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Storied high school football rivalry continues this year BY DAVID PORTER OF THE ARCOLA RECORDHERALD AND THE TUSCOLA REVIEW At the end of 2016-17 school year, there were only four schools in Illinois that had won more than 700 football games in their team’s history. And two of them are small-school rivals just 8 miles apart. Tuscola, population 4,391, and Arcola, population 2,864, have been battling it out on the gridiron since the 1890s. At times, including present day, their conferences have kept them apart, but the “Cola Wars” are set to resume Aug. 31, 2018, during the Illinois’ Bicentennial. They narrowly missed facing off in 2017, as both teams climbed the brackets in the state Class 1A playoffs. Arcola, which has four championship titles, was eliminated in the first round while Tuscola was runner-up in the Final. The Arcola Purple Riders have title bragging rights with four championships — the most recent was 2015. They also won the state title in 1978, 1985 and 1988. The Tuscola Warriors won in 2006 and 2009. Their rivalry extends beyond athletics. Retired Circuit Judge Mike Carroll, a 1964 graduate of Tuscola High School, said the rub between the two Douglas County farm communities is as old as the county itself, which was formed in 1859 from Coles County. Local history books confirm the first election for county seat saw 10 times as many ballots cast as there were residents. A second election resulted in Tuscola winning. “Arcola was bitter over the county seat vote,” Carroll said. “They never got over it.” Both towns’ high schools started playing football in the mid-1890s. The rivalry extended to football but wasn’t created by it. Tuscola leads the cumulative wins title, but Arcola was ahead by 1 at the end of the 2015-16 season. Tuscola led by one at the end of the 201617 season. But a couple of game scores remain in question. In 1961, Tuscola beat Arcola 13–9 and “the jubilant Tuscola players ran into the locker room,” according to Carroll. But a referee had thrown a flag on the last play for a roughing-the-passer pen-
alty. “The referees had to go into the dressing rooms and inform the teams about the penalty.” The teams came back onto the field and continued the game with few fans left to watch. Arcola scored on a passing play and was declared the winner. In another game in the 1920s, both towns believe the other forfeited. “Arcola thinks they won it, and Tuscola thinks it won,” said Randy Rothrock, a former Arcola coach, alumnus and football historian. “Each claimed the other walked off the field first.” The 1961 game is etched in lore as a vengeful victory for Arcola. The story is told that prior to the game, Tuscola students fed laxative to several chickens and then placed them inside the Arcola school. Other pranks over the years include graffiti written on the Tuscola press box and a large “T” burned into the Arcola field with weed killer. The hijinks were nothing compared to the earlier years, according to Rothrock. The early 1900s were “pretty rough,” he said. Headlines in the local papers would explain whether fisticuffs had broken out. “Very little slugging,” an 1897 headline read. In 1910: “No fistic exhibitions.” The rival match was traditionally played on Thanksgiving Day. Duff Hoel, a banker and a 1983 graduate of Tuscola High School, said: “St. Teresa (in Decatur) was a bigger rival for us,” he said while still cringing at the color purple — Arcola’s school color. Arcola and Tuscola had resumed playing each other in 1982 after a fiveyear hiatus. Arcola won that year 43–6. Then, with Hoel as quarterback, Tuscola won 33–0. Arcola would go on to win the next seven contests. Tuscola leads the series against Arcola 54 games to 44, with 6 ties. But Hoel and Carroll agreed that the achievement is greater for Arcola because the school population is considerably smaller.
Local legends Tuscola and Arcola teams have given rise to dozens of local legends. Many of the last names over the past 100 years are the same, too, in each community. Each town has sent one player to the
National Football League. Terry Miller, Arcola Class of 1964, was the first. The former high school guard, quarterback and running back, played for University of Illinois and was drafted by the Detroit Lions in 1968. He was signed by the St. Louis Cardinals in 1970. A knee injury ended his football career a few years later. Fred Wakefield, a 1996 Tuscola graduate, also played for U of I, one of five Tuscolians to earn a football scholarship there. He played for the Arizona Cardinals and the Oakland Raiders. As good as Miller and Wakefield were, Carroll and Rothrock agreed that the greatest athlete to come out of Douglas County was probably Arcola’s Robert “Popeye” Pullen. In the four years that Pullen played football for the Purple Riders, the Tuscola Warriors didn’t score a point. He was a four-year standout in a club that posted a 32–1–1 record from 1934-37. Pullen scored 34 touchdowns and 20 extra points. “I asked my mom who the best football player was in the history of Tuscola and Arcola, thinking she’d say me. She said ‘Popeye Pullen.’ She didn’t even hesitate,” Carroll said. “She said, ‘When some people hit you, you get hurt. When Popeye hit you, you got brain damage.’ I said, ‘Didn’t Dad play against Popeye?” She said, ‘Your father was a smart man. When he saw Popeye coming, he just laid down.” Pullen didn’t get the chance to play college or pro ball. He enlisted in the U.S. Navy in 1940 and was aboard the USS Houston when it was sunk in 1942. Nearly 700 sailors were killed. Pullen was one of 368 who managed to swim to shore. He was sent to a POW camp in Burma, where he reportedly refused medication for a minor leg injury because he thought other prisoners needed it more. He died in the camp on Aug. 31, 1943, of blood poisoning.
A hand in the NFL Arcola lays claim to helping the NFL get started — through a game that was never played. It was common in the early 1900s for communities to have adult football teams. In 1919, Arcola’s community team had been defeated by the Decatur Staleys, which was sponsored by A.E. Staley Manufacturing, now Staley Continental, which processes corn and soybeans.
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Charity helps local family through time of need RMHC helps a Lisle couple after the birth of their second son BY RYAN OSTRY Bugle Staff @RyanOstry_BR18 rostry@buglenewspapers.com
Most parents when their children are born are ecstatic to just hold their baby, rejoice in the birthing experience and celebrate with family members. However, this was not the experience with Tom and Amanda Kero’s son Duncan, who had a life-threatening complex Congenital Heart Defect during Amanda’s pregnancy. The suburban couple from Lisle was completely shocked and taken by surprise when the panic and fear struck their bodies after finding out their second son’s condition. “The unknown was the hardest part of the whole situation,” Amanda said. “We were just both so nervous and not knowing what to expect was very hard on both of us.” This is not the first time distress has hit the Kero family, as Tom and Amanda’s first son, Ryne, also had a difficult birthing process. “When Ryne was born, he was labeled as a ‘cedar grower’ because he was born prematurely,” Amanda said. With Amanda being a high-risk pregnancy because of Ryne, the Keros knew admittedly that the second go around was not going to be easy. During Amanda’s pregnancy, the Kero’s needed immediate help, so they went to Neonatal Intensive
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Care Unit. With a lot of care, monitoring and attention Tom and Amanda welcomed Duncan into the world in October of 2015, however their difficult situation did not stop there. After Duncan was born, his situation escalated and was quickly transferred to Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago from the Loyola Medical Center. “When you’re born you can either be a pink [tetralogy] or blue
[tetralogy] and Duncan was a pink [tetralogy],” Amanda said. According to Radiopaedia.org Duncan’s condition is related to a tetralogy of Fallot in which the degree of the right ventricular outflow obstruction is minimal, which in layman’s terms means it’s extremely difficult to breath. “Besides this, Duncan was also born with phenomena because of his heart defect,” Amanda said. Within the period of staying up all night ruminating, multiple surgery visits and constant heartbreak, the Kero’s found a bright spot, the Ronald McDonald House Chari-
ties. “We kind off new of the (RMHC) and what they did, but didn’t know too specifically how much of an impact they were going to actually have on us,” Amanda said. The (RMHC) is an organization that provides help and assistance to families in need by providing shelter, healthcare and safety to families with ill children. “With me having the complications I had not being able to drive and being limited, this place made us feel at home and we just can’t thank them enough,” Amanda said. Through the whole process,
the Kero family articulates that it’s Duncan’s intestinal fortitude that doesn’t just keep him going, but also his family going. “What [Duncan] has taught us and what we have learned is to just take it a day at a time,” Tom said. “He’s just such a feisty kid and he was in inspiration to all of us.” Though the two-year-old Duncan has progressed and is doing better, he will require another valve replacement which will be his third open-heart surgery in a few years, but is expected to rise to the occasion, overcome it and keep being a true inspiration to everyone.
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BREAKER Hannah Kim cards a course-record 16-under to win 2018 Phil Kosin Illinois Women’s Open
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There’s certain things that just fit. For Hannah Kim, it’s her and the Mistwood Golf Club in Romeoville. Kim, who recently graduated from Northwestern and immediately turned pro, easily won the Phil Kosin Illinois Women’s Open, which was concluded July 18 at Mistwood. Not only did Kim win the event, she shattered the record for best overall round in the 24year old tournament by shooting a course record 16-underpar 200. “Mistwood just suits me,” Kim said. “What you see is what you get.” What Kim got was an incredible 3-day total. She made 17 birdies, including a near hole-in-one on 17 on the final day, and had one bogey in the 54-hole tourney. Her lone bogey came on the seventh hole on the opening day. Every other hole was wither a par or a birdie. including the last 47 in a row. Her rounds on the par 72 course were 68-65-67. Being a pro, she received the top prize of $5,000 for winning it.
It was Kim’s third start as a pro, following the Ohio and California opens, and first win. This week she’s playing in the Tennessee.Open. She shattered the old tournament scoring record, which was a 9-under 207. That was first set by Annika Welander in 2005, and matched by Stephanie Miller in 2016. Both were done at Mistwood. “I was really trying not to look [at the leaderboard]” said Kim, who was second at the event last year and third in 2016. “I remember getting second last year, but I don’t look into those things. I try to go in without expectations. Every tournament, every year is different.” Actually Kim, who will be looking to get her LPGA tour card by next year, wasn’t the only one who broke the previous record. Second place finisher, amateur Tristyn Nowlin - a member of the University of Illinois’ golf team, finished with a 10-under 206. In fact she putted out first on 18, so she held the record briefly before Kim finished her round. “This was my last tournament of the summer, so it feels good to end it like this,” Nowlin said. “We were just out there having fun. If somebody’s making putts, SEE IWO PAGE 6
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Northwestern University graduate Hannah Kim won the 2018 Illinois Women’s Open at Mistwood Golf Club.
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McCloskey-Bax new women’s basketball coach North Central College director of athletics Jim Miller ‘86 is pleased to announce the hiring of Maggie McCloskey-Bax as the 11th head coach in the history of the women’s basketball program. “Coach McCloskey-Bax brings a variety of experience to this position,” said Miller, “she was an outstanding local high school player at Riverside-Brookfield High School, played at the NCAA Division I level at Loyola University Chicago and has now coached at two NCAA Division III institutions. She has numerous local connections having served as the recruiting coordinator for Carthage College the past five years and has tremendous communication and
IWO FROM PAGE 5 I’m not going to affect them or them affect me.” Sarah Burnham, the Big Ten player of the year from Michigan State who also just turned pro, was third, with 4-under 68 on the final day and 6-under 210 for the tournament. Veteran LPGA
organizational skills. We feel fortunate to hire a person with such a well-rounded background, readiness to become a head coach and passion the sport of basketball.” McCloskey-Bax comes to North Central after years of experience as an assistant coach, most recently at fellow College Conference of Illinois & Wisconsin (CCIW) member Carthage College since 2013, serving as recruiting coordinator. Prior to Carthage, McCloskey-Bax was an assistant at Ohio Wesleyan University from 2011-2013. “I’d first like to thank Jim Miller, Sue Kane, Marty Sauer for giving me this opportunity,” said McCloskey-Bax. “My family and I are very grateful to return to Naperville and I am excited to get
to campus. I will bring a positive energy day in and day out and can’t wait to meet the current team and get started.” Coaching in the CCIW for the last five years will most certainly give McCloskey-Bax an advantage heading into her first head coaching position, aware of the competition and what it takes to compete in one of the nation’s toughest conferences. “The CCIW is such a competitive conference,” said McCloskeyBax, “I learned so much from my years at Carthage from head coach Tim Bernero and also want to thank him for everything he has done for me. It’s about recruiting high level kids and I know what it takes to
compete in this conference, but being in the CCIW for the last five years will definitely be an advantage.” Playing collegiately at the highest level, McCloskey-Bax was recognized as a leader early on by her teammates, voted a three-year team captain at Loyola Chicago. She still holds the NCAA record for consecutive games with a three-point field goal at 69 games, while also holding the Horizon League record for career threepointers with 325 over her fouryear career. Following her career at Loyola, McCloskey-Bax took her talents overseas to play professionally in Reykjavik, Iceland for the Fjolnir Basketball Club. In addition
player Nicole Jeray was fourth with a 4-under 212. “I won here in the 90’s (1998) and 2000’s (2003), but I need to win one in my third decade here,” said Jeray, a 1992 Northern Illinois University graduate, who lost in a playoff for the Illinois women’s Open title in 2010 and 2013. “I play here whenever
it fits my schedule. I love playing Mistwood, it’s a great layout.” Brianne Bolden, a senior at Lincoln-Way Central, who tied for second in the Class 2A state tournament last fall, was among those playing on the final day. She tuned up for what she hopes is a state championship run by tying for 11th with a 3-over 219
total - including a closing 75. “There were no more than five high school players in this tournament,” said Bolden, who has verbally committed to the University of Missouri. “I got to talk to a lot of the professional girls here and didn’t do too bad. “Now I’m excited to get some time off.”
to playing professionally, she coached a 14 year-old girls team in Reykjavik that projected her into coaching. While North Central may be her first head coaching job, McCloskey-Bax brings plenty of experience to campus as well as a high basketball IQ and passion for the game. “I was really excited when this position opened,” said McCloskey-Bax, “North Central is a perfect fit for me and my family. I have a lot of experience recruiting this area and will bring a lot of energy each and every day.” The Cardinals open the 2018-19 season at home on Saturday, Nov. 10, hosting Knox College inside Gregory Arena.
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Calm the chaos on busy school mornings Mornings can test the patience and stamina of busy families as adults and children hurry to get out the door on time. Starting off the morning already stressed can lead to feeling tense throughout the rest of the day. There is no magic formula to make mornings less hectic, but the following are some ways families can streamline their morning routines. • Make use of the night before. Morning madness may come about due to lack of preparation the previous night. The more that can be done the night before, the less there will be to do on weekday mornings. Encourage children to lay out clothes for the next day and take a shower or bath that evening. Make lunches the night before a school day, and gather all supplies from homework stations, restocking backpacks and gym bags so everything is ready to go come the morning. • Get to bed earlier. Sleep experts say that if you need to rely on an alarm clock to get up in the morning, you
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What happens to debt after death? DEAR DAVE, I’ve started your personal finance course in high school, so I’m asking this for the entire class. What happens to your debt if you pass away with no relatives or heirs to take responsibility for what you owed? ELIZABETH DEAR ELIZABETH, In many cases it simply does not get paid. Relatives or heirs of the deceased are not responsible for a friend or family member’s debt, except in cases where they have been a co-signer on that debt. Let’s say someone’s parents died, and at the time of their death they had $100,000 in debt in their names only. —DAVE DEAR DAVE, Do you think the value of a “tiny home” would depreciate like a trailer? ROMEO DEAR ROMEO, That’s a tough one. I’m not certain they would depreciate like a trailer, but I don’t think they would go up in value much, either. Anytime there’s a very limited demand for something, the price or value doesn’t generally increase. And there are very few people looking to buy tiny homes. The tiny home movement is kind of a niche thing. It’s a very narrow market, and something that doesn’t have a lot of demand isn’t going to appreciate. I would avoid the tiny house movement if I were you, Romeo. Don’t invest in things that don’t have proven track records and don’t go up in value. I love real estate, but not tiny real estate! * Dave Ramsey is CEO of Ramsey Solutions. He has authored seven best-selling books, including The Total Money Makeover. The Dave Ramsey Show is heard by more than 13 million listeners each week on 585 radio stations and multiple digital platforms.
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