Difference between revisions of "Portal:1974 Spring Men/Memorable Events"

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(per Coach Byrd) - The turning point for the season was our convincing win over Cranwell, a team we beat with hard hitting football tactics, but this match we beat them with superior quickness, speed and passing.... in other words, at their own game, finesse.

In the finals of the Coors Cup, Al Osur was playing for the Barbos, and had Bobby Arnold not gotten hurt early in the second half, the outcome might have been different. Bobby was team captain and it was certainly entertaining and inspirational to play alongside him.

Dick Webber remembers a great game against Berkeley in a driving rain storm with ankle deep mud. In their scrum, they had lots of off-season lineman from their football team and their backs were a mix of linebackers & very talented Samoans. For him "it was a great education on how to play the game at a high level!"

1971 Warren Priddy selected to ERRFU and Western Collegiate Selects

In spring '74, Steve Riewerts, Ken Bradley, Kevin Stepko and Rich Carlson were called up from the B side to make the spring break trip to Monterey and NorCal to joind Jimmy Carter and Sal Reza, who were the only 76ers on the A side for the entire season.

Ken Bradley stopped playing in fall 1974 due to a neck injury, and Steve Riewerts had to sit out our senior season (75-76) due to injury