Augsburg College - Augsburgian Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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 We had a season of peaks and valleys. Unfortunately the peaks were molehills and the valleys were canyons. Rick Busch

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Football 28 For many the football season was a very frustrating experience and at times I had a hard time accepting the defeats that came our way. But it was also a very satisfying sea- son because it helped me put winning in its proper perspective. This saying has real meaning for me and I would like to share it: To win the game is great; to love the game is greater; but to play the game is the greatest of all. Only if we could all realize what the game really means to us. So many times we forget about play- ing and worry about who is going to win. If we all could have played the game to our Godgiven best last season maybe there wouldn't have been any downfall. That's my prayer for next season — that ev- eryone strives to become the best they are capable of becoming. Then we will all be winners. Steve Swanson I feel the football team got off to quite a bad start and just couldn't seem to pick up. There was a lot of fine talent on our team but for some reason we just couldn't get it together. Maybe they just didn't care or maybe they tried too hard. Hopefully they learned from all their mistakes and will bring us a promising football season this coming fall. J.B. I guess tnat if you were to ask me to sum up last season in one word, it would be, disappointed. I feel that we had a much better ream than our record indicated. We had the misfortune of losing both of our quarterbacks to injury in the first conference game of the season. This seemed to break our spirit and caused us to show only flashes of our true abilities. I am looking forward to next year and I am optimistic that the team will be much improved and that we will have a winning season. Dean Rudolph

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Women's Volleyball Pulls Through Again With A Second In State Tournament T It's said every year, but I wish more people would come and support our volleyball team — they just keep on winning, and it's such an exciting sport to watch. I think the women have really proven themselves as well- trained, disciplined, talented ath- letes — it's obvious when you watch them play. They're profes- sional all the way. The next thing in line is male cheerleaders for the volleyball matches, don't you think? I never really appreciated the volleyball team until I dropped in on one of their practices. Those women really work? I never thought volleyball was that serious a sport. IT IS. (a volleyball player) 30