McGrory’s scoring run clinched Catholic South for O’Hara
A look at high school football in Delaware County on this weekend in years past.
30 YEARS AGO
Mike McGrory’s 25-yard pass to James McNelis sets up McGrory’s scoring run as Cardinal O’Hara defeats St. James, 7-0, to clinch first place in the Catholic League’s Southern Division … Greg James runs 32 yards with a fumble for a touchdown in Penn Wood’s 14-0 win over Glen Mills … Rick Floyd’s 30-yard field goal with 45 seconds to play gives Interboro a 17-15 decision over Chichester … Fran Naselli’s four scoring runs help Ridley to a 47-6 win over Upper Darby … Lanue Johnson runs for a pair of TDs to help Penncrest beat Marple Newtown, 14-0 … Dave DiBerardino has scoring runs of 60 and 36 yards in Sun Valley’s 1413 loss to Unionville … Joe Stratton throws three touchdown passes and makes a pair of interceptions as Academy Park tops Chester, 25-0 … John Staiber scores two TDs in Monsignor Bonner’s
28-6 win over Roman Catholic.
50 YEARS AGO
John Cappelletti returns a punt 52 yards for a TD and throws a scoring pass to Bob Doyle as Monsignor Bonner rallies from a 12-0 halftime deficit to defeat West Catholic, 21-12 … Greg Jefferson tosses scoring passes of 73 and 64 yards to Billy Taylor and 60 yards to Chris Arnold, and Warren Stimpson runs 85 yards with a fumble to score in Darby Township’s 38-0 win over Sharon Hill … Ed Hocker and Bob Hartshorn team up on an 80-yard scoring completion on the third play of Collingdale’s 13-0 victory over Yeadon … Phil Pennington catches two of Artie Phillips’s four TD passes in Sun Valley’s 30-21 win over Interboro … Steve Joachim throws for four TDs and Harris Plotnick scores three TDs as Haverford rolls past Upper Dublin, 40-14 … Todd O’Neill gets a pair of scoring runs in Cardinal O’Hara’s 35-0 win over Roman Catholic … Anthony Young runs 42 yards with a fumble and Jay Pugh recovers a blocked punt in the end zone for Darby-Colwyn’s TDs as the Rams earn a 14-7 decision over Garnet Valley … George Gezzer returns a kickoff 90 yards to score in Marple Newtown’s 35-14 win over Radnor.
40 YEARS AGO
George Schmitt and Ray Messa run for two TDs apiece as Marple Newtown defeats Radnor,
34-7 … Tom Mortimer throws three TD passes in Interboro’s 35-18 win over Sun Valley (Mike Boccella two scoring passes) … Kevin O’Sullivan scores both TDs as Monsignor Bonner gets past Archbishop Carroll, 14-6 … Sophomore Robert Carter runs for a TD and Richard Womack throws to Reginald Hines for the conversion that gives Darby Township an 8-6 win over Darby-Colwyn (Dave Layden 16-yard scoring run with a punt blocked by Brian McGonigle )… Alan Warrington tosses a TD pass to Randy Adams with 30 seconds to play and kicks the extra point as Chichester knocks off Chester, 7-6 … George Schmidt’s TD helps Springfield to its first win, 13-6 over Penncrest … Bob Dougherty runs for a pair of TDs and Bill Mitchell kicks his sixth field goal of the season in Cardinal O’Hara’s 26-16 victory over St. James … Jerry Irving has a pair of scoring runs, one a 73-yarder, and Van Showell runs 35 yards with an interception for a touchdown in Garnet Valley’s 35-6 win over Collingdale.
20 YEARS AGO
Del Jackson has two of Penn Wood’s three scoring runs in the third quarter in a 35-3 victory over Chichester … Dave Razzano’s TD run in the first quarter lifts Springfield past Upper Darby, 7-0 … John Roberts runs for three TDs and throws a pair of TD passes to Jim Volpe as Ridley rolls past Radnor, 45-0 … Carl Brooks runs 36 yards with an interception for a TD in Archbishop Carroll’s
21-0 win over Kennedy-Kenrick … Rob Randolph’s scoring run in the first quarter helps Interboro to its ninth consecutive victory, 7-0 over Chester … Shawn Conti gains 237 yards on 25 carries and scores two TDs as Haverford beats Penncrest,
34-6 … Mark Jones and Pete Celebre get two TDs apiece in Strath Haven’s 70-0 win over Marple Newtown … George Shahadi’s 55-yard TD run in the fourth quarter carries Garnet Valley over Academy Park, 21-15.
10 YEARS AGO
Phil Graziano scores four TDs as Marple Newtown defeats Harriton, 38-6 … Joe Devinney recovers a fumble for a TD and returns an interception 56 yards to set up Michael Archibald’s short scoring run, and Joe Addona has a 71-yard TD run and catches a scoring pass from Wally Rutecki in Springfield’s 35-6 win over Radnor … Eric Gilbert gains 158 yards rushing and gets three TDs as Academy Park defeats West Chester East, 42-21 … Liam McGrath runs for two TDs in the first half of Haverford’s 30-6 win over Lower Merion … Jerry Boyer picks up 256 yards on 24 carries and scores four TDs, but Penncrest drops a 56-40 decision to Conestoga … Marco Kopac tosses a pair of TD passes in the second half and Lonnie Richardson adds two scoring runs in Strath Haven’s
22-6 win over Upper Darby … Zach Serody’s three first-half TDs help Interboro clobber Chichester,
41-14 … Bernard Pierce runs for a pair of TDs and Jurell Smalls has two scoring passes to help Glen Mills defeat Penn Wood (Roger Ingrum 80-yard kickoff return for a TD), 35-14, to earn a share of the Del Val League title … Shomari Watts has two interceptions in Haverford School’s 12-0 win at Germantown Academy … Eric Petransky gets two scoring runs as Monsignor Bonner snaps a seven-game losing streak with a 24-17 victory over Archbishop Ryan … Mark McHugh throws three scoring passes and Tim Keyser adds two TD runs in Garnet Valley’s 41-28 win over Ridley (Andrew Pidgeon three TD passes).
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