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

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Dan Ivy, Larry Myatt, and Tim Twitchell put on a fearsome punt r ush . Bruins take a victory lap on Coach Doerfeller ' s car. Larry Myatt(L) and Bruce Murdock display blocking on the offensive line. Fans file out of the packed parking lot after the Bruin victory. Do Kim sweeps around the right end for Bruins only TD of the evening as Ronny Jones leads the blocking. Northrop 7 Luers 6 Bruin Zucchini power was the theme of the best ever grid season and the zucchi- ni Bruin was our luck!!!!!

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Leading ground gainer Charles Trigg breaJcs into tlie clear to scamper lor a long gain. Senior place kicker JelT Linville splits the iipriglils with one of his nKin siiccesstul extra-point attempts. Junior Doug Bull is escorted otT the field after injuring liis knee at his fullback position. An exuberant Coach Doerffler demon- strates his zucchini power after the championship game. He may be Byron Doerffler to tlie whole world, but to the grid fans at Northrop he ' s Buzz. Northrop has never known another hand at the controls for varsity football and Northrop has never known a minute of let up or time off from Buzz ' total devotion. From other people the idea of 110% effort can be sliglitly amusing, but not from Buzz and not to Buzz ' men. He doesn ' t start or stop by any time clock and it can be before sun up when he gets to the stadium and it is often after sun set when he leaves. Winning is important to all coaches, but here we have a pleasant situation. Winning to Doerffler and be seeing a young man come througli the process of playing football and have him mature into a good person. It can put an important new slant on why we put so much effort into interscholastic sports. In the tlanl tally, it isn ' t Buzz Doerffler and his won and loss record that is important to Northrop but the emphasis that Coach Doerffler puts on the individuals that are a part of the varsity football program that is our high measure of the man Buzz ' is our man. WeVe proud!!!