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and head for the locker room because it is now time for the team to report to the gym to get dressed out. When I get there, I turn the stero up really loud so
quarterback gets up very slowly and limps off the field. They will have to punt with fourth and fifteen. The punt is kicked, John Lee returns to their forty.
NOV~~BER_lO,J97:9 ..
A Day in the Life of an Anhnal
THE METEOR
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by Marshall Kearns Eleven-thirty rolls around and I feel someone shaking me me as
stops tne ruuoacK at the line of scrimmage and Sheridan polishes the operation off as he pounds
I sleepily come out of another's the runner to the ground. As I night's hibernation. With my pic;k myself up from the ground eyes still shut from sleep, I hear and tell the guard that was ateacher's voice inform me that I holding me, if he does it again, he have five demerits for an unmade shouldn't expect to live after- bed and some history book I wards. Back in the huddles,
tore up because I couldn't under- · Kemper calls a full front line rush stand what the author was trying on third and twelve, to rattle the to get at. After about five quarterback in the pocket. The minutes my vision comes to me ball is once again delivered to the and I fumble into the shower and QB's hands and just as Kemper turn it on. The water comes had 'planned, he drops back to
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touches on and the ball squirts out of the quarterback's hands. It falls right at Goon's feet and he picks it up and rumbles into the endzone for a defensive score.
The team goes wild, with the Bishops now on top by fourteen after the extra point.
The game never sways Bel- field's way with the Bishops finally winning by no close mar- gin. The defense has had a
superior day. And the offense has had a fine day·also. I know I have played an excellent game as
I see running backs who have
become victims of the Bishop's
:}lungry defense, limping off the
lfield in the other direction to the lBelfield locker room.
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down in an ice cold stream, and I cuss out loud.
pass. I rush the quarterback with all I have in me, grabbing the offensive guard's shoulder pads,
After some time I'm out of the
shower and dressed. Training l toss 'fii.in aside and drive
meal has started as I enter the straight at the quarterback. cafeteria. The team is sitting Templeton has gotten past his
around different tables talking about what ever pops into their mind. All the training meals are the same and the food has almost no taste at all but someone told
me it was good for me, so I manage to get the meal down.
man and immediately hits the QB at the legs and stands him up. With the quarterback looking me straight in the eyes, I deck him with all hundred eighty pounds of me. I jump up, Templeton is already up, he has a big smile on his face. I thank him for the free
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Afew hours after the training
meal, I emerge from my room hit. We both watch as the
lean get lost in my thoughts. But
this only last for seconds as backing, the ball is immediately
someone yells for me to-shut the thing up.I sit down in front of my locerk and go over all the defensive technique Mr. Mundy has gone over that week. After about fifteen more minutes of
contemplating defensive stunts
after I finish getting dressed out
and go out into the garden,
where Mr. Berry is going over
last minute changes with the
linemen. The team is then called
together, a prayer is said, and quarterback wanting to trap
the Bishops descend on the field. We loosen up, clappmg our h~nds criply in the cool autumn m, and after agilities· are done the line goes and sits on the ben~h waiting for the coin toss.
Belfield wins the coin toss and chooses to receive. They receive the kickoff, but every outlet is covered and Belfield's runner is decked at the 15. The Bishop defense trots onto the field, first and ten Belfield. Kemper calls a defensive stunt with me and him,
and as the Belfield linemen approach the ball, I suddenly get the feeling that the quarterback IS ~oing to pass, I try to put the nohon aside, but it keeps coming back, so I decide to take a
~~eoft~ehole, the tailback rams ad-on mto me, I grab him and
slamh'
lUI to the ground for a two
Yard loss. I want this game bad, now. I trot back to the huddle,
only get a leg, I can only hope another defensive lineman gets to Belfield's immobile quarter- back. My hopes are answered as I feel the quarterback's body
receive a jolting blow, his legs fly from my grasp and the only thing I'm left holding is one of the quar- terback's shoes. I pick myself off the ground, and throw the shoe to the l!l"ound. Then I see Brian Mathie;on get up and stroll back to the huddle, leaving the motionless quarterback in his path. After they replace Brian's victim. we start the ball game again, Belfield's ball second and sixteen on their own four yard line. Carter calls regular defense
in the huddle as Goon comes in to
give Mathieson a rest. The ball is he rruddle of the tackle-guard snapped and the quarterback bole. I was wrong about the pass, drops back to pass again. The _ut as soon as get to the other two defensive ends have been
chance. The ball is snapped and I IIX" . .
th w~th Carter and slam mto
wish the luck!
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team good
told to rush the passer, getting a bead on him, they crash down.
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Nash grabs him first but he rolls ou the hit and suddenly he is
~egoout of the huddle. The ball the guard's face mask and he falls 18 snapped, I set up low to to the side. The quarterback is P~~tec_tmy defensive zone, as the right in front of me. I drive ~ensi~eguard makes crisp con- myself at his legs and all of a
t With my shoulder pads. The sudden Yost hits him blindside, ~rd grabs me by the jersey folding the QB like a piece of ~n Yanks me to the turf, luckily stationary. Jimmy Nash, having
roxson has shed his man, he recovered · puts the finishing
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right in front of me, with only the one IS_ Ired up now. Kern- Belfield guard between us. I per calls a regular defense, and drive the palm of my hand into
every · 1
Under John Lee's quarter- driven into the endzone, with an
amazing show of running and blocking. The Bishops have their six and with a kick from Sheridan
it makes it seven.
The kick is covered again very
well. The two teams walk onto the field, first and ten on their ten yard line. On the first play I drive myself at the guard with the force of a freil!'ht train. I shed
Harrier's Update
him aside
inside his own ten yard line. I
and - lunge
at the
by Randy Meador Under the leadership of
.Coach Somerville the Varsity Cross Country team has com-
piled a record of 3-10 thus far. Injuries have continuously
plagued the team and Coach
Somerville feels that his har- 'riers are much better than their
record shows.
· The most recent victory was
over North Cross. The score of that meet was 21-35. In that meet Meador finished first, Tom Bauer, second, Garret Jeter, fourth, Walter Blades, sixth, and Frank Moore, eighth. After the meet, in order to cele...rate, Dave White was given a bap- tismal sacrifice in the showers.
In the Prep League meet, V.E.S. finished sixth out of eight teams. The Harriers beat RMA and Norfolk Academy. Out of 52
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runners Meador finishe