CSN Log
September 29th, 2009, 05:10 PM
09-26-2009 05:02 PM
Crossed-Out Season
In 1969, hepatitis was a foe too tough for the Crusaders.
What they remember most 40 years later is how quickly it all ended. One day, the Holy Cross football team was preparing for a road game with Colgate. The next day, the season was over and the players were quarantined.
“The abruptness of it,’’ says Steve Jutras, the star tailback for the Crusader varsity that played only two games in 1969.
None of the players would have dreamed when they thirstily slurped water drawn from a nearby faucet that they were contracting hepatitis, wrecking not only that season but also the next one, when the Cross went winless for the first time in its history.
Read more ... (http://www.championshipsubdivisionnews.com/index.php/2009/09/26/crossed-out-season?blog=2#more5639)
Crossed-Out Season
In 1969, hepatitis was a foe too tough for the Crusaders.
What they remember most 40 years later is how quickly it all ended. One day, the Holy Cross football team was preparing for a road game with Colgate. The next day, the season was over and the players were quarantined.
“The abruptness of it,’’ says Steve Jutras, the star tailback for the Crusader varsity that played only two games in 1969.
None of the players would have dreamed when they thirstily slurped water drawn from a nearby faucet that they were contracting hepatitis, wrecking not only that season but also the next one, when the Cross went winless for the first time in its history.
Read more ... (http://www.championshipsubdivisionnews.com/index.php/2009/09/26/crossed-out-season?blog=2#more5639)