The Battle of Meigs County

[Baldeagle]

Looking for some history....How many years have Southern and esatern been playing football against each other? What is the series record? What were the scores from each year? Whow were prominent players for each school in these games?

[meatswinger]

I believe Eastern leads the series but not sure about the count. How about Mike Bissell and arch Rose and that offense that lead to a number 4 finish in the state?

[Dundas]

Both teams joined the TVC in 1993...so they have at least played each other since then. Not sure about before 93 though.

[boogerred]

they were in the SVAC prior to that, so they played yearly.

i have no idea when each team joined that league.

[VIKED_MAN]

I do not know how truthful this may be. This could be only one man's opinion.
I used to work with a gentleman from Tupper Plains who at the time was about 35, I was 19, and he told me, "Our (Eastern) biggest rival was always North Gallia not Southern." "Southern had a big rivary with Kyger Creek." Maybe based on competiton in football only, he never mentioned basketball.
He told me he was a running back for Eastern when he was in high school. I can not remember his last name but his first name was Bobby.
He would be around 68 if he is still alive.
That was a competitive league of small Gallia and Meigs County schools, back in the day.
Maybe some of you old time Meigsters can verify or dispute this tibit of info.

[Eagle82]

I believe Eastern leads the series but not sure about the count. How about Mike Bissell and arch Rose and that offense that lead to a number 4 finish in the state?

I remember that team, if only they had a playoff system then like they do today.

[Eagle82]

I do not know how truthful this may be. This could be only one man's opinion.
I used to work with a gentleman from Tupper Plains who at the time was about 35, I was 19, and he told me, "Our (Eastern) biggest rival was always North Gallia not Southern." "Southern had a big rivary with Kyger Creek." Maybe based on competiton in football only, he never mentioned basketball.
He told me he was a running back for Eastern when he was in high school. I can not remember his last name but his first name was Bobby.
He would be around 68 if he is still alive.
That was a competitive league of small Gallia and Meigs County schools, back in the day.
Maybe some of you old time Meigsters can verify or dispute this tibit of info.

You could be thinking of Bobby Reed.

[M0TIVAT0R]

I believe Eastern leads the series but not sure about the count. How about Mike Bissell and arch Rose and that offense that lead to a number 4 finish in the state?

I remember that team, if only they had a playoff system then like they do today.

They did have a playoff system back then. But they only took 2 teams from each region instead of the 8 they take now. I think Eastern finished 6th in the region that year, but not sure.

[Daniel Boone]

I believe that the Eagles needed to really thump the Tornadoes that Saturday in Racine and found themselves behind until late in the first half, leading on 7 to 6 at the half. Final score to my best memory was 20 to 6 and the last minute or so of the game was stopped due fights that began to occur on the field. This could have cost the Eagles a spot in the the top 2 in the region. Eastern was a senior loaded team, but possibly overlooked a very bad Southern team that night.

[M0TIVAT0R]

I believe that the Eagles needed to really thump the Tornadoes that Saturday in Racine and found themselves behind until late in the first half, leading on 7 to 6 at the half. Final score to my best memory was 20 to 6 and the last minute or so of the game was stopped due fights that began to occur on the field. This could have cost the Eagles a spot in the the top 2 in the region. Eastern was a senior loaded team, but possibly overlooked a very bad Southern team that night.

Was that game in 1981 or 82? If so, the computer did not care if they beat Southern by 150, or by 1, a win is a win to the computer. As long as they won the game, they got the points.

[Daniel Boone]

Game was played in 1981, and you are correct, score did not matter. I was just relaying useless information.

[Baldeagle]

One of my favorite memories of this game is the year we beat Southern 32-6 on their field and then we rang THEIR victory bell just outside THEIR locker room. Those guys were too chicken too do anything about it. We have really OWNED those boys over the course of this series.

[Daniel Boone]

I can't remember who was on that Southern team, but I played against them, we owned them! I was a junior on the Eastern team, what positin did you play? coach Rose was an excellent coach, Nick was our center and made All-Ohio.

[Baldeagle]

^^^Me thinks you a liar! Coach Rose was not the head coach then. Coffey was......I think your post is sprinkled with horsecrap to prove I aint from eastern but yer wrong. By the way, one of the key points of that win was Coach hawthorne calculating that the 32 points gave us 1,000 all time vs. Southern.

[Daniel Boone]

In 1981, Arch Rose was the head coach assisted by Don Eichenger (mispelled), Mike Bissel, PJ Ryffe, Nick Leanard, Greg Cole, John Beaver, John Riebel, Rob Smith were seniors, Dave Gual was a sophomore, I will wait on your reply, but I do believe I was in the game. Coach Coffey was after Coach Rose, calling a person a liar is such a stong use of the english vocabulary, but whatever. I remember Southern scoring first on a John Porter TD pass to Allen Pape, then John Riebel took over behind our offensive line. But, again, I have been wrong before, as you can tell my sports knowledge is really no comparison to yours, after all I only have a few posts.

Sorry to insult your expertise.

Go Eagles!

[Baldeagle]

I can't remember who was on that Southern team, but I played against them, we owned them! I was a junior on the Eastern team, what positin did you play? coach Rose was an excellent coach, Nick was our center and made All-Ohio.

Ok, maybe you aren't a liar but you are dumb. Read my post. I was talking about the 95 team which I was a part of. It was Coffee's first year and we won the TVC for the
first time. If he would have stayed we might have won the state a few
years later. Dont try to argue with me about that team cause I played on
that one.

[Baldeagle]

In 1981, Arch Rose was the head coach assisted by Don Eichenger (mispelled), Mike Bissel, PJ Ryffe, Nick Leanard, Greg Cole, John Beaver, John Riebel, Rob Smith were seniors, Dave Gual was a sophomore, I will wait on your reply, but I do believe I was in the game. Coach Coffey was after Coach Rose, calling a person a liar is such a stong use of the english vocabulary, but whatever. I remember Southern scoring first on a John Porter TD pass to Allen Pape, then John Riebel took over behind our offensive line. But, again, I have been wrong before, as you can tell my sports knowledge is really no comparison to yours, after all I only have a few posts.

Sorry to insult your expertise.

Go Eagles!

You were probably a benchwarmer on that team wearing #25 werent you? By the way, Coffey was after Rose but there were other coaches in between the two. I beleive if you think back the names Hill, Churilla, Barr, and some old guy named Watson were in there somewhere.......Your memory of Eastern football is more like someone from Racine. Were you ever there for any amount of time?

[geck0]

When me and Duck were banging heads, we couldn't beat Eastern!

[Charge]

This may be the funniest posts I have ever read. Living around the Ironton area, I am use to watching some good high school football over the years,so I catch myself reading different football threads. I stumbled on this one thinking it would be about some of Meigs High School's good teams and players. Instead we have bald eagle arguing with dynamo, who is from is own school, but it gets better, we learn that bald eagle's highlight isn't a game winning td, or even a game saving tackle, it is ringing a victory bell. I'm going to guess you probably didn't get a football scholarship for victory bell ringing and I'm guessing you didn't pursue college on your own.

[Dunk 1]

^^^WOO HOO! Another punk from Ironton blowing his own horn. GOSH.....that never happens on SEOPS. FYI......if baldeagle is who I think he is....he was one of the best football players ever at Eastern and he is topnotch as a coach. The rest of the TVC is about to learn this the hard way (especially Racine).

Dont forget to.....

DUNK1