[Husker] Re: GI Senior High Football

[Sean Gruhn]

In 1991 GI also played in the State Championship against Papillion LaVista. 
GI had Phil Ellis on Defense and Papio had Jason Branigan and Reggie Baul if 
memory serves me correctly.  Papio won that game on GI's home field also.
"Knox, Chuck" <CGKnox at Pella.com> wrote in message 
news:50C18DA89A98D444AD53711C1E1DC24C023F3524 at PELSEXBE01.ad.pella.com...
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> All right, consider yourself corrected!  My brother played on the State
> Championship team from GI in 1978.  After beating Lincoln Northeast and
> Lincoln Southeast in the first two rounds of the playoffs, GI handled
> Creighton Prep with surprising ease to win the state championship.  My
> dad and I used to go up to the high school during the week, and Coach
> Fischer would show the game films from the previous week's game and
> comment on the play.  Your post is partially correct -- until that year,
> I think GI had the distinction of being the only team that had made the
> playoffs every year, but they had never won a game.
>
> Another Husker connection -- I believe Frank Solich was the coach at the
> time of Lincoln Southeast.  I could be wrong on that one, though.
>
> Chuck Knox
> Pella, IA
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jamie_Dilla at hud.gov [mailto:Jamie_Dilla at hud.gov]
> Sent: Thursday, December 09, 2004 6:54 AM
> To: Eric Erlandson
> Cc: husker at tssi.com; husker-bounces at tssi.com
> Subject: GI Senior High Football
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> I must respectfully disagree.
>
> None of Ken Fischer's football teams won a Nebraska High School
> Championship.  I grew up in GI and can't remember any of his teams
> making it past the first rounds of the playoffs.
>
> Please correct me if I've been misinformed, but I can't find it anywhere
> on the web either.....
>
> Thank you.....
>
> Jamie
>
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