Northrop High School - Bear Tracks Yearbook (Fort Wayne, IN)

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Football Gridders launch season and bound for glory Tlie Bruins started thier bid for the SAC by blitzing a hopeless Elm- hurst team. Next they soiled, a fi- red up N.S. squad on the schools 50th homecoming. The finall sco- re was 14-13. A break from SAC action took Northrop to Hunting- ton in relitively easy match-up, as Northro p score their second shut out in the last three outings. The most important game of the year so far came during homecom- ing agaist unliked. but a very good snider. To get down to the basics the game was for the Nortlv.divis- ron and a sell out crowd was e.xpec- ted at Spullner Stadium. The two teams were similar in many ways it seemed to have to be a close contest. However noone told Mitch Horn that he pulled his way for a new school record of 269 yards. While the defense came to piay and held the Panthers to a minimum, the offense backed them up with 28 points on the scoreboard. Northrop clinches the North division in a hard fought game ag- ainst Dwenger. Then Concordia surprised the Bruins with a last sec- ond feild goal beating us 9-7, One player said, they just plain out pl- ayed us, all we were looking at was the SAC championship game. Jeff Unville-83, and Rex Coak-61 show enthusiasm from the side lines. Mitch Horn-4n. leads blocking for Oiarles Trigg-34 around left end for a big gain. Bob De Domenico shows the blocking techniques of a pulling guard. Tlie defensive line-up celebrates Till ' VICIORY.

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Football Coach Buzz Doerffler had taken teams to the City Championship ga- me before, but had came up empty each time. Talent wise this years is not as good as prioryears, although they made up for this with great leadership and enthusiasm by the senior led team. Once again the Bruin defense was fired up. led by seniors Dan Ivy, Ru- sty Crumback, and Tim Twitchell. Only six points were scored against defense men. And as a few key ga- me before, the win came off kicker Jeff Linvilles toe as he booted an- other of his almost automatic extra points, after Mitch Horn scored the only touchdown. Final score North- rop 7-Bishop Luers 6. The City Championship finally belonged to Northrop after a long hard wait. Along with the naming of SAC champs the team went to several banquets and lunches given to them by different organizations. This just put a little extra icing on the cake after a great season. These players gained special re- conition at the end of the season. On the all city team was FB Mitch Horn, ab Do Kim, off t Larry Mya- tt. off c Terry Lynch, def. b Rusty Crumback, and def e Dan Ivy. Th- ose who recived AU State honors were Dan Ivy, ap and vpi. Rusty Cru- mback vpi, Larry Myatt vpi, and Te- rry Lynch ap. The Bruin team tires up m the huddle before the Qty championship. Rusty Gumback makes a key inter- ception as Scott Passwater looks on.