Still zany after all these years. It holds true here.
When generations of RFHers collide like parallel universes on a path of together forever fate, 47 years later seems like yesterday.
Yes, it was 47 years ago in 1977 that this pompom-peddling gaggle of guy cheerleaders gave their first RFH cheer with gusto — albeit a kooky kind of gusto. Decades later, they gathered to cheer on the son of one who had become an RFH football star in his own right — Carson Memmott.
You saw them yesterday in a Scene Around photo on the scene at the RFH football game at Rutgers that made them the state champions for the first time since 1959. You also got a glimpse of them together in cheer regalia with Carson’s dad, Dave, who is, very sadly, no longer with us. The support for one another, the near-lifetime friendship and the antics are still the same after all these years, though. It’s just how Dawgs roll most of the time.
In this Retro Pic of the Day, three are pictured. Oddly, Dave Memmott, who was part of the group (and pictured in most of the shots of these guys), somehow didn’t make it for this outtake snapshot, as with the present.
Also, Greg Nowell was likely roaming somewhere on the field wreaking his own sort of havoc. While usually encouraged by all in the RFH Class of ’78, Nowell never needed an excuse to act like … well, whatever he felt like at the moment. And whatever he came up with spontaneously was always just part of the RFH day.
As for the three of the five musketeers pictured in this 1977 classic by RFHer George Day, they’re Mike Grady (bottom left), Doug Borden (Rumson dad to his right) and Chris Wood, (top and center and owner of Woody’s in Sea Bright, which was the ever-popular Ichabod’s, an RFHer hangout).
The lesson in this retro pic: Some things never change when it comes to cheering on generations’ worth of RFHers. Keep those pompoms punchy!
RIP, Dave. Congrats to Carson for being an RFH football hero!
Here’s dad Dave in 1977 … RIP.
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