Oak­wood-Manges Foot­ball Tra­di­tion Re­sumes

MISHAWAKA—For the first time since 2019, the Oak­wood-Manges foot­ball game was played. The game has been played for many years on Bethel’s cam­pus and is the cam­pus’s only Amer­i­can foot­ball game that is tra­di­tion­ally played on cam­pus every year.

“The game has been played for many years, dat­ing back to when Manges was first built,” Manges Res­i­den­tial Di­rec­tor Johnny Ben­nett said. “Sailor Hall was built in 1999, and the game has been go­ing on for a while now.”

In re­cent mem­ory, the game has been dom­i­nated by Oak­wood. The hall has won the game five of the last seven times, but Manges dom­i­nated the game early on win­ning seven in a row. De­spite dom­i­nat­ing as of late, Manges came out vic­to­ri­ous the last time the game was played in 2019. Prior to that game, the last time Manges won was in 2013. This year, the game was played on Sun­day, Oct. 24, a day that was cold and rainy. Oak­wood won the game with a dom­i­nant first half, scor­ing two touch­downs. The fi­nal score of the game was 12-0.