{"id":374,"date":"2010-11-23T21:21:08","date_gmt":"2010-11-24T02:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/proto.derby-sheltonrotary.org\/?p=374"},"modified":"2017-03-17T14:32:01","modified_gmt":"2017-03-17T18:32:01","slug":"football-luncheon-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/derby-sheltonrotary.org\/blog\/football-luncheon-2010\/","title":{"rendered":"Football Luncheon 2010 &#8211; a Special Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-375\" src=\"https:\/\/derby-sheltonrotary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Thanksgiving-100.jpg\" alt=\"Shelton - Derby 100\" width=\"300\" height=\"185\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff;\" align=\"left\">The Derby\/Shelton Rotary Club celebrated one of its best traditions &#8211; the annual Football Luncheon &#8211; for senior members of the Derby and Shelton football teams and cheerleading squads on Tuesday, Nov. 23 at the Russian Lodge in Shelton. And this year was special &#8211; Shelton\u00a0was marking the year&#8217;s game as the 100th in the long rivalry which actually dates back to either 1904 or 1905 depending on whom you are talking to. The Rotary luncheon has not been around that long, but it does date back decades and follows similar type events held as far back as the 1930&#8217;s. Much of that history was celebrated at the luncheon.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff;\" align=\"left\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-376\" src=\"https:\/\/derby-sheltonrotary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/football2010.jpg\" alt=\"football lunceon 2010\" width=\"1280\" height=\"419\" srcset=\"https:\/\/derby-sheltonrotary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/football2010.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/derby-sheltonrotary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/football2010-300x98.jpg 300w, https:\/\/derby-sheltonrotary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/football2010-768x251.jpg 768w, https:\/\/derby-sheltonrotary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/football2010-1024x335.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff;\" align=\"left\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; display: inline !important; float: none;\">Both Shelton Coach Jeff Roy and Derby Coach George French spoke and introduced their players. However, the real highlight for the day was the speaking of the former members of each team who were the featured speakers. Both John Wetmore of Shelton and Dan Shea of Derby delivered nostalgic and motivational talks about their experiences, and ironically neither one won the game during their senior season.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OQI2Q-T8tF8\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lmmBprQBOYc\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_381\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-381\" class=\"size-full wp-image-381\" src=\"https:\/\/derby-sheltonrotary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Thanksgiving-2010-pins.jpg\" alt=\"Football 2010 pins\" width=\"500\" height=\"141\" srcset=\"https:\/\/derby-sheltonrotary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Thanksgiving-2010-pins.jpg 500w, https:\/\/derby-sheltonrotary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Thanksgiving-2010-pins-300x85.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-381\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Special pins made for the 1010 game<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times; font-size: 12pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/derby-sheltonrotary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/ThanksG2010-tent.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-384 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/derby-sheltonrotary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/ThanksG2010-tent-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Football 2010 - tent\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/derby-sheltonrotary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/ThanksG2010-alumni.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-383 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/derby-sheltonrotary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/ThanksG2010-alumni-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Football 2011 Alumni\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>The game was surrounded by a lot of additional hype due to the 100th game atmosphere. Months earlier, there had been a reunion held for players who had participated in any of the games. On the day of the game f<span style=\"color: #000000; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; word-spacing: 0px; display: inline !important; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; float: none;\">ootball player alumni were recognized from both schools at halftime of the game.\u00a0 There was an alumni reception tent in the stadium where former players\u00a0congregated and socialize during the game.\u00a0 The initial coin toss took place at mid-field with dignitaries from both cities including the Mayors, School Superintendents, School Board Chairs, School Principals, and special for this year; former football players, Jim Braccnaro \u2013 Shelton \u201940 &amp; Frank Saldemarco \u2013 Derby \u201939.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times; font-size: 12pt;\">Commemorative pins, t-shirts, and seat cushions\u00a0were sold as mementos to the history of the rivalry. Both varsity teams entered the game with a 2010 season record of 5-4.\u00a0 The overall rivalry stood at\u00a0Shelton- 49 wins, Derby- 43 wins &amp; ties- 7.\u00a0 The first game was played in 1904.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff9900; font-size: 20pt;\"><strong>Shelton won the game 38 -14<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_378\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-378\" class=\"size-full wp-image-378\" src=\"https:\/\/derby-sheltonrotary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Trophy2010.jpg\" alt=\"Trophy Presentation 2010\" width=\"600\" height=\"329\" srcset=\"https:\/\/derby-sheltonrotary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Trophy2010.jpg 600w, https:\/\/derby-sheltonrotary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Trophy2010-300x165.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-378\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shelton head coach Jeff Roy and players are presented with the Derby\/Shelton Rotary Club trophy by past presidents Steve Balog and Ed Sheehy, Jr. Interestingly, Balog once played for Shelton and Sheehy played for Derby.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Derby\/Shelton Rotary Club celebrated one of its best traditions &#8211; the annual Football Luncheon &#8211; for senior members of the Derby and Shelton football teams and cheerleading squads on Tuesday, Nov. 23 at the Russian Lodge in Shelton. And this year was special &#8211; Shelton\u00a0was marking the year&#8217;s game as the 100th in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-football-luncheon","czr-hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/derby-sheltonrotary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/derby-sheltonrotary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/derby-sheltonrotary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/derby-sheltonrotary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/derby-sheltonrotary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=374"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/derby-sheltonrotary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":386,"href":"https:\/\/derby-sheltonrotary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374\/revisions\/386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/derby-sheltonrotary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/derby-sheltonrotary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/derby-sheltonrotary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}