"THE ENTIRE NATION WAS SHOCKED AND SADDENED WHEN A SCHOOL BUS CARRYING THE GUNNISON JUNIOR VARSITY FOOTBALL TEAM AND THEIR COACHES PLUNGED OFF MONARCH PASS.  ONE COACH AND EIGHT MEMBERS OF THE TEAM LOST THEIR LIVES IN THE TRAGEDY.
"PERHAPS GOD NEEDED A FOOTBALL TEAM IN HEAVEN"

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Perhaps god needed a      football team in heaven?
Sept 11 1971

On September 11, 1971 a terrible tragedy struck the small western Colorado town of Gunnison as the Gunnison Junior Varsity Team plunged off of Monarch Pass.

The coach , 28 year old L.D. Floyd and eight of the team lost their lives.

These young men are memorialized by a beautiful stone that marks their graves at the Gunnison Cemetery, just east of Gunnison on Highway 50.

L. D. Floyd 28

Tim Dutton 14

Pat Graham 16

Mike Pasqua 15

Brad Hall 15

Billy Miles 14

Ted Maw 17

Mark Broadwater 15

Kent Cooper 14