Cheektowaga Junior Senior High School - Centorial Yearbook (Cheektowaga, NY)

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heelctowa a, Kenned Post ECIC Grid Upsets By NORM WARNER The Erie County Interscholas- tic Conferences new football season showed promises of a wild campaign ahead as two Di- vision IV form deversals spiced Saturday's action. Defending champion Eden, one of two ECIC teams to post perfect eight-game campaigns a year ago, was handed a 26- 25 defeat by visiting Cheek- towaga, while perennial con- tender Depew suffered a 20-8 loss to J. F. Kennedy. All other ECIC games were non-league affairs, many between long- standing rivals. PAT Decisive Cheektowaga's Warriors, with four players finding the end zone, scored in evcry period, with their only PAT coming as the decisive play. Dan Glieco hurled two touchdown passes - an 80-yarder to Joe Ferraro and an 18-yard pitch to Dave Baldi. After Baldi's reception Larry Stempniak ran for the big two- point conversion. Stempniak also added a TD, dashing 75 yards 'with a kickoff, and Larry Eckel scored from two yards out. Don Magee and Mike Toellner scored two TDs each for Eden. Sophomore Magee gained 190 yards in 16 carries, scoring on runs of 75 and 55 yards. Cheekiowaga .,....., 6 B 6 6-26 Ed:-n .. no 6 6-is Cheekiowaga scoring: Touchdnwns, Ferrara, 80 pass from Glieco: Baidi, 18 pass from Gliecoz Stempniak. 75 lgickoff-rfturriz Eckelk, 2 run. PAT- 'H . 1 mama , run Eden scorinut Toucbdowns, Macnee 2, 75, 55 runs: Toeilner, 2, 1, run i5 riass from Magee. PAT-Halldorsson ic . i i Binkowski, Pulli Spark JFK Win Jim Binkowski ran for three touchdowns and Joe Pulli added two tallies to spark JFK's win over visiting Cheektowaga. Binkowski's scores came on runs of 18, four and one yards, while Pulli raced 30 yards on a counter play and took a 46-yard pass from Mike Schlegel for touchdowns. Art Stachowski rushed for 71 yards in five trips, Binkowski added 69 and Pulli ran for 73 as the Bears compiled 228 yards on the ground. 1 Dan Glieco's 40-yard pass to .Larry Stempniak and Rick Wol- fert's 28-yard run off tackle pro- duced Cheektowaga's TDs. Iheektowagl .,........... 6 e 0 0-12 :FK ............. . ,... 7 113 s-33 Cheektowaga scoring - Touchdown: itempniak U0 pass from Gliccoi, Wg!- ert 128 runl. JFK scoring - Touchdowns: Blnkowskl I 418, 4, 1 runsi, Pull! 1 U0 run, 46 gsfsk ,from Schleglli. PAT: Rogers 3 . c s . JACKIE KOSZUTA-VARSITY LINDA CAF! DINALE-VARSITY Cheektowaga s Victor ver JFK Checktowapza won its second straight Division II contest, de- feating visiting Pioneer, 18-6, to tie J. F. Kennedy for first place. ' Larry Eckel tallied twice on a three-yard run and a 44-yard from Dan Glieco, and Rick Wolfcrt scored on a five-yard run as Cheektowaga scored in the first three periods. Larry Stemponiak led the Warriors in rushing with 114 yards on 12 carries as Cheektowaga's offense rolled up 330 yards. Bob Curry hit Tom Devin with a 52-yard scoring pass for Poineer's lone tally. Pioneer ,.....,..... 0 0 0 6-6 Cheektowaga ...... 6 6 6 0-18 Pioneer scoring-Touchdown: Devln 152- pass irom Currvl. Cheekiowaga scoring - Touchdowns: Eckel 43- run, 44- pass tram Gliecoi. Wolfert CS- runl.

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FIRST ROW: K. Johnson, H. Szymczak, P. Kasprzyk, R. Smalley, R. Torgalski, M. Majerowski. SECOND ROW: L. Y A , A A Iroquois Harnmyers Stempniak, J. Ferraro, G. Majchrzak, D. Glleco, D. Baldi, M. Geck, B. Chrus- Cheektowaga, 20-0 Cicki, Iroquois upped its record to 4-1 by blanking host Cheekto- waga, 20-0, in an inter-division VARSITY FOOTBALL SENIORS Falconer Shuts Uut Cheektowaga, 19-0 Jack J aroczynski scored touch- downs on runs of two and three yards and Kyle Eklum tallied on a 32-yard jaunt as Falconer blanked host Cheektowaga, 19-0, in a no.1-league game. In total yards, Falconer had a margin of 201-179, 'Falconer .............. 7 I2 0 0-19 Cheektowaga ..... ,.,.. 0 0 0 0- 0 Falconer scoring-Touchdowns: Jaro- czynski 2 43, 1-runsl, Eklum C32-runl. ........4.....i. test. Bruce Dittman scored twice for the Chiefs on runs of six and one yards, while quarter- back Scott Gillogly scampered eight yards for another tally. Harvey Johnson, who ran for one PAT, gained 91 yards in six carries. The Chiefs' defense, led by linebacker Steve Sack, held the Warriors to 12 yards rushing and 122 yards total. Cheektowaga ls 2-2-1. Iroquois ...,.,.....,,... 6 6 8 0-20 Cheektowaga ...,.... ., 0 0 0 0- 0 Iroquois scoring -- Touchdowns: Difl- man 2 66,501-runsh, Gillogly 48-runl. PAT: John n trunl. Gowanda Blocks FC, Tres Cheektowaga Gowanda and host Cheekto- waga battled to a 6-6 Division IV deadlock as a 14-yard field goal attempt by Cheektowaga's Paul Kasprzyk was blocked with eight seconds to play. Gowanda scored in the opening period on a seven-yard pass by Tom Burek to halfback Joe Urbank. Larry Stempniak, who gained 93 yards on 18 tries, tallied Cheektowaga's TD in the second period on a 29-yard run. Cheektowaga, 2-0-1, fumbled seven times, losing the ball on five occasions. Gowanda ...............,. 6 0 0 0-6 Cheeklowaga ............, 0 6 0 0-6 Gowanda scoring: Touchdown, U-r- bank 47, pass from Burekl. Cheeklowaga scoring: Touchdown, Slempniak 129, runl. FIRST ROW: D. Serafin, D. Baldi, R. Wolfert, B. Tauriello, B. Denk, J. O'Rourke, M. Nowicki, D. Lattuca. SECOND ROW: Mr. P. Steinig-Coach, Mr. A. Napieralski-Coach, J. Sullivan, G. Mac- iejewski, W. Martek, B. Leonardi, G. Michalski, D. Banach, L. Eckel, D. Lachut, R. DeSantis, J. Abati, D. Getz, P. Conti, J. 142 Ch rist.

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Lynn Palmeri-J.V. JUNIOR VARSITY ENDS Q 4 FIRST ROW: B. Miller, V. Oddo, D. Brenkus, M. Zika. SECOND BOW: P. Barniak, B. Steinbarth, M. Dishner, A. Tenny, B. Olow, T. Zacharyasz, G. Obstarczyk.