Springfield College - Massasoit Yearbook (Springfield, MA)

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VARSITY FOOTBALL RESULTS SPRINGFIELD OPPONENT 62 COAST GUARD 0 13 AMHERST 3 20 ALBRIGHT 10 41 COLBY 7 0 NORTHEASTERN 19 0 A.I.C. 35 7 WAGNER 23 35 TUFTS WON 5. LOST 4 19 FOOTBALL THE CHIEFS IN 1967 HAD A WINNING SEASON. THEY WON A CONTEST BY THE UNBELIEVEABLE SCORE OF 62-0. THE WEEK AFTER THAT. THEY WHIPPED AMHERST COLLEGE FOR THE THIRD CONSECUTIVE YEAR. AND PROMPTLY FOLLOWED WITH TWO MORE VICTORIES. ONE OF THESE COMING IN SPITE OF THE FACT THAT ALBRIGHT. ONE OF THE TWO ADDITIONAL VICTIMS. RECOVERED THE OPENING KICKOFF FOR A TOUCHDOWN. AFTER THAT. THE COMBINED ADVERSITY OF STRONG OP- POSITION. CRIPPLING INJURY. AND AN UNSTABLE OFFENSE ALL CROPPED UP AND THE CHIEFS LOST FOUR STRAIGHT. OF THESE DEFEATS. POSSIBLY THE HARDEST TO ACCEPT WAS A 35-0 POMMELING BY A.I.C. SUDDENLY. THE TEAM WHICH HAD ALWAYS BEEN MARKED 8Y ITS GREAT DEPTH WAS OVER ITS HEAD IN INJURIES. COACH TED DUNN. NEVERONE TOMAKE EXCUSES FOR THE BREAKS OF THE GAME. WAS FORCED TO GO WITH A COMPARATIVELY LIGHTWEIGHT DEFENSIVE UNIT AND TO RELY UPON A GROUND GAME WHICH GENERALLY VMS A CRISP ONE. BUT WHICH WORE OUT TOWARD THE SECOND HALF OF THE SEASON. AND IN THE LATE STAGES OF THOSE FOUR LOSSES BUT DISMAL AS IT SOUNDS. THERE IS PRIDE TO BE TAKEN IN THE 1967 SEASON. THE TEAM DID NOT THROW IN THE SPONGE. BUT FOUGHT BACK TO NAIL TUFTS. 35-19 IN THE SEASON FINALE. AND MAKE IT THREE WINNERS IN SUCCES SION. INDEED A PROUD ACHIEVEMENT FOR THE SENIORS ON THE SQUAD WHO AS SOPHOMORES PLAYED A BIG ROLE IN THE 9-0 SEASON OF 1965. PAUL TIERNEY AND BOB TOUSIGNANT LED THE BRIGADE OF SENIOR PERFORMERS AS OFFENSIVE AND DEFENSIVE CO CAPTAINS RESPECTIVELY. THE OFFENSIVE LINE WAS HEADED UP BY SECOND TEAM LITTLE ALL-AMERICA CENTER. DICK DOBBERT. AT THE GUARDS WERE DICK WIEDL AND DON DELLO STRITTO. WHILE JOHN ECKERT AND JON FERRIS WERE IN POSSESSION OF THE STARTING TACKLE POSITIONS. AT THE END SLOTS WERE DON GREGORY. AL CAMPBELL. JAN FAULK NER. AND JEFF CRAW. AT QUARTERBACK. AL PROIETTE AND DOM GISOTTI SAW MOST OF THE ACTION WITH PHIL SIENNA AND AL CECE HAVING CRACKS AT THE POSITION LEFT VA CANT WHEN JOHN GRESKA BROKE HIS LEG IN EARLY AUTUMN PRACTICE. DOING MOST OF THE BALL CARRYING WAS POWER FUL SOPHOMORE DAVE BUDDINGTON WHO TOTED THE BALL 167 TIMES FOR 693 NET YARDS. BUDDINGTON ALSO LED THE TEAM IN SCORING WITH 36 POINTS. TED ALFLEN (236 YARDS). BOB SCHMONSEES (208 YARDS). AND PAUL TIERNEY (102 YARDS) WERE THE OTHER CONSISTENT BACK FI ELD PERFORM

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80YS WERE ACTIVE IN EXPRESSING THEIR OPINIONS CON CERNING NATIONAL ISSUES. A SIGN READING MAKE LOVE. NOT WAR. APPEARED WITH STEVE MAXNER EARLY ONE MORNING AS THE EDITOR OF THE UNDERGROUND NEWS PAPER. THE OM. DEMONSTRATED AGAINST THE WAR IN VIET NAM WHEN A UNITED STATES MARINE CORPS DISPLAY PROMPTING MEN TO JOIN THE MARINE CORPS OFFICER CANDIDATE SCHOOL WAS SET UP IN THE DUGOUT. SHORTLY AFTER MAXNER'S ARRIVAL. JOE SIDOTI PROTESTED MAX NER BY SITTING BESIDE HIM WITH A SIGN THAT READ THIS GUY IS A FOOL. AND HAD AN ARROW WHICH POINTED IN THE GENERAL DIRECTION OF MAXNER. THE DEMONSTRA TION ENDED WHEN MAXNER LEFT THE DUGOUT WITH HIS SIGN TAPED TO THE MARINE CORPS DISPLAY. THE SIGN WAS DESTROYED BY STUDENTS A SHORT TIME AFTER HIS DEPARTURE. AND STILL OTHER SIGNS APPEARED ON CAMPUS. BUT NOT IN PROTEST TO ANYTHING. THE FIRST WAS VIA A NOTE PAD ATTACHED TO A STRING. A SCRIBBLED HI WAS HOISTED UP BY THE GUYS ON THIRD FLOOR MASSASOIT. A CUPCAKE WAS LOWERED DOWN TO BREAK THE ICE AND A HERSHEY BAR WAS RETURNED FROM THE GIRLS FLOOR. SPRINGFIELD’S FIRST CO ED DORMITORY WAS IN OPERATION. DURING THE YEAR. THE DORM SPONSORED MANY CO-ED ACTIVITIES. IN- CLUDING BARBEQUES AND SEASONAL PARTIES. PERHAPS THE SITUATION WAS SOMETHING NEW FOR THE GUYS. BUT IT DIDN’T TAKE LONG BEFORE THEY BEGAN APPRECIATING EVEN THE COSTUME PARTIES. THE GIRLS. EVER UNITED (AS WHEN THEY DRESSEO FOR HALLOWEEN AS A GIANT CATER PILLAR). MANAGED TO OBTAIN ANOTHER FLOOR IN MAS SASOIT FOR THE FOLLOWING YEAR . . . 23

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ERS. ADDING OFFENSIVE PUNCH WAS MIKE ROHLFS WHO SET UP SEVERAL SCORES AND TALLIED ONCE BY RETURNING PUNTS FOR 302 YARDS. THE DEFENSE HELO THE CHIEFS TOGETHER FOR MOST OF THE SEASON UNTIL. RACKED BY INJURIES. THE DEPTH BE CAME EXHAUSTED. TOUGH MEN UP FRONT WERE DICK FRIEDMAN. JOE KANE. STEVE PARKER. BOB STEINER. AND DAVE HAWKINS. THOUGH NOT BIG. BY COMPARISON. THESE FIVE WERE NEVER PUSHED AROUND BY ANYONE. AT THE LINEBACKING SLOTS WERE JIM GILLIS AND JIM KRISKOWSKI. BOTH EXTREMELY HARD TACKLERS AND FAST REACTING PLAYERS. IN THE BACKFIELD WERE TOM LE BLANC. AL CECE. CO CAPTAIN BOB TOUSIGNANT. AND ART HALL. ALL OF WHOM WERE HURT AT ONE TIME OR OTHER DURING THE SEASON. IT WAS A SEASON OF ALMOSTS. IFS. AND BUTS. 8UT THE FACT REMAINS THAT THE TEAM NEVER GAVE UP. AND THERE IS SOLACE TO BE FOUND IN 1968. WHEN CHANCES ARE. THE CHIEFS WILL PULL IT ALL TOGETHER FOR ANOTHER RUN AT THOSE TANGERINES. VARSITY FOOTBALL: FIRST ROW: FRED GRESSLER. HARRY HOVER. FRANK POLLOCK. HAROLD DROWNE. WILLIAM THAYER. WILLIAM GUZZE. ROY THOMPSON. STEVE SARNOFF. CHAS REDMOND. MIKE ROHLFS. BOB SWtt EL. AL PROIETTE. JON FERRIS. JIM FEUO. WILLIAM FEID, TOM RYAN. K KNOGHT. KOND ROW: GREG MAZUR. PETE GIGONE JOHN ECKERT JOE SIDOTI. TEO ALFLEN. DON GREGORY. JIM GILLIS. ART HALL. AL CAMPBELL. PAUL TIERNEY. 808 TOUSIGNANT. TONY MZZUTI. STEVE PARKER. DAVE BESSITTTE CHAS. SAWYER. 808 FLAHERTY. LEN WALENCIKOWSKI. BILL DAVIS. DAVE SAGE. NICK PANNES. THIRD ROW: LARRY MARTIN. COACH C08B. COACH OUNN. V. RAMSEUR. JIM KRISKOWSKI. BOB SCHMONSEES. JEFF CRAW. DOUG RUBIN. JON ROSE. DICK DOBBERT. GREG VENNELL. BOB STEINER. HANK BETCHER. JOE KANL MEL KALMAN JIM GIORDANO JOHN GRESKA. CARL TORRICE. COACH MANCINI. GARY WILCOX. JACK CHANRNEY. FOURTH ROW: PAUL BRYNTESON. DOM GISOTTI. JOHN HEGEN BART RAY ZlPKO. NICK K TALIS STEVE SPENCER. KEN RAVIZZA. JAN FAULKNER. BARNES. MORROS. DON DELLO STRITTO. BILL EARLE. LIBBY. TY SULLIVAN. DAVE HAWKINS. WALLY DAVIS. TONY AFFILITO. DAVE BUDDINGTON. KEN BLOECH. JOHN HUGHES. TOM LE BLANC. AL CECE. 25