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Distribution Date: Sept. 29, 2011
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Glendale football teams participate in Reagan centennial
Crescenta Valley games vs. Hoover and Glendale will feature special coin toss
GLENDALE, CA -- Crescenta Valley High School is leading Glendale Unified’s commemoration of the
Ronald Reagan centennial this year, utilizing a commemorative centennial coin for the opening coin toss in the
CVHS Falcons’ games against cross-town rivals, the Hoover High Tornadoes, on Friday, September 30, and
against the Glendale High Dynamiters on Friday, November 4.
The national Reagan centennial coin toss is coordinated by the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation, based at
the Reagan Library in Simi Valley, and is being observed by 32 National Football League teams, 120 NCAA
collegiate teams and 14,000 high school football teams, across the country, according to the Foundation.
A special ceremony before each game will feature the Crescenta Valley High School JROTC Color Guard.
Distinguished guests tossing the coins will be Don Gallehar, a Hoover grad, local businessman and civic leader,
for the Hoover game; and Donna Mayhew, CVHS grad and former Olympic athlete, for the Glendale game.
“It’s a fun yet meaningful way to remember Ronald Reagan, a distinguished Californian, who loved football, in
his 100th birthday year,” said Crescenta Valley High School Principal Dr. Michele Doll.
Reagan served as 40th President of the United States (1981-1989) and 33rd Governor of California (1966-1974)
and is one of two Californians featured in the Statuary Hall in the U.S. Capitol building
“The National Football Coin Toss celebrates the values that football teaches such as leadership, teamwork and
drive that Ronald Reagan embraced and exemplified,” said Stewart McLaurin, executive director of the Ronald
Reagan Presidential Foundation Centennial Celebration, in a statement.
The former president was an avid football fan, who played guard both in high school and at Eureka College, and
during his movie career, played the late Notre Dame football player George Gipp, whose famous line in the
movie, Knute Rockne: All American, of “Win one for the Gipper,” resulted in a lifelong nickname for Reagan.
Cheerleaders from both high schools will go into the stands and distribute commemorative packets of
California-made Jelly Belly jellybean candies, which Reagan made famous by featuring them on his Cabinet
table, both as governor and as president. The packets are provided by the Reagan Centennial Foundation.
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