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Reitz Football Legendary Game Series: A Year of Tragedy & Triumph Under the Stars (Nov. 30, 1940) #TraditionTuesday

[The 1940 game against Memorial] would be long remembered as one of the toughest, hardest hitting games the locals had ever seen. The papers the next day would call it “a cruel affair.” Mike Whicker Legendary Game Series Reitz vs. Memorial: November 30, 1940 by Mike Whicker Tragedy was no stranger to the world in …

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This Day in #ReitzFootball History (Nov. 30): Panthers tame 1940 Tigers for first time in seven years

ReitzFootball.com proudly presents “This Day in #ReitzFootball History,” as we look back through almost 100 years of The Mighty Panthers. Saturday, Nov. 30, 1940 Reitz 7, Memorial 0 Bosse Field “An eager, overly anxious Reitz High School eleven struck quickly in the opening quarter at Bosse Field Saturday afternoon to beat Don Ping’s Memorial Tigers, …

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