Royal Valley High School - Panther Yearbook (Hoyt, KS)

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The Panther Offense marches downfield against the Rossville Bulldogs. Once again, Coach Holloman en- joyed a winning season as Chief Strategist for the RV Freshman football team. Assisted by Coach Jeff Hill, the Freshmen compiled a 4-2 record. Although plagued by injuries, the mighty Frosh Panthers managed to come back from two 84 Frosh 4-2 early losses and win their final 4 games. Despite their meager amount of players at the finish of the season, the Frosh Panther team was able to finish strong and give a new ray of hope as the future of RV football. RV Varsity (L-R) Front: R. Danks, T. Dillner, W. Gilliland, S. Link, M. Harter, E. Webb, K. Beam, M. Poort, J. Stauffer, E. Linden, C. Wahweotten 2nd: T. Unrein, B. Keller, S. Day, T. Butler, F. Forsberg, J. Lee, J. Brown, E. Beam. C. McClane, T. Joy, C. Cox 3rd: M. Gilliland, B. Hamlin, G. Baxter, J. Shenk, D. Blazic, T. Barger, L. Parrett, T. Bowden, C. Musick, C. Leonard, D. Lee Not pictured: T. Todd RV Frosh)(L-R) 1st: J. Garcia, B. Dodds, J. Stithem, T. Joy T. Staerkel, F. Quimby. B. Hill 2nd: Coach H611oman, B. Mattwaoshshe, S. Dillon, B. Delaney, M. Winter, S. Goodrel, T. Martin, S. Bowden, N. Kesler (MGR). L. Sosna (MGR) 17 Steve Dillon makes an interception against the HoJton Wildcats.

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Tri-Sectional Season At RV Led by captains Will Gilliland and Tim Dillner, this pledge incit- ed many pre-game warmups for the 1984 Royal Valley Panther football team. Who we gonna beat be- came a team motto that led the Pan- thers to a 37-0 Homecoming victo- ry over the ACCHS Tigers and a 43-21 massacre of the Holton Wild- cats 3 weeks later. The season started out slow with the Panthers playing well for 1 half and not so well in the other. Then, on Sept. 21, after 4 quarters of in- tense play the Panthers scored 37 points and held the Tiger offense to six yards. This was the beginning of the second section of the season. The Panthers followed with the much enjoyed Holton Massacre. After the 1st half the score was tied at 21 with another tough half guar- anteed. The Panthers returned in the 2nd half, scoring 22 points allowing 0 for the Wildcat offense. This made the final score Rv 43, Holton 21. The season then slid into the fi- nal phase of the year, with the of- fense faltering the defense un- able to hold its opponents as it had in prior games. Head Coach Jeff Gustin was asked how he felt about the year and what was in store for next year. According to Mr. Gustin, although the team was young with many seniors that didn't have a lot of playing experience, the reason they did so well was they played as one unit. He also stated that next year many individual records should be broken and that returning mem- bers have a lot to look forward to. 16 RV Seniors (L-R) Front: Eric Linden, Troy Sprecker, Carl Cox, Jeff Stauffer, Chuck Wahweotten, Roy Danks, Fredrik Forsberg 2nd Matt Poort, Will Gilliland, Eric Webb, Kevin Beam, Mark Harter, Shawn Link, Tim Dillner

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RV STRIDES FOR THE FUTURE After losing five varsity seniors to the graduating processing, one might be led to believe that the following years program might suffer. This was not so at RV during the cross country season, because ot a few seniors some very talented underclassmen. Indeed, they were 8 striding for the future . Not only did the teams do very well against their competition, but also they managed to fight the ever present practice blues and small number problem. The year was highlighted by a 3rd place at the Perry Invitational for the men, and having all three members of the women's team place in the top 12 at League. Next years cross country teams should do very well next year. The only problem forseen by Coach Hayn is that there isn't enough interest in cross contry; however, if more people would take interest in the sport Royal Valley cross country could be a very bright star in the future. 1984 RV Cross Country (L-R) 1st: C. Leonard, S. Staker. 2nd. P. Goodrel, E. Wabaunsee, H. Poort. 3rd: N. Ward, F. Forsberg, C. Cox, S. Link, M. Kern. Not Pictured: T. Zule. Below: Carey Leonard, Carl Cox and Steve Staker move up in the pack at the Holton Inv. Far Right: Heather Poort and Elizabeth Wabaunsee outpace an opponent at Silver Lake. 18