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Accession #MC2010/185
TopicFootball History at Manchester College: 50 Years
KeywordsCarl Burt, Jack Jarrett, Athletics, Sports, Johnny Piper, Emera Hearne,
TitleNewspaper Articles: History of Football at Manchester College
Size1 File Folder
LocationSmall Box 76
CitationNewspaper Articles: History of Football at Manchester College, MC2010/185, Archives and Brethren Historical Collection, Funderburg Library, Manchester University, North Manchester, Indiana.
AccessResearchers are responsible for determining copyright status of archived materials where this is relevant to their intended use of the materials.
ProvenanceA File folder with articles stamped MANCHESTER COLLEGE LIBRARY
Scope and ContentNewspaper articles from the Plain Dealer, 6 September 1974 celebrating the 50th anniversary of football at Manchester College.  A history of football is given along with interesting memories of Emera Hearne, a member of the first football team at Manchester College.  A photograph of Manchester' college's all time scoring leader (as of 1974), Johnny Piper," is included as is a group shot of the  first team of 1924, along with the players' names.
Date of Accession12 November 2010
Bio History Note

Excerpts from the memories of Emera Hearne:

"You could have given any of us a pitchfork and we could have handled it better than we could a football."

"I don't know where we got our uniforms, but I know they were somebody's castoffs.  We had some cotton sweatchirts wtih numbers on the back, and second-hand pants."

"I remember how proud I was when coach Burt gave me a pair of new pants to wear in a game against Defiance.  I'd been wearing the second-hand stuff for a long time and a new pair of pants was really something."  The pants didn't last long. "There I was holding the ball on the 45-yard line.  I looked downfield and it looked about 1,500 guys were coming after me.  I just closed my eyes and started to run, and I walked right out of my new pants.  They ripped them off.  Paul Park gave me his pants to wear the rest of the game."

"Our team spirit was kept alive many times by Paul Park."

 

From the second article, "College record stands at 154-196-18, Manchester Gridders Begin 50th Campaign," by Jeff Smithburn.  Jeff Smithburn was former publications director at MCand spent his last year at Manchester College compiling a detailed history of football at the school.

"Give us a little something that captures the essence of 49 years of football at Manchester College, they said. 

Stuffing the spirit of Carl Burt into an aspirin bottle or fitting the entire defensive line of Jack Jarrett's 1968 Hoosier College Conference championship team in a phone booth would be as easy.

What have they been, these 49 years of knocking about in the minor leagues of college football, of long bus rides across Indiana and Ohio, of nights on road trips in economy motels or dormitories and snacks of toasted cheese sandwiches and paper cartons of milk because the budget wouldn't allow for more, of Manchester presidents on the sidelines cheering along with the coaches and players, of durable, faithful fans who show up in lean years as well as good ones, of the Spartan Code tacked on locker room walls for decades: "...A Spartan serves the best interests of his fellow men...a Spartan governs his actions according to Manchester's ideals of tolerance, truth, justice and fellowship..."

Archivist NoteDescription prepared 12 November 2010 by Jeanine M. Wine.
 


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