Players-Only Leadership Meeting

Summary written for this site

Under the notebook item headed "Time to talk," the DelcoSport football notebook reports that after Marple Newtown's 21–14 loss to Lower Merion, quarterback Keith Gornish and Nick Reynolds called a players-only meeting so their teammates could air their differences. Coach Jim Smith called the meeting productive and said the team was completely different afterward, with three terrific days of practice behind them. Marple then lost 21–14 to Springfield, a game Smith called the team's best of the year while praising the effort and the emotion the players brought to it. The item is a contemporary published record of Nick Reynolds taking a leadership role as a senior, in a stretch of the season in which the team lost both games.

Documented figures

Lower Merion

21–14 loss

Springfield

21–14 loss

Evidence status

• Both games in this item are recorded as losses, exactly as the notebook prints them. The coach's praise concerned the effort, not the result.