Mooney @ Ursuline

YTOWN said:
In my senior year THE game was played at Rayen on a Sunday afternoon. It was the first HS game televised live in Youngstown. They played at Rayen on a Sunday afternoon the next season also. At that time there were always huge crowds no matter where or when the game was played.
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1969 I was there. Despite pro-football on television, Rayen was jammed with 11,000. Ursuline struck fast and in no time at all it was 16-0. Then Mooney really dominated the game but could muster one TD in the 3rd quarter. I think the Cardinals were driving for the tying score when time ran out. Final was Ursuline 16, Cardinal Mooney 8. That Irish team had only 1 loss (14-12 to Cleveland St. Joseph) and Mooney ended up at 4-6 with a very young team. Was that Bucci's only losing record? (I recall the Vindicator article that Mooney players openly wept in the locker room at the end of the game. That's how emotional THE game was for both schools.) Youngstown surely was a unique place for high school football.
 
Cinciirish said:
1969 I was there. Despite pro-football on television, Rayen was jammed with 11,000. Ursuline struck fast and in no time at all it was 16-0. Then Mooney really dominated the game but could muster one TD in the 3rd quarter. I think the Cardinals were driving for the tying score when time ran out. Final was Ursuline 16, Cardinal Mooney 8. That Irish team had only 1 loss (14-12 to Cleveland St. Joseph) and Mooney ended up at 4-6 with a very young team. Was that Bucci's only losing record?
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According to this site it was Buccis only losing season. He had three 5-5 seasons
I didnt realize until now that Mooney has gone 7 straight seasons with a losing record
 
Gardens35 said:
Eddie Loves Debbie
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But does Debbie know Eddie?

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Is Eddie ready?

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For a girl like Debbie?
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Upon additional reflection the GIF posted above could apply to any time of the day on any day of the year. The gentlemen named, and I use that term loosely when applied to you WOT, are ALWAYS celebrating SOMETHING at the Dawn. They don't need any real reason to do so :)
 
golden dawn's avatar as he appeared in the 1968 YSU vs Pensacola Navy game program. The game was played at Rayen and Roger Staubach hit on 27 of 39 passes for 455 yards and 4 TDs in leading the Goshawks to a 58-38 win over the Guins. Mr. O'Neil was a starting DT in the game and IIRC he attempted to get near the QB on at least one occasion. There were far too many Ursuline grads on that YSU team from my perspective. :)

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I was kidding (collared shirt guy humping the dude in front of him)….I thought it was a random group of guys.
I didn’t realize he was a true heavy hitter!
 
Over the summer I was playing poker during the WSOP and a gentleman to my right told another player that he looked like Ed O'Neill, who is not a celebrity I would ever tell someone they resembled, but I did say 'oh, he went to my alma mater' and was immediately greeted with 'you went to Ursuline?' If I'm understanding everyone's vintage, may have been a classmate of Cinciirish.

As a child of the 80s mostly, I do have such fond memories of marching over to Stambaugh, and even though I feel like we always had a dog in every fight, that time feels like everyone thought we were second fiddle to Mooney. I wonder how much of that is just hindsight bias of maybe 2-3 years when you were actually there. Given the recent lopsided relationship, I dug through Joe Eitel (my only source, I know some folks have more detailed records) to see how my current impression stacks up to the last quarter century, and was pretty surprised. I think if you had just asked me I would have assumed there was a more 60/40 split on the stats (but probably would have accepted if it went either way), but it's practically down the middle.
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YTOWN said:
golden dawn's avatar as he appeared in the 1968 YSU vs Pensacola Navy game program. The game was played at Rayen and Roger Staubach hit on 27 of 39 passes for 455 yards and 4 TDs in leading the Goshawks to a 58-38 win over the Guins. Mr. O'Neil was a starting DT in the game and IIRC he attempted to get near the QB on at least one occasion. There were far too many Ursuline grads on that YSU team from my perspective. :)

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Roger Staubach was a Cincinnati Purcell great who very generously donated a stadium recently to his center city Alma Mater (now Purcell Marian). He was probably the best football player produced by the Cavaliers.
 
Mooney's defense is pretty decent, their offense in the other hand is downright atrocious. We played poorly at times and still won by 30. Mooney is long overdue for a change at the top. The 1976 offense isn't going to cut it going forward.
 
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