Dickinson High School - Gator Yearbook (Dickinson, TX)

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Defensive Back Honored By Touch Down Club Senior defensive back. Doug Peterson, was one of the lour finalists for the Touch Down Club Award in the Greater Houston Area Peterson started playing football m the third grade on the Dickinson Vik- ings He continued through Junior High and is now a member of the Dickin- son Varsity team Doug plans to attend college and ma)or m business I am undecided ihout what college I want to attend, but I do plan to go. Peterson adds Doug says that ' Playing professional football is not one of my goals, but • ' ne opportunity comes along. I will accept Peterson recalls. Football is not all fun and games, there are good and ; id times. I grew closer to the team, and I feel as if we are one big family The hardest thing to accept is losing, but being an athlete. I ' ve learned to iLcept both good and bad times. I enjoyed being coached by Dickinson coaches because they are the best. Peterson concluded Senior Doug Peterson was a finalist for the Houston Area Touchdown Club Award Senior Harlan Chatman looks on as his Gator teammates halt the Clear Lake Falcon offense Varsity Football 4i

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Top Coaches Bobby Knots. Terry VesJai. Rchaid Oaus«. Tmi Drake Middle Ttairw fs MAe James Cody Ffy BobOy Mtlc»w e» R» DelaHous w» Gators Beat the Odds in One Tough Season rZ 01 the past three years. Dickinson has held the 24-5A distnci ' championship, and although area sports writers predicted a t uur season. Gator fans upheld the motto Once more m ' 84. Many polls forecasted a year of doom for the rebuilding Dickinson team, expecting them to finish fourth for the district. The Gators ended up in third place behind Ball High and LaPorte with an 8-2 season record, matching first place Ball High ' s regular season record. Head coach Dub Farris. who has been with Dickinson since 1979. expressed his feelings about the 1984 Varsity team . . . In reflecting back on the 1984 football season. I have to feel that many of our goals were accomplished. The goals that I felt good about were the ones that as coaches, we know are important in the development of any type of team concept: 1. Unselfish attitude 2. Individual effort 3. Pride in being athlete and student 4. Competitive attitude Sometimes we get very involved in setting goals that only extend into winning and losing. There has to be a thin line between reaching a goal and continuing to get better. This leaves me con- cerned sometimes with what is most important: reaching the goal or the effort and tenacity that is directed toward reaching the goal For a young man to participate in an extra-curricular activity such as football, he will go through the process of getting knocked down and getting up hundreds of times. We feel that this ex- perience alone is a great learning situation, as life is a being disappointed and coming back situation. It is fun to play the game and win, and we always enjoy the victory, but it is important to understand what we lose and why. It is important not to quit With all of this taken into account, our society still recognizes sue cess only through winning Certainly, we all have winning as the driving force behind our participation. Our coaching staff at Dickinson would like to say thanks to our community, school, and football team for making this an enioyablo ya-rii tor all of us 6«nior f ' at tM iii)M» IMkoti a luontt itt. t o wolchM t » UAIort mo«« mio i

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