Spring Woods High School - Safari Yearbook (Houston, TX)

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all sub-varsiTy Teams as well as he team that Ben built ln I976 Head Coach Ben Blomer came To Spring Woods ready To work and develop a winning TradiTion. The aTTiTude perTaining To Tiger TooTball was one oT accepTing deTeaT and waiTing Tor The Time when The Tigers would become winners once again. However, Tour years laTer, The '79-'80 varsiTy Team shed Their old aTTiTude and donned a new one oT a compeTiTive, winning, uniTied group. One reason Tor The change is ThaT This varsiTy was The TirsT To have experienced a compleTe Tour AlerT and looking Tor an open receiver, senior quarTerback Johhny Comeaux lI0l drops back To pass in an aTTempT To gain a TirsT down. years under Bloomer's program. When iT comes To aTTiTude and moTivaTion. Coach Bloomer is greaT, senior Tullback Ted SundquisT said. So, a new ouTlook has developed. Now we are much more compeTiTive because There is a Teeling oT iT you work hard you are going To win. The records have Turned complefely around. lnsTead oT possessing a 3-6-I season as in years pasT. The Woodsmen came up wiTh a 6-3-I season Tor The second year in a row. Foreign a Tew years back buT now revoluTionized is a conTidenT sTaTe oT mind among The players. The Tigers compiled The besT overall disTricT record including f --' 4 i ? 'llw ...qywwfpfmaav varsiTy, Bloomer said. ln TacT, going inTo The ninTh week ouT oT Ten weeks oT TooTball, every Team s+iII had a chance aT disTricT TiTles. AlThough The VarsiTy did noT obTain The disTricT crown They did manage a vicTorious season The school was proud oT, ln The season opener Woods slipped pasT SouTh l'lousTon 20- I4. The Troians scored TirsT buT The Tiger oTTense drove 50 yards To even up The score. ln The second halT, senior quarTerback Johnny Comeaux compleTed six OT nine passes Tor 85 yards as senior TighT end ScoTT STonesTreeT, senior spliT end Mike ReiTher, and Comeaux each scored To sew up The TirsT Tiger vicTory. The Tigers nexT opponenT was The Jersey Village Falcons. Woods Traveled To Jersey Village ready To play and came away wiTh Their second vicTory 20- l 2, while SundguisT rushed Tor I I4 yards. The Tollowing week The Team Tound Themselves aboard Kerrville buses wiTh The desTinaTion oT l.uTkin, Texas. There The Tigers suTTered Their TirsT deTeaT 27-O. IT was really a diTTerenT experience. senior nose guard Daryl Warren said. GeTTing ready To Travel sorT OT Took your mind oTT The game, SundquisT said, You are playing The whole ciTy when you play l.uTkin and ThaT is really weird. Finishing The non-disTricT schedule wifh Two wins and one loss, disTricT play was Tinally beginning and Woods now Taced The WesTchesTer WildcaTs. However, The only poinTs puT on The board were Two TirsT halT Tield goals. The Tigers ThreaTened during The second halT oT acTion reaching WesTchesTer's I9 yard line buT could noT geT The ball in The end zone: Thus, Tying 3-3. We played good TooTball,.buT WesTchesTer was iusT Tough and wanTed iT as bad as we did, ReiTher said. BeTore a crowd oT 7,500, The Tigers shuT ouT STraTTord 9-O. The deTensive uniT led by seniors Billy Jenkins, Mark Brewer, Mark WoodruTT, Tom ArThur, Roger Clemens, and iunior Chris Duliban s'Topped The SparTans on Three On a downfielcl block seT up by sen- ior Joe FriTTs l26l. senior ScoTT STO- nesTreeT l86l is able To gain exTra yardage aTTer his pass compleTion. Va rsiTy FooTball

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Varsi+y I6 wins, 3 losses. I Iiel SWH5 Opponenh South Housfon 20 I4 Jersey Village 20 I2 Lufliin O 27 Wesfchesfer 3 3 Sfralford 9 0 Elsilr 26 O Memorial I4 IB Hasfings I4 I3 Spring Branch I7 I6 Norfhbroolr 7 I4 Bofh fee? off 'rhe ground, senior Mark Woodruff IYOI chases affer 'rhe Norlhbroolc quarferbaclr Io pre- venl a Raider Third down conver- sion. Arms raised over head. Ihe official signals a fouchdown as senior full- back Ted Sundquisf I33I rolls over The Spring Branch Iine To score his second fouchdown of Ihe game, W ii XX ' I xil ' ' L' 'Yi 1' 'L J Q8 Vzarsifv Foofball

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- e 1.5 1 S Caughi behind 'the line of scrim- mage senior Roger Clemens 1661 nabs ihe Raider back for a loss. On an impressive pun? refurn junior iinebacker Chris Duliban U51 dash- ing across fhe 35 yard line makes his way foward ihe Raider end Zone. Close behind a Wildcaf receiver, senior safeiy Mark Brewer 1321 advances fo make The fackle during fhe Tiger's only he game of The sea- son againsf Wesfchesfer 3-3. N Inches from hiHing The furi, senior right end Scoff Sionesfreef 1881 is broughi down affer nabbing a pass from Comeaux for a I7 yard gain. 1 . .arg .f .mme .ygg QQKUHA ,.,,... . , i rsih, Focibaii