Greater Latrobe High School - Latrobean Yearbook (Latrobe, PA)

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Explaining details for this week's game plan to Co-athletic Director Garry Garrison and Assistant Coaches Lawrence Altimus, Rich- ard Donati, and Joseph Howard, is football Coach Charles Findley. This marked the first year as assis- Q, tant coaches for lVlr. Altimus and is. lVlr. Howard. if 2 2,2 aff In its second Conference encounter, Latrobe's grid machine took on the lVlt. Pleasant Vikings easily, 46-O. The Vikings couldn't reach paydirt while seven Wildcat gridders crossed the goal line. Tallying in this contest were lVlcCallen, Repko, Joe Knaus, Bill Rhey, Tom Joseph, and lVlike Skoloda. A rain-soaked Wilkinsburg field stopped the Latrobe air attack, and the Tigers pushed and slipped their way past the Wildcats. The Tigers handed the varsity squad its first defeat of Foothills and season play. With three minutes remaining in the first half and trailing 18-O, Rick Sarnese hit Tom Joseph for a Latrobe score. Bill Karaszia added the other Wildcat tally by skirting right Victory over Derry Area Viewing a typical interfsquad practice session at the Memorial Stadium are football managers, Bob Thayer, Dave Washburn, Bill l-larshell, Jim Kuhn, and Dave Dunhoff. Waiting for the referee to blow the whistle to begin the play before a full crowd, the Cat's offense is ready to execute another play during a long touchdown drive. ,ir 4 ' win? ?32V' T ,,.r fy 257552, 3-.15 .ggg . 1, .xv A QQ. fSwgfs3'fi'? 2 rfwiezfs end for 59 yards in the final stanza. lt didn't take long for the Wildcats to regroup forces. The following Friday in a Conference tilt they set back the Jeannette Jayhawks 39-19. The gridmen scored five times in the first half. Junior Jim Harris provided a sixth Latrobe score in the fourth quarter. ln the second half of the schedule, Latrobe bowed three times in its last four contests. In the Hempfield tilt, the Spartans dominated the game with five scores. Latrobe's only touchdown in the 30-7 Foothills loss came in the final minutes of play against Hempfield reserves. Jim l-larris caught a pass from Rick Sarnese at the fifteen yard-line and carried it into the endzone. highlights grid season '- up . Z, 'FN-W-as Z M 5 -6 . mvg b 4 M rv Q' W wig f . f f . in . AM J, ' f- uv-.K ' Q i i X .Y i H, K x 't 1 px it '. x' x' I Lv t l 1 1. 'Q X xi VK ' K .4 , Ve .4 X, f . . g -f f in - xx Zigi .f J f ,ff ,K S., . 1' rr-,.'-fi we L..,N1..,L Y H' . f -ww. . Jw m.wamm-new ,.e:uu,..-,M.vmmuwmtxva-.xv.1mn..mr.wtim.

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1 A...-tff-wi' , Aff, . ...A I-.ll . . '1-. f1,L' Ayfv - -1:2-:k: .2 .-., :I :,.- 1:'a f,,. V,... .- . .. - '..x I if . V . I ' 4 S ' 1 :.Z: tt 1 I JOSEPH DUDZINSKY JOSEPH PALMER NICHOLAS SVETAHOR FRANK WATSON Gridders end season with losing Foothills record Connellsville was next to defeat the Wildcats in Although Latrobe finished the year at 4-4-1, the varsi- Conference competition. By virtue of a McCaIlen touch- ty squad headed opponents in every department except down Latrobe stayed even with the Falcons in the first first downs. In total rushing yardage Latrobe ground out stanza, but Connellsville fullback Jim Braxton broke the 1,507 yards against 1,437 by opposition. The Wildcat game open by running and passing for two TDs. The aerial attack gained 809 yards, completing 55 of 120 final score was 20-7. passes. Through three quarters of play in the Greensburg Adversaries found air travel more difficult aggregating game, Latrobe led 13-O. ln the final frame of the rival only 647 yards while hitting on 51 of 134 aerials. In ad- game, the Golden Lions came back to salvage a tie, 13 ditlon, the Latrobe secondary picked off 10 foreign to 13. A fired-up Norwin squad downed the Wildcats in passes. Denny Koslesky, varsity punter, averaged 35 the last Foothills Conference tilt of the year. yards booting the football 28 times. In other statistics Kevin lVIcCalIen registered the only Latrobe TD taking the Wildcats fumbled away the pigskin 10 times during a Sarnese pass near the sidelines and outracing the season and were penalized 212 yards. Twenty-two defenders to the endzone. The final was 27-6. boys received football letter awards. kEviN MCCALLEN JOSEPH KNAU3 During the Derry encounter, halfback em Karazsia digs out JAMES OKONAK WILLIAM KARAZSIA RICHARD SARNESE valuable yardage while teammates block. DENNIS KOZLESKY f x x I, 1 gk at R. tl' r Ar . I .4 41 3 1 x S12 J