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T earns Develop Overall

Along with New Coach Coaches constantly change the line-up

s Dan Frazier, sophomore coach, said that sive guard Ken Boysen starts to remove his helmut as he
ophomore football team not only four quarters without letting down at all."
to find the right combination.
Here Sophomore Offen·
added more players, but also a new
walks off the field.
(W. WILSON )
coach. Business teacher Jeff Alfrey. "there was a great deal of talent that will do
The team accepted him readily and no very well in the Millard North varsity pro-
major problems were encountered. Alfrey gram."
said he had to learn a new offense, though. As for the freshmen football team, they
The overall record was 2-6, but Alfrey ended the season with a similar record of 2-5,
said, "about the last four games were lost by and Coach Jeff Salberg summarized the sea-
only six points so we didn't get blown out." son by saying the team played "pretty well and
Injuries however did play a major part in improved throughout the year." He added
the last half of the season. A few key injuries "the players steadily got better with each
to linemen caused people to be moved to dif- game."
ferent positions. Another factor was the For the future, Salberg said the players
weather. All the rain affected the passing "have enough experience for the sophomore
game so the sophomore team relied more on program and will do well on varstiy." He also
their running game. mentioned that the team numbers were down
Alfrey said some of the tougher teams from previous years, but they played "the
they played were Millard South, Creighton same" as the freshmen team usually does.
Prep , and Omaha Central. Through the year, the freshmen came up
Sophomore Mike Alvano said the team against such tough teams as Creighton Prep
was "bigger and stronger" than in previous and Omaha Gross, which gave the freshmen
years. two of their losses. fN
Alfrey said Millard South was the team's
best game because "we ended up playing a full Kathy McCullough

Several Thomas Jefferson players try
to stop the running efforts of Freshman Tail back Mike
Whitney as he tries to slip around the side. (l. WING -
ERT )

Freshmen Quarterback Rob Krause
checks to make sure everyone is lined up correctly be-
fore the ball is snapped to him. (P. MAHONEY )

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