Page 12 THE MALDEN ADVOCATE–Wednesday, November 24, 2021 GAME | FROM PAGE 1 continuous high school football rivalry in the United States. This year's game has been cancelled due to COVID-19. Malden leads the series 67-55. There have been 10 ties. Following is a capsule look of each game that’s been played in the time-honored series between Malden and Medford: 1940: Sal “Crazy Legs” Cannava and Bud Mahoney score fourth-quarter touchdowns to rally Medford to a 14-6, comefrom-behind upset in the first Mustangs win over the Golden Tornadoes in 11 years. 1941: Paul O’Brien returns interception 65 yards to set up second-quarter touchdown in a 6-0 Medford victory. 1942: Hank Corrado’s two second-half touchdowns pace Medford to Eastern Mass. Class A championship and unbeaten season, 13-0. 1943: Capt. John Giannelli and Joe Corbisiero do all Medford’s scoring in a 21-0 victory, four in a row for the Mustangs. 1944: Underdog Medford stalls at the Malden six-inch line at the close of the first half and fights Golden Tornadoes to a scoreless tie, 0-0. 1945: Wet weather and soggy grounds hold Medford to 36 yards in total offense and Malden to just 14 yards in second straight scoreless tie, 0-0 1946: Capt. Warren McFague and Jackie Feltch score as Medford upsets Malden, 14-6. The Mustangs are unbeaten in seven straight Thanksgiving games. 1947: Dick Lawrence sprints 51 yards with a touchdown pass in the fourth quarter and earns the Class A Champion Mustangs a bid to the Gator Bowl, 13-7. 1948: Dan Duggan scores twice and leads Gator bowl– bound Malden to an undefeated season and Class A title, 3314, ending an eight-year unbeaten streak by Medford. 1949: Medford’s Joe Gnerre scores a second-quarter touchdown, and the Mustangs hold Malden at own two-yard line later in frame for 6-0 victory. 1950: Steve O’Brien throws a touchdown pass to Buddy O’Shea in the second quarter after fake field goal in 7-0 Malden victory. 1951: Hank Lindberg races 60 yards with an interception to set up a seven-yard catch by Paul Hurton with two minutes left in the third quarter, breaking a scoreless tie and starting Malden on a 19-0 victory. This was only the second game in the series in which both teams came in unbeaten, Medford at (8-0-0) and Malden at (7-0-1). The Golden Tornadoes win gave the Class A title to Weymouth. 1952: Five different player score as Medford rolls, 27-0. 1953: Phil Gagliardi sprints 47 yards for the winning touchdown with little more than three minutes remaining in the game to give Medford a 6-0 victory. 1954: Malden gains only 49 yards on the ground, but quarterback Billy Brown throws for 135 yards and two touchdowns to pace Malden, 27-9, as Malden shares the GBL title with Somerville. 1955: A second-quarter safety and a 20-yard interception return late in the frame by Bob Dell Isola, son of Coach John Dell Isola, lead Medford to an upset, 8-7 victory. 1956: Dom Fermano scores twice and Jason Mantia once to lead Malden to a 20-6 win. 1957: Dom Fermano races 40 yards for a game-winning, fourth quarter touchdown and leads Malden to come-from-behind victory and GBL championship, 19-14. 1958: Sophomore Lou Lemmo scores twice as Malden romps, 26-0. 1959: John Keats, Ken Puleo and Mac Singleton score to give Malden the GBL title, 20-0. 1960: Co-Capt. Vic Lemmo scores three touchdowns as Malden romps to second straight GBL title, 50-6, in the highest scoring game of the series. 1961: Senior Steve Desimone scores four touchdowns and rushes for a conversion to set a series scoring record with 26 points while pacing Malden, 34-2. 1962: Bill Gouvalaris scores two touchdowns, including the tying one, as Malden rallies from a 20-0 deficit and fights to a 20-20 tie. Medford stops what would have been the winning conversion with 2:30 left in the game. 1963: Bob Baker intercepts a Mustangs pass and returns it 88 yards for a Golden Tornadoes touchdown, and George Scrimone recovers a fumble in the end zone for the winning two-point conversion in a Malden 8-6 comeback victory. 1964: Paul Finn and John Salmon score two touchdowns each to lead Malden, 24-0. 1965: Joe Fermano and Nick Esposito score as Malden rallies, 14-6. 1966: Bill Croken and Ed Hichborn lead Malden’s 25-13 upset with two touchdowns each. 1967: Jim Reid scores twice as GBL champs Medford earns share of Class A championship with Weymouth, 22-0. 1968: Ken Rideout equals series record with four touchdowns while leading Medford, 32-14. 1969: Co-capt. Dave Moulton – sidelined with 60 stitches in his head after an automobile accident the night before the game – comes off the bench in the second half and scores two touchdowns to lead Malden to share the GBL title with Quincy, 26-6. 1970: Mike Byrne passes for 207 yards and a 26-6 Malden win. 1971: The Mustangs conclude their best season in five years as All-Scholastic Kevin Cunniff runs 68 yards on the final play of the game. Mike Colonna’s one-yard run and Art Ventresco’s 37-yard field goal added the trimmings to the 16-0 win that meant an 8-2 season. 1972: All-Scholastic tailback Mike Colonna closed out his schoolboy career by running for a series record that still stands, five touchdowns, as Medford walloped the winless Golden Tornadoes, 38-19, at Macdonald Stadium in the highest total-point-scoring game in series history to date. It was the last Thanksgiving game for coaching legend Bill Tighe of Malden, who began coaching Lexington the next season and coached there until 2010, to conclude a 62-year coaching career. 1973: One of the most dramatic second-half turnarounds in series history gave Malden a 22-13 upset. Medford led at the half, 6-0, and then the Mustangs’ John Flynn returned the second-half kickoff 88 yards for a touchdown that put Malden in a 12-0 hole. But the steady ground game of the Golden Tornadoes’ Tom Cuhna (101 yards) and the passing accuracy of sophomore quarterback John Stanasek sparked the win, the first for new Head Coach Paul Finn, who went on to coach 25 more Thanksgiving games. 1974: This was simply a rout as Malden went on to share the Greater Boston League title with Peabody after blasting the Mustangs, 42-15, in a contest that tied the record for total points in the Malden-Medford game. Golden Tornadoes Co-Captain Jeff Sullivan rushed for 130 yards and scored two touchdowns; John Stanasek passed for two TDs and four conversion points; John Ruelle had a touchdown and a twopoint conversion; Mark Burns, Pauk Coleman and junior Steve Defillipis scored TDs; Steve Carlan netted a two-point conversion; and Shawn Brickman kicked two PATs. All-Scholastic Co-Captain Jack Freker and defensive backs Steve Carpenter and Charlie Russell led the Malden defense. 1975: This is the infamous “Mud Bowl” that switched from Hormel to Pearl Street Stadium because of field conditions. Malden turned out to have better “mudders” while winning its third game in a row over the Mustangs. Don Roach ran 23 yards for a TD in the second period and 10 yards for a score in the third. He also caught a conThe Malden High School 1925 Golden Tornadoes football team was undefeated and the Suburban League and Eastern Mass. Champions. (Courtesy Photo) version pass from John Stanasek as Malden won, 14-8, to clinch a tie for the GBL title with Everett. 1976: A 14-6 victory over Malden “saves” Medford’s season at Pearl Street Stadium. The Mustangs went into the contest with a winless, 0-9 record. Reserve running back Mike Finigan, who gained less than 100 yards all season, leaped over the goal line from one to give Medford a 6-0 lead. Mike Meli scored what proved to be the game-winning points on a sweep for the twopoint conversion. In the fourth quarter, Medford iced the game when quarterback Kenny Curtis scored on a 8-yard sweep to make it 14-0. In the final three minutes, Malden’s Shawn Brickman completed 11 passes; the final one, a swing pass in the last second of play to Vic Souza, put Malden on the scoreboard. 1977: The punting game was the key to Medford’s 15-6 victory at Tufts University’s Ellis Oval. Quarterback Steve Powell’s fouryard touchdown run gave Malden the lead in the first quarter, but Medford’s Tony Pasquale fell on a fumble in the end zone when a poor snap on a punt went over Powell’s head and the Malden kicker was hit by Ralph Tenaglia, causing the fumble. A blocked punt set up a 20-yard scoring run by the Mustang’s Mike Tortorella. 1978: Super Bowl–bound Medford needed a 19-yard field goal from Franz Eberth with 6:38 left in the game to take a 9-7 victory before 8,000 at sunny Pearl Street Stadium. The Mustangs scored first when Buddy MacLean passed 39 yards to Pat Holland on Medford’s first possession, but it was the Mustangs defense that won the game with a goal line stand at the end of the half when Malden couldn’t score on two tries from the twoyard line. 1979: Medford exploded for 28 points in the first quarter on the way to a record-setting 4824 win over Malden in which more points were scored than in any other game in the ancient series. Malden made it close at the half with a 16-point outburst, but the Mustangs put it away with 20 points in the second half. Craig Martorana led the scoring with three touchdowns. 1980: Mike Todisco, a junior wide receiver, caught three touchdown passes from Mike Caraviello, son of Medford coach Armond Caraviello, as Medford defeated Malden, 24-12, for the fifth year in a row. For Malden, Dan Rao completed 10 out of 20 passes for 114 yards, and Ed Fitzgerald had seven receptions for 130 yards and a touchdown. 1981: Trailing 10-0 at the half, Medford battled back and whipped Malden for the sixth straight time, 29-18, on a beautiful Thanksgiving morning at Tufts. Junior quarterback Roger Martorana rushed for two scores and passed for one to lead the Medford comeback. Malden quarterback Bobby Trodden connected on an amazing 20 of 28 passes in the loss. It was the final Thanksgiving Game at the helm for Mustangs coaching legend Armond Caraviello. 1982: This turned into a oneman game when Warren Olson, whose father played for Malden High, carried the ball 32 times, gained 164 yards and scored two touchdowns in Medford’s 19-0 romp. It was Medford’s seventh straight win and made Mustangs coach “Bud” Kelley’s Thanksgiving debut a memorable one, despite that the game was played on Malden turf. 1983: Ernie Breen fired two TD passes to Steve Walsh, and Medford bolted to a 25-0 half time lead and never looked back. Sophomore Steve Monaco’s brilliant passing (18-0-21, 177 yards) led Malden’s second-half comeback that produced a pair of scores for the 25-14 final. This game was later ruled a forfeit by Medford, the only ever in series history, due to an ineligible player. It shows as a Malden win in the all-time series slate, but it’s a known fact that Coach Finn and the players never accepted it as a win, living with the score that was decided on the field. 1984: Paul DeMayo put on one of the best one-player scoring shows in history. He had second-half touchdown runs of 56 yards, one yard and eight yards and kicked the conversion point after each score in Malden’s 21-6 victory. The running of DeMayo (95 yards), Reggie Hayes (82) and quarterback Steve Monaco
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