Nimitz High School - Valhalla Yearbook (Irving, TX)

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Freshman football players head back to the huddle after a momen- tary break in the action. Front row: Bobby Iacobs, Kevin Caldwell, Toby Smith, Danny Bennett, Charles Cuynes, Mike Wolfe, Scott Wells. Second row: Iohn King, Brian Cook, Brian Oli- ver, Kent Weddle, David Sarandis, Rickey Riddle, Pete Castillo. Third row: Iammie Crouch, Rich Ryman, Richie Wagner, Tony McFaddin, Andy Burton, Terry Self, Antho- ney Patrick. Fourth row: Todd Winn, Les Pickett, Pat Manor, Mark Sutton, Leo Lozano, Scott Rose, Doug Solomon. Top row: Mike Snowden, Iim Mathis, Benny Hedgecoke. Not pictured are Ryan Woodall, Ieff Cline, Bobby G ron, Shawn Begley, Iohn Del Albert Ybarra, Donnie Baker, Crabb, Iohn Mason, Keith liams, Mark Martinez, D Brady, Tyrone Lemoine, C Davis, Pete Martinez, Vic Ma Mike Iones, Coach Fred How: '6Line is instrumental... . ewel The running backs play well when the line does, observed David Newell. But what if the line hadn't been there? What if someone had missed a block? That hole wouldn't have been there, reasoned Newell. Then the running back probably couldn't have gone anywhere. The line is instrumental to the team. Without them, it's 'stomp city', he asserted. The seniors were probably the most disappointed with the out- come of the season. The seniors. as did everyone else, said they all had looked forward to the season. I think the coaching change let us down mentally, Keith Meeks surmised. But it takes just as much a man to be a loser as a win- ner. After a loss, commented Ron- nie Kemp, it's hard to come back the next week. You don't have anything to shoot for but one win. It's not exactly like a winning season, Iimmy Howard said. A losing record is going to be the same but you're going to be o mentally, and when you're d it's hard to rebuild, he poi out. With 27 team members, t seemed to be a feeling of u They took each loss as a ti they took the obstacles the se threw at them as a team, and took it one game at a time. On the junior varsity level IV squad celebrated a city cl pionship on a 5-5 record, witl victories over Arlington and ing, in which the Vikes were SPORTS

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it row: Iackie Frederick, Scott ?land, Max Cunningham, Greg ez, Barry Maternowski, Ray ns, Iohn Roger, Dewey Vau- Li, Iaun Vasquez. Second row: .ance Sandford, Robert iey, Robert Cooper, Benny Franco, Mark Furgeson, Derek Davis, Bill Hillebrenner, Greg Smith. Third row: Mike Elston, Bill Clark, Ioey Arias, Tony McGee, David Vernon, Bobby Harvey, Barry Carter. Not pic- tured are Scotty Iohnson, Danny Archie, Bruce DeGrato, Mike Fritz, Steve King, Steve Briggs, Iohn Toney, Bill Yakel, Chris Thomas, Robbie Ward, Kenneth Kelly, Steve Cothran, Kevin Duke, Sammy Lopez. ,, n Q.. .1 fa, ,,,, Q - Resignations start long season You can teach a player every- ig, but you can't give him game erience, observed coach King. arlier in the year, a week are the grid campaign began, three top coaches resigned. chool superintendent Dr. Iohn vnley, athletic coordinator Ice Fox and principal Roy Curry nointed Don King as interim d coach. ing had retired from coaching the spring of 1979, but had ,ying that he makes it through ast squats, Iohn Reger puts all has into it. agreed to take over the ninth grade team when he learned the ninth grade coach had resigned. It was but a short time later he was offered the head coaching spot. It was the greatest thing that every happened to me, and I am honored to share the year with this great group of boys, King reflected. Our boys should be com- mended for they came from boys to men in a few short months King stated. He added that, The coach- ing staff was very professional. There was also a coaching change on the junior varsity and freshman squads. Ioe Bell was in charge of the ninth grade squad, moved to varsity, then to the posi- tion of junior varsity coach. One of the bright spots of the season was the Viking running game. But while the names of Kevin Trigg, Ronnie Kemp and David Peiser rang in our minds, it should be remembered that there would be no backfield heroes without the offensive line, the unsung heroes. You got to give credit to me, Waylon Hargrove and the offen- sive line, commented McDaniels. We fthe offensive linel don't get credit for anything, and many of us are two-way starters and play- ing on the specialty teams. Most people say, 'look at the running backs', McDaniels added, but they couldn't do anything without us. SPORTS

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