A Sea Of Red

These are some scanned shots from the programs of the 1979 and 1980 seasons of Flames Football at City Stadium. Proves husband was a FlamesFan before we were actually Flames in 1981-85 !!

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Yikes. That old "Flames" script (3rd photo) would go over well in San Francisco right now.

Considering how small & young the school was back int he Late '70s, the fact we were even fielding a football team was a major accomplishment. I believe Tom Dowling was coach at the time of that program.

Was that Glenn Inverso under center in the 3rd photo? Fine QB, played a little with the Bears. I don't remember the "dust bowl" game. It must have been a little before my time. Tom Dowling was a very underappreciated coach at that time. Later in his tenure he got a little over his head with the tougher scheduling and that kind of forced him out. Personally I thought that he did a fairly descent job as a coach all things considered.

I think that the dust bowl game was vs Dayton, a division 3 power at the time and we beat them on our way to a 9-1-1 season.

01LUGrad wrote:Yikes. That old "Flames" script (3rd photo) would go over well in San Francisco right now.

It looks a little like the script that the band Chicago used to use. Gosh, I miss 1979.

1979? I was born that year.

In 1979 I was going to Camden Park and fishing at Greenup Dam for sauger. Those were the days.

It was about that time that I was videotaping highlights for a linebacker who wanted to play for the Flames. Coach Dowling didn't give him a scholie but he wound up running most of the McDonalds in Southern Ohio so it probably worked out best.

I think my parents got married in 79.

Stevev wrote:Was that Glenn Inverso under center in the 3rd photo? Fine QB, played a little with the Bears. I don't remember the "dust bowl" game. It must have been a little before my time. Tom Dowling was a very underappreciated coach at that time. Later in his tenure he got a little over his head with the tougher scheduling and that kind of forced him out. Personally I thought that he did a fairly descent job as a coach all things considered.

The QB in that picture is Steve Patterson in 1979. Glenn Inverso was number 10 and QBed in the 1980 season. Inverso was a real QB to have played in those early days. The so-called dust bowl game was against Dayton and was LBC's biggest win to date (10/27/79), a great game too. The final score was 17 to 10.

And I was a junior in high school hoping to be a Flame after graduation in '81.

Only 13 more days!!!!!

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