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Supper Club, Courage Bowl and Old Shoes

By Gordie Jones
Special to ESPNRISE.com

Monday, September 29, 2008

The sign on the press box of the Silver Bowl, where Mount Carmel (Pa.) plays its home football games, this week will read "770." As in 770 victories, and counting. No other Pennsylvania school has won more often than this one, which is located in an old coal town some 90 miles northwest of Philadelphia and some 50 miles southwest of Wilkes-Barre. And while Mount Carmel has been losing residents for years -- the borough's population of 6,390 (as of the 2000 census) was roughly one-third what it ...

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