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

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I 'IEW we ur S ' x rf, .1 Gold Team I5 wnns. 5 lossesl SWHS Oppononfs I4 Smiley 7 Soufh Housfon 22 I4 Clear Creek 0 I2 Wesfchesier 0 6 Stratford 6 O Elsnl: I4 6 Memorial I9 O Hashnqs I7 I6 Sprung Branch O I4 Northbrook O 35 In an all our effort fo sfop Ihe ball Carrier freshman Rodney Wheel- wriqhl I4Ol grabs Ihe waisf of his opponenf and brnnqs him down, Ball up under his arrn freshman Ben Wagner 4IOl susfawns a face mask Irom an eager Memorial defensive lmeman, IHA nmnm.. cmnrsun

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I -.. ophs outshlne 'em all To climax an explosive season The sophomore Tigers ended Their Tour monThs oT play wiTh a record oT 8-2. This proved To be The besT Tinish ouT oT all Tive oT The Tiger Teams and earned The Team The disTricT championship. The sophomores won Two OT Their Three pre-disTricT conTesTs. ATTer losing The TirsT game To a Tough LaPorTe Team, The Woodsmen came back sTomping SouTh HousTon 34- O. The Tiger deTense led by Bill Gardner, John Yard. and Bobby Nichols held The Trojans To only 27 ToTal yards. The Tiger oTTense however, rolled up 305 yards rushing. Winning Their second sTraighT game The sophomores edged a powerTul Clear Creek Team I4-O. The TirsT Three games oT disTricT wenT by quickly wiTh . . H yww- sq. F V , 'S' 3' The sophomore Team passing up WesTchesTer 26-I4, slipping pasT STraTTord I3- I2, and losing To Elsik O-7. ATTer ThaT game we vowed we were going To win The resT oT Them, Peska said, and win Them They did. Memorial became Their TirsT vicTim in whaT Coach KurT Poole reTerred To as a good, sound Tinish oT a greaT season. AT Grob STadium The sophomores goT cranked up The second halT and came Trom behind To sneak by The l-lasTings Team I7-I4, Miller said. The Tigers goT on The scoreboard by way oT a sixTy yard bomb Trom Mike Koehn To Todd Howey, buT T-lasTings came back and led aT The halT I4-6. DeTermined To do The iob in The second halT, The disTricT champs proved whaT They were made oT when Chris Dodd scored on a Ten yard run and Bryan Peska made a Two poinT conversion. Then on a key play, Bill Bloomer recovered a l'lasTings Tumble. The Tigers uTilized Their break and aTTer driving To The Bear 22 yard line, Dodd kicked a Tield goal To win The game. To TurTher secure The disTricT championship, The noT To be denied Tigers came Trom behind in The lasT quarTer To beaT The Spring Branch Bears I4-I3. lneviTably The Woodsmen Taced The lasT game oT The season and Their chance To capTure The disTricT crown. The Team clinched The disTricT TiTle on Nov, I5 wiTh an impressive 28- I 2 vicTory over The NorThbrook Raiders. Sophomore FooTball IOS

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win SGCISOHS The novice Tigers exhibiTed a desire To begin Their high school TooTball careers and display winning spiriTs while collaboraTing Tor Two idenTical records OT 5-5. BoTh The Black and Gold Teams, previously reTerred To as The A and B Teams, noT only Tound new names buT also received new coaches in Jim McNeil and Neal Miller. The Teams' and coaches' TirsT vicTories came againsT The SouTh l'lousTon Trojans. The Black winning 8-O and The usnnnusssn Gold 22- l4. Freshmen Marc SmiTh, Andy Dacovich, RoberT SundquisT, BerT Ward, Glenn l-lamleTT, Ronny Vickery, Kenny Savino and Ben Wagner Hall had excepTionally good games, McNiel said. auf., Q , . VicTories rose To a peak aTTer a sluggish sTarT Tor The Gold Team, alThough They were iusT abouT unbeaTable, SmiTh said during mid-season. STraTTord, Elsik, Memorial and l-TasTings all Tell vicTim To The Gold as They rallied Tor 46 poinTs as compared To Their opponenTs IZ, The Black squad developed a paTTer in Their play by winning one Then Two in a row and repeaTing iT again. WesTchesTer, STraTTord, Memorial and NorThbrook each came up shorT due To The Tigers' excellenT play and qualiTy aTTiTucle, Miller said. ParT oT This is aTTribuTed To each players previous experience wiTh The game, however, These kids came in and began To Teel The pressure oT The selecTion process and The ones we have leTT have really grown and Taken on responsibiliTy, Mchliel said. ln an aTTempT To scrimmage one more Team before The regular sea- son commences Treshman RoberT SundquisT runs wiTh The ball againsT a sTern Cy-Fair ball club. Defensively freshmen Derek Larson l3Ol and Larry Coker l63l prevenT This WesTchesTer running back Trom gaining The needed TirsT down. Black Team I5 wins, 5 lossesl SWHS Opponenfs Smiley O 35 Soufh Houston 8 O Clear Creek 0 24 Wesfchesier I4 6 STraTTord b O Elsik 6 T2 Memorial I4 6 Hasfings 24 30 Spring Branch 6 8 Norfhbrook I4 B Freshman l:ooTball IO7