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The record book tells us the first football game at Aloha Stadium was played on Sept. 13, 1975, with Texas A &I spoiling the University of Hawaii’s housewarming party 43-9. The Javelinas’ George Franklin was first to cross the goal line, with a 2-yard touchdown run.
But Joe Moore says that is incorrect. KHON’s living legend of a news anchor says he hit pay dirt first at Halawa—and this was about a decade after Moore starred at Aiea High School.
“I kid you not ! But, it was before they’d put down the artificial turf and a bunch of sports media people were the first to play a football game there, ” wrote Moore in an email Friday. “Granted it was a touch football game, but I caught a pass from Russ Francis and took it in for Aloha Stadium’s first TD.”
Moore, who was mostly a sportscaster in the early years of his broadcast career, also recalled doing radio play-by-play of UH’s first game at Aloha Stadium 50 years ago, that lopsided loss to the NAIA powerhouse.
Don Robbs—the retired voice of UH baseball and other sports for 50 years—was also a local broadcast news anchor and reporter in the 1970s when the ground was broken in Halawa.
“I was part of a small group who got to check out the site before they even put a shovel in the ground, ” Robbs said in a phone interview Friday from his home in Pearl City. “I don’t remember that (media ) game, but I remember Joe lived right around there. I also remember some of the neighbors saying ‘What is this ? We don’t want a stadium in our neighborhood.’”
Several hundred families were displaced from Halawa Housing so the stadium could be built. Some held out for five years, according to published reports at the time.
Completed construction was first planned for 1973, and then changed to in time for the 1974 Hawaii Islanders baseball season. A late…
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Author : The Honolulu Star-Advertiser
Publish date : 2024-07-28 16:10:00
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