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TOUCHDOWN BACK IN TIME
BY JAMES HARLEY
photo by Larry Jackson of the 1976 Print
Clackamas Community College at one point in time
had a football team, but now it’s only a faint memory.
The football program was dropped in January 1978
after the Blue Ribbon Athletic Study Committee voted
4-2 to drop the program.
The team was fairly competitive against the teams they
played, but according to articles in the Clackamas Print
archive, the decision to abolish the program was due
to the fact that the program struggled with recruiting,
especially around a time when fewer and fewer full-time
students enrolled at Clackamas.
At the time, the abolishment of the program was not
a popular opinion with the CCC students and athletes
that were on the team. CCC lost commitments, and
athletes who had been on the team expecting to be
there another year were forced into a tough decision as
to whether or not they should stay or scramble to find
another school to play for.
The last time the Cougars ever hit the football field
was more than 38 years ago in November 1977, where
they defeated Treasure Valley 14-6.
The football funding deferred to other sports programs
at CCC; of the 20 tuition waivers the football program
had, 10 were dropped and the other 10 were given to
other remaining sports.
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