So more of our readers have chimed in with some of their favorite memories from the 127 year history of the Wellesley-Needham rivalry and now I want to share what they had to say. To those of you who want to add your memory to this list be sure to comment.
Craig Morrison: “I was in the marching band for the 100th game. We played the theme song from “Hawaii 5-0″ and formed a football in the middle of the field. The drums were the laces.”
Karen DeMarco: “Senior year dressing up Thanksgiving day as a sqaw with war paint. So un PC now!”
Mary Jane Scannell Scofield: “won’t ever forget driving over to NHS the night before the game with Ellen McArdle, and being greeted by the nice Needham Police Officer! He wanted to know why we were all there…just wanted to make sure of the parking situation on game day sir. Yeah, we went back to Swells after that!” “Thanksgiving dinner was planned around “The Game”! There was nothing like it! It didn’t matter what kind of season the team had…if WHS won all was good with the universe!!”
Dave Phillips: “My trombone mouthpiece froze to my lips one year”
Don Kelley: “Not my favorite, but in 1990 I think, the Needham Rockets planted a bomb (turned out to be not a bomb, but a rocket) in the middle of the WHS field-just to be funny-and the game was postponed. The idea came from an earlier MIT prank at the Harvard-Yale game.”
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