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Football Players Given Awardf^ At 18th Annual Civic BanquetBill Barnes, UCLA football coach, congratulated the award-winning football players, Thursday night at Shatter's 18th Annual Civic Football Banquet, saying, ‘•You are the fellows who gave a little extra/'Barnes also assured the winners that they should be proud of their achievements hut warned against being “smart alecks”, saying that no coach wanted that type of boy on his team.Barnes urged the boys to get good grades in school telling them that it will become increasingly harder to get into the school of their choice and that good grades would get them into almost any school.Barnes said that there were 22,000 students at UCLA now and that by 1989 there was an anticipated 27,000 that would register. He quoted other figures for .southern California colleges and universities to show the pressures being exerted for entrance to schools.Barnes, who started his careerat UCLA in 1950, under Red Sanders, has been head coach since 1958 and is in the midst of changing from the single wing offense to the T.Barnes “complained” about the schedule that faced his team this past season, with four out of town games in a row, one game at home and then two more away. The team traveled some 16,000 miles during the .season. Barnes is not anticipating a big wanningseason next year, since he is in the process of building a new system.Dick Witcher, Shafter boy who starred at UCLA this year and has another year of eligibility, accompanied Coach Barnes and his assistant, Sam Boghasian to the banquet Also present was Tom Ware, All-Metro Conferencetackle from Bakersfield College.Boh Mears, in introducing bis boys, also “complained” aboutShaffer's schedule which also called for four games in a row away from home. Mears said that Shafter would be in a new conference next year and that it was his opinion that this new set-up would he better for area schools.Bill Decker. Mear’s assistant end and linebacker coach, introducedSalvador Gonzales. Keith Ham-man, Robert McClain, Dan Morgan,Bill Pineda, Ron Torigiani, Ken Torrigiani,, Ricky Stott and Richard Young. McClain. Pineda. Scott, and Ken Torrigiani will be back next year. —Bob Hampton, interior line coach, introduced Don Bums, Ken Carlton, Grant Cooke, Louis L#-witte, Jim Engle, Harold Forehand, Jerry FWler. Loyd Go!leher, Dennis Kroeker, Larry Lowe. DonLundgren, Richard Miller, Ted Page, Bill Putnam, Ron Smith. Gene Sperling, Armando Vazquez, Glen Wilson, Dave Grisham and Ken Wittenberg. Back for next year from this group will be Goll-eher. Grisham, Kroek#f, Lowe, Lundgren, Miller, Page, Sperling, Vazquez, and Wittenoerg.Bob Mear3 introduced the back-fjeld players including B e I to n Banks. Steve Bryant, Danny Costello, Eugene Hand, Jerry Higbee. Richard Hoffman, Mike Hopkins, Mike Lane, Mark Larson, Carl McChnin, Steve McIntosh, Tom Sohroeter and Steve Steele, kckfor next year will be Bryant, Costello. Higbee, Mlntosh ami Steel#.Wes Foreman and Fred Cronk-hite introduced the Colonels andForeman made a prediction thatthey would win the title next ye« The Colonels tied for first this year, coming back after drnppin three and tieing one to start the season, finishing with six straight. (Continoscf on Page 2)
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Shafter Press
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Wed, Dec 16, 1964
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