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COLONEL EDMUND A. RAFALKO Director of Athletics

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Charles W. Oliver Director of Athletics

Col. Albert M.

Nemetz

Director of Facilities

Col. John S.

Sparks

Jr.

Head, Dept. of Physical Education

Mr. Robert Peck Sports Publicity

Director

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FOOTBALL

STANDING: Copt. Don Ellis, Backfield Coach; Jock Braley, End Cooch; Leiond Kendall, Line Cooch; Nick Liontas, Backfield Cooch. KNEEL

AF VARSITY COACHES

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ING: Eldon "Spike" Hillstrom, Line Coach; Joe Moss, Chief Assistont; Ben Martin, Head Coach.

PRONT ROW: Larry Cook, Rich Wolfe, Gerry Cormany, Cloy Mogee, Co-Coptoin Lloyd Duncan, Co-Contoin Scott Jackson, Rick Cathcart, �Gt-'orge Gibson, Don Heckert ond Bob Bornes. SECOND ROW: Al iJutchett, Ken Hamlin, Tom Zyroll, Neol Starkey, Steve Roseman, Cij'l Janssen, Owen Ashbrook, Ralph Kospori, Mike Mueller. THIRD SOVy': Dick Holl, Sonny Litz, Mike Guth, Art Fisher, Corl Richordson, Lorry Cole, Jim Schultz, ond Russ Walker. FOURTH ROW: Bruce

Burkey, Dick Fallon, Bob McCuUoch, Ralph Eberhart, Mike Rengel, Tom Bitterman, Barry Cline, Dick Swanson ond Dennis Ryll. FIFTH ROW: Grant Thomas, Croig Boer, Jock Honnig, John Hayden, Gerry Wyngoord, Jim Hogorty, Mike Lang, Jeff Tobolski and Jerry Brinker hoff. BACK ROW: Bob Troy, Ken Medlin, Ken Zagzebski, John Dorger, Dove Allen, Mike Garner, Tom Kendoll and Dove Mumme.

FOOTBALL RECORD

(4-6)

AIR FORCE

OPPONENT

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WYOMING

10

WASHINGTON

15

NAVY

54

HAWAII

6

OREGON

17

21

COLORADO STATE

42

13

UCLA

38

6

STANFORD

21

20

NORTH CAROLINA

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The teams

Wyoming Cowboys, always in early-season

in the West

one

of the

gomes,

toughest completely

o seasoned array of Falcons to take the open gome for both teams, 13-0.

Our old nemesis, quarterback Rick Egloff, un leashed 0 bottery of smashing runners and his own accurate passing (16 for 28, 195 yards) to propel the

outclassed

ing

Cowboys a

33

to

yard

a

6-0 halftime lead, the

pass

score

coming

on

play.

In spite of several scoring opportunities in the first

half, we never capitalized, either by the passing or kicking route.

A tough Wyoming defense limited us to 65 yards rushing, and speedy defensive bocks allowed only 15 completions in 42 attempts by Steve Turner and Sonny Litz. Junior Jim Schultz caught 5 passes, one, a 64 yard strike down the middle, to pace Air Force receivers.

Junior tailback Lorry Cook led the seldom used rushing game, but these individual efforts still made us no better than 17 point underdogs against Washington on September 24.

WYOMING GALLOPS BY FALCONS

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Offensive captain Scott Jackson summed up the Falcon's 10-0 win over the Washington Huskies when he said, "We intimidated them. They didn't handle us."

The defensive line, led by Mike Rengel and Larry and Bob Cole, along with defensive backs Tom Zyroll hold McCuUoch, stymied the Huskie offense repeatedly, first downs. six and offense total 124 to them yards ing in the Wash Gaping holes were repeatedly opened alone accounting for the game rushing defense, ington Cook ond Dennis Ryll led the ottock 131

yards. Lorry

with 37 and 45 yards respectively.

The only touchdown come on one of Corl Janssen s this time on patented leaping, over-the-shoulder catches, In all, Litz hit on 14 of 24 a 27 yard Sonny Litz pass. with Jim Schultz again leading with 5 receptions. tosses,

Thing's

i

were

looking

up for the

Navy

gome.

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DEFENSE STYMIES WASHINGTON

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THE GAME! The Falcons continued their hardnosed line play, both offensively and defensively, and Sonny Litz hod another good day passing, (18 for 29, 187 yards) to propel us to our first-ever win over Novy, 1 5-7.

Heroes were plentiful ogoinst the Midshipmen Except for a 73 yard burst by Terry Murray in the first quarter, the front line, led by Zagzebski, Cole, Rengel, and Burchett, effectively throttled the Navy attack throughout the contest.

Offensively, the rushing gome was led by Mike Guth, with 54 yards in six carries, and Jim Schultz kept his overage of 5 receptions per game olive, including the big one, a perfect 28 yard scoring toss from Sonny Litz.

Jim Hogarty kept the Middies bottled up with his booming punts, and Dick Holl emerged os the biggest hero of oil, booting 3 field goals, including a gome-clinching 48 yarder in the fourth quarter.

As Coach Martin commented, this win really put the Air Force on the Nation's football map.

FALCONS KICK MIDDIES

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After the

figured

to

be

big a

win

cleared the bench the Rainbows,

over

Novy,

breather. It as

was.

the

the Hawaii gome

Coach Ben Martin

Falcons overwhelmed

54-0.,

Quarterback Craig Boer led the individual yards total offense, as the team ran up the second lorgest total offensive yardage in AFA history, 540 yords.

statistics with 248

Mike

Guth, Lorry Cook,

each scored 2 touchdowns their record to 3 wins,

one

as

ond

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Gerry Cormany

the Falcons extended

loss.

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bunch of rapidly maturing Oregon University sophomores come into Falcon Stadium on 8 October and capitalized on early breaks to down the Falcons 17-6

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the first quarter, quarterback his flanker-bock all alone for

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yard scoring ploy.

Led by Craig Boer, Air Force promptly started a drive which took them to the Oregon 3 yard line Then disaster struck On a roll-out pass, defensive bock Ken Klein stepped in and intercepted, going 99 yards down the sideline for the score.

The Air Force won all the statistical battles (ex ample: 20 first downs to 6), but could not cross the goal line until Mike Guth's 3 yard run near the end of the gome. It was just one of those days.

DUCKS DROWN FALCONS

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RAMS ROLL OVER FALCONS

In the Air Force Acodemy's second longest rivalry, hod never won a gome. The Roms corrected this deficiency with o vengeance this year, running up a 35-0 score before the Falcons could get

Colorado State

on

the scoreboard.

A strong running

attack, highlighted by some fancy ballhandling by quarterback Wolfe of CSU was the chief feature of their 42-21 triumph. Thot plus 5 interceptions ond three fumble recoveries by the olert CSU defense.

Sonny Litz finolly got the AFA attack rolling lote in the third quarter, leading the Falcons to 3 quick tallys, two coming on posses, but it was o cose of too little too late. Mistakes plagued the Folcons up to the end of the game, as we dropped our second in a row.

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BRUINS TOO

QUICK

FOR FALCONS

Until

a

71

yard

pass

interception late

in the

second quarter killed on Air Force drive and set up a score for the third-ranked UCLA Bruins, we looked

iike

anything With

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but 27 point

underdogs.

soph Steve Turner

at

quarterback,

we

tied the game at 1-1 on a brilliant 33 yard pass-run ploy by Jim Schultz. Shortly afterwards, o Dick Hall

field goal put the Falcons ahead 10-7. The defense stopped Bebon, Farr, and company and the Falcons started driving again. Then come the interception.

In the second half, the nation's most potent offense finally got rolling and just proved too much for Air Force. Another field goal was all we could muster in the second half as the Bruins rolled to their seventh in a row, 38-13.

Against probably

the

fastest

nation, and the best pass-rush

we

team

the

in

faced oil season,

Steve Turner made an excellent show, completing 7 of 15 for 142 yards ond one touchdown.

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For the fourth week in a row, takes and our inability to cash in

our

on

mistakes spelled defeat, this time by 21-6 to the Stanford Indians.

Moving tallied first

own

mis

opponents' a

score

of

well in the first quarter, the Falcons a 6 yard pitch from Steve Turner

on

Rick Cathcart. Presented several scoring oppor

by Stanford mistakes, we just could not come up with the big play. to

tunities

Meanwhile, the quarterback combination of Lewis and Washington constantly out-maneuvered the Falcons with nifty fakes and accurate passes,

and evened Stanford's record at 4-4.

In the gome. Junior end Jim Schultz tied the

single season reception mark of 33 and broke the yardage mark, to emerge the only real bright spot in

a

dismal game.

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FALCONS FLY BY TARHEELS

For the first time during the '66 finally got the breaks and capitalized

season on

we

them.

Against the North Carolina Tarheels, the Falcons utilized N.C. fumbles and o pass intercep tion by Barney Mills to score 20 points in the first half.

Steve Turner scored two touchdowns, on runs of 1 and 30 yards, and Dick Hall booted field goals of 27 and 42 yards, as well as the PATs, to send the

Falcons into the locker

room

at

half with

a

20-0 lead.

was on entirely different game. deadly passing attack and some timely running. North Carolina quickly closed the gap to 20-14. The victory was not assured until the injuryridden Falcon defense stopped the Tarheels on the 8 yard line late in the fourth quarter.

The second half

Unleashing

a

After a disappointing season, the Falcons almost mode up for a whole season of mistakes by outplaying the Colorado Buffoloes most of the game, and succeeded in knocking them from con sideration for

0

Bowl gome.

team, led in their Colorado fum forced Hogarty, charge by bles in the first half which set up three Jim Hall field goals and gave the Falcons a 9-7 halftime lead.

The

fired

up end Jim

defensive

Led by the running of Larry Cook and Mike Guth, and Steve Turner's passing, the offense ground out some 340 yards, but could not come up with the big play.

The game

was

decided

by

a

CU field

goal

with

less than 2 minutes to ploy. A fumble which gave Air Force possession was apparent to everyone save one referee, and it will long be remembered as the controversial season.

ploy

that gave

us our

sixth loss of the

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