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The History of Hamilton High Football Hamilton vs Badin 1999! 🔵 · WDYM What Do You Mean?

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  SPEAKER_00: Your host, Michael Gillespie.
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  SPEAKER_01: And welcome to part three of the Hamilton vs.
• 1:15
  SPEAKER_01: Baiton football series where we pick up the rivalry in 1999.
• 1:22
  SPEAKER_01: And we are going all the way till 2023 where the two teams meet up yet again.
• 1:28
  SPEAKER_01: But we are not there yet.
• 1:29
  SPEAKER_01: We are still in 1999, where we're even going further back in time.
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  SPEAKER_01: We're going to do a quick recap of what happened in 1980 and 1981.
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  SPEAKER_01: And I say, as a Hamilton fan, uh Hamilton Big Blue fan, let me be clear with that.
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  SPEAKER_01: It didn't go well.
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  SPEAKER_01: It really didn't go well.
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  SPEAKER_01: 1980, prime example of this man named Tony Farkas decided to go crazy in the second half, scoring three touchdowns for Baton and beat Hamilton 28-14.
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  SPEAKER_01: In 1981, we get a defensive battle where Baton wins 3-0 by a field goal by Rick Cassano, a 27-yard field goal that gives Baton the 3-0 win.
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  SPEAKER_01: So in the 80s, Baton has dominated Big Blue, winning both games.
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  SPEAKER_01: Now we fast forward to 1999.
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  SPEAKER_01: Hamilton will take on Baton.
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  SPEAKER_01: And if you're a Baton fan or if you're interested in Baton, Baden has not changed at all.
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  SPEAKER_01: Not at one bit.
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  SPEAKER_01: He has won a state title since then in 1990, leading the Rams to a state championship.
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  SPEAKER_01: So excellence, prestige, everything is for Baton.
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  SPEAKER_01: Baton's a consistent playoff team.
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  SPEAKER_01: They're always challenging for a state title.
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  SPEAKER_01: That's the standard that Baton is and always has been.
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  SPEAKER_01: So Hamilton, so it's it's like they are the standard for Hamilton football.
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  SPEAKER_01: On the other hand, we have Hamilton Big Blue, who is coming off a um, they just combined schools in 1980 with Garfield and Taft to perform Hamilton, and the coach then, Del Robertson, coached from 1980 to 1984 with a 24, 25, and 1 record.
• 3:41
  SPEAKER_01: Following him, John Pont came in, did a three years at Hamilton as coach, 12 and 17.
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  SPEAKER_01: It wasn't until 1988 Hamilton gets something that Baton has always had: stability.
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  SPEAKER_01: Stability in coach Ed Minory.
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  SPEAKER_01: Ed Minory takes over the reins of 1988.
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  SPEAKER_01: Doesn't start well with a 2-8 record, and the next year, 4-6, but he gets it together after that in 1990, we're getting his first winning season of 6-4.
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  SPEAKER_01: Stability.
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  SPEAKER_01: That's the energy that Ed Minory has put in.
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  SPEAKER_01: Ed Minory, arguably, one of the best coaches in Hamilton high history.
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  SPEAKER_01: So now that there's stability in Hamilton, what else is going on for Hamilton since then?
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  SPEAKER_01: Since 1981.
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  SPEAKER_01: We have three junior highs here in Hamilton.
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  SPEAKER_01: We have, they have converted Garfield from a high school to a junior high school.
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  SPEAKER_01: On top of that, we have Wilson, that's across the river.
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  SPEAKER_01: And then all the way out in Lindenwall, we have George Washington as a junior high.
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  SPEAKER_01: These three junior highs don't like each other.
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  SPEAKER_01: Well, let's let's keep it real.
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  SPEAKER_01: Everybody doesn't like Garfield.
• 4:57
  SPEAKER_01: For some reason, uh nobody likes Garfield.
• 5:00
  SPEAKER_01: I went to Garfield for one year, then moved and went to the went to Wilson because I moved in their district, and um two years at Wilson.
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  SPEAKER_01: So me going to Garfield, I've experienced the rivalry that we had with Wilson and also the rivalry we had with George Washington.
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  SPEAKER_01: I didn't know GW was hating on Garfield like that.
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  SPEAKER_01: And um when I went to Wilson, it was the same way.
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  SPEAKER_01: You know, nobody nobody liked Wilson, and it was just a good rivalry to have.
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  SPEAKER_01: So we're we're constantly having competition in all our sports, especially with football.
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  SPEAKER_01: Now we have a solid, I guess you can call a foundation of players that want to go on and play Hamilton High football.
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  SPEAKER_01: It also brought the freak athletes that came from all three of these schools.
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  SPEAKER_01: During my time there, you you realize that you know George George Washington has some some players that some people that could play football.
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  SPEAKER_01: You definitely had the people from Garfield that could play football, and you also had people from Wilson that could play football.
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  SPEAKER_01: These students at the time, these kids, are some of Hamilton High Hamilton High's greatest players.
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  SPEAKER_01: Great players like Mike Myers, who ran for over 3,000 yards in his his time at Hamilton.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh Andy Minory, uh, Ed Minory's son went on to play football at Michigan.
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  SPEAKER_01: Gary Richardson, Fred Rogers, Thomas Hamner, uh there's so many people.
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  SPEAKER_01: E.J.
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  SPEAKER_01: Underwood, Adel Givens.
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  SPEAKER_01: There's been so many great players that's come from the halls of Hamilton.
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  SPEAKER_01: Another thing that's happened since 1981, construction of Virgil Swarm Stadium.
• 6:51
  SPEAKER_01: That's right.
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  SPEAKER_01: Hamilton has left Garfield or the athletic field at Garfield and now have their own stadium in back of in back of their high school.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yes, Baton is still using the using the field to play their games because they don't have a field.
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  SPEAKER_01: So Hamilton has their own field and back of the school.
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  SPEAKER_01: So the energy that's left at the athletic field at Garfield has now moved to the back of the school, which is a great thing for Hamilton.
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  SPEAKER_01: So all these things are are coming collective to build that positive energy, to have, I guess you call it stability, have a stable program, nice stadium, a stands.
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  SPEAKER_01: Everything is perfect.
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  SPEAKER_01: This skyline, everything's perfect at Virgil Swarm Stadium.
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  SPEAKER_01: I will say that and I will believe that as of today.
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  SPEAKER_01: I mean, we still we just recently put up a new press box on both sides.
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  SPEAKER_01: So everything is perfect for Hamilton when it comes to football.
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  SPEAKER_01: So 1999, both teams are coming into the last game of the season where both Hamilton and Baton decide to play.
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  SPEAKER_01: At this time, Hamilton is 3-6.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, it sucks.
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  SPEAKER_01: And Baton is 7-2 heading to the playoffs.
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  SPEAKER_01: And it's like, we're gonna get killed.
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  SPEAKER_01: The the feeling in the hallways and talking to the football players and talking to everybody is that you know, Baton's gonna, they're Bayton's 7-2, they're gonna absolutely destroy us.
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  SPEAKER_01: But me being an insider and like having friends that I've that I've played football with, people that I that I've grown play football with, that I've known all my life, I've experienced playing football with them.
• 8:36
  SPEAKER_01: And you may ask yourself, well, Michael, why didn't you play?
• 8:39
  SPEAKER_01: And I'll tell you, I'll tell you why I didn't play at the end of all this.
• 8:42
  SPEAKER_01: I'll tell you why I didn't play.
• 8:44
  SPEAKER_01: I knew these, I knew these, we I knew these people.
• 8:48
  SPEAKER_01: I knew all these people on the football team, and it's like we've had an ugly season this year, but there's no way we lose the bait.
• 8:56
  SPEAKER_01: That's that was my belief going into it.
• 8:59
  SPEAKER_01: And at this juncture of life, I was in the broadcasting course of Hamilton, so I got to do interviews with the coach Ed Minory and talk to the players and all that stuff.
• 9:10
  SPEAKER_01: And one of the players that I used to talk to all the time was a young man named David Huff.
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  SPEAKER_01: Now, David Huff, I've known David Huff for a very long time.
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  SPEAKER_01: And uh he's a future he was a um he's a Hamilton Hall of Famer, Hamilton Athletic uh Hall of Famer for football, basketball, uh badminton, tennis track, you name it, David Huff did it.
• 9:36
  SPEAKER_01: Now, the story with David Huff is interesting because one, I have a theory.
• 9:42
  SPEAKER_01: I have a theory if your name is three to four syllables, you are destined for greatness, right?
• 9:50
  SPEAKER_01: David Huff.
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  SPEAKER_01: Three syllables, right?
• 9:53
  SPEAKER_01: Um ever since I've known David uh back in elementary, I noticed something about him.
• 10:00
  SPEAKER_01: And mostly if you know Huff and you know his family and you know his brother, you know his father, there's something special about him.
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  SPEAKER_01: Case in point.
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  SPEAKER_01: Back way, way, way, long, long, long time ago in elementary, you know, I was, you know, I was an athlete back then.
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  SPEAKER_01: You know, I could play sports and everything.
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  SPEAKER_01: And like the first, you know, three, four, four years, fifth grade, fourth grade, you know, I'm doing my thing.
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  SPEAKER_01: I'm like, yo, I'm the I'm the king around here, so to speak.
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  SPEAKER_01: Then this dude comes in and is like, yeah, you want to play?
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  SPEAKER_01: And he's like, Yeah, I want to play.
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  SPEAKER_01: And I've I've never seen someone as a freak athlete as in David, as in them, as in the guy, the kid, the man, David Huff.
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  SPEAKER_01: David Huff was a monster at whatever he did.
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  SPEAKER_01: Whatever he did, football, basketball, track, he he could do it all.
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  SPEAKER_01: And there was no doubt.
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  SPEAKER_01: Like one of my best friends growing up was Maurice Reese.
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  SPEAKER_01: And I thought he was a great athlete.
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  SPEAKER_01: And David Huff was a better athlete than Maurice Reese.
• 11:09
  SPEAKER_01: These are now again, these are all friends.
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  SPEAKER_01: These are all people that I've known all my life, these are all friends, and these are all facts, too.
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  SPEAKER_01: That David was a freak athlete.
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  SPEAKER_01: He was such a and a good and a good athlete at that as well.
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  SPEAKER_01: Again, and this goes back to my idea that syllables, if you got three or four syllables in your name, you're you're destined for greatness.
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  SPEAKER_01: You you are.
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  SPEAKER_01: And like I said, three to four syllables, David Huff, greatness.
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  SPEAKER_01: Maurice Reese, greatness.
• 11:41
  SPEAKER_01: These are these are he played on the team for the Hamilton football team, um, and some other people.
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  SPEAKER_01: Ryan King.
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  SPEAKER_01: I'll talk about him in a little bit.
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  SPEAKER_01: So all these guys have three to four syllables, and they're probably destined for greatness.
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  SPEAKER_01: But Hamilton didn't have it this year.
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  SPEAKER_01: Three and six getting to the game, heads down, like, yo, what is gonna happen?
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  SPEAKER_01: What is going to happen when Hamilton and Baton play?
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  SPEAKER_01: You look at history, Baton's gonna dog walk us.
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  SPEAKER_01: Baton is going to dog walk Hamilton because this is what they do.
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  SPEAKER_01: Now, despite the energy, despite the stability that Ed Minory brings, despite the competition at all three junior highs, despite the athletes that Hamilton is producing, Baton has history on his side with Terry Malone.
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  SPEAKER_01: Terry Malone doesn't play.
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  SPEAKER_01: Terry Malone is a winner, proven winner.
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  SPEAKER_01: There's no way.
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  SPEAKER_01: There's no way Baton could lose.
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  SPEAKER_01: 7-2 heading to the playoffs.
• 12:41
  SPEAKER_01: They really have no reason to even play this game.
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  SPEAKER_01: Like, why would I play my starters for this?
• 12:47
  SPEAKER_01: And I think the reason why is because it's it's all about Hamilton.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's all about how Hamilton is for the people of Hamilton.
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  SPEAKER_01: We love this game.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's a fun game to play, it's a it's a big rivalry because these are our neighbors.
• 13:03
  SPEAKER_01: That's the best part about this, is that your next door neighbor could be a goes to Baiton, and he's like, yeah.
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  SPEAKER_01: And there's this, it's just such a a level of rivalry for for the game that it just makes everything when Hamilton Baton plays.
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  SPEAKER_01: That makes it so spectacular.
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  SPEAKER_01: And one of the reasons why spectacular, because it doesn't happen as much as it should.
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  SPEAKER_01: Let's let's get into it.
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  SPEAKER_01: 1999, 3-6 Hamilton is already having problems.
• 13:32
  SPEAKER_01: Why would you say that?
• 13:34
  SPEAKER_01: Well, number one, we have this young wide receiver named Ryan Dixon.
• 13:38
  SPEAKER_01: Ryan Dixon is 6'2, 180 wide receiver, and back in the late 90s, passing wasn't passing wasn't a high school thing like it is now.
• 13:50
  SPEAKER_01: All right.
• 13:51
  SPEAKER_01: But Ryan Dixon was tall, lengthy, fast.
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  SPEAKER_01: He had it all.
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  SPEAKER_01: But he wasn't playing.
• 13:57
  SPEAKER_01: Like where was he at?
• 13:58
  SPEAKER_01: Well, he fell, he kind of failed in ninth grade.
• 14:02
  SPEAKER_01: You're gonna have so many semesters to be an athlete.
• 14:04
  SPEAKER_01: The limit is eight.
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  SPEAKER_01: He was in his ninth semester.
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  SPEAKER_01: So lead up leading up to the game, we didn't know if Ryan Dixon was going to play.
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  SPEAKER_01: I would see him in the hallway and say, Ryan, are you playing?
• 14:14
  SPEAKER_01: He said, Man, I don't, I don't even know.
• 14:17
  SPEAKER_01: I said, okay, then we gonna lose.
• 14:19
  SPEAKER_01: We gonna lose this game, man.
• 14:22
  SPEAKER_01: We need Ryan Dixon to play.
• 14:24
  SPEAKER_01: The local newspaper, uh players' lawsuit could be a broader implication of what other players were trying to do.
• 14:31
  SPEAKER_01: Uh the judge at the time put a temporary order on Hamilton High not to enforce the Ohio School Athletic Association a semester limit on Dixon, who was in his ninth semester because he again failed ninth grade.
• 14:44
  SPEAKER_01: The worry was that if a player can do this just to extend his eligibility to play or anything like that, this is going to be a long-term thing.
• 14:54
  SPEAKER_01: So, needless to say, they put it on hold and Ryan Dixon was able to play.
• 14:59
  SPEAKER_01: So that's one check mark that we got to hopefully beat Baton.
• 15:05
  SPEAKER_01: What else is going on?
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  SPEAKER_01: The coaches are chiming in on what is really going on for the game.
• 15:10
  SPEAKER_01: Uh, head coach Ed Minory of Hamilton High feels the green and white faithful have done most of the talking.
• 15:15
  SPEAKER_01: The big thing is they've been shooting for this game all year.
• 15:19
  SPEAKER_01: Minerry says we just started talking about the Baton this week.
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  SPEAKER_01: It just feels like there's no competition with them.
• 15:25
  SPEAKER_01: Even if we play at the end of the year, we could root for each other all year, and that's the way it should be.
• 15:30
  SPEAKER_01: But I don't think Baton community thinks like that.
• 15:32
  SPEAKER_01: I don't think our kids dislike Baton.
• 15:34
  SPEAKER_01: They don't talk much about Baton, he continues.
• 15:37
  SPEAKER_01: We just have so many other rival rivalries like Princeton, Middletown, and Fairfield, who talks about Baton?
• 15:44
  SPEAKER_01: They don't really have a rivalry with us.
• 15:46
  SPEAKER_01: That's what Coach said.
• 15:47
  SPEAKER_01: Now, what did Coach Terry Malone say, who has done two of these before and has been successful before?
• 15:54
  SPEAKER_01: Meanwhile, Bayton Coach Terry Malone believes this is a good game for the community.
• 15:57
  SPEAKER_01: You get to focus a little bit on Hamilton during this week, Hamilton uh Malone said.
• 16:02
  SPEAKER_01: That's something our town could use.
• 16:04
  SPEAKER_01: The 7-2 Rams have already earned a playoff spot and are fighting to get a first round home game.
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  SPEAKER_01: Meanwhile, in the halls of Baton, senior quarterback Tim Wolf said his team is preparing for war.
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  SPEAKER_01: At Hamilton, many declared his players to be off limits to the media all week.
• 16:23
  SPEAKER_01: Wolf will go on and say everybody's talking about the game in the halls at school.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's exciting atmosphere.
• 16:28
  SPEAKER_01: We're taking Hamilton very seriously.
• 16:30
  SPEAKER_01: There's hardly a joke around.
• 16:32
  SPEAKER_01: We are all business.
• 16:34
  SPEAKER_01: So while he's all business, both him and high school, I'm sorry, and Hamilton's quarterback, Chris Bryant, have shown flashes of brilliance, but at the end of the day, both Wolf and Bryant has had two touchdowns and nine interceptions.
• 16:50
  SPEAKER_01: Malone will go on to say he's not taking chances with any of his players for the game tonight.
• 16:54
  SPEAKER_01: The playoffs are more important than this game.
• 16:56
  SPEAKER_01: Malone says if there's some kind of decision to be made, I will make it with the playoffs in mind.
• 17:00
  SPEAKER_01: The game means a lot in Hamilton, but the big news is in Cleveland.
• 17:04
  SPEAKER_01: We want to win a state championship and make big news across the state.
• 17:08
  SPEAKER_01: So again, the mentality is state.
• 17:11
  SPEAKER_01: The mentality is win.
• 17:14
  SPEAKER_01: That's Terry Malone for you.
• 17:15
  SPEAKER_01: Needless to say.
• 17:16
  SPEAKER_01: Prior to the game, beforehand, some other news and notes.
• 17:20
  SPEAKER_01: Ryan King, running back for Hamilton High, has 1,196 rushing yards in his big blue career.
• 17:26
  SPEAKER_01: Only five players have hired total since the merger of Taffin Garfield.
• 17:31
  SPEAKER_01: Mike Myers, which uh had 3,200 yards, Thomas Hanner had 1,700.
• 17:36
  SPEAKER_01: Greg Terry had 1466.
• 17:38
  SPEAKER_01: Brandon Feltner had 1450, and Chris Powell had 1205.
• 17:43
  SPEAKER_01: Malone's concern about the game.
• 17:45
  SPEAKER_01: My first concern about Hamilton is their speed.
• 17:47
  SPEAKER_01: I'm just don't see us pounding them play for play up front.
• 17:50
  SPEAKER_01: We have to be balanced with a pass and running attack.
• 17:53
  SPEAKER_01: I don't know if we're confident.
• 17:55
  SPEAKER_01: I just think our players realize they're going against a strong team and they're going to have to play hard.
• 17:59
  SPEAKER_01: I'm not worried about our effort.
• 18:01
  SPEAKER_01: When we scrimmage Hamilton before, our kids played well and hard.
• 18:04
  SPEAKER_01: I'm sure a lot of our players will play with their heads in the game like this.
• 18:10
  SPEAKER_01: Minery's concerned.
• 18:11
  SPEAKER_01: Right now I got a lot of mixed reaction about playing Baton.
• 18:14
  SPEAKER_01: It's a natural rivalry, Minerry says, but I think it creates too much division in our community.
• 18:19
  SPEAKER_01: Whether we're playing or not, it seems that people are always at odds.
• 18:22
  SPEAKER_01: This is classic baiting, a very strong football team.
• 18:25
  SPEAKER_01: As far as I'm concerned, all baiting teams play the same.
• 18:29
  SPEAKER_01: It's pretty similar to the things we ran when I played at baiton.
• 18:33
  SPEAKER_01: Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
• 18:34
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, did I read that right?
• 18:36
  SPEAKER_01: When he played at Baiton?
• 18:38
  SPEAKER_01: Hold on, let me try that again.
• 18:39
  SPEAKER_01: Pretty similar that we there are things we ran when I played at Baiton.
• 18:42
  SPEAKER_01: And that was over 30 years ago.
• 18:44
  SPEAKER_00: What did he say?
• 18:46
  SPEAKER_01: Our coach played at Baton?
• 18:49
  SPEAKER_01: What?
• 18:51
  SPEAKER_01: Wow.
• 18:52
  SPEAKER_01: Baiton is a lot more this year than what I've seen in the past.
• 18:56
  SPEAKER_01: That's something that's going to what we're going to have to deal with.
• 18:58
  SPEAKER_01: Bottom line, we are very much the underdog.
• 19:02
  SPEAKER_01: Just because we have speed doesn't mean we have great success.
• 19:04
  SPEAKER_01: Obviously, we didn't burn it up in conference with our speed.
• 19:08
  SPEAKER_01: We consider this a big game.
• 19:10
  SPEAKER_01: I wonder if our kids have the same emotion as we had last month.
• 19:16
  SPEAKER_01: So, just as the game is about to kick off, just as kids are ready to play, the coaches are ready to play, what does the journal say?
• 19:23
  SPEAKER_01: The journal right now is 2-0.
• 19:25
  SPEAKER_01: They have predicted the 1980 game and the 1981 game.
• 19:29
  SPEAKER_01: What do they say about 1999?
• 19:33
  SPEAKER_01: Of course, they say Baiton beats Hamilton.
• 19:36
  SPEAKER_01: A tough, a tough call, a tough night for the Rams if Big Boo plays up to their potential, according to Pete Conrad.
• 19:44
  SPEAKER_01: So leading up to that game, Friday had a pitcher, David Huff, and a young man named Josh Turner.
• 19:51
  SPEAKER_01: Josh Turner.
• 19:53
  SPEAKER_01: I when I looked at that, I was like, yo, I I think me and Josh Turner used to play baseball together.
• 20:00
  SPEAKER_01: And Josh Turner, back in the day, he was he was a big dude, man.
• 20:05
  SPEAKER_01: At least to me, maybe because I'm 5'5 or something.
• 20:08
  SPEAKER_01: Shut up.
• 20:10
  SPEAKER_01: But the idea is that Josh Turner was a force to be reckoned with.
• 20:16
  SPEAKER_01: Josh Turner was a 5'9, 175 fullback who carried the ball 100 times for 559 yards, scoring a team-high seven touchdowns to lead Baton through the regular season.
• 20:27
  SPEAKER_01: He's always been a quick start, had a knack for seeing daylight and getting through the seams, Coach Malone said.
• 20:34
  SPEAKER_01: He had done a great job.
• 20:35
  SPEAKER_01: I couldn't ask any more from him.
• 20:37
  SPEAKER_01: Turner was a special teams player in the first three games, but he found himself in the starting lineup in the fourth game after Purcell Marion game where fullback John Clamo suffered a knee injury in practice.
• 20:49
  SPEAKER_01: But the rest of it says history.
• 20:51
  SPEAKER_01: But what if Clamo didn't get hurt?
• 20:53
  SPEAKER_01: I think eventually Coach Malone would have given me a chance somewhere, Turner said.
• 20:58
  SPEAKER_01: During two of days, he'd have given me a little bit of time at halfback.
• 21:02
  SPEAKER_01: I was hoping he'd keep me there because I knew he had high expectations for Clamo.
• 21:06
  SPEAKER_01: But then he moved me to fullback, so I just waited waited for my chance.
• 21:09
  SPEAKER_01: He didn't have that kind of patience a year ago.
• 21:12
  SPEAKER_01: Turner, along with other teammates, missed a scouting trip early last season when the seniors gave him an opportunity to vote on whether those players would should dress in the next game.
• 21:22
  SPEAKER_01: They said no.
• 21:22
  SPEAKER_01: And in turn, Turner quit.
• 21:25
  SPEAKER_01: I felt like I couldn't play with a team that didn't want me to play, he said.
• 21:29
  SPEAKER_01: But it was a real hard, it was real hard to quit because I had to I've been playing since I was six.
• 21:34
  SPEAKER_01: But that's been behind me throughout my whole football career, and it was tough facing him after I quit.
• 21:40
  SPEAKER_01: Turner came back with a vengeance in the offseason.
• 21:43
  SPEAKER_01: He worked his butt off and committed himself to football.
• 21:45
  SPEAKER_01: He approached me and said, He thought he made a mistake.
• 21:48
  SPEAKER_01: Malone said.
• 21:53
  SPEAKER_01: So Turner's in the game, and it looked like he's ready to make a statement for Baden.
• 22:00
  SPEAKER_01: Again, at the time he had 559 yards, seven touchdowns for Rony playing about half the season.
• 22:08
  SPEAKER_01: He's ready.
• 22:08
  SPEAKER_01: His backup, uh Justin Peters, is ready.
• 22:12
  SPEAKER_01: Everybody's ready.
• 22:13
  SPEAKER_01: So at the tail of the tape, you got Ryan King rushing for at the time 921 yards rushing.
• 22:22
  SPEAKER_01: David Huff leading the whole county in tackles.
• 22:25
  SPEAKER_01: Baton's offense is ranked higher than Hamilton's offense, but Hamilton's defense is ranked higher than Baton's defense.
• 22:33
  SPEAKER_01: Again, Hamilton's coming in 3-6, Baton's coming in 7-2.
• 22:38
  SPEAKER_01: What happens?
• 22:39
  SPEAKER_01: When the game finally happens, what happens?
• 22:44
  SPEAKER_01: Well, Baton started off first fast and furious, scoring on the first on their first possession, taking a quick 7-0 lead.
• 22:51
  SPEAKER_01: I'm there.
• 22:52
  SPEAKER_01: I'm at the game, and first off, the stadium's full.
• 22:57
  SPEAKER_01: Full house, both sides.
• 22:59
  SPEAKER_01: Baton on the visiting side, Hamilton's on home side, and Baden scores first 7-0.
• 23:04
  SPEAKER_01: The feeling in the feeling in the stadium is like, oh.
• 23:07
  SPEAKER_01: Oh.
• 23:09
  SPEAKER_01: Oh shit.
• 23:10
  SPEAKER_01: We're gonna lose.
• 23:12
  SPEAKER_01: This is not gonna go Hamilton's way.
• 23:15
  SPEAKER_01: And that was before the man, the myth, the legend, David Huff went beast mode.
• 23:24
  SPEAKER_01: Prior to the game, I talked to everybody.
• 23:26
  SPEAKER_01: I talked to Bobby Gardner.
• 23:28
  SPEAKER_01: I talked to Maurice Reese.
• 23:30
  SPEAKER_01: I talked to my boy Spike Steve Smith.
• 23:32
  SPEAKER_01: I talked to Frankie Frost.
• 23:34
  SPEAKER_01: All these people I ran day to day about the game.
• 23:38
  SPEAKER_01: And all the confidence was high among the players.
• 23:41
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, we're gonna win.
• 23:42
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, man, we're gonna win.
• 23:43
  SPEAKER_01: I asked David Huff, and David, man, we're gonna win.
• 23:46
  SPEAKER_01: He said, Yeah, man, relax.
• 23:47
  SPEAKER_01: We got this game.
• 23:47
  SPEAKER_01: I said, relax.
• 23:48
  SPEAKER_01: Like, relax?
• 23:49
  SPEAKER_01: Like, we're relaxing right now?
• 23:51
  SPEAKER_01: This is this is it.
• 23:53
  SPEAKER_01: Senior, last game, and he's just like, he's just been chilling this whole time.
• 23:59
  SPEAKER_01: So, yeah, man, relax.
• 24:00
  SPEAKER_01: I got this game, man.
• 24:01
  SPEAKER_01: Don't worry about it.
• 24:02
  SPEAKER_01: That was the mentality, the attitude that I got.
• 24:05
  SPEAKER_01: He's like, Yeah, man, you know, I got this, man.
• 24:07
  unknown: Don't worry about it, Mike.
• 24:08
  SPEAKER_01: Like, I'm gonna David, man, we we got we gotta win that, man.
• 24:11
  SPEAKER_01: If you don't relax, man.
• 24:12
  SPEAKER_01: You see how relaxed I am?
• 24:13
  SPEAKER_01: Like, I'm super relaxed, man.
• 24:14
  SPEAKER_01: I'm chill.
• 24:15
  SPEAKER_01: I said, okay.
• 24:16
  SPEAKER_01: All right, David.
• 24:17
  SPEAKER_01: What happened?
• 24:18
  SPEAKER_01: David Huff?
• 24:19
  SPEAKER_01: David Huff expelled his energy all over the football field.
• 24:24
  SPEAKER_01: His last game, he scored three touchdowns, crossing the goal line by running, by reception, by interception.
• 24:32
  SPEAKER_01: Whatever, whatever he like he literally put Hamilton on his back and scored three times.
• 24:41
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, you you could not ask for a better performance, or better yet, you can.
• 24:45
  SPEAKER_01: Because Ryan King, remember I mentioned him with three, four syllables quote.
• 24:49
  SPEAKER_01: He went off with a school record of 227 yards, and I think two touchdowns as well.
• 24:55
  SPEAKER_01: Everything was going right for Hamilton with runs of 37 yards for King, one run for 79 for King.
• 25:03
  SPEAKER_01: And then Huff.
• 25:04
  SPEAKER_01: Huff went crazy with a 38-yard pass from Bryant, Chris Bryant to Huff.
• 25:10
  SPEAKER_01: Huff did a 56-yard run.
• 25:13
  SPEAKER_01: I'm sorry, 58 yards.
• 25:15
  SPEAKER_01: Gotta get the stats right.
• 25:16
  SPEAKER_01: 58-yard run from Huff.
• 25:17
  SPEAKER_01: And a 45-yard reception.
• 25:19
  SPEAKER_01: Interception returns to the house for Huff.
• 25:22
  SPEAKER_01: So he put him down real fast.
• 25:25
  SPEAKER_01: That's what Huff did.
• 25:26
  SPEAKER_01: You got to go out with a bang, Huff said.
• 25:29
  SPEAKER_01: The lone two-way starter, free safety, or receiver.
• 25:31
  SPEAKER_01: I'm just happy to be here.
• 25:33
  SPEAKER_01: We had to go out and show Baden what the real deal in Hamilton is.
• 25:37
  SPEAKER_01: And it's big blue.
• 25:38
  SPEAKER_01: So that performance on top of Kings, two touchdowns for 227, and the defense playing spectacular.
• 25:45
  SPEAKER_01: It's the greatest feeling, the Hamilton High senior, Bobby Gardner said.
• 25:49
  SPEAKER_01: This is a game we talked about, and it's and this is the greatest emotion we've played all year.
• 25:54
  SPEAKER_01: It's the pride of Hamilton.
• 25:55
  SPEAKER_01: That's what it's all about.
• 25:56
  SPEAKER_01: Baton is a great, great team, and I wish them the best of luck in the playoffs.
• 26:00
  SPEAKER_01: He had it.
• 26:00
  SPEAKER_01: But we really wanted to put a mark on their record tonight.
• 26:04
  SPEAKER_01: Successfully done by the Hamilton offense and defense.
• 26:08
  SPEAKER_01: Huff will go on to say, I felt like they put their head down after our second score in the game.
• 26:12
  SPEAKER_01: From day one, I wanted to beat Baton.
• 26:15
  SPEAKER_01: We had a nice practice all week and we concentrated really hard.
• 26:19
  SPEAKER_01: We heard they were focusing on starting the playoffs tonight.
• 26:23
  SPEAKER_01: Well, they took their first playoff loss.
• 26:25
  SPEAKER_01: That's how I feel.
• 26:26
  SPEAKER_01: Huff did it all.
• 26:28
  SPEAKER_01: Ryan King did it all.
• 26:31
  SPEAKER_01: They put Hamilton on the board with their first victory against Baton.
• 26:36
  SPEAKER_01: One other thing about Ryan King, uh, he did give credit where credit was due.
• 26:41
  SPEAKER_01: Again, Ryan King was a uh coming from Milford High School to Hamilton.
• 26:48
  SPEAKER_01: He saw the example of being behind Mike Myers, one of the greatest running backs of Hamilton history, and saw what he can do.
• 26:56
  SPEAKER_01: What helped Ryan King explode for 227 and 271 all-purpose yards was the offensive line.
• 27:02
  SPEAKER_01: The offensive line led by Kevin Wilhelm, Matthew Grisby, Brad Watkins, Scott Kowak, Frankie Frost, and tight end Morris Reese were all sensational.
• 27:12
  SPEAKER_01: My line did an excellent job blocking.
• 27:14
  SPEAKER_01: I owe it all to the front line.
• 27:16
  SPEAKER_01: The 1999 team does something that has not been done yet, ethically beating Baton 45 to 13 by performances by Ryan King, by David Huff, the defense altogether has done something that has not been done yet.
• 27:35
  SPEAKER_01: And the future is bright for Hamilton following the next year, because the athleticism is the key thing about this game.
• 27:44
  SPEAKER_01: The athleticism that Hamilton had in 1999 should also transfer to the game in 2000, which means potentially Hamilton can tie the series.
• 27:55
  SPEAKER_01: Now, how great would that be?
• 27:57
  SPEAKER_01: Because this is only a two-year game, 1999, 2000, Hamilton and Batens playing.
• 28:04
  SPEAKER_01: And to even the series would be outstanding because then we would probably play again soon.
• 28:11
  SPEAKER_01: And there's some monsters on the on the team that's that's juniors now that will be seniors next year.
• 28:17
  SPEAKER_01: Derek Wilkison, a running back.
• 28:19
  SPEAKER_01: This boy can scoot.
• 28:21
  SPEAKER_01: Chris Seymour, Jermaine Wells.
• 28:24
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, I secretly called him Dave Uv Jr.
• 28:26
  SPEAKER_01: because he was a freaky athlete too.
• 28:28
  SPEAKER_01: So they have the tools.
• 28:31
  SPEAKER_01: Also, they have Tez Morris.
• 28:34
  SPEAKER_01: You may ask yourself, well, why Tez Morris is so significant.
• 28:39
  SPEAKER_01: I've played with Tez Morris all my life.
• 28:42
  SPEAKER_01: I've never met a demon.
• 28:44
  SPEAKER_01: Yes, a demon like Tez Morris.
• 28:46
  SPEAKER_01: Tez Morris played practice like it was game time.
• 28:50
  SPEAKER_01: We're supposed to be on the same team.
• 28:51
  SPEAKER_01: He's out there hitting people like they stole something from him.
• 28:56
  SPEAKER_01: Tez Morris is the reason why I didn't get to play in this game because he hits so hard.
• 29:02
  SPEAKER_01: He hits you into next week.
• 29:04
  SPEAKER_01: He probably created that saying.
• 29:07
  SPEAKER_01: He hit you so hard, he would knock the soul out your body.
• 29:13
  SPEAKER_01: Yes, he is also a Hall of Famer, a big blue Hall of Famer.
• 29:16
  SPEAKER_01: But Tez Morris, we supposed to be on the same team.
• 29:19
  SPEAKER_01: He's out there trying to kill somebody.
• 29:22
  SPEAKER_01: This is why I couldn't play because Tez Morris knocked it out of me.
• 29:27
  SPEAKER_01: Come to find out, that's not even his name.
• 29:29
  SPEAKER_01: You know what his real name was?
• 29:30
  SPEAKER_01: His real name is Wartez.
• 29:36
  SPEAKER_01: Wartez is a demon in the African tribe of Mundundu.
• 29:40
  SPEAKER_01: No, I'm kidding about that.
• 29:42
  SPEAKER_01: But he played like a possessed person.
• 29:46
  SPEAKER_01: He's the reason why I couldn't play in this game.
• 29:50
  SPEAKER_01: He hit, I swear, I we again he hit so hard in practice, I was like, yo, I cannot and will not play if Wortes is on the opposite side.
• 30:02
  SPEAKER_01: So to speak.
• 30:03
  SPEAKER_01: So the recap 45-13.
• 30:04
  SPEAKER_01: Hamilton has won the 1999 game.
• 30:07
  SPEAKER_01: The 2000 game is promising for Hamilton to win.
• 30:10
  SPEAKER_01: And do you think Terry Malone is satisfied with this?
• 30:13
  SPEAKER_01: I don't think so.
• 30:15
  SPEAKER_01: So the next episode is the 2000 game, What Will Happen.
• 30:20
  SPEAKER_01: But this one, we are celebrating this hard because one, I'm a Hamilton alum, and two, I love our fight song.
• 30:28
  SPEAKER_01: And we're gonna end the show on that note.
• 30:34
  SPEAKER_01: This is your host of the WDYM, Michael Gillespie.
• 30:38
  SPEAKER_01: Thank you for tuning in to the 1999 Hamilton vs.
• 30:41
  SPEAKER_01: Baden series.
• 30:42
  SPEAKER_01: We got one more before we hit 2023.
• 30:46
  SPEAKER_01: But we got Hamilton Bay 2000.
• 30:48
  SPEAKER_01: Thank you so much for listening.
• 30:49
  SPEAKER_01: I'm your host, Michael Gillespie, and I am out.
• 30:52
  SPEAKER_01: Boys skip out.
• 30:54
  SPEAKER_01: Peace.