Nearly all the athletes in this week's #TBT are getting close to 40. Here's a look back 20 years ago at some of the SJO athletes to play the game.
Photo: PhotoNews Media/Clark Brooks
Spartan receiver Ryan Barnes doesn't break stride to haul in a pass from quarterback Billy Gallo twenty years, three months and 29 days ago when St. Joseph-Ogden played Rushville-Industry in October of the 2005 season. St. Joseph-Ogden won the regular season home football game 17-13 on Oct. 15, 2005.
Playing an independent schedule, the Spartans suffered two losses in a challenging 12-game campaign in the fall of 2005. SJO posted five wins over teams with winning records that year, including Lafayette Central Catholic (6-3), Quincy Notre Dame (8-3), Breese Mater Dei (6-4), Rushville-Industry (8-3) and Marshall (8-3). a Both of the Spartans’ losses, including the season-ending contest, came at the hands of rival Unity, with both games decided by two points or fewer. The Rockets ended SJO’s season in a double-overtime thriller, 21-20. Here are moments and memories from Oct. 15, 2005 in this week's #Throwback Thursday gallery.
Photo Gallery
All photos ©2005 PhotoNews Media/Clark Brooks
2005-06 Schedule
| Result | Team Score | Opponent Score |
Opponent Record |
Opponent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| W | 55 | 15 | 5-5 | Paxton Buckley-Loda |
| W | 56 | 6 | 1-8 | Clifton Central |
| W | 51 | 33 | 6-3 | Lafayette Central Catholic, IN |
| W | 41 | 12 | 8-3 | Quincy Notre Dame |
| L | 26 | 28 | 13-1 | Unity |
| W | 24 | 7 | 4-5 | Fond du Lac, St. Mary's Springs, WI |
| W | 28 | 7 | 6-4 | Breese Mater Dei |
| W | 17 | 13 | 8-3 | Rushville-Industry |
| W | 66 | 0 | 0-9 | Paris |
| W | 41 | 8 | 5-5 | Shelbyville |
| W | 40 | 0 | 8-3 | Marshall |
| L | 20 | 21 | 13-1 | Unity (2OT) |
