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EDITOR DOUG ROBB 79

Colonel John J. Clune Director of Athletics

Colonel Thomas L. Moore Asst. Athletic Director for

Intercollegiate Athletics

Colonel Robert K. Strickland Asst. Athletic Director for

Physical Education

Mr. James N. Bowman Asst. Athletic Director

for Candidate

Counseling

1976 Falcon Football

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1976 COACHING STAFF: FRONT ROW: Jack Leland KendaU. Mike Crimmins. BACK ROW: Martin, Jerry Davitch, Capt. Ed Hutt.

Braley, Maj. John Lorber Maj. Terry Isaacson, Ben

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BOTTOM ROW (L-R): Rod SUponski. Mark Fritzsche, Dave Podohiy, T. G. Parker. Jim Miller, Mark Kenney, Ken Wood, Craig Adams. Rob Shaw, Dave Slack, Gary MittelsUdt. Phil Richmond. SECOND ROW: Mack McCoUum, Mike Evers. Brian Carney, Arnie DouviUe, Jim Weidmann, Linwood Mason, Russ Clover. Russ Kline, Linden Torchia. THIRD ROW: Tim Furst, Greg Bush, Jim Rowland, Dale Reed, Tim Hoy, L. C. Crow, Tom Quasney, Bob Beckwith, Mark Cerise FOURTH ROW: Paul WUUams, Tom Moris, Ken TeBrink, Mark BusheU,

Mike Gee, Charles Greenwood, Ron Pointer, Russ Rosebush. FIFTH ROW: Steve Hoog, Charles McCausland, Jack Cucera, Kevin Swanberg, Jerry Coleman Tim Les Fyda, Long, Tom Foertsch. SIXTH ROW: Jim Colvin, Gerry Smith, Scott Jensen, Mike Bievenour, BiU Travnick, Jim Lee, Jon Hyde, Dan Hoida. BACK ROW: Vance Skarstedt, Dave Scott, Joe Bunecke, Scott Bream, Steve Schaefer Dave Reiner, Dennis Ladick, Brad Sinclair.

SPIRIT

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ROWDY FANS

FIRED-UP GENERAL

PRETTY GIRLS

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Falcons

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Pacific

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UPPER LEFT: Lt. General Allen tells Mike Bievenour how he used to take care of offensive linemen. MIDDLE LEFT: Jack gets a vicious stick

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against Pacific. MIDDLE RIGHT: Rob Shaw studies the fiats before unleash ing. LOWER LEFT: Falcons find the end zone in their opening game

against

Pacific.

as

Falcons Iowa St.

UPPER LEFT: Rod Shaw prepares to start the Falcon scoring machine. UPPER LEFT: Exhaulted Dave Slack signal, but unfortunately it was the only score for the Falcons that afternoon.

LOWER RIGHT: To the Falcon backs, it seemed as though the Iowa State defense was everywhere.

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UPPER LEFT: A typical Los Angeles "Spectacular Sideline Spectacle." UPPER RIGHT: Big weekend slated for the Los Angeles

sports fans. MIDDLE: Ken Wood tries a little horizontal acceleration against the Bruins. BELOW: UCLA quarterback fails to evade Dave a

Scott, as the Falcons put up fine defensive effort in the first

half.

Falcons

UCLA

7

40

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Falcons

Navy

UPPER LEFT: Navy cheerleader bows her head in disbelief as she watches the Falcons all but annihilate the Middies. UPPER RIGHT: mainstay of the Falcon ground attack: Ken Wood and David Thomas. MIDDLE : David Thomas blows Navy defender out of the action as Ken Dressel sails the punt downfield. BELOW: Dave Thomas cuts upfield against an already Sunk Navy.

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UPPER LEFT: Ken Wood fires out of the backfield to grab Rob Shaw's hand off. LOWER LEFT: Vying for position, Steve

Hoog

beats Kent State defender deep for the catch.

LOWER RIGHT: Despite being double teamed, Joe Bunecke snags one for a substantial gain.

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a study in coolness and poise. LOWER LEFT: Phil Carney hurl their bodies in an attempt to smother the CSU quarterback. LOWER RIGHT: End zone in sight, Joe Bunecke drives

ABOVE: Rob Shaw:

Richmond and Brian forward.

Falcons

CSU 100

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Falcons

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Citadel

UPPER

26

LEFT:

watches the

long

Mark

Fritzsche

bundles

up

as

he

develop. UPPER RIGHT: Thomas also performed well on the

afternoon

Running back David specialty teams. LOWER

LEFT: Ken Wood is deter

mined to get those extra effort yards. LOWER RIGHT: Falcon "D" swarms in on the Citadel Punter.

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UPPER

LEFT

AND

RIGHT:

Despite Army's

constant

harassment, David

Ziebart

still

unload.

Chandler

to

manages

MIDDLE:

does

his

against Army with his

Bob

part one

handed interception. BE LOW: The real victors of the

Army

game.

Falcons

Army

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UPPER the

LEFT:

Hoog hauls

in Ziebart's

pass. UPPER

Offensive Fritzsche

Eying Steve

defender,

RIGHT:

guard Mark whoops it up

after the super win over Arizona State. BELOW:

Fans,

players, grads,

and coaches go crazy/ berserk/wild in the endzone

liams

after

Paul

fantastic

Wil

touch

down catch.

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Falcons

10

Vanderbilt

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UPPER LEFT: The Vanderbilt defense gets the best of the Falcons this time. UPPER RIGHT: Dave Reiner grinds out yardage. BELOW: Dave Scott and Tom Albrecht let the Vanderbilt

feel about him.

QB

know how

they

Falcons

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Wyoming

21

UPPER LEFT: This inspira sure worked against the WAC Champions-Wyoming. tion

UPPER RIGHT: Dave Thomas awaits the pass as the Falcons run up the score.

BELOW: Fiesta Bowl-bound Cowboys had a futile day against the Falcons as shown here when the Falcon "D" swooped down on a fumble.

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1976 SEASON A YEAR OF...

EXCITEMENT

LET DOWNS

CLOSE CALLS

HEART BREAKS...

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BUT WAIT UNTIL NEXT YEAR

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