I interviewed Howard Meyer who was youngster at the time of this game and wrote an article about this game. I'll have to find it and share his version of this game. Needless to say, what a score. Cindy Leonard ----- Original Message ----- From: "Debbi Geer" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, December 25, 2006 11:18 PM Subject: [ILMACOUP] Interesting Historical Fact for Gillespie and Staunton > Even though there may be individuals living that can > remember events from 1923, I doubt if anyone wants to > acknowledge a known fact that many will find somewhat > shocking in the football history of Macoupin Co IL. > > There is a website "Your Hometown" which has > interesting facts about towns in every state. The > website's address - (http://www.yourhometown.org/). > > While looking at the Illinois page, I happen to come > across an entry for Staunton. Don't know why this > entry wasn't under Gillespie too, but here it is - > > "Gillespie High beat Staunton High, 233-0 in Football > in 1923." > > > Debbi Geer > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.