Touchet’s 1978 home playoff tilt a slip of the mind

Jim Buchan
Walla Walla Union-Bulletin


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TOUCHET ­— If you stay in this newspaper business long enough, one truth is abundantly clear. The readers always write. Or, in the case of the folks who live in and around Touchet, they take you by the arm, look you squarely in the eye and explain your transgression in simple, easy-to-understand English. I relearned that lesson here last Saturday as I walked the sidelines at the Touchet-Cusick prep football playoff game, keeping statistics and carefully performing my duties as a Union-Bulletin sports reporter. Vernon “Sonny” Elsasser, the Touchet High band director, was the first to approach me. He informed me that a retraction was in order regarding a story by me earlier in the week in which I reported that Saturday’s game would be the first playoff game ever contested on the Touchet gridiron. “We played Inchelium in a playoff game right here in 1978,” Sonny insisted. “I know because I played in it. And you covered it.”
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