Eden Prairie High School - Eagle Yearbook (Eden Prairie, MN)

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Eden Prairie wins first Valley crown By BOB SCHRANCK Minneapolis Star Staff Writer Coach John Ryski didn’t deliver an impassioned fire and brimstone speech” to his Eden Prairie High School football team at halftime Friday, although it was trailing St. Anthony 7-0. They knew what the game was about, and what was at stake,” Ryski said later, so I just told them 'play your game’.” The Eden Prairie Eagles opened the second half with a drive, faltered with a fumble, then took the ball after forcing St. Anthony to punt, scored and convert- ed for two points and an 8-7 victory. The triumph gave Eden Prairie its first Minnesota Valley Conference crown. •'Thou moro not»inn »a Anr nnortor. electrified the crowd with a 45-yard touchdown run on a double reverse. Quarterback Phil Dregger and end John Talbot dou- ble-teamed Eden Prairie defender John Turnbull to clear the path around the right side and Hawkinson was off for the end zone. Eduardo Ocampo kicked the extra point. Eden Prairie had several first-half drives negated by alert defensive football by St. Anthony. One goalward march appeared bogged down— fourth-and-18 on the St Anthony 36—when end Mike LeGrand wrestled for a Westerhaus pass with a St. An- thony defender at the 16, captured the ball and squirmed his way to the 12-yard line. A fumole on the 10 yard line, recovered by St. An- thony’s Tom Jacobs, stopped the drive.

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 . . . it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity . .. .. . firedrills in the middle of winter .. . being a member of the bod squad .. . cheering for a winning team ... brown-nosing your teachers ... skipping English .. . stacking locker ... tie day .. . cast parties ... water balloons in the locker bay ... the cube .. . watching casey Jones on TV in the AV room .. . playing the Mongooses .. . sleeping through Social ... going to Bridge- man's after a game .. . dances .. . painting the school .. . cramming for a physics test . . . report cards . . . snowball fights in Mr. George’s class . . . playing penny poker in the lounge . .. sneaking into wrestling meets .. . pep fests .. . raiding the equipment room .. . learning ... growing up . . . ... STUDENT LIFE 'v

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back the first half,” Ryski said, referring to a number of times when sophomore - . .. quarterback Paul Westerhaus was buried Jonn Kyslu under a pile of St. Anthony linemen. Ryski continued, “Then we executed as we should in the second half.” Defensive action provided the best football in the first quarter—until the last play when Scott Hawkinson Prep Football Special The Minneapolis Stair THE MINNEAPOLIS STAR Sit., Nov. 7,1970 Minneapolis Star Photo by William Seaman MIKE LeGRAND CATCHES PASS FOR EDEN PRAIRIE TOUCHDOWN St. Anthony’s Roger Siggelkow makes diving tackle, but not in time The next drive, aided by a 34-yard pass play from Westerhaus to LeGrand, ended when Hawkinson inter- cepted the next pass on his five. Eden Prairie’s miscues appeared to be continuing into the second half when the first drive, which got to St. Anthony’s 15, was stopped by a fumble. Then the touchdown march started when George Adzick returned a punt to the St. Anthony 42. Eden.Prai- rie marched to the St. Anthony 13, but a good defensive move by end Tom Bloom- quist left the Eagles with a 4th-and-l7 situation on the 20. LeGrand swung to his left, then cut diagonally toward the end zone to meet a perfectly timed pass by Westerhaus at the goal line for the score. Faking a run for the extra points, Westerhaus flipped the ball to end Jim Erickson, who was stand- ing alone in the end zone, for the winning margin. MINNESOTA VALLEY Final W L T Eden Prairie....... 6 1 0 Orono ............... 5 2 0 St. Anthony........ 4 3 0 Golden Valley ...... 4 3 0 Shakopee ............ 3 2 2 Buffalo ............. 2 4 1 Chaska .............. 2 4 1 Waconia ............. 0 7 0