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All tagged The Dalles Football
Our Recent story about the 1947 championship run by The Dalles High school has prompted another, perhaps, fascinating detail. The Dalles produced an NFL guard who has been named in the top 100 to ever play for the Chicago Bears. Our super sleuth Sally Fasulo forwarded this information from Bonnie Osborne and Larry Hatch to CCC News.
You may know The Dalles captured the Oregon State Football Championship in 1947. And you may know about the team knocking the helmets off the Hillsboro Spartans in a 47-7 blowout in front of 14,000 fans in Portland to grab the trophy. But there was a whole lot more to it. This is their story.
