Gads.
Not sure what to do? Just enjoy it all I suppose.
The North Harrison Cougars Football team hit a serious milestone this week. For the first time in school history, the team scored 40 points or more in the first three games of the season. This is after a dismantling of Corydon Central in the 2022 Big Cat Classic by the score of 49-26. These are good times to be a Cougar fan. How good? The Cougars are 3-0 for only the 8th time in school history. We have Coach Williamson to thank for six of these. Varsity football came to North Harrison in 1978.
So far the 2022 NH team’s point total in the first three games is 131. This is also a school best. The next two seasons that come remotely close to this number were in 2015 with 130 points and 1982 when the team scored 129 in the first three games. So, yes, we are having a good time. There is a sign in my classroom that says “WE ARE NOT HERE TO HAVE A BAD TIME”.
On Saturday morning I was able to hang out with many of the NH players at a team function in Depauw. We ate a fine breakfast at Satterfields and a good time was had by all. Good things are on the horizon for this team. I know it.
Now and again I am asked how I know this historical stuff. I was there. I don’t know what else to say. I was there. And I just happened to keep up with it when others did not. There is nothing precise about time and being there. What we do is what we do. The photo above is from the Scottsburg game in week two.
On Saturday, the NH JV team took care of the Corydon Central Panthers at the Field with No Name in Ramsey. 24-6 was the final. The game was abruptly halted in the fourth quarter. A Corydon player was injured. It took the wind out of the sail of the game.
On Friday night I was not at The Big Cat Classic. I was at the first IU football game to kick off on a Friday night in the history of Memorial Stadium. It was a good one. The Hoosiers needed a win and they got one.
There was a great crowd that was quite lively.
Coming off a 2-10 season, this 23-20 win, with new QB Conner Bazelak at the helm, was more than enough. To see nearly 45,000 there after a disaster of a season last year was great. My dear wife, Carrie, and I were in Bowling Green for the last W of 2021 against Western Kentucky and I am delighted that we were there for the first of many wins in 2022. Go Hoosiers!
This Friday the North Harrison Cougars take on the Charlestown Pirates in a tilt that will go a long way in deciding the Champion of the Mid-Southern Conference. And I have no doubt the Cougars can take care of business.
This Saturday the Indiana Hoosiers play host to the Idaho Vandals. I have never seen Idaho. I am looking forward to it. It will be a speaktherights.com honor to be able to cover the game from the field and press box at Memorial Stadium next Saturday night and attend Coach Tom Allen’s post-game presser. It will be another late night. Kickoff is set for 8 PM against the Vandals. They will be the 73rd FBS team I have had the pleasure to see play in person in this great football lifetime.
At the heart of it all, the Cougars playing Charlestown means a little more than anything else that will play out this weekend.
Go Cougars! I Believe you will take care of business.
Speaking the winning weekend rights…
Danny Johnson