Manatee High School - Cane Echo Yearbook (Bradenton, FL)

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Varsity Football my ml .' if Q Clarence Thomas, lim Frith, and Lee Piper get ready to block for Alvin Smalls 1101. 'Canes Destro Qld Tradition The Hurricane Gridders, in posting a 7-2-1 record, had the first winning season since 1968 and the best record since the 1963 team was 8-2. In what was predicted as a rebuilding year, the players and coaches put it all together for many exciting victories. Manatee kicked off the year with a 10-7 upset of Sarasota. The 'Canes began a five-game winning streak with a 21-0 whitewashing of Cypress Lake. The highlight of the streak, which included a 14-11 Homecoming victory over Boca Ciega was a seesaw battle with Orlando Colonial in which Manatee emerged victorious 26-22. Coach Calvin Short's charges capped this superb season by upsetting King. Calvin Gissendanner eludes a tackler in the Clearwater game, Dwight Walton, Dan Fleming, and Keith Webb anchor the Manatee defense.

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, X Varsity Football 9, X we 5 3 Fifi . 'he 1973 Varsity Team includes Front Row: landy Spears, Dan Fleming, loe Greene, Dan 'ew, Manager lohn King, Mike lohnson, Mark iercher, Dwayne Horton, Chip McCarthy, Eddie Starling. Second Row: David landstra, Lee Piper, David Fields, Mickey Bellamy, Mike Lindley, Willie Washington Nate Smith, Elijah Hayes, Glenn Hubbard. Third Row: Alan Olsen, Brad Rutherford, Keith Webb, OJ. lohnson, Mike Cuomo, Frank Hiskes, Harvey Archie, Ken Dunlop, Randolph Williams. Fourth Row: Calvin I lickey Bellamy, the 1972 Tommy Paul Award Manatee's backs in picking up a crucial imner, shows the determination of first down against Lakeland. I 1 1125 U K It Gissendanner, Tom Sifrit, Alvin Smalls, lames Bacon, lim Frith, Daryll Cooper. Last Row: Anthony lohnson, Walter lohn- son, Dwight Walton, Pat Watson, Ed Dick lames Evins, Clarence Bacon, Dana Pope. 125