team really had trouble in the red zone during their 28-8 loss to Lake- Lehman. Bruce Goeringer, now a dentist in Dallas, was quar- terback. He remembers having the ball close to the goal line and having the ball fumbled, and having to fight with a Leh- man defensive player to come up it. “We both had it, and I remember the ref, he was this little short guy, waving his hands in the air and signaling a first down, the other way,” Goeringer said. “The games were always played on Thanks- giving,” he said, a tradition that has since ended. Chuck Wilson, who owns the Fieldhouse in Dallas, was the kicker in 1973, when Dallas thumped Lehman 34-6. “It was a great team,” Wilson said. “We had some super players and were ranked first in the state.” He remembers the team going 12-0, but this was before the playoffs were instituted, so there were no state champion- ships. On the cover: When the Old Shoe tradition began, these men were coaches. From left, Bob Dolbear, Dallas Twp. High School, Edward Edwards, Lehman High School, George McCutcheon, Kingston Twp. High School, with the trophy that has lasted half a century. (And so have they!) Harry Edwards, Prop. Telephone 51-R-10 Mr. and Mrs. Paul F. Nulton Sr. Beaumont Huntsville, Pa. A 675-0062 Best Wishes State Senator to Charles D. both Lemmond, Jr. gti TEL: 717-674-2429 or 674-2430 FAX: 717-674-2431 N — ols.o- zMBE- Mail Boxes, Etc. 62 Dallas Shopping Center Memorial Highway, Dallas PA 8:30 - 6 M-F; 9:30 - 1 Sat. 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