Over the 50-plus years that Mount Si and Tolt (now

Cedarcrest) have squared off for the Snoqualmie

Valley Championship, some great gridders have rallied their

prospective teams to victory:

1945 _ Fullback Bill Venn ran for an extra point and threw

his “special” pass to a streaking Clarence Alm in the end zone

as the Scarlet and Gray won the first match-up of the two football

teams. Mount Si 13 _ Tolt 0.

1946 _ Backfielder Dick Mayrand lobbed a 17-yard

touchdown pass to Bill Poch and a 5-yard TD strike to reserve end John

Lund. Mount Si 21- Tolt 0.

1949 _ Pete Lenes scored on a 65-yard touchdown pass and

later rushed four yards for his second score of the game. Mount Si 44

Tolt 0.

1950 _ Fullback Paul Holm, a second-stringer filling in for

John Bluher (who broke his leg in a game against Bellevue), ran for

two touchdowns. Mount Si 32 _ Tolt 6.

1951 _ Don Trombley scored three touchdowns and ran for a

conversion to lead the Wildcats’ rout of their Valley Rivals. Mount Si

49 _ Tolt 0.

1952 _ Waldo Hawk had a 23-yard touchdown run and a

25-yard dash into the end zone for Mount Si. Mount Si 34 _ Tolt 6.

1973 _ Steve Duthbert returned a kickoff 65 yards for a

touchdown against the Demons. Mount Si 27 _ Tolt 8.

1974 _ Running back Mike Neal rushed for a touchdown and

the two-point conversion to give the Scarlet and Gray a 6-0 lead. Mount Si

20 _ Tolt 0.

1975 _ Running back Bob Forslin had two touchdowns

and broke an 18-all tie with a successful two-point conversion run. Mount

Si 20, Tolt 18.

1976 _ Bob Wilson fell on a fumble to tie the game at 6 _ 6

against Tolt. He nailed the extra-point kick to put Mount Si ahead for good.

Wilson finished with two touchdowns in the contest. Mount Si 38 _ Tolt 19.

1977 _ Quarterback Bob Treado went 6-for-13 passing and logged

110 yards of air offense and two touchdowns. The game’s final score

came when Greg Hart (current athletic director at Mount Si High) hauled in

a pass from his younger brother, Scott, a freshman quarterback for the

`Cats. Mount Si 52 _ Tolt 8.

1997 _ Cedarcrest quarterback Brent Robertson went

10-for-21 passing and racked up 149 yards in the air _ and three touchdowns _

as the Lower Valley high school finally conquered their upriver

colleagues. Cedarcrest 31 _ Mount Si 19.

1998 _ Mount Si quarterback Chris Riley threw for two

touchdowns and notched one himself on the keeper as the Wildcats

reclaimed the Championship trophy 28-0. The Wildcats would continue their

winning streak, eventually taking the KingCo Championship and

heading to the playoffs.