Young Athletes - Courtesy of Steve Gerard

Dick Lingstrom, Bill Ferry, Dan Collins, Dave Lodico, Howard Lingstrom, Bill Serandos

2nd row Bob Erickson, Ken Jacobs,Bruce Soukup, Steve Gerard Gerard, Bill Foley, 

3rd row Bruce Harter, Keith Nargang, Mark Babcock, Paul Carther.

ROW 1 - Manager B. Swanson, J.Culbertson, G. Small, J. Wignall, S. Gerard, M. Rosenberg, Walt Karstens, D. Ausmus, D. Ackerland, Mgr. J. Schneck, 

ROW 2 - Manager J. Kron, R.Ramirez, D. Frazier, J. Ries, J. Prouty, F. Bell, C.Munn, B. Johnson, S. Hall, H. Lindstrom. 

ROW 3 - S. McIntire, D. Coopman, L. Eyre, W. Forgie, K. Nahrgang, J. Hall, A. Efflandt, R. Peterson, ROW 4 - Coach K. Wilt, D. Jones, M. Householder, L. Koile, G. Keller, S. Warren, M. Creen, M. Bisbey, J. Rounds, Coach Miller.

From the PowWow -
John Deere's 9th grade championship team was not one of the biggest, but one of the fastest and hardest as their record of 5-1 proves.John Deere lost its game to Coolidge by a 13-7 margin.The lessons learned from the Coolidge game were well put to useagainst Franklin by defeating them  20-6. Orange, Central, and Washington,were completely shut out. John Deere's last game with Wilson was one everyone wanted to win.The Spartans started the game as underdogs but came out on top with a score of 27-0 to become conference champs.