Palo Alto High School - Madrono Yearbook (Palo Alto, CA)

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sophomore football this years sophomore football team was very strong offensively and de- fensively. a few bad breaks turned against the mini-vikes as they ended the season with a 5-3 record in league play, in two of the vikes three losses they held their opponents scoreless in the second half, but that doesn't win games when you are to far behind in the first half, the vikes powerful offensive threat was quarterback carl aldinger,voted most valu- able by his teammates, aldinger a threat to run or pass proved this in many games as he threw bombs to his ends jeff long and ron hinckley. his running threat was just as strongas he executed some beautiful boot- legs. coach jay vierra had to pat carl aldinger on the back and say that he called 75° o of the plays and 90% of the touchdowns, as for the rest of the running game it was taken up by john crane and mike herling and pete vogl, the running threat was slowed down some what in most of the games as one of the runners would be on the sidelines, the defense was headed by the play of hard hitting jerry duncan and doug mayfield. the defense was awarded with two of the wins as in the gunn game the defense forced the gunn quarterback into his own endzone and his knee touched down for a saftey and a 9-7 win. on a rain soaked hod ray field the defense was superb as the offensive couldn't do a thing, but they didn't have to as the defense recovered a fumble in the endzone and then drove the trojan quarterback out of the endzone, and a 8-0 defensive win. most valuable player carl aldinger led all rushers with front row; dennis barnette, gary windslow, pete heSRaon, rafph bradley, pete vogl, sieve owens, jerry duncan, john haley, jeff schaffer, john togashi, mark bnterlich, nilsi yakouba. back row: john koo, jeff long, paul koo, chuck carey, mike gtapon, greg

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paly 7 woodside 6 paly 40 carlmont 6 paly 14 san carlos 20 paly 6 menlo atherton 0 paly 6 cubberley 19 paly 9 gunn 7 paly 8 ravenswood 0 paly 7 sequoia 20 twenty-five 239 yards in 50 carriers and an average of 4.7 yards a carry, hard running fullback john crane carried the ball the most times 72 to be exact for 305 yards and a 4.2 average, pete vogl had 52 carries for 189 yards and a 3.6 average, mike herling carried the ball 34 times for 117 yards and a 3.4 average, in the passing department aldinger completed 41 of 110 passes for 483 yards having his big day in the sequoia game as he passed for 305 yards, aldingers leading recievers were ron hinckley with 8 catches for 157 yards, in tackles mike herling led with 42 followed by geiger and crane with 35 each, coach jay vierra commented and said that carl aldinger, doug mayfield, jerry duncan, john crane, and jeff long are five of the bests prospects for next years varsity team. season scores geiger, roger heap, tom cooper, mark kelley, john crane, carl aldinger, mike herling, ron Hinkley, john foster, darrell iki, alan gehmon, gordon zack, mike van patten, doug mayfield, randy mcwilliams.