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Turners Falls Football Coaches' History

1907 coach Moreau. Played several "games", lost to GHS 30-0 and 18-0, 1-3

1908-09 "club teams", no official school team, lack of players

1910-15 no team1916 coach: Wilhelm Shuster. No offrcial schedule. Several games canceled

due to polio and flu. Scrimmage with GHS JVl9l7 coach: Earl Clifford, resigns, no official coach. 0-4-01918 coach: ? Schedule canceled due toflul9l9-20 football deemed "unpopular", some intramural "games"l92l coach: Afihur Burke. lst real team in several years. Lose to Arms Academy

70-0, beat Arms 7-0, lose 80-0 to TF Town team, beat TF Roamers 5-0,

Lose to D.A.(3rd team) 19-0.1922 Earl Lorden arrives at TFHS. No games scheduled. Practices and intrasquad

games and plans for team next year.1923 40 candidates. Earl Lorden coach. lst fully recognized team at TFHS. 1-2-21924-25 no varsity team, lack of players, informal practices,scrimmages1926 l't permanent team at TFHS. Earl Lorden coach to 1945

19201923 - 19451946 - 19481950 - 19521953- 195419551956-19591960-19611962-19691979-19751976 - 19921993-19992000- 20092010 -2016

Arthur BurkeEarl LordenTim GraeberDutch ShuldtBobby SullivanCharles MarkhamDon RussellConnie O'DohertyJack BassettJohn ZwynaJohn O'RileyFran TogneriJohn PutalaCkis Lapointe

2 - 2- 0ll9 -39-3015 -13- 1

6 - 22- 27 -11- 0I - 6- II - 19 -17-10-1

28-39-434-21-083- 70 - 646-40-318 - 67- 054- 27- 0

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Sources: Greenfield Recorder Gazette. Mike Cadran , class'68Dec.2016

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TFHS Football Record - History

1905 noteam1906 't1907 manager - capt. Moreau 1-3. played GHS twice, lost 30-0, 18-01908 - 09 "club" teams, no official TFHS team, lack players1910-15 no team1916 Wilhelm Schuster: no oflicial team lgames, practices - intramural scrimmagesl9l7 Earl Clifford 0-4-01918 no team, schedule canceled due to flu1919 coach Sullivan scrimmages, no games1920 noteam1921 Arthur Burke1922 noteam1923 Earllorden1924 noteawr1925 no team1926 Earllorden1927 <'

1928 "1929 "1930 "1931 "1932 c'

1933 "1934 "1935 1t

1936 "1937 <'

1938 "1939 "1940 "l94l "1942 1'

L943 "1944 "1945 1'

1946 c'

1947 Tim GraeberL948 "

1950 Dutch Shuldt1951 c'

ICL1970 John Zywna 1-8- 0l97l " 9-0- 0t972 6-3- 01973 3-6- 0

t974 6-3- 01975 9-1- 0

1976 John O'Rily 10-0 -0t977 5-3-11978 6-3-lt979 6-4-01980 6-4-01981 9-1-01982 3-6-01983 3-6-01984 4-5-0198s t-7-l1986 6-3-tt987 0-8-11988 1-8-01989 r-7-l1990 6-2-lt99t 7-2-01992 9-1-01993 FranTogneri 3-6-l1994 2-7-lt99s 3-7-01996 8-2-01997 7-2-l1998 9-1-01999 3-7-02000 7-2-02001 4-6-0

2-2-0

r-2-2

4-2-l5-r-25-t-23-4-l5-t-25-1-34-s-06-t-25-3-16-r-26-0-27-r-l8-0-06-3-07-3-07-t-ls-2-l5-2-26-3-05-t-27-t-24-5-03-6-18-2-04-5-lt-9-0

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1952 " 1-8-1

1953 Bob Sullivan 2-7-A

1954 " 5-4-0

1955 Charles Markham 1-6-1

1956 Don Russell 3 -5'l1957 5-3-0

1958 " 5-4-0

1959 * 2-7'01960 Connie O'DorhetY 4-5-0

196l " 3-5-1

1962 Jack Bassett 2-7'01963 * 2-6-1

1964 " 5'4-0 Class A1965 * 4-4-l "1966 * 4-4-l "1967 * 3-4-l "1968 " 4-5-0 '1

1969 4-5-0 "

2002 John Putala 2-92003 1-10

2004 0-10

2005 5- 6

2006 2-82007 3- 8

2008 4-720a9 l-92010 Chris LaPoint 1- 9

20tt 6-62012 10 - 32013 10 - 32014 10 - 1

2ot5 7- 4

2016 11 - 1

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History of T-Day Football ( GHS vs. TFHS ) How it started

Reviewing records from the Greenfield Recorder and Springfield Republican archives shows a

smattering of football contests between Greenfield and Turners Falls from as early as 1903. Thesecontests were usually club, town, "pick-up" teams made up of high schoolers, club members andshop/mill workers. These football games were not quite the same organized T-Day af[airs that startedin 1927. Newspapers show a game scheduled for Nov.26,1903, T-Day afternoon. No results found.1907 lists GHS playing TFHS twice and winning both 30-0 and 18-0 but not on T-Day. Some clubgames and unoffrcial contests took place ensued on and offfrom 1907 to the 1930's. GHS had aregulaq every year team from 1906 on. TFHS had sporadic attempts in 1903,1907,1916-18,21,23before organizing a full time football team in 1926.The two towns then played from 1927 to nowGHS actually played D.A. on and around T:-Day during the 19-teens until coach Carl "Ump" Nicholsarrived in 1919 and ended the rivalry due to age issues over players used by the prepsters.

ln 1922 Earl Lorden arrived in Turners Falls and revived a part-time sports program. In 1926 hefielded a 4-2-l football team and the idea of playing GHS on T-Day was a possibility, the next year.Cad "Ump" Nichols came to Greenfield in 1919 from Framingham via AthoyYMCA. Lorden fromSalisbury via UNH. Nichols would stay till 1958 and Lorden to 1946. Both were considered legendsin the Taptown ( Greenfield) and the Power town ( TF ) as well as Wmass. Nichols retiring in 1958and Lorden moving on to Umass to coach baseball till 1966.

As the end of the season approached \n 1927 GHS was 6-l-l losing to Hartford Public and tieingSpringfield Tech. TF was 5-l-2. Losing to Cathedral on the last game before T-Day and tieing Wareand Amherst. The two teams were considered the "best" in the Valley based on a loose, logic basedSystem of "I beat this team, who beat that team and so on and so forth. Both had the best " in the Valley"records as games from CMass, Conn. And the Berkshires weren't "counted". On top of this Holyokerefused to play GHS in a " challenge game". A game with Dalton 5-1-I never materialized so GHSDeclared via the Greenfield Recorder that if it beat TFHS on T:Day the would lay claim to the mythicalWMass title. The T- Day game was thus scheduled at the last minute to determine the championship.This was not on the early schedul e in 1927 but a possible game was surmised if both teams had the bestTeams around. And so began the rivalry between the two cross-river football powers at the time.

Stan Pekakski (66 pts.) and Phil Murphy (48) were the 2ndl3rd leading scorers in WMass for GHS.Lou Bush (36) led TFHS and was considered the fastest man in the Valley. GHS averaged 5-7 and145 lbs. per man while TFHS was 5-9 and l43lbs. The game was at Beacon Field in Greenfield anda crowd of 2,500 was in attendance. It was the largest crowd to see a football game ever in the area.

Both teams were undefeated in the Valley. GHS scored 13 points in the first quarter and shut out" will-o the wisp" Lou Bush and the Powertown 13-0 for the first of many T-Day V's to come overthe years. Stan Pekakski and J.Donavon scored the TD's. Pekalski added the PAT.

Greenflreld ended the season as the rfrIMass high school football champion

Stats: Purple and White (GHS)First Downs 13

Rushing 43/167Passing 14Plays 47

GHS

FitztgeraldMushovicC.MurphyMooreE.PekalskiH.BurnhamBonitskiP. Murphy

Blue and White (TFHS)3

33/9221

38

LERTLGCRGLTRE

QB

TFHS

WGroganCaseyDoranLearyDubie,ParisProndeckiBorthwick,NasiatkaGartrell,E.Hughs

RERTRGC

LGLTRE

QB

3b

Harris,Bonitski L HBDonovan RHBS.Pekalski FB

TF s-2-2

TF 0 AmherstTF 6 W.SideTF 27 OrangeTF 20 Mass. AggiesTF 0 WareTF 7 GardnerTF 24 AtholCathedral 12 TFGHS 13 TF

BushT.Hughs,SamoriskiMyleck

LIIBRFIB

FB

Oflicials : Referee- Haloganff ordharq Umpire-Parker/Springfi eld Tech,

Linesman- Johnstor/Tuft s,

Periods: 12,10,12,1A minutes* Subs: Players played both ways on Offense and Defense. Subs only if timeout used or

injured player . So you played the whole game. No more TO's no more subs.

Then if a player was injured he was out for duration,no return and sub had tostay in.

Sources: Greenfield Recorder archives/mico-feche, Springfield Republican , GreenfieldPublic Librarylmicro-film

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060600

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6760

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GHS 32 OrangeHartford Public l8 GHSGHS 4l S.DeerfieldGHS 0 TechGHS 12 KeeneGHS 13 GardnerGHS 13 DruryGHS 25 BrattleboroGHS 13 TF

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G.H.S. vs. T.F.H.S T - Day History/Attendance

Starting in1927 TFHS vs. GHS on Thanksgiving Day has been the standard for Franklin Co.football. Records indicate that even before legendary TF coach Earl Lorden arrived in the Powertownin 1923 and GHS mentor Carl "Ump" Nichols in 1918 the two cross-river rivals met severaltimes priorto the "official" start of the grid series in 1927. Archives from the Recorder Gazette indicate thisas so.

Articles from 1907 show GHS and TFHS playing two matches that year. None on T:Day. Thepapershows that on Oct.29,1907 GHS defeated TF 30-0 and on Nov.13,1907 won 18-0 over TF aswell. 1907was oflicially the start of the GHS football program, while TF had to wait to 1926. The "purpleand white"went 5-3-1 that first year.

In l9t2 news reported a "club game" between Greenfield and Turners Falls on Nov. 30 withGreenfieldwinning 2l-0.k was played on T:Day. Similar happenings were planned for 1913 but recordswere notfound to show such an encounter took place.

From 1927 to the present GHS and TFHS have always played on T:Day. Records from 1927show thatAthol vs. Orange which goes back to 1894 with breaks in the schedule as well as also playing onNov.11,Armistice Day as well. They met from 1924-27 on T:Day but stopped untll l944,playing onArmistice Daytill1952 when the series went to T:-Day. So GHS/TF is continuous and may be the most so inWMass.

Holyoke and Chicopee go back to 1908 but did not play on T-Day until post WWll, either1948 or 1953depending on sources. Agawam and W.Side in 1924 and Arms/Mohawk vs. Deerfield/Frontier1933 but they did not originally play on T-Day. Records show only a few games on T-day back inthe 20's-40's andbesides GHS/TF there was St.Joe's,{Pittsfied vs. Pittsfield HS and Palmer vs. Ludlow.

Crowds for the GHSiTFHS game on Thanksgiving in the 1920's were usually @ 3'000 inattendance.By early 1930's the crowds reached 4-5,000. Late in the 1930's records show attendancebetween 6-8,000.at these classics. Quite often, these games determined the WMass mythical footballchampionship. Such as

GHS: 1927,1931 and TF 1935,1936. This trend continued through the 1940's with a peak of10,000 inattendance in 1941and crowds of 6-8,000 until 1950 were common at these contests.

In the 1950's attendance started to decline as TF was no longer a WMass football power andGHS

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struggled in the toughAA Conference playing much larger schools from the Valley. Crowds nowweredown 50% from the S.R.O. showings from the 1930'-1940's. Things picked up a bit in interest inthemid 1960's when TF broke GHS's 15 year winning streak (1950-1964). The 1970's and 80's sawattendances vary from 3-5,000 depending on records and weather. In the 1990's the figures ofcrowdsize stopped being part of the sports write-up/coverage in the local paper as well as the fact othercountyschools also play on T-Day further reducing the numbers. Today crowds run 1,500-2,000, a farcry fromthe "good old days". Will the fans ever tum out in large numbers again on a yearly basis ? Wellmaybeall it will take is/are winning, title contending teams at both schools with IC honors at stakemore oftenthan not. Time will tell.

1927 2,500 Beacon Field # 1940 3,500 BF Sat. - snow T-Day1928 3,000 BF l94l 10,000 TFHS "oval", * record attend.1929 3,000+ Unity Park 1942 8,000 BF1930 4,000 BF 1943 7,000 TFHS "oval'1931 5,500 Unity Park 1944 8,000 BF1932 3,500 BF 1945 4,500 TFHS "oval"1933 5,000+ Unity Park 1946 8,300 BF1934 5,000 BF 1947 7,500 TFHS "oval"1935 6,000 TFHS " oval * 1948 6,500 Vet's Field, Greenfield1936 6,000+ BF t949 6,000 SheffField, TF1937 8,000+ TFHS " oval "1938 8,000 BF1939 7,500 TFHS " oval

1950 4,300 Vet's Field1951 4,000 SheffField1952 5,000 Vet's1953 3,500 Sheff1954 3,000 Vet's1955 3,000 Sheff1,956 3,000 Vet's1957 4,000 Sheff1958 2,800+ Vet's1959 4,000 Sheff

1960 6,000 Vet'sL96l 4,500 Sheff1962 2,500 Vet's1963 3,000 Sheff1964 5,000 Vet's1965 5,000 Sheff1966 5,000 Vet's1967 5,000 Sheff1968 4,000 Vet's1969 6,000 Sheff

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l97o 5,000+ vet's 1980 4,000 vet's1971 # 4,500 Sheff Sat. - snow l:day 1981 4,500 GMAC,TF1972 6,000 Vet's 1982 3,000 Vet's1973 3,500 Sheff 1983 2,500 TFHS1974 5,000 Vet's 1984 3,500 Vet's1975 ? Gill - MontagueAthletic Fields 1985-1988 ?

"new" TFHS 1989 2,000 TFHS1976 5,000 Vet's 1990 3,500 Vet's1977 4,500 GMAthletic Complex, TFHS I99l 4,500 TFHS1978 2,000 Vet's 1992-2010 no figures in GRG1979 3,000+ GMAC, TF

1927 - 1934 TF used Unity Park1935 - 7948 TF "oval", behind TFHS, CrockerAve. "old H.S."1927 - 1947 GHS used Beacon Field1948 - now GHS played at Vet's Field, SheffField dedicated 1948 replacing "oval" at TFHS1949 - 1974 TF used SheffField behind old TFHS, Crocker Ave.

1975 -t994 TF field at Gill-Montague Athletic Complex, Turnpike Rd. , new H.S.

1995 - now TF field renamed Ed Bourdeau Field at TFHS, Turnpike Rd.

Prior to TFHS vs. GHS on T-Day, started 1927, GHS played at Shattuck Park 1907-1909,Lunt's ( Silver Shop Field ), 1910-1912, Green River Park (1913 -1925), Beacon Field (1926-

1947),Vet's Field ( 1948 - now ).lst permanent GHS team : 1906, TFHS,L926

* estimates20n 1000 *

20t2 2000*2At3 1200 *

2014 500 * snow2015 t200 *2016 1000 *

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Greenfield ( Hanington Post 417 VFW ) MVP T-Day( American Legion Post81 )*2016

In 1959 the Greenfield VFW decided to award an MVP frophyfor the traditional Thanksgiving Day game between Greenfield andarch-rival Turners Falls. The two schools had been playing since 1927on a regular basis. This award is not just for a GHS player but is opento TF griders as well. First one was in 1959 and continued to 1965

when it was discontinued by the VFW. In 1984, on the urging of former1964 winner Bill Phelps, it was reinstated and has nm ever since. Theseare the winners as listed below

1959 Lou Breciano GHS1960 Fran Murphy GHS1961 Edward Zewinski TF1962 Tom Suchanek GHS1963 Norm McCloud GHS1964 Bill Phelps GHS1965 TF (team) lst V in 15 yrs.

*1966 - 1983 no award1984 Gary Sak TF1985 John Patterson GHS1986 Gary Darling GHS

1987 Ken Suhl GHS1988 Kyle Phelps GHS1989 Brodie Conant GHS1990 Bill Sampson GHS

Adam Markowski TF1991 Craig Hansen GHS1992 JoshMason GHS1993 Marc Zraunig GHS

1994 Pete Bergeron GHS1995 Pete Bergeron GHS1996 Mike Prondecki TF1997 Jesse Phelps GHS1998 Sam Wilson GHS1999 Aaron Clark GHS2000 Aaron Clark GHS2001 TylerBrougham GHS2002 Jeremy Dillon GHS2003 MikeAndrews GHS2004 MikeAndrews GHS2005 Mark Cadran GHS2006 AdamBastarache TF2007 Sean Boyle GHS2008 Shawn Parsons GHS2009 ZachButynski GHS2010 Zach Bartak GHS2011 Ryan Wilder TF2Al2 lon Ollari TF2013 Malcolm Smith TF2Al4 TrentBourbeau TF2015 Quinn Dolye TF2016 TionneBrown TF *

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Anthony "Cannon" NovakAward for T.F.H.S. M\?Football

Anthony "Cannon " Novalg T.F.H.S. , class 1936 was one ofthe best all-around athletes to play for the

Local High School athletic teams in the mid 1930's and stood out amongst many other valiant warriors toPlay for the then formidable Powertown teams. He was a member of the 1935 and 1936 T.F. football teamsNamed Wmass champs two years in a row. Cannon , also was an outstanding baseball player for legendaryT.F. coach Earl Lorden. He achieved All-WMass as an outfielder in 1936 as well as 2nd team as a pitcher in1935. After graduating he played pro baseball with the Springfield Nationals of the Eastern League and forThe Newport,Tenn. Minor league affrliation. Anthony died prematurely of leukemia in 1958 at the age of40 while in the prime of life.

In l959,to honor his memory as an athlete as well as being of Polish descent, St. Kazimier Society setup an award to be given annually to a football player at T.F.H.S. who exemplified the character andathleticism attributed to Cannon during his athletic career on the fields of sport while in school and after.

Anthony "Cannon" Novak Winners

1959 Pete Machaiek 1970 Connie Rubashkin Rick Cadran1960 Warren Thomas l97l Joe Martin Bob Cooper1961 John Zwyna 1972 Fran Togneri John Little1962 Ed Zewinski 1973 Mike Campbell Corey Saulnier1963 RickWondoloski 1974 John Gamelin Frank Cadran1964 Gary Sutton Edwin Traceski 1975 Dave Schab Dave Guy1965 Robert Parker 1976 Dale Welcome Kevin May1966 DaveDuncan Leon Wazniakiewicz 1977 Dave Choleva Rollie Kidder1967 Bob Tuminski 1978 Bob Bostley Mike Little1968 Gary Banash 1979 lim Mayrand JR. Frank Dudek JR.1969 Senior players

1980 Ken Croteau Jim Murley 1990 JasonDobosz B.J. Monkiewicz1981 Bob Watroba Gayle Williams l99l Adam Markowski Ken Bourbeau1982 Jay Crofton Ron Mosca 1992 Mark Brown Mark Cady1983 Ed Hallet Joe Miner 1993 Larry Petrovicz Offensive Line-Eric Cernich1984 Mike McCarthy Kevin Zwyna Jaime Deery Jaime Lively, Jason Wonsey1985 Ed Croteau Matt Griffrn Jeremy Rastallis1986 Dave Bogucz Bob Caouette 1994 TavarasBrewington DougTerrien1987 Bob Mosca Tim Walsh 1995 AdamGraves JasonJacques1988 Jaime Parent BobBogucz GeorgeCarner 1996 MikeProndecki Coreylaczynski1989 Kris Bourbeau Jim Dion 1997 ScottMinkler TopherProndecki

1998 Aaron Tidlund Chris Lapoint1999 Corey Greene Joey Reipold

2000 Ryan Togneri Dan Sloan2001 Ryan Togneri Mike Williams2002 Tim Parker Ryan Bernard2003 EthanBanash Andy Lovett20A4 Jay Currie Ryan Herzig2005 Nat Underwood Travis St.Peter2006 Sunnylucas Adam Bastarache

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2007 Zachlittle C.J. Peterson2008 Ben Banash Evan Bruso2009 Matt Garber Tim Carlisle2010 Ryan Wilder2011 Jeremy Mankowski Jon Olari2012 RyanWilder Jon Olari2013 Malcolm Smith Brody Markol2014 kent Bourbeau Jalen Sanders Tyler Charbonneau2015 Quinn Doyle Tahner Castine2016 Quinn Doyle Tionne Brown

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Baseball

t937 t6-31940 t0-4-r1942 t5-0

Football

1935 6-2 -11936 6-0- 2I97t 9-0- 01976 10-0-01998 9-1-02013 10-3-024rc 11-1-0

TFHS WMass - State Titles

WM champsWM champsWM - state champs

WM champsWM champsWM (D-2-class B) ICL, no playoffsWM D2, declined playoff gameWM D3 champsWM D4A champsWM D4A champs

Golf

1967 16-0-1 WM champs1969 Art Burke 1ll, state champ2003 t8-0-1 state D3 champs20A7 Wally Fitzpatrick WM D3 champ

Basketball - Boys

1914 18-1 WM champs1933 l7-4 class S-WM-M.A.C1944 16-3 class S-WM-M.A.C.1972 t9-4 WM D21973 t6-7 WM D2

Tennis 196213-2 WM champs

Softball

1988 17-3 WM champs1990 19-1 WM champs1993 16-4 WM champs2000 17-6 WM champs2001 18-6 WM champs2002 18-5 WM champs2004 22-2 WM-state champs2005 25-0 WM-state champs2006 25-0 WM-state champs2007 19-4 WM champs2008 2l-2 WM-state champs2009 19-5 WM champs2010 19-5 WM champs20ll 25-0 WM-state champs2012 23-2 WM-state champs2014 22-3 WMchamps2015 24-1 WM-state champs2016 24-1 WM-state champs

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Volleyball

1978 10-9 WM champS,2'd B bracket state1982 2l-2 WM champs1984 l9-2 WM champs1986 l9-2 WM champs1987 2l-1 WM champs1989 2l-2 WM champs1998 l9-2 WM champs1999 l8-4 WM champs2043 23-2 WM champs2004 16-7 WM champs

Track

1930 WM class B - M.A.C champs1932 WM class B - M.A.C. champs1933 WM class B - M.A.C champs1940 WM class B - M.A.C champs1941 WM class B -M.A.C champs1942 WM class B - M.A.C champs