Alief High
Class of 72

1971 Texas Football Magazine

 

Dave Campbell has been publishing "Texas Football" magazine forever. Dave's website doesn't say how long it's been, but we have taken the Alief part from the 1971 magazine, and displayed it here without Dave's permission. Imagine the girls at Splendora and Hungerford high reading this and getting all goo-goo over our guys. This isn't exactly the way the page looked. It's our first experiment with scanning a news article, using OCR to convert it to text, and putting it up on the web. The reason we go to the trouble? Because a search engine can't read a scanned article, and won't find Steve Peterson's name if we don't! If you'd like to see the scanned article, click here (633K).

ALIEF
NO. NAME CLASS WT. POS.
96 Lee Menasco Sr 160 E
93 James Cernosek So 150 E
89 Steve Sekal Sr 215 E
80 Time Dones Jr 155 E
79 Steve Peterson Sr 240 T
76 Tom Lewis Jr 180 T
75 Phil Leberta Sr 200 T
73 Genaro Prieto Sr 205 T
72 Andy Holley Sr 185 T
67 Marcus Carpenter Jr 150 G
65 Ricky Hall Jr 140 G
63 Larry Laine Sr 186 G
61 Ronny Perry Sr 165 G
59 Gary Green Sr 165 G
55 Art Troscher Sr 150 G
53 Mark Saurage Jr 180 C
48 Wendell Heathcock So 150 B
40 Ed Landry Jr 135 B
39 Steve Cox Sr 155 B
36 Paul Scott Sr 155 B
33 Joe Tapia Sr 180 B
29 Steve Ogden Jr 130 B
25 Roger Walker Jr 160 B
20 Paul Drymala Sr 150 B
19 Jerry Woodward Sr 145 QB
16 Ronald Ping So 170 QB
11 Kenny Young So 155 QB

BEARS BANK ON LINE VETS

Alief found the classification jump, from Class B to Class A, highly taxing in 1970. The Bears limped home with a 3-7 record, a big drop from that 9-3 reading in 1969 when they made it to the Class B regional finals.

But Bill Hunter's Bears shoot for better things in 1971. Depth and experience in a legacy of 13 returning starters, seven from the defensive unit and six on offense, brighten the comeback picture.

Missing is a veteran quarterback and an experienced center but all other positions will be filled by veterans. And Hunter, along with aides Byron Rushing, Jim Goldsmith and Roy Henson, feel Ronald Ping, Jerry Woodward or Kenny Young will fill the bill at the all-important QB spot.

All three are improved passers and runners. The starting job is still wide open and the trio may share the work.

The offensive and defensive line is where the Bears, deep in experience for the first time in several years, feel they can challenge the 26-A pack, topped by defending champion Tidehaven, for the top spot.

The husky trenchmen include guard vets Larry Laine (186), Genaro Prieto (205) and Gary Green (165), tackles Andy Holley (185), Phil Leberta (200) and Steve Sekal (215).

Tim Dones (155), Marcus Carpenter (150) and Tommy Russell (160) earned their spurs as ends on the 1970 club. Hunter plans several line

switches, like sending Sekal to an end spot on offense, Leberta taking over a guard job and Prieto moving to guard.

Mark Saurage (180) is expected to take over at center, while Tom Lewis (180) could move into a starting defensive spot in the interior line.

In the backfield, Steve Ogden (130), Steve Cox (155), Paul Scott (155), Ed Landry (135) and Beau Sharbrough (120) are returning letter winners.

Ogden is the lone offensive holdover, while Ogden, Cox and Scott held down defensive jobs.

Extra running back help will come from Joe Tapia (180), a likely starter, and Roger Walker (160), while Wendell Heathcock (150), Rick Hall (140) and Ronnie Perry (165) are newcomers slated for defensive work.