Buchser High School - Kodiak Yearbook (Santa Clara, CA)

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VARSITY GRIDDERS START FAST Buchser 13-Del Mar 6 Buchser's TirsT vicTory in over a year, came aT The expense of The Del Mar Don's. Jim Miceli broke a scoreless Tie in The opening minuTes OT The Third quarTer, plunging inTo The enemy end zone Tor six poinTs, Trom a yard ouT, LaTer in The period, The Bruins hiT paydirT again, on a 22 yard pass Trom signal-caller Al Della Maggiore To halfback Mike STuarT. Buchser 19- Camden 6 A 49 yard runback of an inTercepTed pass by lineman Mike Pine seT up The winning Tally Tor Buchser's upseT over The highly regarded Cougars. Al Della Maggiore Tossed Three TD passes, Two To Tony SanTich and one To Phil Bruce. The Bruins second sTraighT conauesT was a greaT Team eTTorT. The Cougars were able To peneTraTe The Buchser 35 yard sTripe only once in The enTire conTesT, and were held To The meager sum of T28 yards. Len Sprinkles is downed after a long gain againsT The PanThers A sad Buchser varsity lisTens To The alma mater following SanTa Clara defeat. NW' Buchser 6- Fremont 20 Playing againsT a Team which They had never beaTen and wiThouT The services of injured halfback Mike STuarT, The Bruins dropped a Tough one To The indians in Their league opener. Buchser, ahead 6-O going inTo The Tinal quarTer on a specTacular 26 yard pass play from Al Della Maggiore To Phil Bruce, ran ouT of gas in The final minuTes. T30

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1....... gi k .Jim Miceli finds himself hemmed in by a quintet of eager Panthers. The Bruins re-enter the field in style during halftime of the season opener against Del Mar High. Backfield standouts throughout the season were ltop to bottoml: Al Della Maggiore, quarterbacky Captain Mike Stuart, halfback, Len Sprinkles, halfbackg and Jim Miceli, quarterback. streak carried over from the T961 season, with victories over Del Mar and Camden highs, the '62 campaign again provided a long and dismal fall. The disastrous gridiron showing reached a climax when the Bruins dropped the Big Game with Santa Clara after leading by two touchdowns at halftime This marked The second consecutive season that saw the Panthers come back from a two touchdown deficit to nip the Bruins. Despite an excellent start in which the Bruins ended a nine game losing

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THEN MEET THE PANTHERS Q Q Q Buchser 13-Santa Clara 19 A last second fumble on The one yard line, afTer a T brillianT lo yard run, collapsed Buchser's chances and saved The PanTher's second sTraighT come-from-behind- win over Their Big Game rivals before a capaciTy crowd aT Townsend Field. Len Sprinkles was The Bruin's leading rusher wiTh a 4.8 yard per carry average and a TD To his crediT. Jim Miceli hiT Phil Bruce on an T8 yard play for The oTher Buchser score. Buchser 7-Mountain View 21 A five yard pass play from Skip Della Maggiore To Gary Jacobson gave a hard fighTing Bruin eleven iTs only score againsT The Eagles. AfTer a close firsT half, MounTain View iced The game wiTh a pair of Third quar- Ter scores. Buchser 32-Awalt 19 T CapiTalizing on Two fumbles and a pass inTercepTion, Buchser clobbered The SparTans for iTs firsT league win Gary JGCObSOf1 feOCl'eS for P055 in Pflniher 90me. since 1960. Rex Calhoun, playing his lasT game as a Bruin, rolled up 73 yards and scored whaT proved To be The winning Touchdown. Gary Jacobson and Al Della Maggiore each scored , Twice. Buchser 7-Cupertlno 19 Buchser's lone Tally came in The lasT period, as Al Della Maggiore compleTed his sixTh Touchdown in four ouTings. This one was snagged by The lanky end Tony SanTich, who gained an honorable menTion in The N-SCVAL All-League balloTing. Buchser 0- Sunnyvale 39 An aggressive JeT defense held The Bruins To a measly 67 yards, while The offense had IiTTle Trouble running over The smaller Buchser line, Len Sprinkles galloped 53 yards in The second period only To have The play called back because of a penalTy. Buehser 7-Los Altos 32 Al Della Maggiore, who did a fine iob aT quarTerback The firsT eighT games of The season, moved over To a halfback sloT for his firsT Try on a full-Time basis. He piled up 85 yards in only five carries. Buf The KnighTs had liTTle Trouble conTaining The resT of The Bruin offense. Mike STuarT crosses Del Mar goal line following pass from Al Della Maggiore. T31