Photos and Recreation

Photos and Recreation

Norris Touch Football Team

 Boston Shipyard League: Lost first game, then won 22 straight games to win the league title Boston Tournament: We won all seven games to win the title. First time a destroyer had won the title. 1st Naval District Tournament in Portsmouth: Represented the Boston Shipyard. We won all five games to win the Tournament. We beat the undefeated Portsmouth Naval Shipyard (Marine Guards) twice. No ship had ever won the 1st Naval District Championship. Atlantic Coast Tournament: First ship to go to Norfolk to compete against base teams. We beat ComServLant and then lost to ComSix and ComNine to finish fourth. Our final record was 35 wins and 3 losses. We won 35 straight games. We only had 15 guys on our team and no uniforms. Other teams had as many as 30 to 40 guys and two sets of uniforms. When we came back from Norfolk, seven of us won the Boston Basketball Championship. 
Rick Keith SK3 (’66-’68) 
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