If your a longtime MC football fan your a liar if the 92 JCA Semi hasn’t crossed your mind 😀. I checked the articles, no Therill Smith comments were made! 😀. Only complementary.
For those that don’t know. 1992, MC opens up the season ranked #1 and beats JCA 27-6 in the opener, avenging a heartbreaking defeat from the year before. MC went 12-0 and pretty much dominated everyone. JCA went 11-1. Rematch set for semifinals. MC star RB Therill Smith told Bob Sakamoto “It will be just like the first game. We’ll whip them just like that” or something along those lines. Sakamoto printed it, and then ran another story centered around that quote and then this happened
There had to be a reason why Joliet Catholic`s 5,000-plus partisans seemed so tentative. Their hero, Matt Larsen, had just scored his second touchdown to provide the Hilltoppers with a 13-3 lead ov…
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