Bishop David High School - Crosier Yearbook (Louisville, KY)

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Falcons suffer upset in District final during the season and went on to give them a 17-0 thrashing and accumulate a 3-0 District record TRINITY — Eleven and a half thousand people arrived at the Fairgrounds Stadium for the Battle of the Unbeatens No. 2- ranked. Trinity, put their win streak on the line against the No 1 -ranked Falcons. Being a non-district game, there was little actual consequence other than a lot of pride at stake A costly turnover and an untimely penalty put the Shamrocks on the scoreboard first and gave them a 7-0 half- time lead. Trinity ' s defense frustrated the BD offensive strategy, which could never get rolling before being hampered by one of three turnovers or penalties which accounted for over 120 yards By the game ' s end the Falcons ' luck had not changed and Trinity had outscored the state ' s No 1 team. 17-0 There could be no looking back on the hurt of the moment because chances of a district title and hopes of a rematch were in the near future for the Sons of David 42 FOOTBALL ABOVE RIGHT Perry Williams bangs the drum slowly ■• the crowd of Falcon follower! reflecl hopefulneti for ■ break but their team came up on the short end of a 17 (core againat Trinity The eigne are a result of a aheethanging conteat soon eored by the Pep Club ABOVE Finding a rough way to go thia Shamrock ball carrier draws a group of Falcone Gary Ryan Randy Mmgus (B0I Don fvlmgus and Tom Straub aa they help him to the ground RIGHT Gradually running out of room Tom Spencer looks for some piece to go as Trinity wins it 17

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LEFT Fullback, Jeff Thompson, picks up ground against Central, possibly BD s best game of the season as the Falcons pleased its homecoming crowd with a 35-0 romp of the highly-regarded Yellowiackets BELOW Good defensive plays, such as this one. led the Fal- cons in becoming the first team to shut out Manual this sea son Denis Geraghty (25). Dennis Mount (47). and Tom Straub (321 converge on Crimson ball carrier. Steve Smith (VARSITY FOOTBALL TEAM — FRONT ROW Tony |Nall. Tim Moreschi Tim Huber. Greg Kellems Kevin (Alexander Dave Minton Mark Gillespie Barry Bred jhold. Mike Hicks. David Geraghty. John Rosado Steve Poynter SECOND ROW Dave Schoenbaechler Rick Albers. Tony Steuer Dave Burks Randy Mingus 8ob Bean. Tom Straub Chris Corder Pat Kilkelly Mike Harreld Tim Weihe. Bob Haffermann. Jeff Thompson Dave Lally Tom Spencer Mark Faulkner Dave Breitmeyer THIRD ROW Gerald Heuke Gary Weihe. Jim Milliner Keith Scanlon Brad Nord. Joe Zeller. Steve Ernst. Ken Baur. John Murray. Joel Milliner Denis Geraghty Mike Ryan Kevin McGrath. Greg Alvey Rob Warren Rick Ramirez FOURTH ROW Dave Smith Jeff Campbell Gary Ryan Ken Lieber Norm Neuner Jerry Meyer Jeff Gallon Jeff Chamberlain. Joe Milliner BACK ROW Coaches Ken King. Dan Clemons Robert Bronger. Tom Martin Karl Schmm Denny Nash Tom McAnally Bob Casey 41 FOOTBALL

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ST. X — The championship game of the city ' s Second District was at stake and the contestants were Catholic archnvals BD and St X The Falcons could do little right in the first half and a primed Tiger team jumped out to a 14-0 lead behind their all-state quarterback, Rick Buehner But the spirit, characteristic of the Falcon footballers all year long, was still undying and they fought back to a 14-7 deficit with over 1 1 minutes left to play It was only 12 seconds later that BD ' s renewed hopes were dimmed On the ensuing kickoff a St. X return man carried the ball 82 yards up the middle for the score and hopes for 1976 glory fell with the last would-be tackier. A 27-7 loss capped off a year filled with thrills and surprises The team was ranked No 1 in the state Litratings for eight weeks out of twelve j FAR ABOVE Tripping up a St X Tiger are defensive backs Randv Mmgus 34l and Mike Ryan I22) ll was the Falcons who got tripped up in the long run by a 27 7 score ABOVE LEFT Finding the St X ball carriers hard to bring down are John Sodini (981 Steve Ernst (70) Gary Ryan (51) and Tim Moreschi (731 ABOVE RIGHT Hard hitting was the name ot the game as this pained ball carrier discovered the hard way against the Falcons Randy Mmgus is delivering the blow as Mike Ryan moves in from the rear to assist in bringing down the X player 43 FOOTBALL