Two football teams seeking to get their offenses in gear and win some games will be meeting Saturday afternoon when the Chadron State Eagles host the Adams State Grizzlies in a Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference contest. Kickoff will be at noon.
Chadron State has a 1-3 record while Adams State is 0-4. The Eagles got their win by a 17-10 scored against the Jamestown Jimmies of North Dakota on Sept. 5. None of CSC’s other opponents has scored more than 18 points, but Nebraska-Kearney won the season-opener 18-6, and Colorado Mesa prevailed 18-3 last Saturday at Grand Junction.
In the remaining game, Colorado Mines nipped the Eagles 13-12.
Adams State opened its season by tallying 36 points against Western New Mexico, but the Mustangs won 46-36. Since then the Grizzlies have scored just 24 points.
Texas Permian Basin won the second game 67-14, Western Colorado blanked the Grizzlies 38-0 the next week and Colorado State-Pueblo won by a 66-10 margin last Saturday.
Chadron State leads the all-time series with Adams State by a 28-6 margin. Adams State’s only win in Chadron during those 34 contests was in 1987, when the teams played for the first time and the Colorado team won 21-0.
A number of the games in the rivalry have been close but Chadron State has usually prevailed. For instance, two years ago the Eagles won 29-27 by competing a 67-yard drive when CSC’s 240-pound fullback Jalen Starks dove into the end zone with 68 seconds remaining.
Another highlight for the Eagles in that game saw Gunnar Jones kick two 57-yard field goals with the west wind in his back and also boot a 35-yarder into the wind that Jones said was probably his best kick of the day.
