UPON FURTHER REVIEW: A PROUD RIVALRY GLENDALE, HOOVER KEEP SPIRIT ALIVE.Byline: Vincent Bonsignore Staff Writer There were tears mixed with sweat running down Dustin Nersesyan's face as hs wandered around Moyse Field in Glendale Thursday night. It perfectly captured the contrasting emotions the hard-nosed senior running back from Glendale High experienced after his Dynamiters' 35-21 season-ending victory over crosstown cross·town or cross-town adj. Running, extending, or going across a city or town: a crosstown street; crosstown traffic. adv. rival Hoover: a combination of exhaustion, happiness, pride, sadness and sympathy. You would have never known this was a game played by two teams that began the night having lost a combined 18 games this season. The Glendale-Hoover rivalry is one of the state's oldest, passed on from fathers to sons, then grandsons to great-grandsons. Hoover won the first game in 1930. A few years later the Victory Bell was added, a 3-foot trophy that goes to the winning team. It gave the rivalry some romance in addition to the emotion. Once upon a time, the game was an annual battle between powers that featured dynamic players who would go on to college and professional stardom star·dom n. 1. The status of a performer or entertainer acknowledged as a star. 2. Star performers considered as a group. . Former Stanford and San Franciso 49ers quarterback Frankie Albert Frank Cullen "Frankie" Albert (January 27, 1920 - September 5, 2002) was a quarterback in the NFL. Frankie Albert, who was born in Chicago, started at Glendale High School, Glendale, California and at Stanford University where he was coached by T formation apostle Clark was pivotal in 1937, when the teams played to a 6-6 tie to end the regular season at the Rose Bowl, then returned to the Rose Bowl six days later for a tiebreaking rematch REMATCH Cardiology Clinical trials–Randomized Evaluation of Mechanical Assistance Therapy as an alternative in Congestive Heart failure–related to use of a portable, electric left ventricular-assist system–LVAS–eg, HeartMate® to decide the league's playoff play·off also play-off n. Sports 1. A final game or series of games played to break a tie. 2. A series of games played to determine a championship. Noun 1. representative. A combined turnout of 30,000 witnessed those two games - at a time Glendale's population was around 50,000 - and in the second contest they saw Albert move the Dynamiters 80 yards in two plays for the touchdown that clinched a 12-0 victory. Just one day later, Glendale opened the first round of the Southern Section playoffs, beginning a postseason march that ended with a championship. Other stars through the years included Hoover's Forrest Beatty, the eventual U.S. prep-record sprinter who scored on a 78-yard punt return In American and Canadian football a punt return is one of the punt receiving team's options to respond to a punt. A player (usually a second or third string wide receiver or running back) positioned many yards from the line of scrimmage will attempt to catch or pick up the ball and an 18-yard run in the 1960 game, then preserved a 14-7 victory with an interception in the final minute. Beatty suffered broken ribs on the play and learned of his team's win in his hospital bed, adding lore 1. Lore - Object-oriented language for knowledge representation. "Etude et Realisation d'un Language Objet: LORE", Y. Caseau, These, Paris-Sud, Nov 1987. 2. Lore - CGE, Marcoussis, France. Set-based language E-mail: Christophe Dony Things starting changing that same year, with the opening of Crescenta Valley The Crescenta Valley is a small inland valley in Los Angeles County, California. Its name derives from its crescent-like shape, with the convex portion facing roughly northeast and the concave portion southwest. in the fall of 1960, thinning a talent pool that had been split between Glendale and Hoover - the 1954 Southern Section finalist. Over the last few years, with rosters made up of mostly of players new to American football, Glendale and Hoover have suffered through difficult, losing seasons. Both Hoover and Glendale have first-year coaches - Glendale under former Dynamiters player Loi Phan and Hoover under Rob Swartz. Each is trying to restore a sense a pride to their teams. Obviously, it's a difficult job, as their 0-9 records this year indicate. Yet you wouldn't know that by watching Nersesyan, whose 173 combined yards rushing and receiving and two touchdowns was the difference Thursday. Afterward af·ter·ward also af·ter·wards adv. At a later time; subsequently. Adv. 1. afterward - happening at a time subsequent to a reference time; "he apologized subsequently"; "he's going to the store but he'll be back here , Nersesyan acted and spoke like a player who just won a championship. Because in a way he did. To Nersesyan and the estimated 6,500 fans who watched, this was a game and a win to be cherished. ``I love these guys so much,'' Nersesyan said, pointing to his teammates. ``I know our record was bad this year. But you know what, I wouldn't trade anything that happened because the guys I played with made this a great year. ``You know why? Because we never gave up. Not once. You can go back and talk to any team, even the ones that beat us by 50. Ask them what happened in the fourth quarter. Ask them who was still playing hard. They know. That's why I love these guys so much.'' Just then Nersesyan glanced over to the Hoover sideline sideline See on the sidelines. and grimaced grim·ace n. A sharp contortion of the face expressive of pain, contempt, or disgust. intr.v. grim·aced, grim·ac·ing, grim·ac·es To make a sharp contortion of the face. . ``I know how they feel and I feel bad for them,'' Nersesyan said. ``We're all friends.'' Nevertheless, the Tornadoes weren't about to bow their heads Thursday. Hoover, too, played through the end. ``Just look at all these people out here, take a look around,'' said Hoover running back Armond Esmaili, a sophomore who scored a touchdown and a two-point conversion In American football and Canadian football, a team may try to score a two-point conversion (score two points) instead of an extra point (one point) immediately after it scores a touchdown. . ``That's why we play hard. We know what this game means, that it's a big rivalry that's been around more than 70 years. Of course you want to win and play hard.'' Maybe things will change soon. Maybe some day Glendale and Hoover will play for a league title again, as they did many times before. One thing is certain, though. The Glendale and Hoover football teams of 2000 - and those that will follow - always play as hard as their forefathers forefathers npl → antepasados mpl forefathers npl → ancêtres mpl forefathers npl → Vorfahren in 1930. CAPTION(S): photo Photo: Despite their teams' 0-9 records, fans were enthusiastic at the Glendale- Hoover game. Gene Blevins/Special to the Daily News |
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