Eisenhower High School - Pantherama Yearbook (Decatur, IL)

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The Warriors This year's Varsity Football Team's Conference record was 1-4. Overall record was 2-7. Our team could've done better if we would have had a positive attitude and bet- ter conditioning, Coach Smith re- marked. He has coached for ten years, and three years of that were as a head coach. This year we had a good backfield and some starters are coming back next year. Senior newcomer Travis Coff- men, said, It was a little scary to come to a new school. I had to learn to work with other people. Travis has played three years of football. He wants to go to North Western, as a walk on. Senior Skip Smith has played for 1. Here we go marching, one by one. Hur- rah! Hurrah! . .. 2. The team retires after a long, hard day on the field. 3. Rockettes, eat your hearts out! 4. Tony Brown and Coach Smith discuss plays after a long, hard practice. 5. The team waits patiently for their turn to show their stuff. 110 Sports eight years on some kind of team. He has earned two letters and has no college plans at this time. Coach Smith was a great coach but he gave up too easy on his teams. But most coaches do at some time or another, and they all have their ups and downs in their career, stated Skip. We sweat a lot in practice and then we'd dig down deep and half the time we came up empty, but we did try. Life is like a football gameg IT'S A GAMBLEIV' stated Senior Kris Hebel. The best thing about football is that it teaches you how to win and how to lose, stated Kris and Trav- is.

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-.N .4 1-A ,..i3t.X,, Varsity Football Central MHS SDHS Mattoon Centennial Urbana Bloomington Lincoln 6 28 O 14 33 26 22 14 7 7 626 612 6 1. - L 2. - L 3. - W 4. - W is 5. ' -4 L ,k,gj,5L 6. Normal 0-41 L A 7. - L x ,..i 1 ., 8. ' - L 9. ' -33 L 4 5 J 'l ' 2' Front r0wCleft to rightl: Eldridge Gray,-IeffMinich,james Andrews, Tim Pepin, Stacey Wheeler, Keith Gower. Second row Cleft to rightj: Coach Smith, Mickey Bradford, Ben Davis, Kris Hebel,jamie Gahwiler, Rick Mariner, Tony Ewing, Matt Snyder, Assist. Coach Shonkwiler, Third row Cleft to rightbz David Bowers, Tom Houser, Brad Mclilyea, Mike Dalluge, Bobby Bowser, Eddie Alexander. Tony Brown, Ken Oakley, Dirk Hanson. Back row Cleft to rightlz Brian Anderson,john Robinson, Bryan Naron, Aundra Holloway, Skip Smith, Kevin Roberson, Travis Coffman, Brian Pruett. Sports 111