From: OFFICIAL "T"
Date: 06 Jan 2010
Time: 07:56:26 -0800
Remote Name: 70.56.1.116
I received a letter from Rick Wulkow recently. I was humbled and honored as I read that I would be inducted into the Hall of Fame during the half-time ceremonies of the Boys 2A Basketball Tourney in Des Moines on March 12. I began writing a history of my officiating. I worked over 520 games for over 156 high school districts spanning a time from 1967 to 2009. One game in 1980 was between Coon Rapids at Bayard and it rained so much we had to re chalk the goal lines before we could play the game. We toweled off in the home-ec room and used the sinks (no showers) and the football coach made us hotdogs and chilli; for that we were paid $27.50 apiece. In 1990 it rained 4 inches on a Thursday followed by 7 inches of snow Friday night and early Saturday. Augustana College was more interested in getting the game played than tearing up the field. When we arrived, the field was covered with snow. They buried a tractor trying to blade the snow off the field. In a brilliant move by a grounds-keeper, they decided to use orange spray cans and sprayed the lines on top of the snow every 10 yards. The game was played, the statistic-keepers went crazy, the field was torn up beyond recognition and lots of our clothing was destroyed in the Mud Bowl of 1990. Official "T"