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

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J. V. s beat all contenders The 1977 junior varsity football team was the unofficial city champions The team finished undefeated with a perfect 7-0 mark This made the 1 6th victory in a row for the sophomores who had never been defeated They opened the season on September 20. 1976 with a 34-6 victory over Manual and continued on to top that performance the following Monday afternoon by defeating Atherton 35-0. Next came their closest scrape of the season, sliding by Butler 6-0 The JVers beat Doss 36-6 and Central 35-0 Then came the challenge of always-tough Trinity and St. X They met the challenge by defeating Trinity 14-0 in a night game at Shamrock Field and whipping St X, on their field. 27-8 to top a very successful year. JV FOOTBALL RESULTS Won 7 Lost BO 34 Manual 6 BO 39 Atherton BO 6 Butler BD 38 Doss 8 BO 36 Central BD 14 Trinity BO 28 St X 8 ABOVE RIGHT Leading the Fal- cons to an undefeated season, quarterback. Denny Nash, re- leases a pass against Butler FAR RIGHT Heading for a city championship in a game against Butler Jeff Richards receives blocking from Jeff Oalton RIGHT Rick Curtis fends off tackier in the victory against Butler 6 44 JV FOOTBALL JV FOOTBALL TEAM FRONT ROW Denny Nash Bill Nev.tt Tim Kilkelly Mike Poynter. Doug Higgint Kevin Mackin. Dave Smith Keith Mingus Pat Weber Jeff Richards SECOND ROW Joe Milliner Jeff Campbell John Oever John Sodini Don Smith

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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

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Freshman footballers get late season start I his year ' s freshman football team had a tough reputation to live up to The past two frosh teams were city champions. The 1977 baby Falcons ' record of 4 wins and 5 losses may not have been as impressive as past seasons, but their dedication was impressive The Falcons had close games in losing to St X. Trinity, and their first bout with DeSales The turning point of the season was the battle with Beth Haven ' s JV team It was the Falcons ' first win and set an end-of-the-season winning streak in motion The freshmen went on to defeat Jefferson- ville. Doss, and DeSales in their second match-up with the Colts p I FAR LEFT Looking (or a place to run against DeSales is Matt Atzinger with Mark Gagel doing the blocking from behind LEFT A DeSales tackier gets a hand on the ball carried by David Schaftlein FRESHMAN FOOTBALL TEAM — FRONT ROW Tom Williams Stuart Hayden Tom Gresosky Mike Sodini Ken Noms Ed Jekel John Schmitt. J Webb J Bishop T Mattingly D Miller M Fowler. P Carroll. M Johnson Manager SECOND ROW J Bradley. D Cecil. M Ernst. M Renfro J Shomer K Deddens D Rausch. G Bickett. Schaftlein. M Kaelin. R Thompson M Jansing T Koppel THIRD Mark Renfro makes an astounding catch over the head of a DeSales defender in the Frosh s victory game ROW T Nauert. J Willett S Ryan M Hockman J Meyer Grimes K Fowler. S White D Fouls K Smith K Wolfe. M Atzinger J Ackerman. D Gwara FOURTH ROW B Ruccio G Conder. S Miller S Morris J Nauert K Zipper. B Rickert. R Knott M Byerly T Stover M Kleinhelter. J Lampkin. M Gagel BACK ROW Coaches Dan Clemons. Willie Jackson and Woosey Bennett 45 FROSH FOOTBALL I