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

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to describe this year's football team you could use many adjectives and any one would work, closing out their season in fine style by beating sequoia 13-7, coach bill donohuewill hope this winning spirit that paly has always had will come back to the campus in September, as this year's team was led by a strong defense there was no real break away threat on offense as paly has always had in past years, as the offense got going they would always find a way not to score when they got inside their opponent's twenty yard line, a unique ability of this team was they could get up for any game they wanted to. their scores were always close and they never gave up until the final gun sounded, even after games they had time left for extra-curricular activities, it was a pretty successful season as the green and white turned in a 4-3-1 league record, the defense was the proud part of the vikes' game, it was spearheaded by linebacker george barrall, tackle spencer jewel I, and defensive end don (reader) read, read was voted to the 1st team all-league at defensive end. the defensive play on the whole was very encouraging as they stopped top players around the league, the offense was led by the receiving of jeff munks and the quarterbacking of karl aldinger. the line play on offense was led by all-league selection spencer jewell at tackle, george barrall and wayne alien at guards and Steve bushnell at the other tackle made up the rest of the offensive line, as munks was catching passes, he was also winning the receiving title and earning an all-league spot, aldinger sparked the team all over the field with his great passing and ran the opt ion well, next year's hopes look bright as some good sophs will be coming up to fill the holes left by this year's seniors, with aldinger and'crane coming back in the backfield, the chances of a title at paly next year are not far off. as this year's team might go down in history as having one of the poorer records while at paly, they won't leave paly with nothing, they have defeated sequoia two years in a row and that's what the whole season is built up for, the little big game.