Over the years, I would occasionally dig through those boxes searching for slides or prints to give to former teammates. Still, there remained trays and sleeves of slides and negatives that I stored for decades – along with those newspaper clippings.

As GVSU’s 50th football season approached, I revisited those boxes and albums – and thought I’d try to do something with what I had. Something that would acknowledge the first team of fifty years ago, while celebrating each decade and how far the program had come.