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Catamount Stadium Modified/Sportsman
Coupe feature event winners and champions, 1965-1985.
For the first two seasons,
Catamount’s headline “A” division was the Sportsman Coupes that also ran at Thunder Road. As technology advanced, the Coupes became obsolete and Thunder Road stopped running
the division after the 1965 season.
In 1967, Catamount combined
the remaining Sportsman Coupes with the NASCAR Modifieds, and both divisions competed at the same time in the same races. Although only one winner was named per race, separate point standings were kept. On June 4 of that season, Beaver Dragon made history by becoming the first Vermonter
to win a headline race at Catamount, and at the same time became the first Sportsman driver to beat the faster, more powerful
Modifieds.
Andre Manny of Quebec ran the first part of 1967 in the Sportsman half of the field, but switched to the Modifieds later in the year. After finishing 10th in Sportsman points and 5th in the Modifieds,
Manny’s overall point total was good enough to beat Modified champ Carl Berghman (aka Bugsy Stevens) for the overall
track title, his third straight.
The Sportsmen were cancelled
after 1967, and the Modifieds cut back to a four-race season in 1968. After 1968,
the Mods visited only for events that awarded national points or counted toward what is now the Whelen Modified Tour.
CATAMOUNT STADIUM SPORTSMAN COUPE CHAMPIONS, 1965-1967
1965 – ANDRE MANNY – MONTREAL, QC
1966 – ANDRE MANNY – MONTREAL, QC
1967 – HARMON “BEAVER” DRAGON – MILTON, VT
CATAMOUNT STADIUM MODIFIED CHAMPIONS, 1967-1968
1967 – CARL “BUGS” STEVENS – REHOBOTH, MA
1968 – CARL “BUGS” STEVENS – REHOBOTH, MA
ALL-TIME SPORTSMAN COUPE/MODIFIED FEATURE WINNERS, 1965-1985
Andre Manny – 10
Bugs Stevens – 7
Charlie Trombley – 7
Jerry Cook – 4
Marcel Goddard – 4
Rene Charland – 3
Don MacTavish – 3
Dick Nephew – 3
Bob Bruno – 2
Jean-Paul Cabana – 2
Fred DeSarro – 2
Ed Flemke – 2
Guy Chartrand – 1
Gaston Demarais – 1
Beaver Dragon – 1
Richie Evans – 1
John Rosati – 1
Jimmy Spencer – 1
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1965
Date
Winner Hometown
6/11 Jean-Paul Cabana Sherrington, QC
6/18 Andre Manny
Montreal, QC
6/25 Dick Nephew
Mooers Forks, NY
7/02 Andre Manny
Montreal, QC
7/16 Andre Manny
Montreal, QC
7/23 Charlie Trombley Plattsburgh, NY
7/30 Andre Manny
Montreal, QC
8/13 Gaston Demarais
8/27 Charlie Trombley Plattsburgh, NY
9/03 Andre Manny
Montreal, QC
9/06 Andre Manny
Montreal, QC
9/10 Charlie Trombley
Plattsburgh, NY
9/26 Jean-Paul Cabana Sherrington, QC
1967
Date
Winner Hometown
5/21 Guy Chartrand
5/28 Charlie Trombley Plattsburgh, NY
6/04 Beaver Dragon Milton,
VT
6/15 Dick Nephew Mooers
Forks, NY
6/29 Bugs Stevens Rehoboth,
MA
7/13 Dick Nephew Mooers
Forks, NY
7/20 Bob Bruno
7/27 Andre Manny
Montreal, QC
8/03 Marcel Goddard
8/10 Bugs Stevens Rehoboth,
MA
8/17 Bugs Stevens Rehoboth,
MA
8/24 Don MacTavish Dover, MA
8/31 Don MacTavish Dover, MA
10/01 Ed Flemke
1969-1985
Date
Winner Hometown
7/24/69 Bugs Stevens Rehoboth, MA
10/04/70 Richie
Evans Rome, NY
10/03/71 Fred
DeSarro
10/01/72 Fred
DeSarro
9/30/73 Jerry Cook Rome, NY
9/23/78 John Rosati Agawam, MA
9/16/79 Jerry Cook Rome, NY
9/25/85 Jimmy Spencer Berwick, PA
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1966
Date
Winner Hometown
5/01 Andre Manny Montreal, QC
5/15 Marcel Goddard
5/22 Charlie Trombley Plattsburgh, NY
5/29 Charlie Trombley Plattsburgh, NY
6/05 Marcel Goddard
6/16 Andre Manny Montreal, QC
6/23 Rene Charland Agawam, MA
6/30 Rene Charland Agawam, MA
7/03 Bob Bruno
7/14 Ed Flemke
7/21 Jerry Cook
Rome, NY
8/04 Rene Charland Agawam, MA
8/11 Charlie Trombley Plattsburgh, NY
8/18 Andre Manny
Montreal, QC
8/25 Marcel Goddard
9/01 Jerry Cook Rome, NY
9/25 Don MacTavish Dover, MA
1968
Date
Winner Hometown
5/26 Ed Flemke
7/11 Bugs Stevens
Rehoboth, MA
7/25 Bugs Stevens
Rehoboth, MA
8/22 Bugs Stevens
Rehoboth, MA
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