Fairmont East High School - Falcon Yearbook (Kettering, OH)

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Fcilcons copTure TirsT WOL chompionship in EosT's hisTory For The TirsT Time in FairmonT EasT's hisTory, The lron Falcons won The WOL TooTball championship. ln league play, EasT deTeaTed eighT opponenTs, The mosT Falcon wins ever in The WOL, and losT only To Troy in an exciTing Triple overTime conTesT. Including The lasT Three games oT The l97l season, The Falcons esTablished a new EasT record oT nine consecuTive WOL vicTories. WiTh The l972 game againsT Chaminade, EasT also had a Ten game winning sTreak overall. For Their ouTsTanding play, Mike Mal- one, STeve Shipley, Mike Wagner, and Bob MeTzler were selecTed To The WOL TirsT Team. Head coach Doug SchmidT was voTed The SouThwesTern Ohio Dis- TricT coach of The year. EasT Tullback Bob Mefzler led The Fal- cons in boTh scoring and rushing. He also scored more poinTs Than any oTher player in The WOL in l972. Lefi: ATTer breaking Through The oTTensive line, John SchmidT reaches ouT To sack The Wayne quarTerback. VT i iiiiiii T T T it iiii .iil T T T- T Ti li iiii 'FVTQ T T'T ' ., -' ii ..,. T' Tl'-g K ff-T V .1 ii! A Q: it F 'R f 1 6 VP ta.. H K K Q V 5 T T 3 T' AT ET, 'TEH Ti TA ,T T: .V T W- Q . s. -i T.-,. .. S - T s TT , ...M cccsy, T ...y A 9' T3 ii'ifT if :A QL cd 5' C545 To T . ,Ri 'T 1- SQ -:M 5 TWH T 5 1 'i T cissis ii '3 T T is 'T S 39 9 ,T T 'H i s 'S - T .K .trikr KJ - f H 2.5 f V A H N T . W5 :TT M H . F5 if i ia as a ig- aa Bef,-fi as .QT ki' S ' ST -1 3 . , . iff if T I is 1? l il .V iiii ,F S ' A . Q 'ii Q aif T T T T T ff js .g T. T -.., ..,. ug ifi xx 'Tk if T 7 A T' ri 3 ' i T T4 i TTTTTT as irssr K H T i...Q... ...44.,..,..-. -T T T FOOTBALL TEAM: FronT Row: Coach Doug Schmidt Jim Hedrick, Mike Mal- one, Jim KriTzer, John SchmidT, Mike Wagner, PaT O'Donnell, Mark Hickson, John Moore, Mark Koogler, Dave Garber, Coach Tom Cobey. Row 2: Coach Larry McVey, Bob Landis, Mike Gregory, Gene Converse, Clay Neiman. Dave Reed, STeve Shipley, Gary Baumann. Bob MeTzler, Barry SchulTz. Herb Schafer, Dave MaTThews, Dave Hunn, Coach ArT Dunlap. Row 3: Coach Ed McKnighT, Dave Cochran, Barry Snyder. Ed Yike, STeve Dominy. Greg Grim- slid, STeve Scarpelli. Charles Edelen, Russ CompTon, Dave HusTon, STeve Mal- esko. Harold Long, Greg Wilford, Dan McClanahan, Mark STuckey, Tim PaTTi- son. Row 4: Tom KwesT, Mark Wagner. Mark Lucas. Lance Chambers, STeve Burch, Chris Moore, John O'Laughlin, Larry Beddies. Paul Riqgle. STeve Cook, Jim GaTes. Terry Tamaska, STeve Wolfe, John Rakar, Jim Surovec, Jack Car- Ter. Row 5: Chuck Snavely, Tom Hughes. John Hoke, John Boggs, Brad Zim- mer, Dana Woolf. Jim Ruia, JeTT LauTer, John lkirT. Lance WilhoiTe. Bill Hicks. Bob CharleTon. Bob AshcraTT, STeve Neiman, Dave Bauman, Jim Shipley, Tom Sullivan, Mike Healy. Back Row: Randy Dodson, Dave Schuman, Chris Young, Tony Devigili, John Laughrey. Dave Herzog, Joe Wilhelm, Mike Lynn. Ron Klenk. Mark Kindelin, Tim HarT, KurT Needles, Doug Graf, EllioT CarpenTer. John McCormick, Larry Jensen. Mike McCormick, Jim PorTer.

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I972 FOOTBALL RECORD Easl 23 Clnaminade 7 Easf 32 Wayne 22 Easl 32 Xenia 7 Easl 7 S+ebbins 6 Easl 24 Fairmonl Wesl O Easf 3I Springfield Norfli 6 Eas'r I4 Beavercreek O Easf 33 Troy l3 O.T.'sl 36 Easl I3 Cenlerville 7 Easf 20 Fairborn Baker I3 Won 9 Losl I Upper Right Easf fullback Bob Mefzler breaks open for big yardage againsf Troy. Above: Spof- ling his inlended receiver, Milne Wagner arcs llwe ball +o splif end Sfeve Shipley. Righfz Wiflw flue play decided, llve miglnfy Falcon offense sefs info ifs formafion fo awail llwe snap from cenler.

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STATISTICS RUSHING ATT. Yds. Avg. MeTzler I46 748 5.I Wolfe l02 507 5.0 Wagner 65 I42 2.2 Tamaslca I5 42 2.8 Maleslco I2 4I 3.4 Baumann 9 36 4.0 Cook 5 l l 2.2 l'lusTon I 3 3.0 Beddies 2 I 0.5 STucIcey 2 -6 -3.0 PASSING ATT. Comp. Yds. Wagner I48 76 936 STucl4ey 2 I I2 SCORING TD's PAT F.G. ToT. MeTzler I3 2 O 80 Landis 2 20 3 4l Shipley 5 O O 30 Tamaska 5 0 0 30 Wolfe 4 O O 24 Wagner 3 0 O I8 O'Donnell I 0 0 6 M. , ,, , MZ. Qdfaffw-uf U-S ' Upper Righf: ATTer breaking away from The defensive coverage. STeve Shipley receives a pass from quarTerback Milne Wagner. Above: PunTing The ball high info The air, Bob Landis drives Troy deep inTo Their own TerriTory. RighT: EasT's oTTense celebraTes a Touchdown scored againsT Wayne in The lasT seconds of The TirsT half.