Muhlenberg College - Ciarla Yearbook (Allentown, PA)

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' f r V 1 K1 I ; fl w 1 p i mjft V ' . 1 i i Jr!! Jr — 1 i t, m mm 1 V i i $ i First Row: Mike Dikun. Alan Jones. Ron Salley. Mike Cressman. Jon Light. Joe Allwein. Jim Murray. Charles Salvaterra. Second Row: John Mill, Ste- ven Correale. Charles Beyer. Timothy Weber. Kenneth Heddon. Benjamin Martinez, Taylor Wallace. Third Row: William Ray, Peter Molendyke. Thomas Oleska. Randy Boll. Walter Staehle. Michael Reid. Henry Coons. James Stampfle. Fourth Row: Frank McCants, Thomas Dillon, Steven Wolfe, Keith Ordemann. Jeffrey Swanson. Robert Reynolds. James Oliphant. Francis Conlin. Fifth Row: Gary Podenak, Eric Butler, John Dunne, Gregg Johnstone. Carmllo DeSantis. John Holland. Harold Stovall. James Christie. Sixth Row: Michael Yaklich. Steven Eisenhauer, Steve Wolfe. Leland Lott. Seventh Row: Robert Shirvaman. Eugene Christian. Robert Beck. Douglas Bicher. Thomas Smyers. James Munn. Carl Norman. Eighth Row: Donald Kichline (Trainer). John Hazel (Student Trainer). Mark Holland (Student Trainer). Samuel Beidleman (Assistant Coach). Frank Mari- no (Head Coach), William DiGiacomo (Assistant Coach), John Biddiscombe (Assistant Coach), John Donmoyer (Assistant Coach), Robert Fagan (Equipment Manager). Charles May (Manager). Howard Jacobson (Assistant Manager). Football Last season Muhlenberg compiled a one and eight log which earned it the label of being a rebuilding season. However, the rebuilding did not end with the last game of ' 72, but was just beginning. The task that lay ahead for both the coaches and the players was to evaluate the season and, in so doing, to detect the weaknesses and correct them, and to find the strengths of the team and perfect them. Having learned what losing was, Muhlen- berg ' s football team set its sights on learning how to win. Muhlenberg began its ' 73 season by testing its newly adopted veer-offense and veteran defense in pre-season games against two strong and experienced northern divi- sion teams. Albright and Wilkes Colleges, and the Muhl- enberg team came off both encounters on top. In these two contests Muhlenberg gained a great deal of experi- ence but more importantly the team gained the confi- dence it lacked at the end of the previous season. Having these two necessary attributes, Muhlenberg was able to begin its season with a full head of steam. As the season progressed the team’s momentum in- creased, and, except for the slight set back in tying Leba- non Valley, Muhlenberg was beginning to realize just how sweet victory could be. However, it was not until the Wi- dener game that the team reached its full potential. Al- though both teams were undefeated Widener had just beaten the also undefeated F M team the week before and was heavily favored in the game with Berg. It was the emotional factor, though, that had a great deal of in- fluence in the outcome of this game. In ' 72 Widener and its “white shoed” Billy Johnson had handed Berg its worst defeat, scoring five touchdowns. In ’73, though, Muhlenberg was able to smash the Widener record by a margin of one point and Billy Johnson was easily con- tained by a determined defense. It was the offense, by being able to put together several sustained drives which resulted in needed points on the board, that was the key factor, for this gave the defense the rest that it needed to be able to contain the potent Widener offense. This was, indeed, the high point of the season for the entire team.