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Molea: My team didn’t quit on me during Thanksgiving game

Steve Krause

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LYNN – Gary Molea may be out as the Lynn English football coach, and he may be grudgingly all right with that, but he wants to clear up any misconceptions people have that his team quit on him during the Thanksgiving game.The Bulldogs took it on the chin that day, losing to Classical, 46-6. Toward the end, some of his players removed their jerseys and shoulder pads, leading people to assume they’d decided to quit for the day.Not so, Molea said.”(Classical coach) Matt (Durgin) was putting all his young kids in the game, and so were we,” Molea said. “I was watching the game, so I didn’t see what was happening. But some of my coaches saw it.”The game was over,” he said. “They were out of the game. The kids were in there. Some of them were dinged up, and they took some equipment off. It wasn’t as if they all came in and threw it all on the ground. Both benches were being emptied.”

  • Steve Krause

    Steve Krause is the Item’s writer-at-large. He joined paper in 1979 as a copy editor and later created a music column, called Midnight Ramblings, which ran through 1985. After leaving the paper for a year, he returned in 1988 as a reporter and editor in sports. He became sports editor in 1998; and was named writer-at-large in 2018. Krause won awards for writing in 1985 from United Press International; in 2001 from the Associated Press; and again in 2020 from the New England Newspaper & Press Association. He is a member of the Harry Agganis Foundation Hall of Fame, a past winner of the Moynihan Lumber Scholar-Athlete Community Service Award, and was the 2012 recipient of the Jack Grinold Media Award for MasterSports, an organization that conducts high school and college coaches’ clinics. He lives in Lynn, is active on Facebook, and can be found on Twitter @itemkrause.

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