Letter from the Eldest Son Maurice:
"Ordinary people with Extraordinary, Courage"
To My Beloved Mother and My Beloved Father.....I am writing this Letter with the
utmost respect, gratitude and appreciation to my incredible parents who were Ordinary people with Extraordinary, Courage. For all the sacrifices and hard work and Dedication and the unknown heart access they endured, to create a stable home environment, in order for all of us children to pursue life endeavors.
As I reflect back on the qualities they exemplified which is the the foundation
of all aspects of life .....were the FRUITS OF THE SPIRIT,
Peace, Patience, Joy, Love, Kindness, Longsuffering, Meekness, Temperance.
My Father a skilled craftsman and Aviator of WW II, a man of few words, but to the point, "Your Only and good as the company you keep ".
My Dear Mother the force behind it all "Save your tears for when you need them". She Gave birth to 12 children, preparing many meals, homework assignments trips back and forth to school taking kids to practice had silent moments fighting back tears of sacrifice holiday choir practice and coming together to pray.
The accomplishment of their Sons on this website would not be possible without our Great Parents who were leaders and mentors who are missed dearly,
with the Promise of God one day reuniting us !
DEAR CREVIER BROTHERS, MAURICE, MARC, RAY, JR, BERT, AND BRUCE
THE NATIONAL FEDERATION OF HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL HALL OF FAME, REVIEWED THE STORIED LEGACY OF THE CREVIER FOOTBALL FAMILY TRADITION, AND I MUST SAY THIS IS ONE OF THE MOST INCREDIBLE FOOTBALL LEGACYS' EVER TOLD.
THIS IS A FOOTBALL LEGACY, ONE FOR THE AGES. IN ALL THE YEARS OF THE NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL HALL OF FAME, I HAVE NEVER HEARD OF 5 BROTHERS MAKING 1ST TEAM ALL-STATE FROM ONE FAMILY. THIS IS A TRIBUTE TO YOUR PARENTS AND THE COACH BEHIND THIS FEAT.
WE WISH TO IMMORTALIZE YOUR JERSEYS AND YOUR NUMBERS AND RETIRE THEM HERE AT THE NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL HALL OF FAME. CONGRATULATIONS ON THIS INCREDIBLE FEAT A FAMILY FOOTBALL TRADITION AND LEGACY FOR THE AGES AND WILL GO DOWN IN THE ANNUALS OF SPORTS HISTORY AS ONE THE GREATEST FOOTBALL TRADITIONS EVER TOLD.
RETIREMENT OF JERSEYS AND NUMBERS,FOOTBALL LEGACY
ALL-STATE HALL OF FAME CREVIER BROTHERS'
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MAURICE CREVIER..#(46)..RB/LB/K..HALL OF FAME.. 2012
MARC CREVIER..#(47)..LB/RB..HALL OF FAME..2012
RAY CREVIER JR..#(15)..LB/QB/P/K..HALL OF FAME..2012
BERT CREVIER..#(44)..LB/FB/K/P..HALL OF FAME..2012
BRUCE CREVIER..#(17)..QB/K..HALL OF FAME..2012
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CONGRADULATIONS, CREVIER, BOTHERS,
MAURICE, MARC, RAY JR, BERT, BRUCE
THE, NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL HALL OF FAME
TO ASHLAND COLLEGE FOOTBALL COLLEGE HALL OF FAME
This Letter is to recommend not one but two Creviers to the Ashland College Football Hall of Fame.
Having the opportunity to coach these two young men was indeed my privilege. Their dedication to excel, their determination to succeed, and their toghness both mentally and physically were unparalleled
Not only were Maurice and Marc, standouts, they were part of the GREATEST STORIED Football team in State History where they set a unprecedented Storied family football Tradition where all 5 Brothers Maurice, Marc, Ray Jr. Bert, and Bruce, were not only 1st Team ALL-STATE Football players, was recognized by the National Federation of HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL HALL OF FAME as one of the the GREATEST Family Football Traditions in the Country.
The Creviers' demeanor off the field was equally impressive, as they excelled in the classroom they were excellent role models for the Ashland University student body.
After my Ashland tenure, I coached twelve years at the college level and sixteen years in the NFL. I can say without reservation that my association wtih the Creviers rates as high as any I have experienced and will never be forgotten.
A family that taught their children so well to respect others, possess self discipline, and display hard work ethics are to be commended and also thanked that they sent their boys to Ashland University
Ron Blackledge Coach Pittsberg steelers
Ashland University Football Hall of Fame
I am writing this letter to recommend Maurice and Marc Crevier for induction into The Ashland University Football Hall of Fame. I had the privilege of coaching these fine players throughout their High School Careers at Jefferson High School, Jefferson South Dakota.
They were 3 sport four year letter winners in football, basketball and track. They were both 3 time ALL-STATE Football players, 3 years in a row. During their career they were largely instrumental in our school 4 League track titles. In addition we won 3 State titles in football and 3 state titles in track.
They were members of the most storied football tenure in South Dakota State History, which still holds the state scoring titles of 75-3 points per game. Not only that they set a Family Football Tradition where 5 of the Creviers Brothers, Lead by Maurice class of 1968,Marc class of 1969, Ray Jr. class of 1972, Bert class of 1978, and Bruce class of 1983 were 1st team ALL-STATE football, and were all college standout football players, an unprecedented record that has never duplicated. Even more importantly they had the highest profile of Moral Character of any athletes I have ever coached.
In College Maurice was voted top linebacker in Ohio by the Canton News paper and Became an ALL-AMERICAN linebacker and is still considered one of the GREATEST Linebackers to dawn a Jersey at ASHALND UNIVERSITY. Marc bebacme a 2 TIME ALL-AMERICAN Guard scoring 97% of his blocking assignments on the 1972 team which went 11-0. Both Maurice and Marc were among a small number of football players to start at ASHLAND UNVERSITY.
These boys wound up at Ashland University because of my close freindship to Bill Muscleman (now deceased), also in the Ashland Hall of Fame, whom I coached with and played against in high school. Another coach whom I know personally Ron Blackledge was also on the coaching staff at Ashand University . Ron was a Head College Football coach and former assistant coach at the Pittsburgh Steelers. Ron has told me numerous times that the ability and toughness of these CREVIERS' are the finest that he has ever seen or coached in his career. Ashland University Head Coach Fred Martinille said the Creviers were the toughest he had ever coached.
Selecting inductees to the Football Hall of Fame is very difficult thing to do.
I Hope this helps and you consider Maurice and Marc Crevier to your Football HALL OF FAME. THEY WERE THE TOUGHEST AND MOST DEDICATED PLAYERS I HAVE EVER COACHED IN ALL 30 PLUS YEARS OF COACHING!
SINCERLY MATT MOTTICE.
DEAR HALL OF FAME STAFF
20 JULY 1992
FROM THE SPORTS EDITOR SIOUX FALLS ARGUS
“AS THE SPORTS EDITOR FOR THE SIOUX FALLS ARGUS LEADER FOR'' MANY YEARS, I HAVE HAD A CHANCE VEIW MANY HISTORICAL ARTICLES THROUGHOUT SPORTS HISTORY IN SOUTH DAKOTA. IN MY TENURE, AT THE ARGUS LEADER, THERE IS NONE LIKE I HAVE EVER READ, LIKE THE FOOTBALL 🏈 LEGACY OF THE RAY CREVIER SR. FAMILY, OF THE INFAMOUS JEFFERSON BLACKHAWKS OF THEIR STORIED FOOTBALL TEAM OF THE LATE 1960s. THAT CREVIER FAMILY, PRODUCED 5 SONS, OVER 14 YEARS, 60s, 70s, 80s, THAT BECAME 1ST TEAM ALL-STATE FOOTBALL 🏈 LEGENDS, THAT NOT ONLY WERE ALL-STATERS, THEY ALL HAD COLLEGE FOOTBALL SCHOLARSHIPS AND WERE STANDOUTS. SONS MAURICE CLASS OF 1968, MARC, CLASS OF 1969, RAY JR, CLASS OF 1972, BERT CLASS OF 1978, AND BRUCE 1983, SET AN UNFORGETTABLE FOOTBALL 🏈 LEGACY, IN SOUTH DAKOTA SPORTS HISTORY, THAT WILL BE HARD TO EVER SURPASSES ! THIS STORY, IS ONE OF THE GREATEST SPORTS STORIES IN STATE HISTORY. THIS LEGACY WILL BE MARKED, AS A SPORTS LEGEND FOR THE AGES, AND WILL GO DOWN IN THE ANNUALS SOUTH DAKOTA SPORTS HISTORY, AS ONE OF THE ALL TIME GREATEST SPORTS STORIES EVER TOLD! I RECOMMEND THE CREVIERS SHOULD BE CONSIDERED FOR THE SOUTH DAKOTA SPORTS'' ''HALL OF FAME!”
JOHN EGAN
SPORTS EDITOR
SIOUX FALLS ARGUS LEADER 1955-1989
DEAR HALL OF FAME STAFF
20 JULY 1992
QUOTE FROM MATT MOTTICE, THE GREATEST HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL
IN THE HISTORY OF THE STATE OF SOUTH DAKOTA
WHO BROUGHT FOOTBALL ''MAGIC'' FROM OHIO KNOW AS FOOTBALL ''COUNTRY'' TO SOUTH DAKOTA
''Over all my years in coaching, I realized that the Football culture that l adopted , had its origins and FOUNDATION, deep within the Family STRUTURE. This became evident to me when I started coaching high school football in South Dakota, back in the 1960s when l brought this philosophy, from ''OHIO'' known to many FOOTBALL CULTURE, to South Dakota. More pointedly THE RAY CREVIER SR. FAMILY'' and the GREAT JEFFERSON BLACKHAWKS, who have gone in History as the GREATEST high School FOOTBALL TEAM IN STATE HISTORY. When l started coaching l vever knew how this ideolgy would people and my Football Team. You never know how this would affect people and my Football TEAM. l was INFLUENCED BY ''GREATNESS'' in my life and l passed this on! This PHILOSOPHY I APPLIED TO MY FOOTBALL TEAM AND I NEVER KNEW HOW IT WOULD AFFECT THE JEFFERSON SOUTH DAKOTA COMMUNITY AND THE CREVIERS! THE CREVIERS WOULD LATTER APPLIED THIS IDEOLOGY TO THEIR FOOTBALL TRADITION. THE CREVIERS WENT AFTER IT, LIKE A HUNGRY ANIMAL! At this point in my life l have VEVER SEEN ANYTHING LIKE THIS DEDICATION AND DISCIPLINE. I have followed the CREVIERS over the years and FOLLOWED THEM WITH AWE, AND I NEVER KNEW HOW THAT ONE PERSON COULD MAKE SUCH AN IMPACT ON A FAMILIY UNIT. THIS OHIO FOOTBALL TRADITION BECAME A RELIGION TO THE CREVIER BROTHERS. This became A WORK STRATEGY FOR THE RAY CREVIER SR. FAMILY. RAY CREVIER SR. WHOM I HIGHLY RESPECTED AND VEVER SPOKE MUCH, AND , HE IS THE ONLY PARENT I FEARED, LIKE HIS SONS MAURICE, MARC, RAY,FR. BERT, AND BRUCE. '' THE CREVIER BROTHERS SAID IT ALL BY THEIR UNPRECEDENTED , ACTIONS, LIKE THE GLORIOUS TITANS ON THE THE FOOTBALL FIELD OF GLORY. THE 5 CREVIER BROTHERS SOUGHT A PATH TO FOOTBALL GLORY. '' THIS IS UNLIKE ANYTHING I HAVE EVER SEEN IN MY LIFE BEFORE, OR SINCE''!! THE CREVIERS WERE OBESSED, THEY WERE DEDICATED AND DISCIPLINED AND FOCUSED WITH THIS WAY OF THINKING.THE STATS OF EACH OF THE CREVIERS BROTHERS SPEAKS FOR ITSELF''.Tthey would latter apply these FOOTBALL TRADITIONS to a unparalleled Persidence IN SOUTH DAKOTA SPORTS HISTORY, WHEN ALL 5 OF THE CREVIERS WERE NAMED TO 1ST TEAM ALL-STATE FOOTBALL TEAMS AND NAMED ''ACE'' OF THE WEEK AND WERE COLLEGE FOOTBALL STANDOUTS AND RECOGNIZED THE THE NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL HALL OF FAME.
NEVER BEFORE HAS SUCH AN UNPRECEDENTED STORY EVER BEEN WRITTEN OR RECOGNIZED BY A FOOTBALL HALL OF FAME. THIS LEGACY NOW HAS ITS PLACE AMONG ONE OF THE GREATEST SPORTS STORIES EVER ACHIEVED by A FAMILY FOOTBALL TRADITION. THIS FAMILY, FOOTBALL CULTURE HAS BECOME KNOWN AS ONE OF THE ''GREATEST'' FAMILY FOOTBALL TRADITIONS IN THE NATION, AND HAS GONE DOWN IN SPORTS HISTORY AS ONE OF THE ALL-TIME GREATEST
--------COACH MATT MOTTICE 30/AUG/18
JEFFERSON BLACKHAWKS
HEAD FOOTBALL COACH 1964-1968
BILLED AS THE GREATEST HIGH SCHOOL COACH STATE HISTORY
ARGUS LEADER NOVEMBER 1971
'' RAY CREVIER JR. IS THE TOUGHEST AND BEST, DEFENSIVE LINEBACKER, WE HAVE COME AGAINST ALL YEAR IN THE TRI-VALLEY CONFERENCE.''
''WE RAN AWAY FROM CREVIER ALL NIGHT LONG BECAUSE OF HIS TOUGH PLAY AT MIDDLE LINEBACKER, AGAINST IRENE. THE BLACKHAWKS WERE ALMOST WENT UNDEFEATED, AND THE REASON WAS CREVIERS' TOUGH DEFENSIVE PLAY A LINEBACKER.
''NOT ONLY WAS CREVIER THE BEST PLAYER IN THE TRIVALLEY CONFERENCE THIS YEAR, CREVIER LEAD THE STATE IN TACKLES AT 156 TACKLES IN 6 GAMES AVERAGING 22 TACKLES PER GAME 5 OF 6 FIELD GOALS AND A PUNTING AVE 39.7 RAY CREVIER SCHOLASTIC STANDING NO#1 AND A APPOINTMENT THE UNITED STATES NAVAL ACADEMY''
CONGRATULATIONS TO RAY CREVIER''
----------JIM HOOD IRENE HEAD FOOTBALL COACH.
SIOUX FALLS ARGUS LEADER
ARGUS LEADER NOVEMBER 1971
HELLO BERT
20 NOVEMBER 1977
CONGRADULATIIONS ON BEING THE TOP ALL-STATE LINEBACKER TACKLER IN SOUTH DAKOTA! WHAT AN INCREDIBLE CAREER YOU HAVE HAD AT JEFFERSON HIGH. I JUST WANTED TO SAY I APPRECIATE YOUR HAD WORK ETHIC AND YOUR STRONG DEDICATION AS ONE OF THE GREATEST HIGH SCHOOL LINEBACKERS I HAVE EVER SEEN.
WE AT THE COACHING STAFF AT CENTERVILLE CONGRADULATE YOU ON YOUR DEDICATION., I HAVE NEVER SEEN IN ALL MY YEARS OF COACHING A PLAYER THAT WAS A STANDOUT ON DEFENSE ALL FOUR YEARS. FRESHMAN YR, SOPH. YR, JR YR, AND. SR. YEARS INCREDIBLE!
YOUR CREVIER REPUTATION AND YOUR 3 BROTHERS WERE GREAT FOOTBALL PLAYERS, AND ITS A JOY TO SEE YOU CARRY YOUR FAMILY LEGACY.
LOOKING FORWARD TO SEEING YOUR PROGRESS IN THE UPCOMING BASKETBALL SEASON AND WISHING YOU THE BEST AS YOU PURSUE YOUR COLLEGE FOOTBALL CAREER
CONGRADULATIONS BERT!!
SINCERELY RON LOUNSBERRY
HEAD FOOTBALL-COACH CENTERVILLE
STATE CHAMPS, 1974 8-0, 1975 8-0
GREETINGS BERT
15 NOVEMBER 1977
ON BEHALF OF THE COACHING STAFF HERE IN VIBORG. I WANT TO CONGRATULATE YOU ON YOUR OUTSTANDING FOOTBALL CAREER AT JEFFERSON HIGH SCHOOL AND SAY WHAT DESERVING YOUNG MAN YOU ARE ON AND OFF THE FOOTBALL FIELD TO REPRESENT THE TRI-VALLEY CONFERENCE FOR 1ST TEAM ALL-STATE FOOTBALL ON THE DEFENSIVE UNIT THIS YEAR AS LINEBACKER.
I HAVE FOLLOWED YOUR CAREER WITH PLEASURE, FOR THE PAST FOUR YEARS FOR THE JEFFERSON BLACKHAWKS, AND I MUST SAY YOU ARE THE TOUGHEST LINEBACKER WE CAME AGAINST ALL YEAR. WE ONLY BEAT JEFFERSON 9-6 AND IT WAS MAINLY BECAUSE OF YOU, THAT , THAT WE ALMOST LOST AND WE WERE THE STATE CHAMPS, 8-0 AND IM KEENLY AWARE OF YOUR DEDICATION AND ABILITY AS ONE OF THE STRONGEST AND GREATEST HIGH SCHOOL LINEBACKERS I HAVE EVER SEEN, AS YOU LEAD THE STATE IN TACKLES THIS YEAR ''172'' WHAT AN INCREDIBLE FEAT!!
YOUR BROTHERS BEFORE YOU, MAURICE, MARC, AND RAY, HAVE SET AN UNPRECEDENTED FOOTBALL TRADITION, AND YOUR FAMILY NAME CARRIES AN INCREDIBLE REPUTATION HERE IN THE TRI-VALLEY CONFERENCE. IM VERY PROUD OF OF YOU BERT, AND IM LOOKING FORWARD TO SEEING YOU PLAY IN THE UP COMING BASKETBALL SEASON. GOOD LUCK IN THE PURSUIT WITH YOUR COLLEGE FOOTBALL CAREER, AS YOU FOLLOW YOUR BROTHERS FOOTBALL LEGACY.
CONGRATULATIONS!!
MARK NELSON
VIBORG
HEAD FOOTBALL COACH
''STATE CHAMPS''
1976 (8-0) 1977 (8-0)
MAURICE CREVIER
ASHLAND UNIVERSITY GRADUATE CLASS OF ''72'''
MAURICE IS ONE OF THE FINE FOOTBALL PLAYERS IT HAS BEEN MY PRIVILEGE TO COACH IN MY 35 YEARS AT ASHLAND UNIVERSITY.. NATIVE OF JEFFERSON SOUTH DAKOTA, MAURICE CAME TO ASHLAND IN THE FALL OF 1968 THROUGH CONNECTIONS WITH HIS HIGH SCHOOL COACH, MATT MOTTICE WHO HAD BEEN AN OHIO NATIVE. MAURICE BROUGHT TO ASHLAND HIGHLY COMPATIBLE PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS AND PHYSICALSKILLS THAT RESULTED IN HIS GRADUATION AND THE ELEVATION OF THE EAGLE FOOTBALL PROGRAM A MOST CHALLENGING ERA. BEYOND THIS THE MARTINELLI FAMILY WILL ALWAYS CHERISH THE MEMORABLE RELATIONSHIPS WITH THE RAY CREVIER FAMILY
DURING THE 1968-1971 ERA, ASHLAND FOOTBALL WAS MAKING THE COMPETIITVE TRANSITION FROM THE MID LEVEL OF THE OHIO CONFERENCE TO THE UPPER LEVEL SCHOOLS IN THIS CONFERENCEAND OTHER REGIONAL COLLEGES WHO WERE POWERS AT THE NATIONAL LEVEL. THESE SCHEDULES WERE AS COMPETITIVE AS OUR CURRENT OPPOSITION. WITTENBERG, BALDWIN WALLACE, HILLSDALE, WESTERN ILLINOIS WEREE WERE TOP TEN IN NATIONAL COLLEGE DIVISION POLLS. IN TWO OF MAURICES FOUR YEARS THE EAGLES WERE RANKED IN THE TOP TEN IN THE NATION AND ALMOST MAKING THE PLAYOFFS.
MAURICE WAS A SMALL NUMBER OF FRESHMEN THAT WAS A STARTER. MAURICE WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR CHANGING THE FOOTBALL TRADITION AT ASHLAND UNIVERSITY AND ELEVATING TO NEW HEIGHTS. AN ALL-AMERICAN LINEBACKER AND WILL GO DOWN IN HISTORY AT ASHLAND UNIVERSITY AS ONE OF ASHLAND UNIVERSITY ALL-TIME GEATEST. I SHALL ALWAYS BE GREATFUL FOR THE ROLE MAURICE PLAYED FROM 1968 TO 1971
COACH FRED MARTINELLI OCT. 2008
MARC CREVIER
ASHLAND UNVERISTY GRADUATE ,CLASS OF ''73''
MARC IS ONE OF THE FINE FOOTBALL PLAYERS IT HAS BEEN MY PRIVILEGE TO COACH IN MY 35 YEARS AT ASHLAND UNIVERSITY. A NATIVE OF JEFFERSON SOUTH DAKOTA. MARC CAME TO ASHLAND IN THE FALL OF 1969 PERHAPS INFLUENCED BY HIS BROTHER MAURICE WHO HAD JUST COMPLETED HIS FIRST YEAR. I MUST ADMIT THAT OUR COACHING STAFF WAS DUBIOUS OF MARCS SIZE AS AN OFFENSIVE LINEMAN, BUT HIS PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS WERE SO COMPATIBLE WITH WHAT WE WERE LOOKING FOR THAT WE FELT HE WOULD PLAY SOMEWHERE. WE WERE PLEASED WITH WHAT MARC BROUGHT TO OUR STUDENT BODY AND WITH HIS OUTSTANDING PLAY AND AN OFFENSIVE LINEMAN. AND THIS ADDED TO THE MARTINELLI FAMILY CHERISHED RELATIONSHIP WITH THE RAY CREVIER FAMILY.
DURING THE 1969-1972 ERA ASHLAND FOOTBALL WAS MAKING THE COMPETITIVE TRANSITION FROM THE MID LEVEL OF THE THE OHIO CONFERENCE TO THE UPPER LEVEL SCHOOLS IN THE CONFERENCE AND OTHER REGIONAL COLLEGES WHO WERE POWERS AT THE NATIONAL LEVEL. WHILE OUR TEAMS FROM 1969-1971 WERE COMPETITIVE, IT WAS IN MARCS SENIOR YEAR THAT WE EVENTUALLY DEFEATED THIS UPPER ESCHION GROUP. THE 1972 TEAM WAS UNDEFEATED IN 11 GAMES AND AT SEASONS END WAS RANKED 5TH BY AP AND 7UPI POLLS. OTHER IN THE POLL WERE THE LIKES OF DELAWARE , GRAMBLING AND LOUSIANA TECH. WE DEFEATED THE TOP COLLEGE DIVISION TEAM IN OHIO AND SURROUNDING STATES WITH
VICTORIES OVER EDINBOR PA, WITTENBERG OHI FAIRMONT WV AND HILLSDALE MI. THIS TEAM LED THE NATION IN SCORING DEFENSE GIVING UP 5.6 POINTS PER GAME AND SET A SCHOOL SEASON SCORING RECORD.
MARC IS AMONG A SMALL NUMBER OF PLAYERS THAT STARTED AS A FRESHMAN ALONG WITH HIS BROTHER MAURICE. HIS PERSONAL DRIVE TO SUCCEED AND EXECUTION OF FUNDAMENTALS FOR BOTH THE RUNNING GAME AND PASSING GAME, ENHANCED OUR BALANCE OFFENSIVE PHILOSOPHY HIS PLAY ATTRACTED THE ATTENTION OF COACHES AND FOOTBALL WRITERS LEADING TO HIS BEING NAMED TO SERVAL ALL-AMERICAN TEAMS. I SHALL ALWAYS BE GRAETFUL TO THE ROLE PLAYED BY MARC CREVIER FROM 1969-1972
COACH FRED MARTINELLI OCT. 2008
''RACING THROUGH THE SHALLOWS''
JEFFERSONS' CREVIERS IN A CLASS BY THEM SELVES AS FOOTBALL STALWARTS
ALL-STATE CREVIER BROTHERS AND HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL HALL OF FAME
SIOUX FALLS ARGUS LEADER SEPTEMBER 1994
JIM BILLION ARGUS LEADER STAFF
INDUCTED INTO THE NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL
FOOTBALL HALL OF FAME 2012
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ALL-STATE CREVIER BROTHERS
(#46) MAURICE CREVIER.....RB/LB/K....1967
(#47) MARC CREVIER.........LB/RB.........1968
(#15) RAY CREVIER JR.......LB/QB/P/K...1971
(#44) BERT CREVIER..........LB/FB/P/K...1977
(#17) BRUCE CREIVER...... QB/P/K........1982
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AS THE MURKY WATERS OF THE MISSOURI RIVER SLOWLY SURGED PAST THE TOWN OF JEFFERSON SOME YEARS AGO, THE STEADY DRONE OF INSECTS WAS BROKEN AS THE CREVIER BROTHERS RACED THROUGH THE SHALLOWS.
THEY WEREN'T CHASING SHORE BIRDS OR PASSING IDLE SUMMER HOURS. THEY SOUGHT THE PATH TO FOOTBALL GLORY. FIVE BROTHERS---MAURICE (CLASS OF 1968), MARC (CLASS OF 1969), RAY JR, (CLASS OF 1972), BERT (CLASS OF 1978), AND BRUCE (CLASS OF 1983)----EARNED FIRST-TEAM ALL-STATE SELECTION AND COLLEGE FOOTBALL SCHOLARSHIPS.
''WE'D RUN IN KNEE-DEEP WATER TO INCREASE LEG STRENGTH AND AGILITY'' BERT SAID ''MY BROTHERS' FOOTBALL COACH (MATT MOTTICE) WAS VERY INVENTIVE WITH HIS TRAINING IDEAS. WE'D RUN OBSTACLE COURSES CLIMB PEG BOARDS ANYTHING THAT MIGHT GIVE US AN EDGE''.
MOTTICE LET JEFFERSON ATHLETICS THROUGH THEIR GLORY YEARS IN THE LATE 1960S, WHICH INCLUDED A FOOTBALL WIN STREAK THAT SPANNED THE BETTER PART OF FOUR SEASONS AND 34 GAMES. HE AND THE CREVIERS' PARENTS, RAY SR, AND PAT ARE CREDITED WITH STARTING WHAT WOULD ARGUABLY BECOME THE GREATEST FAMILY FOOTBALL TRADITION IN STATE HISTORY.
''THE SITUATION WITH THOSE BOYS WAS UNIQUE IN THAT THEY NEVER QUESTIONED WHAT THEIR PARENTS OR COACHES TOLD THEM TO DO. THEIR DEDICATION AND DISCIPLINE WAS REMARKABLE'' MOTTICE SAID FROM HIS OHIO RESIDENCE. '' THE OLDER KIDS EMULATED THEIR FATHER AND MOTHER AND THE YOUNGER KIDS EMULATED THE OLDER ONES.'''
THE CREVIERS HAD A CABIN ON THE MISSOURI WHERE THEY OFTEN CAMPED AND WATER SKIED. IT WAS THERE AND ON THEIR FARM OUTSIDE OF JEFFERSON THAT RAY SR. INSTILLED IN HIS BOYS A SENSE OF ETHICS AND THE VALUE OF HARD WORK AND CLEAN LIVING. HIS FAMILY EVENTUALLY SWELLED TO 12 KIDS AND HIS PHILOSOPHY FOR REARING THEM WAS SIMPLE.
'''OUR IDEA WAS TO KEEP THEM OCCUPIED, KEEP THEM BUSY, AND ATHLETICS WAS A BIG PART OF THAT,'' RAY SR. SAID. ''WE'VE GOT SOME AWFULLY GOOD KIDS AND IN ALL THOSE YEARS NOT ONE OF THEM GAVE US A LICK OF TROUBLE.''
THE CREVIERS' FOOTBALL OPPONENTS DIDN'T FEEL THE SAME WAY.
''WHILE MARC PLAYED FOR ME HE BROKE SEVEN BONES (OF OTHER PLAYERS) AND THERE WAS NOTHING DIRTY ABOUT IT. AS A SENIOR HE CRACKED THREE HELMETS,'' MOTTICE SAID ''HE HIT ONE KID FROM VIBORG SO HARD HE BROKE HIS LEG. THE DOCTOR WHO SET IT SAID THE ONLY TIME HE HAD SEEN A BREAK LIKE THAT WAS IN WWII FROM A BULLET. THAT WAS IN THE FALL AND IN THE SPRING THE KID WAS STILL IN A CAST.
'''MAURICE THRIVED ON CONTACT AND ROUGH GOING THE YEAR HE MADE ALL-STATE AS A RUNNING BACK AND LINEBACKER,HE WENT 5 FOOT 10 195 KNOWN AS A HARD HITTING BLOCK BUSTER.THE YEAR MAURICE, WAS WAS AN ALL-STATE RUNNING BACK, AND AVERAGING 6.9 YARDS PER CARRY KICKED 20 EXTRA POINTS WITH A TOTAL OF 490 TACKLE IN FOUR YEARS AS A STARTER. MARUICE WAS REFEREED TO AS '' THE IDEAL FOOTBALL PLAYER'' BY COACH MATT MOTTICE.
AT 5 FOOT 9 190 LBS, MARC WAS CUT IN THE SAME MOLD. AS AN ALL-STATE LINEBACKER HE AVERAGED 16 TACKLES A GAME TO COMPLEMENT 40 CAREER TOUCHDOWNS A 7 YARD AVE. PER CARRY OUT OF THE OFFENSIVE BACKFIELD. MARC HAD A TOTAL OF 509 TACKLES AS A FOUR REGULAR AS WELL.
WHEN MAURICE WENT TO ASHLAND UNIVERSITY ON A RECRUITING TRIP, WITH MARC , THEY GOT IN A PICK-UP BASKETBALL GAME WITH THE FOOTBALL COACHING STAFF. MOTTICE ALWAYS THE COACH, ADVISED THE BROTHER TO BE A LITTLE EXTRA AGGRESSIVE BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT THE COACHES WERE LOOKING FOR.
''AFTER THE GAME THE COACHES SAID 'WE'LL TAKE THEM BOTH,''' MOTTICE SAID. ''I TOLD THEM THEY'D HAVE TO WAIT A YEAR FOR MARC BECAUSE HE WAS ONLY A JUNIOR.''
BOTH MAURICE AND MARC MADE THEIR WAS TO ASHLAND UNIVERSITY WHERE MAURICE BECAME AN ALL-AMERICAN LINEBACKER AND IS STILL CONSIDERED ON OF THE GREATEST ALL-TIME BEST LINEBACKERS AT THE NCAA II SCHOOL.
''MY PHILOSOPHY WAS THAT YOU BETTER TAKE THE PUNISHMENT TO YOUR OPPONENT OR THEY WILL TAKE IT TO YOU '' SAID MARC.
MOTTICE SAID THE OLDER TWO CREVIERS WERE THE TOUGHEST FOOTBALL PLAYERS HE EVER COACHED.
''MARC CAME TO A GAME ONE TIME WITH HIS HAND BLEEDING AND BANDAGED AND SAID HE HAD AN ACCIDENT'' MOTTICE SAID ,'HE PLAYED THE WHOLE GAME AND AFTERWARDS HE TOLD ME HE CUT JUST THE TIPS OF TWO FINGERS OFF IN THE CORN PICKER AND SAID HE WAS GOING HOME TO TRY AND FIND THEM.''
WHEN RAY JR AND BERT. ENTERED JEFFERSON RAY HAD MOTTICE FOR A COACH JUST HIS FRESHMAN YEAR. MOTTICE HAD LEFT TO COACH IN OHIO, BUT THE DYNAMIC IMPACT HE 'D HAD ON THE BROTHERS REMAINED,.. SO DID THEIR REPUTATION
''RAY AND I USED TO GET BOOED BEFORE GAMES WHEN THEY WOULD ANNOUNCE THE STARTING LINE UP '' BERT SAID , THEY USED TO HIT PEOPLE SO HARD THAT THE REFEREES WOULD THREATEN TO TAKE THEM OUT OF THE GAME''
YET THOSE BOOS ECHOED WITH RESPECT AS THE BROTHERS HAVE COME TO REALIZE.
BEFORE RAY PLAYED ROVING LINEBACKER AT NAVY, HE WAS WAS 180 POUND LINEBACKER WHO LEAD THE STATE IN TACKLES AT 156 IN 6 GAMES WHO WAS SEEMINGLY IN ON EVERY PLAY FOR THE JEFFERSON BLACKHAWKS WITH A 39.7 YARD PUNTING AVE, ONE OPPOSING COACH SAID OF RAY CREVIER. ''RAY CREVIER IS THE BEST FOOTBALL PLAYER IN THE TRI-VALLEY CONFERENCE THIS YEAR ----JIM HOOD IRENE.
ARMED WITH THE DETERMINATION AND FOCUS THAT WOULD BECOME THE BROTHERS' TRADEMARK, BERT PLAYED FULLBACK AT 195 POUNDS BUT WAS BEST REMEMBERED FOR HIS DEFENSE. AS A SENIOR HE MADE 172 TACKLES IN 8 GAMES AND LEAD THE STATE IN TACKLES THE YEAR HE WAS AN ALL-STATE LINEBACKER, WITH A 38.7 YARD PUNTING AVE.
''HE (MOTTICE) GOT US LIFTING WEIGHTS WHEN NOBODY WAS REALLY DOING THAT AS TRAINING FOR FOOTBALL'' BERT SAID. ''WE'D BALE HAY AND DO CHORES ALL DAY THEN GO OUT AND LIFT WEIGHTS AND UN IN THE HEAT OF THE SUMMER WHEN IT WAS 100 DEGREES IN THE SHADE. WE FIGURED IT WOULD MAKE US BETTER BECAUSE NOBODY WAS CRAZY ENOUGH TO DO THAT.''
BERT PLAYED LINEBACKER AT DAKOTA STATE, WERE HE WAS A STANDOUT LINEBACKER CALLING DEFENSIVE SIGNALS.
BRUCE HAD TO WAIT LONGER FOR HIS TIME IN THE SUN. HE WAS SACKED ON THE ONE PLAY HE CAME IN FOR AS A JUNIOR.
HIS SENIOR YEAR HE TOOK OVER THE QUARTERBACKING AND KICKING DUTIES, AS WELL AS PLAYING DEFENSIVE BACK. HE WAS AN ALL-STATE PUNTER WITH A 40.7 YARD PUNTING AVE. HIS 45 YARD FIELD GOAL WAS THE DIFFERENCE AS JEFFERSON BALCKHAWKS HANDED WAGNER ITS ONLY LOSS. HE WENT ON TO PLAY QUARTERBACK AND KICK AT BETHEL COLLEGE IN ST PAUL MINN.
JEFFERSON HIGH SCHOOL CLOSED ITS DOORS IN 1994, ONLY TO REOPEN AS DAKOTA VALLEY HIGH SCHOOL WITH A NEW MASCOT, THE PANTHERS AND NEW SCHOOL COLORS,(PURPLE, BACK AND SILVER) SIMILAR TO THE COLORS THAT APPEARED ON THE ARMS AND LEGS OF THE CREVIERS' FOOTBALL FOES AFTER TAKING A RELENTLESS POUNDING.
MOTTICE, STILL COACHES FOOTBALL, BASKETBALL AND TRACK, A THROWBACK TO THE DAYS WHEN THAT WAS EXPECTED OF COACHES. HE CALLS THE PLAYS FOR THE GARAWAY HIGH FOOTBALL TEAM IN SUGAR, OHIO AND HIS JUNIOR HIGH FOOTBALL TEAM, BENEFITING FROM HIS KNOWLEDGE AS THE CREVIER BROTHERS DID YEARS BEFORE, HAVE LOST JUST ONCE IN FOUR YEARS.
MOTTICE HOPES TO RETURN TO SOUTH DAKOTA IN THE NEAR FUTURE TO HUNT AND FISH AND VISIT FRIENDS.PERHAPS IF HE MAKES HIS WAY DOWN TO THE BANKS OF THE '' MIGHTY '' MISSOURI RIVER, HE'LL FIND A NEW GENERATION OF FOOTBALL HOPEFULS RACING THROUGH THE SHALLOWS.
MAURICE, AND MARC
Throughout my Coaching career, I had 3 Teams, I thought were in the top in the Country in my Coaching career, that were Nationally ranked in the top 20, UPI, And AP.
The 1967 team was undefeated 8-0-1. We were ranked in the top 20 in the Country NCAA Division lll at the end of the 1967 season. We later went to NCAA Division ll. The 1968 season we lost two games by one touchdown each, in the last minutes of the game. Maurice played a key role, coming in as a starting Linebacker as a freshman and calling defensive signals. He was a GREAT Leader and one of the Greatest Linebackers to play at Ashand University. We should have been undefeated in 1968, because of other factors, it never happened. Ashland was ranked in the Nation in 1968 when, We went 8-2 in 1968.
Our 1972 team was undefeated 11-0 and was ranked in the top 10 in the Country, UPI, and AP, and Marc was the top ALL-AMERICAN on that team. 97% on his blocking. We knew we had to find a place for him as a freshman. Marc and Maurice were incredibly tough. And Marc used his incredible strength to his advantage. I never coached anyone with such discipline and l yield to Ron Blackledge. They were the toughest l have ever Coached. Maurice and Marc played key roles on those GREAT teams 1968, and 1972. It's ironic, that they didn't do it togethfer. Hope this helps.
Fred Martinelli
Head Football Coach
Ashland University 1959-1993
JULY 28TH 2018
This story you might appreciate, when I was in eighth grader back in 1974 I remember t hat we got to wear the old high school uniforms that the “ GREAT
JEFFERSON BLACKHAWKS “ state Champions played in when they were the undefeated teams in their GLORY YEARS, in the mid to late 1960s. This was back in the day when The BLACKHAWKS were state champions, anyway after the CLASS of ‘68 and ‘69, graduated from high school they had bought brand new jerseys that Russell Lafleur had purchased. David Roach wore number 15 after Bart Starr.( THAT YEAR ROACH HAD 1165 yds rushing 1200 PASSING WITH A CAREER TOTAL OF 47 TDS) When David Roach Graduated from H.S. With my brother Marc who later became a HALL OF FAMER at ASHLAND U. My brother Ray took over the quarterbacking Duties from Davy Roach and he wore his jersey,
old number 15 jersey and Ray became an ALL-STATE Linebacker for the JEFFERSON BLACKHAWKS!
When I was in eighth grader I got to suit up for the H.S. varsity and I saw that old worn out jersey number 15 that the infamous David Roach wore and my brother Ray wore it and David and Ray both were ALL-STATE football players. I HAD MY BROTHERS RAYS NEW SPIKES ON that he made ALL-STATE In.No body had the stats thatRoach had in the state. To me this jersey (No# 15) was like the HOLY GRAIL or the ARK OF THE COVENANT.Anyway when I saw that jersey it was all ripped up and Worn out.(NO ONE NEW THEE History and the IMPACT THAT THIS team made on me and my older brothers and Roach MADE ON ME as a little Boy now fading memories of years past of long ago.I had that jersey on ,old Number “15” Roach.It seemed no one knew the history,The “Onida game” the Legend etc.I asked the coach the next game if I could ware that jersey and he said, we have new ones and old jersey is all worn out. But I insisted and he let me ware that old worn out jersey number 15 my eighth grade and my freshman year in high school while everybody else had New Jersey’s and I knew that Davy Roach and My Brother Ray who was an ALL-STATE linebacker wore that jersey and was on that team who was the GREATEST FOOTBALL TEAM In state history. The undefeated JEFFERSON BLACKHAWKS .My Brother Ray and Davy Roach both Legends, while everyone else had new ones l
had Worn that jersey with honor and respect,to me that was like royalty. Everybody else had new jerseys but I wanted to wear that old worn out number 15 jersey that was all ripped up been worn out. Anyway, I guess a person had to be there to appreciate this story. This story needs to be told so that , somethings in life you remember when you young little and you never forget how MATT MOTTICE came from Ohio and brought FOOTBALL MAGIC to South Dakota and changed lives FOREVER.This is a Legacy and a Legend and a story that comes once in a life time . The GREAT JEFFERSON BLACKHAWKS storied as one of the GREATEST.
'' EACH ONE OF THE CREVIER BROTHERS, MAURICE, MARC, RAY JR. BERT, AND BRUCE WERE STRONG ENOUGH TO EARN 1ST TEAM ALL-STATE FOOTBALL HONORS AND ''ACE'' OF THE WEEK , THUS PERPETUATION THE STRONG CREVIER FOOTBALL TRADITION OF EXCELLENCE IN SOUTH DAKOTA HIGH SCHOOL ATHLETICS SPORTS HISTORY. THIS FOOTBALL LEGACY, THAT THE CREVIER LEFT, IS VERY IMPRESSIVE. THE FACT THAT 5 BROTHERS WOULD MAKE 1ST TEAM ALL-STATE FOOTBALL, IN THEIR STORIED HISTORY, LET ALONE BEING RECOGNIZED BY A NATIONAL FOOTBALL HALL OF FAME. I DOUBT THAT THIS FEAT HAS EVER BEEN, OR WILL EVER BE DUPLICATED NATIONALLY, OR IN SOUTH DAKOTA OR SPORTS HISTORY, ANYWHERE'' !
FRED MARTINELLI
HEAD FOOTBALL COACH 1959-1993
INDUCTED INTO 8 HALL OF FAME 28 JULY 2018
DEAR CREVIER BROTHERS, MAURICE, MARC, RAY, JR, BERT, AND BRUCE
THE NATIONAL FEDERATION OF HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL HALL OF FAME, REVIEWED THE STORIED LEGACY OF THE CREVIER FOOTBALL FAMILY TRADITION, AND I MUST SAY THIS IS ONE OF THE MOST INCREDIBLE FOOTBALL LEGACY'S' EVER TOLD.
THIS IS A FOOTBALL LEGACY, ONE FOR THE AGES. IN ALL THE YEARS OF THE NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL HALL OF FAME, I HAVE NEVER HEARD OF 5 BROTHERS MAKING 1ST TEAM ALL-STATE FROM ONE FAMILY. THIS IS A TRIBUTE TO YOUR PARENTS AND THE COACH BEHIND THIS FEAT.
WE WISH TO IMMORTALIZE YOUR JERSEYS AND YOUR NUMBERS AND RETIRE THEM HERE AT THE NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL HALL OF FAME. CONGRATULATIONS ON THIS INCREDIBLE FEAT A FAMILY FOOTBALL TRADITION AND LEGACY FOR THE AGES AND WILL GO DOWN IN THE ANNUALS OF SPORTS HISTORY AS ONE THE GREATEST FOOTBALL TRADITIONS EVER TOLD.
RETIREMENT OF JERSEYS AND NUMBERS,FOOTBALL LEGACY
ALL-STATE HALL OF FAME CREVIER BROTHERS'
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MAURICE CREVIER..#(46)..RB/LB/K..HALL OF FAME.. 2012
MARC CREVIER..#(47)..LB/RB..HALL OF FAME..2012
RAY CREVIER JR..#(15)..LB/QB/P/K..HALL OF FAME..2012
BERT CREVIER..#(44)..LB/FB/K/P..HALL OF FAME..2012
BRUCE CREVIER..#(17)..QB/K..HALL OF FAME..2012
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CONGRATULATIONS, CREVIER, BOTHERS,
MAURICE, MARC, RAY JR, BERT, BRUCE
THE, NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL HALL OF FAME
DEAR CREVIER BROTHERS, MAURICE, MARC, RAY, JR, BERT, AND BRUCE
THE NATIONAL FEDERATION OF HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL HALL OF FAME, REVIEWED THE STORIED LEGACY OF THE CREVIER FOOTBALL FAMILY TRADITION, AND I MUST SAY THIS IS ONE OF THE MOST INCREDIBLE FOOTBALL LEGACYS' EVER TOLD.
THIS IS A FOOTBALL LEGACY, ONE FOR THE AGES. IN ALL THE YEARS OF THE NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL HALL OF FAME, I HAVE NEVER HEARD OF 5 BROTHERS MAKING 1ST TEAM ALL-STATE FROM ONE FAMILY. THEN BEING INDUCTED INTO THE NFHS FOOTBALL HALL OF FAME. THIS IS A TRIBUTE TO YOUR PARENTS AND THE COACH BEHIND THIS FEAT.
WE WISH TO IMMORTALIZE YOUR JERSEYS AND YOUR NUMBERS AND RETIRE THEM HERE AT THE NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL HALL OF FAME. CONGRATULATIONS ON THIS INCREDIBLE FEAT A FAMILY FOOTBALL TRADITION AND LEGACY FOR THE AGES AND WILL GO DOWN IN THE ANNUALS OF SPORTS HISTORY AS ONE THE GREATEST FOOTBALL TRADITIONS EVER TOLD.
RETIREMENT OF JERSEYS AND NUMBERS,FOOTBALL LEGACY
ALL-STATE HALL OF FAME CREVIER BROTHERS'
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MAURICE CREVIER..#(46)....RB/LB/K..HALL OF FAME.. 2012
MARC CREVIER..#(47).....LB/RB..HALL OF FAME...........2012
RAY CREVIER JR..#(15)..LB/QB/P/K..HALL OF FAME......2012
BERT CREVIER..#(44).....LB/FB/K/P..HALL OF FAME.......2012
BRUCE CREVIER..#(17)..........QB/K..HALL OF FAME.......2012
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CONGRATULATIONS, CREVIER, BROTHERS,
MAURICE, MARC, RAY JR, BERT, BRUCE
THE, NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL HALL OF FAME
#(46) MAURICE CREVIER ..ALL-STATE RB/LB/K
1967
JEFFERSON HIGH SCHOOL
FOOTBALL HALL OF FAME 2012
RETIRED JERSEY AND NUMBER(#46) NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL HALL OF FAME JERSEY INTERMENT 2015
ASHLAND UNIVERSITY FOOTBALL HALL OF FAME ALL-AMERICAN
LINEBACKER
MAURICE CREVIER (CONSIDERED THE
''GREATEST'' LINEBACKER ASHLAND UNIVERSITY.--COACH FRED MARTINELLI
RETIRED COLLEGE JERSEY #(60)
2011
CREVIER BROTHERS SET NATIONAL RECORD. 5 BROTHERS 1ST TEAM ALL-STATE FOOTBALL, AND A NATIONAL FOOTBALL HALL OF FAME. BETWEEN MAURICE AND MARC CREVIER AS A 4 YEAR REGULAR THEY HAD 999 TACKLES TOGETHER,AND SCORED 80 TDS TOGETHER, AND RUSHED FOR OVER 5000 YARDS TOGETHER, IN 4 YEARS. (1964)-(1967)
MAURICE AND MARC CREVIER LEAD THE MOST POWER FOOTBALL TEAM IN SOUTH DAKOTA STATE HISTORY. THE (1967) JEFFERSON BLACKHAWKS, FOOTBALL TEAM SHUT THEIR OPPONENTS 75-3 POINTS LEAD BY THE CREVIER BROTHERS, WHO BOTH PLAYED LINEBACKERS, AND RUNNING BACKS. BOTH MAURICE AND MARC LEAD THE STATE IN TACKLES THEIR SR. YEAR RECEPTIVELY, MAURICE HAD 162 TACKLES IN 9 GAMES(1967) SEASON, MARC HAD 144 TACKLES IN 9 GAMES IN (1968) SEASON !
''WHEN MAURICE CREVIER WOULD HIT OPPONENTS, SO HARD SOME TIMES, HE WOULD SHATTER HELMETS'' '' MAURICE AND MARC CREVIER, WERE THE TOUGHEST FOOTBALL PLAYERS I'VE EVER COACHED''!
---------COACH MATT MOTTICE JEFFERSON
BLACKHAWKS FOOTBALL COACH (1964-1968
''SIOUX FALLS ARGUS LEADER 1967''
#(47) MARC CREVIER ALL-STATE LB/RB/HB PASSER
1968
JEFFERSON HIGH SCHOOL
FOOTBALL HALL OF FAME 2012
RETIRED JERSEY AND NUMBER (#47)
NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL HALL OF FAME JERSEY RETIREMENT 2015
ASHLAND UNIVERSITY FOOTBALL HALL OF FAME 2 TIME ALL-AMERICAN
GAURD
RETIRED COLLEGE JERSEY #(65) 2011
MARC CREVIER, ''GREATEST GUARD I EVER COACHED '' FRED MARTINELL!
CREVIER BROTHERS SET NATIONAL RECORD, 5 BROTHERS 1ST TEAM ALL-STATE FOOTBALL, AND A NATIONAL FOOTBALL HALL OF FAME, BETWEEN MARC AND MAURICE CREVIER, AS A 4 YEAR
'REGULAR THEY HAD 999 TACKLES RUSHED FOR OVER 5000 YARDS AND SCORED OVER 80 TOUCHDOWNS TOGETHER, IN 4 YEARS.(1965)-(1968)
MARC AND MAURICE CREVIER LEAD THE MOST POWERFULL FOOTBALL TEAM IN SOUTH DAKOTA STATE HISTORY. THE (1967) JEFFERSON BLACKHAWKS FOOTBALL TEAM, SHUT THEIR OPPONENTS
75-3 POINTS LEAD BY THE CREVIER BROTHERS, WHO BOTH PLAYED LINEBACKERS AND RUNNING BACKS. BOTH MARC AND MAURICE LEAD THE STATE IN TACKLES THEIR SR. YEAR RESPECTIVELY MARC, HAD 144 TACKLES IN 9 GAMES IN (1968), SEASON, AND MAURICE HAD 162 TACKLES IN 9 GAMES IN 1967) SEASON'''. ''WHEN MARC CREVIER WOULD HIT OPPONENTS, SOME TIMES HE WOULD SHATTER HELMETS'' .'' MARC, AND MAURICE CREVIER WERE THE TOUGHEST FOOTBALL PLAYERS IVE EVER COACHED '' !
------- COACH MATT MOTTICE JEFFERSON BLACKHAWKS FOOTBALL COACH (1964-1968)
'' SIOUX FALLS AGRUS LEADER 1967''
#(15) RAY CREVIER JR. ALL-STATE LB/QB/K/P
1971
JEFFERSON HIGH SCHOOL
FOOTBALL HALL OF FAME 2012
RETIRED JERSEY AND NUMBER (#15)
NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL HALL OF FAME JERSEY RETIREMENT 2015
CREVIER BROTHERS SET NATIONAL RECORD, 5 BROTHERS 1ST TEAM ALL-STATE FOOTBALL, AND A NATIONAL FOOTBALL HALL OF FAME. RAY CREVIER JR. LEAD THE STATE IN TACKLES 1971, 156 TACKLES IN 6 GAMES.
OUT STANDING LINE BACKER FOR THE UNITED STATES NAVAL ACADEMY ''ROVING LINEBACKER'' HARD HITTING COMPETITOR.
'' RAY CREVIER JR IS THE GREATEST HIGH SCHOOL LINE BACKER I HAVE EVER SEEN''.
-----JIM HOOD IRENE COACH
'' RAY CREVIER IS THE TOUGHEST AND THE BEST LINE BACKER IN THE TRI-VALLEY CONFERENCE THIS YEAR, HE COMES FROM A GREAT CREVIER FOOTBALL TRADITION FOLLOWING HIS TWO OLDER BROTHERS MAURICE AND MARC AS ALL-STATERS
FROM THE FAMED JEFFERSON BLACKHAWKS'''
---------JOHN SCHROEDER VIBORG COACH SIOUX FALLS ARGUS LEADER NOVEMBER 1971
#(44) BERT CREVIER ALL-STATE LB/FB/P/K
1977
JEFFERSON HIGH SCHOOL
FOOTBALL ALL OF FAME 2012 JERSEY AND RETIRED JERSEY AND NUMBER (#44)
NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL HALL OF FAME JERSEY RETIREMENT 2015
CREVIER BROTHERS SET NATIONAL RECORD. 5 BROTHERS 1ST TEAM ALL-STATE FOOTBALL, AND A NATIONAL FOOTBALL HALL OF FAME.BERT CREVIER LEAD THE STATE IN TACKLES 1977 172 TACKLES IN 8 GAMES STATE RECORD 1977
OUT STANDING LINEBACKER FOR DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY CALLING DEFENSIVE SIGNALS.
'' BERT CREVIER IS THE GREATEST HIGH SCHOOL LINE BACKER I HAVE EVER SEEN''
MARK NELSON 2 TIME STATE ''CHAMPS''
VIBORG COACH 1976-1977 STATE CHAMPS
(1976-8-0) (1977 8-0)
''BERT CREVIER IS THE TOUGHEST FOOTBALL PLAYER IN THE TRI-VALLEY CONFERENCE THIS YEAR, HE LEAD THE STATE IN TACKLES
172 TACKLES IN 8 GAMES '' INCREDIBLE. AS FOUR YEAR REGULAR IN HIGH SCHOOL, HE LEAD HIS TEAM IN TACKLES A FOUR YEARS! HE FOLLOWS HIS THREE OLDER BROTHERS,, WHO PLAYED COLLEGE FOOTBALL, THAT WERE ALL-STATERS BEFORE HIM. CREVIERS' OF JEFFERSON BLACKHAWKS, MAURICE, MARC, AND RAY JR,'' AN INCREDIBLE CREVIER FOOTBALL LEGACY'' !
-------- RON LOUNDSBERRY COACH CENTERVILLE SIOUX FALLS ARGUS LEADER
NOVEMBER 1977
#(17) BRUCE CREVIER ALL-STATE P/QB/K
1982
JEFFERSON HIGH SCHOOL
FOOTBALL HALL OF FAME 2012 JERSEY AND RETIRED JERSEY AND NUMBER (#17)
NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL HALL OF FAME JERSEY RETIREMENT 2015
CREVIER BROTHERS SET NATIONAL RECORD. 5 BROTHERS 1ST TEAM ALL-STATE FOOTBALL, AND A NATIONAL FOOTBALL HALL OF FAME. BRUCE CREVIER KICK A 45 YARD FEILD GOAL TO BEAT THE 1 TEAM IN SOUTH DAKOTA SET A STATE RECORD 1982.
OUT STANDING ,PUNTER KICKER BETHEL COLLEGE ST. PAUL MN.
'' BRUCE CREVIER IS ONE THE MOST INCREDIBLE ATHLETES IVE EVER SEEN. INCREDIBLE FOOTBALL AND BASKETBALL SKILLS THAT FOLLOWS A GREAT CREVIER FOOTBALL TRADITION. KICKED A 45 YARD FIELD GOAL STATE RECORD''
JOHN EGAN SIOUX FALLS ARGUS LEADER SPORTS EDITOR 1959-1989
CREVIER BOTHERS, MAURICE (ALL-STATE RB/LB/K 1967) , MARC, (ALL-STATE LB/RB, 1968) HALFBACK PASSER, BRUCE, (ALL- STATE, QB/ P/K 1982) RAY JR (ALL- STATE LB/QB/K/P 1971) BERT, ALL-STATE LB/FB/K/P, 1977. “ THE CREVIER. BROTHERS WERE PART. OF THE GREATEST FAMILY FOOTBALL TRADITION IN THE NATION, LET ALONE THE STATE OF SOUTH DAKOTA“.—-JIM BILLION. SIOUX FALLS ARGUS LEADER SEPTEMBER 1994. NATIONAL FOOTBALL HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL HALL OF FAME! THE CREVIERS’ HOLD THE NATIONAL RECORD FOR THE MOST 1ST TEAM ALL-STATE FOOTBALL PLAYERS IN ONE FAMILY IN THE NATION. FROM 1967-1982) AND BEING INDUCTED.
INTO A FOOTBALL HALL A FAME!
'' THE CREVIERS' ARE ONE OF THE GREATEST STORIED FAMILY FOOTBALL TRADITIONS AND HAVE BECOME A SPORTS LEGEND, THEY WILL GO DOWN IN THE ANNULS SOUTH DAKOTA SPORTS HISTORY AS ONE OF THE ALL TIME GREATEST SPORTS STORIES EVER TOLD IN STATE HISTORY ''
------JOHN EGAN SPORTS EDITOR SIOUX FALLS ARGUS LEADER (1959-1989)
DEAR CREVIER BROTHERS, MAURICE, MARC RAY JR, BERT AND BRUCE
15 SEPTEMBER 2015
THE NATIIONAL FEDERATION OF HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL HALL OF
FAME, HAS REVIEWED THE STORIED LEGACY OF THE CREVIER FOOT
BALL FAMILY TRADITION, AND I MUST SAY THIS IS ONE OF THE MOST
INCREDIBLE FOOTBALL LEGACY, SPORTS STORY EVER TOLD.
THIS IS A FOOTBALL LEGACY, ONE FOR THE AGES. IN ALL THE
YEARS OF THE NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL HALL OF
FAME, I HAVE NEVER HEARD OF A STORY LIKE THIS WHERE 5
BROTHERS MAKING 1ST TEAM ALL-STATE FROM ONE FAMILY,
AND THEN BEING INDUCTED INTO THE NFHS, FOOTBALL HALL OF FAME.
THIS IS A TRIBUTE TO YOUR PARENTS AND THE COACH BEHIND
THIS FEAT.
WE WISH TO IMMORTALIZE YOUR JERSEYS' AND YOUR NUMBERS
AND RETIRE THEM HERE AT THE NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL
HALL OF FAME. CONGRATULATIONS ON THIS INCREDIBLE FEAT, A
FAMILY FOOTBALL TRADITION AND LEGACY FOR THE AGES AND WILL
GO DOWN IN THE ANNULS OF SPORTS HISTORY AS ONE OF THE
GREATEST FAMILY FOOTBALL TRADITIONS EVER TOLD !
RETIREMENT OF CREVIER FOOTBALL JERSEYS' LEGACY
ALL-STATE HALL OF FAME CREVIER BROTHERS
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#(46) MAURICE CREVIER..LB/RB/K.. 1967 HALL OF FAME..2012
#(47) MARC CREVIER........RB/LB..... 1968 HALL OF FAME..2012
#(15) RAY CREVIER JR....LB/QB/P/K 1971 HALL OF FAME..2012
#(44) BERT CREVIER.......LB/FB/K/P 1977 HALL OF FAME..2012
#(17) BRUCE CREVIER....QB/P/K........1982 HALL OF FAME..2012 ***********************************************************************
CONGRATULATIONS CREVIER BROTHERS, MAURICE, MARC RAY JR. BERT AND BRUCE THE NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL HALL OF FAME
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