North Branch High School - Bronconian Yearbook (North Branch, MI)

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AS RIVALS TAKE TOP HONORS The Broncos had a tough nine game schedule, four of which were conference games. The Bronco team was best known for its tough defense and its passing offense. The Broncos had a losing season by final scores, but led the South Central Conference with All-Conference selections and Honorable Mentions. This alone tells the true story of this football team. They seemed to win when it really counted. The Broncos ended up the season with a 3 win--6 loss record playing four home games. This was a very profitable season in that the three victories came in Conference games. This gave them the runners-up title in the South Central League. The only game lost was to their rivals at Imlay City. The season started off losing three games with two of these being lost by one point. The next four games saw the Broncos fighting back winning three out of the four of which all were conference games. The last two games were played just as winter hit. Which led the Broncos to two more loses. The leading scorer was Doug Lauwers. The leading ground gainers were Doug Lauwers and Joe Scrimger. The Broncos passing attack led by quarterback Tom Snoblen made them as unpredictable team. When the op- position thought they had the Broncos in a hole Doug Monroe or Dale Rhode would have hall in a pass to given them some badly needed yardage. The defense was led and often sparked on to help win the games by Dave King who seemed to stop almost any man coming up his hole. All in all it was a very good season. The Bronco team was led by Co-Captains Dale Rhode and Dave King. The Broncos were coached by Len Scheumaman and Don Gleason. 25

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Varsity Squad: From left to right, 1st ROW: David Baughn, Bill Sharp, Bill Peplinski, Joe Scrimger, Dale Rhode, Dave King, Joe Henne, Earl Boyl, Dale Judd. SECOND ROW: Dave Castle, Terry Fitch, Steve Fricke, Tom O'Dell, A1 Haack, Daryl Hunt, Jerry Fricke, Bill Haack, Cass Reynolds, A1 Peet. THIRD ROW: Doug Monroe, Tom Snoblen, Larry Hallock, Dave Costello, Doug Lauwers, Jim Robinet, Dale Jamison, Far left, Coach Schune- man, Manager Danny Echoes, Far Right, Coach Gleason, Manager Kieth Delmige. RUNNER-UP TO CONFERENCE TITLE Coaches look on as they send a Bronco through the paces in a practice session. The Bronco team underwent some pretty rough practice sessions that seemed to make the coaches very happy as some Broncos were quoted as saying. The sessions lasted two or more hours although they were sup- posed to be hour and half sessions. The team never gripped a bit about the extra long sessions but didn't especially go for the extra work. 24

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TERRY FITCH All-Conf. Center Senior DOUG LAUWERS All-Conf. Halfback Senior DOUG MONROE All-Conf. End Junior TOM SNOBLEN All-Conf. Quarterback Junior JIM ROBINET All-Conf. Tackle Senior DAVE KING, Guard Honorable Mention Senior Co-Captain DALE RHODE, End Honorable Mention Senior Co-Captain JOE HENNE, Guard Honorable Mention Junior PLAYERS RECEIVE After the final voting was counted for the All- Conference players the coaches found that the North Branch Broncos had five players on the first team and three Honorable mentions to lead the league. Imlay City had three on the starting team, Deckerville had four, and Harbor Beach and Millington each had one. Those on the first team from North Branch were center, Terry Fitch, end Doug Monroe, quarterback, Tom Snoblen, halfback, Doug Lauwers, and tackle, Jim Robinet. Action shots above left: No. 13, Doug Lauwers runs with the ball as No. 32, Jim Robinet prepares to block. Making ready to tackle their rivals are No. 28 Terry Fitch, and No. 30, Dale Rhode. 26