Bethel University - Spire Yearbook (St Paul, MN)

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Will things change? As long as you have a football team, you've got to have a desire to win. It’s useless to have a losing team. Something drastic has to happen-it’ll be either improvement or annihilation. Dave Asp Are you a violent person? No. If a guy hits me hard I respect him but I like to put a move on him and beat him. To me. if a Christian football player can hit a non-Christian player hard, that non-Christian will respect him a lot more. So many schools consider a Christian school a pushover. I'm not afraid of getting hit. This season wasdisappointing-l figured we'd do better, as most of the guys on the team did. I think it was mostly the offense's fault; we just couldn't move. I really don't know why we didn't have an even season. Mark Wood How do you feel about this year's win loss record? It would be difficult to find any amount of satisfaction in our record except that I was able to play. I play because I love the game and I want to win. Playing on a losing team does not affect my love for the game, but it is frustrating. For me, losing doesn't diminish the desire to win-it seems to increase it. It’s all the more frustrating when the team doesn’t win. Dave Bjork How are you looking toward the next season? I guess I feel like most of the others that went through last year's frustrating season. I stand between the confused pessimism of the past and hopeful optimism of the future. With the full knowledge of the failures of the-past. I’m playing next year in hopes for a winning season. David Horn

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One word describe's this year's football season better than any other-frustrating. After last year's season I really believed that this year would be the beginning of a winning tradition at Bethel. At football camp I could sense that the rest of the team was also expecting to be winners. Even though we lost our first game to Hamline, our hopes were even higher because we played a respectable game against them, which is something Bethel hasn’t done for at least 3 years. Ralph Gustafson

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1. Dan Horn. Fred Witzgall 2. Mark Howard 3. Chuck Jackson 4. Coach Reynolds and fallen soldier 5. Randy Brodin. Bill Catto 6. Ed Babcock. Dan Horn. Chuck Jackson. John Ericson To attempt to verbalize the things I experienced in football is a nearly impossible task. When one enters a season with a team that is so full of potential and has such n optimistic-outlook for a good season, then, during the season, finds itself crushed with defeat, a frustration which is beyond description results. In spite of this, I found my role here in football to be one of the most meaningful experiences in my life. Meaningful because of the personal victory I had achieved in doing something I had only dreamed of before and. just as important, meaningful in having the opportunity of meeting and playing with some of the most dedicated and finest kids on campus.To most people this may really sound stupid, but my only regret is that for me there is no next year. Tim Horn Our 1-8 record was a bitter disappointment. This was the first time I've ever played fora losing team. In losing, however, you can learn things aboot individuals that you will never see under other circumstances. Marshall Shelley