50 Years Ago – September 1976

50 Years Ago This Month

  • David Hooper won his second COBRA Championship Series Bicycle Race with a last-second “slingshot” move at Creswell Market. Hooper surged past Jim Kaidy to win by half a bicycle length.
  • George and Dean Petty of Jarrettsville each took first place in their respective open-water skiing events. George placed first in trick jumping, while his brother Dean won the jumping event.
  • Bill Blewett knocked 30 seconds off the Airfield Run course record. The 2.7-mile course featured more than 100 runners.
  • Crouse Construction’s girls’ fast-pitch team defeated H & S Distributors’ men’s unlimited slow-pitch team, 5–3, in an unusual matchup. The girls faced unlimited-arc slow pitches, while the men had to hit fast pitches thrown by the ladies.
  • Havre de Grace defensive end Larry Rice blocked a punt that resulted in a safety—the only score of the game—as the Warriors defeated the Pikesville Panthers, 2–0.

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