Weston High School - Key Yearbook (Weston, MA)

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Above: The rear of the Wildcat line as it drives on to victory (7-0). WHS 13 20 7 0 0 6 0 7 19 FOOTBALL VISITOR 14 Dover-Sherbom 7 Concord-Carlisle 0 Medway 22 Holliston 42 Hopkington 27 Bedford 22 Boston Latin 35 Norwell 20 Wayland V. 2-8 J.V.4-6 Front row: D. Griffith, R. Strachan, B. Williams, J. Pappas, R. Karofsky (captain), R. McCracken (captain), M. Clabault, R. Stewart, J. Haas, R. Mosher, Coach Neild. Second row: K. High, S. Mallett, M. Cassarino, R. Sommers, G. Cort, S. Perilli, M. Lewis, T. Callahan, D. Manning, R. Cleary, A. Melone. Third row: C. Trousdale, S. Mosher, T. Holmes, P. Lynch, J. Clairborne, A. Benotti, M. Sullivan.J. Campisano, G. Haufler, E. Wyman, K. Abbott. Fourth row: G. Jackson, T. Munson, K. Munnell, M. Rashotsky, L. Grady, K. Crane, M. Dolins. D. Vernon, M. Jones, R. Gupton, Coach Baldanza. Fifth row: Coach Taberski, S. Perryman, W. Berkovitz, R. Walker, J. Perry, Coach Curran, Coach Nichols. Missing: D. Irving, C. Jackson. D. Jones, E. Crane, D. Wolfson, J. Metcalf. 20 The Best Part Football

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Hidden Talents But The Players Remained Below: Mels Flutie B eing a member of the football team has been a bittersweet existence. Let me explain the bitter part. First there’s pre-season. The football team traditionally goes off to football camp at a location at least 100 miles from Weston. The reason for this distance is to discourage any thoughts of running home in the dead of the night (not that anyone has the energy to run). Camp features sweaty locker rooms, fine cuisine and the patented Baldanza wakeup, a combina¬ tion which has broken many a brave foot¬ ball player. After pre-season, the football player has three months of practices to look for¬ ward to. He starts his season when it’s too hot for pants and finishes it when snow threatens. And perhaps the most bitter part of all lies in the fact that all of the work and time Below: Turkey Day Touchdown — The Wildcats were defeated by a mere point. put into the team never seems to show up in our win-loss columns, a fact of which we are all well aware (we have been re¬ minded enough times). But before I sound self-pitying, let me say that I ' m glad I ' m a member of the football team. The other football players could easily have played soccer or run or done nothing at all and avoided the em¬ barrassment of a losing record. But the players remained because they loved to play the game. Football has been a very important part of my years at WHS and I hope that it has been as much so for my teammates. We may not have had the record of Weston ' s soccer team, but we never did quit. This knowledge makes being a football player a great experience. □ James Haas Below: Team captains Rob Karofsky and Reed McCracken. Above: The Weston defense held its ground in this 7-0 shutout. Above: The 1984 Seniors. The Best Part Football 21