Sanderson High School - Lakonikos Yearbook (Raleigh, NC)

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Soccer's chances of be- coming our fall sports favor- ite are improving each year. Attendance at this year's home games totaled 700-800 people. While the size of soccer crowds does not even approach the more than 10,000 people who came to football games, the number of paying spect- ators has enabled soccer to become a financially self- sufficient sport. If soccer games were played at night, parents and students who work would be able to attend. The increase in crowds might stim- ulate the same social atmos- phere that now prevails at football games, catapulting soccer upon a new wave of pop ularity. Increased student participation has done much for the cause of soccer. In the beginning, only those who could not play football tried out for soccer. Now many of the schoolls better athletes are playing the game. This increase in talent is bound to improve the soccer program at Sanderson. The crowd support and the cheerleaders really help the team get psyched up for the game and play better. Bob Cramer The soccer team felt a responsibility to play better than the football team. David Thomas 47

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For the past half century, football has completely dom- inated the fall sports scene in America. This monopoly has been complete and without the threat of any serious compet- ition. However, this next half century may witness the emergence of soccer as a seri- ous threat to the popularity of American football. Soccer is in itself a dominating factor throughout the rest of the world, a truly internat- ional sport. V' ,- K., ft , A 3 s - 'w fy '- u '-A A f -Y ,it f Av: . 1' d L ' E, 'iw .7-:1 -Mist , A ,Q V ,xt if 1 f? ..,.. Y - .... . , ' i 1 K 1 t ' 4-'t ' - ' 1 I ' K K in K. , W.. i ..i.t 4 + i - qwsesst-emi'-v :-asisLeia.:Q3fsa41sf5-klsxiixifi'-Sai?-Seiisfks, .Tic 'ff f ' ' ' occer is a great spectator sport and its a lot of It,s probably the itil sport in the world. David Iohnson 46 FooTsRAvvL At present, football is an American pastime of grand i and glorious pageantry. Ac- companied by the crimson color of turning trees and the noisy excitement of marching bands, football arrives with a grand- eur far surpassing that of any other fall sport. Perhaps the sights and sounds of football are what attracts us in droves to the stadium on Friday nights to shiver and shake on cold, aluminum seats. The sporadic and short lived action is certainly not the major ap- peal of high school football.

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I think we resented the football team a little because of the money and I thought the crowds were attention they get, but I think we have the the greatest this year. Even soccer will be bigger best support in the when we were losing, they than football within city. were still behind us. 12 years in the US. Mike Smith Dale Craft Charles Bennett 48