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

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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!!!

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Marching Bruin band are Summit ' s halftime highlight.,. It ' s a good thing for Coach Buzz Doerff- ler that his grid teams are so good or the old joke from Funlcy Winkerbean in the comics could well be true at Northrop about having a Marching Band Festival on Friday nights. Instead it ' s a toss up wheather the crowd comes to see the superb gridders or Barry Ashton ' s fantastic Mighty Marching Bruin Band. What else could you expect from the unit that ranked fourth in State competition and walked away with the lion ' s share of the trophies in the Daytona National Band Show When the band took the field for a pre- game or half time show this year, it was one that many colleges would have been proud to claim as their own. The playing band was complete with a Pom-pon Corp, a Flag Corp, a rifle and sabre drill squad, and everything else but a marching kitchen sink. And the word is out that director Barry Ashton and his assistants Bob Rice and Mike Whetstone are looking for one of those preferablly in tones of orange and brown. With the active Music Parents ' Club to boost the group, the sky is the limit for the Mighty Marching Bruin Band as they look like a sure bet to march and strut across the state of Indiana in search of new honors. The rille corp and sabers prepare to do their winning field show. Gail Jurcz ' -wsky, Leslie Clark, and ,li LaBorde pick up some mud with tin Russian drag.