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

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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

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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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Roundballers endure frustrating season As their record indicates, the 1976-77 Falcon basketballers had a long and disap- pointing season with only 2 wins against 21 losses But it was an eventful season, full of unexpected happenings Senior pivotman. Kevin Alexander, a re- turning starter, was to play a big role in the game plan. but. due to a serious knee injury suffered during football season, he was unable to return to the line-up until the final two games. Although Kevin ' s height and scoring was sorely missed, the team was still left with some experienced per- sonnel in Terry Dean and Randy Mingus In addition. Tom Payne and Jim Zahn. came up from the JV ranks. Lacking height, the team would have to rely on quickness and hustle. After an opening loss to Catholic power. Trinity, the team was idle until the Jef- ferson County teachers ' strike was settled Play finally resumed on December 10. 1976. with an anxious Falcon squad ready to take on Doss Determination and all-out hustle fell just one point short as the Dragons squeaked out a 46-45 victory Our lack of height and rebounding strength seemed all too evident and would prove to be the telling tale for the whole season. ABOVE Junior Tom Spencer soars high to outreach his Atharton opponent during the opening tip oft RIGHT Students, cheerleeders end even Mrs Carol Mingus gat into the act doing the bugaloo during half- time at the Valley game 46 BASKETBALL r