Woodward High School - Treasures Yearbook (Cincinnati, OH)

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Bill hit him inthelegs and I stuck my helmet right in his ribs, and we made him scream .

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AUGUST 15 I like to get to practice kind of early, so it isn't rush-rush before the meeting. I usually come about fortynfive minutes early although it only takes about ten to get dressed. I had to adjust ail my pads today to make sure they felt right We had our meeting and we went over a few plays and I was surprised because I remembered most of these plays from last year. So then we went out on the field, and we went through calisthenics and agility drills, Next we worked on our block- ing fundamentals. Coach Campbell's driving us, He's saying that Elder's working that hard and Garfield's working that hard. It was hot out and after the first practice, I didn't feel like doing much of anything I just Iayed around for a while, but during practice I felt pretty good. I felt I was running hard. The coaches said I was hustling. After the second practice we worked on defense mainly and we still had to run sprints. That takes a lot out of you, running it in full gear, especially with our real heavy jerseys. My t-shirt was soaking wet, all the way down, and for a while there I didn't feel too good after practice. AUGUST 21 We were running plays offensively and nobody looked too good. The first team wasnIt firing out and the second team didn't know what they were doing. The linemen weren't getting on their as- signments fast enough and the backs weren't running hard. We were running an off-tackle play and James Williams came up to the line es- pecially slow, 50 Coach Campbell stopped every- thing there and challenged Williams to hit him Campbell said he wasn't afraid of him even with- out equipment because he was hitting so soft. Campbell got a shield and Williams came up hard and hit him and Campbell pushed him right back about five yards. 50 we knew Campbell wasn't fooling around and we ran the plays harder than we had been. We have to run sprints at the end of practice. Nobody likes this but only a few people refuse to do it They take leg injuries, and these people have to jog around the field. Doc Collins always

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drives his car around onto the field. Well, we're running sprints, and Doc's watchingi And these guys started walking around the field instead of iogging. With most leg injuries, you usually run it out 50 Doc took off in his car, following these guys around the field, making sure they ran. Just looking at it reminded me of one of those big Tiuie teams with the wagon behind it. IKUC-UST 23 I had to get up really early, about a quarter of seven, because I had to be over at school by seven-thirty for the scrimmage with LaSaIie. I couldn't eat anything I drank my orange juice, and then I got all my clothes out of the dryer and got ready to go to football. I got there about seven-thirty, and I felt a little more nerv- ous and anxious. I put on all my stuff and was ready to go. We were on defense first so I lined up oppos- ite the tackle. I was surprised because with these Catholic schools you expect some big monster to be playing opposite you. But this guy wasn't any bigger than me; he must have outweighed me by about ten pounds, When comparing a Catholic school to a public school, you think they realiy hit harder. But LaSalIe didn't hit hard at aiit They just came out like they had marshmallows in their shoulder pads. I didn't have a rough time on defense, except their backs hit pretty hard and it was hard to bring them down. I could have had a lot more tackles than I didj but I didn't follow through on the tacklesi I hit the guy and knocked him off balance but I couldn't bring him down. The offensive tackle didn't provide much opposition. In one play that Bill Stith and I made, and this is what the lineman wants to do, Stith was blitzing from the left side and he came straight in at the quarterback and I was coming in from the side and exactly, right when he was throwing the ball, Stith and I hit him at the same time. Bill hit him in the legs and Istuck my helmet in his ribs, and we made him scream. That's just what a lineman likes to hear. You want to know that you're really hitting the quarterback, making him feel it. It seemed like the referees were kind of hometown because there were about ten sec- onds left in the game and LaSalle had no time outs left, and they Wouldn't have enough time to run another plays 50 for no reason the offie cial calls an official time-out, stopping the clock and giving LaSalle the chance to run one more play, And they eventually scored on the play and won the game, three touchdowns to two AUGUST 26 Tony Pack quit the team today, partly be- cause he wasn't playing the position he wanted to and partly because he had a job in the book- room at school. Campbell was pretty upset about this. When we got down on the practice field, before we started calisthenics, Campbell told us about Pack. Campbell said that you'd have to be a fool to come this far and quit, to come through a week of summer practice, which is harder than any other practice, and then quit. He said that doing this from now on would be called a Pack, because Tony was the only one who had done it so far, He said from now on if anybody'd quit, held go out and buy a little doll and some pins and stick your name on it, and if you'd quit, every day he'd stick a pin in your doiii I guess he thinks he's a voodoo doctor along with a football coach and slave-driver. AUGUST 27 We went out to the scrimmage with Loveland and most of us thought it'd just be a joke, Coach Gray said that they probabiy just took the cows off the field and were cutting the grass. Every body around me was just talking and juSt not