Cabrillo High School - Tierra Royal Yearbook (Lompoc, CA)

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Quarterback Ted Bleymaier goes up for short iump pass in the team's final league victory, a l3-O shutout of the Righetti Warriors. Footballers Make Valley History, Defensive Leader Terry Leone MSD was also a top threat offensively. 811 Blasting their way to the finest football record in the 43-year history of the Lompoc Valley, the Cabrillo Conquistadores roared to the Santa Barbara County League Championship in 1967. Behind the expert guidance of head coach Evert Jones and his fine young staff, the varsity chalked up a 7-1-l regular season record, and captured the school's first league title with a 4-O-'I mark. They then went a step further with a thrilling 22-T3 conquest of the Crespi Celts in the first round of the CIF playoffs, before being knocked off by Morningside, T4-12. At the start of the season, anyone would have been hard set to predict the success in '67. In the first game of the year, a powerful Santa Clara squad ripped the Hillmen 26-0 and it appeared that the dream of that big year for Cabrillo was crushed. But then something happened. The seniors on the team pulled the squad together and the Conquistadores suddenly came to life. The next week they edged Bishop Diego l3-'l2, then stopped Lasuen U4-71 and rolled past Quartz Hill 37-0. ln the first league game of the year, the Conquistadores met dis- aster. Scoring on a trick sleeper pass play, the Santa Maria Saints dumped the Hillmen 7-0. Despite the defeat, the Conquistadores kept on winning and hoping that a protest of the sleeper play might go through. Two weeks later the County League commission ruled the Santa Maria play illegal and called the game a 0-0 tie. That was all the Conquistadores needed. They rolled past all other league foes and won the championship in the league's finale with a 'l3-0 shut out of Righetti. lt was a team that will be hard to forget and even harder to surpass.

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competition lt took a couple of years to develop, but that emotion of pride finally flourished during the 1967- 68 school year at Cabrillo. Rolling up the school's first league cham- pionship ever, the varsity football team began a trend which will con- tinue through the years. The squad's advancement in CIF com- petition added to the growing fame of the three-year school. That win- ning tradition was carried through by the basketball varsity which achieved the best record in history. The cagers also helped promote the school pride wtih their top ten ranking in the CIF ratings for several weeks. Winning develops pride, and using this past year as a looking glass, it looks like a bright future.

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Skip Clary 1311 and Dallas Britton display the effort of Cabrillo's Big D against Righett BCL Title Varsity Log OPPONENT Santa Clara Bishop Diego Lasuen .... Quartz Hill 'Santa Maria Dos Pueblos Lompoc . . . 'San Marcos 'Righetti . . . CIF Playoffs Crespi .... Morningside RECORD: .......26 .......l2 ...7 ...O ...l2 7 .......l4 'Leag ue 4-O-l The Conquistadores' dynamic duo of Ted Bleymaier and Tom Von Ins spelled trouble for all Cabrillo foes. 6 0 ....l3 Overall 9-2-l