William H Taft High School - Atinian Yearbook (Woodland Hills, CA)

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.LV Now, what you hear is not a test We're just driving for the scoop And me, the ball, and my friends Are gonna try and play some hoop You see, we are Taft High And we'd like to have some fun We're gonna blow away all the other teams Because we are number one l'm bonafide, l slip and slide I am the man they call the glide l like to ram an awesome iam And make a funky move when l sky for the slam Funk dunk, slam jam, whatchya gonna do today? l'm gonna get up, fly guy, and l'm gonna get down And then l'm gonna shoot the J Playground, schoolyard, basketball gym lf your rim is still intact Then it's time to break it in. Have you ever gone over a friend's house to dunk And the court just ain't no good? l mean the floor's all slippery, the rim is bent And the backboard's made of wood. Like a Magic drive that isn't good Like a backboard that's made out of wood Like a homeboy who likes black-eyed peas Like a brother with White Man's Disease Like Like Like Like You You And You You You You You Like Like Like Like Like Like Like Like Like Like o BASKETBALL Front Row: Kevin Page Wendell Haynes Gary Cohen Van Johnson Paul Okui Brett Bonello Top Row: Mr. Jim Woodard, Coach Octavies Ramsey, Manager Alex Balke John Carrabino Tom Permutter Mark Shepard Craig Morris Larry Rappaport Coach Roger Wils a 20-foot lay-up that isn't sweet Hannibal without his feet a fast break without the ball Kareem not standin' tall got to be hot to be cool got to make the other guy play the fool if you want to stay cool, you got to stay hot got to call face when you make the shot got to get up to get down got to get mean when you're snatchin' a 'bound got to be bad to be good got to smash the glass and slap the wood the Doctor driving to the hoop an alleyoop jam to the Coop the Magical one doin' it all the Doctor making a house call Dawkins putting down a jam the Iceman gliding in for the slam Chick Hearn callin' the play Normy Nixon shootin' the J flyin' on the break, and makin' the sky bein' the best-we are Taft High! -John Lucas- on -1 1.-1+ ,.,, 0 o ...f I ff K ,f

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VARSITY BASKETBALL il Q fm VARSITY BASKETBALL- Front Row: Greg Cohen, Craig Perlmuth, Derrick LeDuff, Kurt Flehinger, Scott Chortkoff, Rob Leonard. Row 2: Coach John Furlong, Chris Vander Geest, Mike Giar, Derrick Taylor, Kevin Haadvedt, Bryan Howard, Brad Mouer, Coach Woodard. 94

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BEE AND CEE BASKEEEBALL BEE BASKETBALL-Front Row: Andrea Brooks Cmanagerj, Steve Lee, John Lucas, Jim Nolan, John Tamburro, Eddie Gaines. Row 2: Coach Glenn Goodstein, Perry Griffith, Rick Gamboa, Donald Woodard, Arnell Mickell, Lenny Holness, Roger Mclntosh, Doug Coleman, Coach Drucker. CEE BASKETBALL-Front Row: Jeffery Davis, Robert Scott, Richard Mzotkin, Gary Klein, Alan Barkman, Row 2, Coach Glenn Goodstein, Jerome Newton, Darcy Washington, Charles Riley, Alfred Taylor, Jeff Siembieda 1 - ,. Brad Elkins, Coach Drucker. ' ff- fl- -1 ,,..f ffl 96