Today, I am posting part of the team photo from 1972, the club's first season in orange home jerseys since the 1950s. Hard to believe the club finished 5-11 that year with all of the big names from US colleges that they had on the roster! Guys like Ray Nettles, Ron Estay, Johnny Musso (all rookies, mind you) as well as quarterbacks Don Moorhead (Michigan) and Rose Bowl MVP Don Bunce (Stanford). It was also the first full year in orange and black for actor Carl Weathers who played linebacker but was often injured.
Pictured (Back Row) - Hunsperger, Estay, Boice, Wilson, Ekdahl, Sugarman
(Middle Row) - Nettles, Anderson, Weathers, Dejanovich (Ass't Coach), Keys (Head Coach)
(Front Row) - Evenson, Guthrie, Gerela, Holm, Wilson
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DH
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