Crescenta Valley High School - Yearbook (La Crescenta, CA)

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68' - MORE A THAN SIMPL-A A he Varsity football season had a dis- appointing start, to say the least. Go- ing into the season, the team had hopes of making the playoffs. There was even talk of a league championship. The team's unrevealed and unchallenged poten- tial and the fact that the league had leveled off in terms of ability among the schools in the league were favorable settings for a suc- cessful season. 'iBut, things didn't go as planned, explained senior Scott Akerley. The team had to rebound from a winless pre-league campaign which included games they should have won against La Canada in the season opener and against Burbank two weeks later. However, with the second half of the sea- son came new hope. We realized we hadn't reached our full potential and we came out to show what we were capable of, said senior Steve Lightbourne after playing Glendale. The team put the Glen- Glendale Nitros to rest in the last few minutes of the game by a score of 29-22. The year ended up with a Homecoming win against Arcadia. This was the first varsity football team to beat Arcadia in the history of the ballgame. Giant holes were created at the line of scrimmage by crunching trap and sweep blocks by Second Team All-League lineman Leon Panduro, John Shea, Ned Russell, Scott o blockers, go! Running upfield, sophomore Aaron Erickson directs senior Scott Akerley to take a defender out of his way. This and many other plays were practiced almost endlessly during two hot summer weeks known as hell week. Varsity Football . Akerly, Bruce Holler, and Darren Haines. Running backs Erik Anderson, Victor Ramirez, John Whitlock, and David Bartl found those gaps and ran to daylight. And they lit up the scoreboard with thirty points in the process while the defense shut Arcadia down, allowing only six points. The team was then met with the surprise of their lives. They had earned a berth in the CIF Southern Section Payoffs against Ventura, the second-ranked team in the conference. Despite the odds, we went into the game with a blood-thirsty attitude to kick butt! said John Shea, an enthusiastic defensive end. And they played the game of their lives - hitting harder than ever before and holding Ventura scoreless through three quarters while taking the lead with a field goal by sophomore kicker Damon Martin. But the outcome of the game was not one of victory for the Falcons as they were simply outplayed in the final quarter by a better team. First-year senior linebacker Rick Kimbell surmised, 'lWe really had a terrible pre- league season and we lost some of the games we should have won. But we didn't pack our bags until the season was over and we made up for it all in the end. by Elizabeth Ahten plish, Splosh. Carrying the ball in a quagmire of mud at Moyse Field, junior John Whitlock looks for someone on the Pasadena team to hit. The mud on the field was more than six inches deep in some places due to a fall rain storm the previous day. 1., VARSITY vs. La Canada vs. Saugus vs. Burbank vs. South Pasadena vs. Burroughs vs. Glendale vs. Muir vs. Hoover vs. Pasadena vs. Arcadia CIF Payoffs vs. Ventura 1 O- 1 4 14-34 1 1-13 24-33 1 4-4 1 29-22 O-34 14-3 1 6-21 30-6 3-14 Overall Record: 5 wins, 6 losses FOOTBALL

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70 BL OOD reshmen and sophomores combining to form a SophfFrosh football team - what an idea! This was the first year CV put all the ninth and tenth graders together in order to form the Falcon SophomorefFreshman football team. In addition to being a young football team, the Falcons were led into the season under the strong and youthful leadership of Head Coach John Nelson. Coach Nelson was joined by the equally young coaching staff of Kim Hamilton, Bruce Hubbard, and Dave Traechler. However, even as young and green a team as they were, these Falcons played a tough, physical brand of game. Because of their inexperience, they sometimes lost the close games, but they made sure their opponents remembered that they had played the Falcons, said Coach Nelson. Chad Hobbs hooked up with Ryan Kadletz and Monty Stroup most of the year to make a potent air game, opening up the forceful ground attack of running backs Jason Schwaiger, Edgar Lopez, Colby Bogust, and John Lee. Defensive end Brad Haines and defensive linemen John Sunderland and Marty Taix anchored the line as linebacker Clark Dunn and defensive backs Luis Velasquez and Javier Pimentel took care of the rest of the field, as related by sophomore Clark Dunn. Javier Pimentel received the Quarterback Club Sophomore MVP Award. However, the awards were secondary to the enjoyment of being a Falcon football player. As Javier said, I loved hitting people hard and that made football real fun. A few of the sophomores took the chance to join the Varsity team in practice during the first week of the CIF payoffs. This experience, coupled with the excitement of the football season, prepared the Falcon sophomores and freshmen for the future in the schooI's football program. by Bruce Holler SophfFrosh Football ou aren't getting past me! Never one Y to shy away from a good tackle, Sopho- more M VP Ja vier Pimentel brings another unsuspecting Burbank ball-runner to his knees. SOPHXFROSH vs. La Canada 10-15 vs. Saugus 6-28 vs. Burbank 6-7 vs. South Pasadena 7-O vs. Burroughs 12-15 vs. Glendale 7-21 vs. Muir 0-48 vs. Hoover 20-23 vs. Pasadena O-19 vs. Arcadia 12-21 Overall Record: 1 Win, 9 Losses FOOTBALL BETWEEN THE LINES WHIPPING UP A STORM The importance of excitement in sports was unquestionable. Excite- ment was what drew people to the sporting events. Some people believed that the cheerleaders had a dramatic effect on the team players. But Tim Byers said, I don't even hear the cheerleaders during the gamef, What the players did hear, however, was the crowd. And when the games started to go flat, so did the crowd. The only people left to save the situation from a certain demise were the cheerleaders. And as they did their cheers the crowd quickly came back to life and worked to transmit their excitement to the team. So, while the cheer- leaders could not determine the out- come of the game, they could make the situation favorable for the team by instilling a feeling of confidence that the team would rise to the occasion and be victorious. I Getting hyped, I Sadie I LeCheminant and Genevieve Doyle ignite.