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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he team that Ben built differenT occasions. I Think ThaT was our besT game, Duliban said. The offense and defense bofh did good iobs even Though The score did noT show how good we did. Bloomer added, This marked The sTarT of The guys really beaTing somebody and seeing ThaT They were accomplishing and developing sTrong poTenTiaI. Increasing Their record To 4- I AI The Tigers chalked up a 26-O vicTory over The Elsik Rams. All scoring came in The firsT half when iunior Tailback Mike Church picked up I I I yards in I I carries and SundquisT ran for 94 yards on I4 carries. Then, in a hearfbreaker. Memorial squeaked byjhe Woodsmen I8-I4. The Tiger defense held The MusTangs Tour Times in The firsT half and led I4-6 aT haIfTime. Even Though we IosT, ThaT was The besT Too+baII game we played, Bloomer said. Memorial beaT us on Two big plays in The second half, and iT really was disappoinTing To our Team, Brewer said. Touchdowns were made by Comeaux and SundquisT for The Tigers. PuTTing TogeTher T7 firsT downs and 262 yards rushing The Tigers found vicTory once again creeping by HasTings I4-I 3. We were comparable To HasTingsbuT were physically much Tougher, Bloomer said. And ThaT is how we won The game, simply by runningjhe ball clown Their ThroaTs. ArThur insured The win by defIecTing a Bear pass wiTh I :46 IefT in The conTesT. Once again The Woodsmen baTTled The Bears, This Time, however, They were aTTired in blue and whiTe and came from Spring Branch. The Tigers were deTermined To make Things happen and beaT The Bears. In one of The mosT exciTing games of The season. STonesTreeT booTed a 27 yard field goal wiTh I I seconds lefT on The clock To edge Spring Branch I6- I 7. This game climaxed The whole season, Bloomer said. The defense conTrolled The Bears' running game, while The offense moved The ball very consisTenTly, SundquisT said. Su'ndquisT, who I I -seT up The winning field goal on a 30 yard pass, had Two Touchdowns and gained 77 yards rushing. We are big rivals wiTh Them and everybody iusT wanTed To beaT Them and we did, Warren said. WiTh nine games down and one To go, The Tigers faced The neighborhood rival, The NorThbrook Raiders. Nofhing seemed To work for The soggy Woodsmen on The weT, cold Homecoming eve as The Tigers were defeafed I4-7. AfTer beaTing Spring Branch, everyone knew if we had beaTen Memorial we would have won disTricT. So, insTead of looking forward To NorThbrook, we looked back To The Memorial game, SundquisT said. IT was really Tough because everybody was disappoinTed over The Memorial game all over again, and iT was harder To play as a Team, Duliban said. Escorl blocking provided by senior Brad Bloomer I76I aids senior Sfeve La Bree II6I in capfuring a seven yard run. VarsiTy FooTbaII I