ALVIN DAVID ZUFFANT (with Brad Spencer), Author at Wednesday Journal

Nothing mythical about these champs

by ALVIN DAVID ZUFFANT (with Brad Spencer) September 26, 2006February 11, 2021

WEB EXTRA: Watch a highlight film of the 1969 OPRF football team’s historic win over Lyons Township.Mythical? If that’s what they want to call it, so be it. But there was nothing mythical about the 1969 Oak Park and River Forest High School football team.

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