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[quote="SamuelMcF" pid='259844' dateline='1572990723']
[quote="Spiny_Norman" pid='259833' dateline='1572984006']
Hey, it could be worse.  My HS football coach was the QB for Cal Poly in 1960.  Their plane went down on the flight home from Toledo and killed 22.  Cal Poly had to cancel the final 3 games of that season.

Tollner was your h.s. coach? I didn't realize he'd coached h.s. before college. I'd always heard of this tragedy here and there, most recently that it's the principal reason for Madden's fear of flying -- which turns out to be false.

No, Dick McBride.  I thought he played QB at CP, but this article says he was a DB.  Great guy.

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-...story.html

[martyup]

[quote="SamuelMcF" pid='259844' dateline='1572990723']
[quote="Spiny_Norman" pid='259833' dateline='1572984006']
Hey, it could be worse.  My HS football coach was the QB for Cal Poly in 1960.  Their plane went down on the flight home from Toledo and killed 22.  Cal Poly had to cancel the final 3 games of that season.

Tollner was your h.s. coach? I didn't realize he'd coached h.s. before college. I'd always heard of this tragedy here and there, most recently that it's the principal reason for Madden's fear of flying -- which turns out to be false.

No, Dick McBride.  I thought he played QB at CP, but this article says he was a DB.  Great guy.

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-...story.html