Woodbridge High School - Valhalla Yearbook (Woodbridge, VA)

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J. V. Football Weathers Stormy Season Tracey Shrador and Danny Cuccherini watch their defense perform. Jerry Turley and Chip Mathai await their turn. Coach Thomas gives the team the word at half¬ time. gw .J • ' ■ „ ii I L 18

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Mike Davis breaks through Stafford wall on a burst of effort. Viking’s offense shows its effectiveness against contender. “Go ‘Lightning’.” “Yeah ‘Bruis¬ er’. ” Those were the cries of Viking fans as Jimmy Little and Mike Davis combined with the relatively young offensive line to keep their scoring game alive. Also contribut¬ ing a great deal to the Vikes scoring was kicking specialist, Gary “The Toe” Orahood, who assumed the duties of placekicker. The widely known Woodbridge defense was actually a team de¬ fense with many outstanding plays brought about by individual effort. Three notable gridders were junior linebacker Weldon Burton, senior Courtney Hart, and Senior “Dyna¬ mite” Don Glass, who, with the remainder of this superb defense, kept the Vikes on top on the score- board. “Bobo” Manderfield confers with Offensive Coach Raines. The 1975 Viking Varsity Football Team. 17

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k m r mi W Hij ' Ay! | v Rain, rain, go away, JV football wants to play. Sound silly? Well, this helpless feeling of frustration often came over the JV football players and coaches with 42% of their already shortened season rained out. “Game experience is an impor¬ tant part of JV football,” philo¬ sophized coach Jim Thomas. “The more game experience the team got, the better they played. We had very little experience as a group when we started out. ” Proof of this assessment could be seen in the two games against the “super rival” — Gar-Field. In the first game the Indians reeked havoc on the Viking defense and controlled the game tempo. In the second game, the Vikings had a few sur¬ prises for the rampaging Indians. Our defense built a stone wall in front of our goal line and shut out G — F. At the end of the battle, the scoreboard held the results of all the sweat, sore muscles, and hard work. The score was G—F zero, WSHS zero. The teams had fought to stand-off. The JV season was a rags to riches story. Many of the players began the season on the bench and ended it in the thick of the battle. George Mack and Tracy Schroder were just two of the many outstand¬ ing players who burst into top rate players. Others were Ben Montoya, Pat Oden, and Billy Jones. The JV season was a stormy one, but the team built capable players for next year’s varsity. The 1975 Junior Varsity Football Team. 19 t