PNG66

I think that when he says speed he's comparing PNG to LCM.

Before you ever use the word never you might want to go back and do a litte checking up on if PNG has ever had any speed. The first name that comes to mind is a player named Jeff Bergeron. They did not call him "the Jet" for no reason. You might want to ask some of the teams from 74-77 if PNG had speed. May not have had any but wide receivers Andy Gilbert and Carl Griffin were never caught from behind. The running backs were not that fast but when all the defensive backs are on their backs it makes for an easy gain. Ten years before that in 1965 PNG set the National Record for the 440 yard relay at the state meet. All 4 members played football: Mike Simpson (9.5 hundred yards), Lyman Landry (9.4 hundres yards), Kenneth Bernard, and Randy Byrd (9.9 hundred yards). Mike Simpson also ran a 21.5 220 yard dash and won the state meet. Simpson went on the play cornerback for the 49ers.

Nederland cut the totem pole down in 1963 and 1964. Although there were rumors that a PNG coach actually cut the second one down. In 1965 they erected the solid metal one that stands there now.