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Little
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hired as its fi rst coach.
With no assistant and
only two transfer players
with football experience,
I knew it would be chal-
lenging.
My fi rst instructions
were how to put on the
football gear. Once on
the fi eld, I was in charge
of coaching them on
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individual skills and
fundamentals as well as
off ense, defense and spe-
cial teams.
I also had to measure
and line the rodeo are-
na where we played our
games. (on dirt).
Losing this season
would be disappointing
to the town of Spray; to
the seniors wanting to
play high school foot-
ball for their fi rst — and
probably only — time
and also as my fi rst sea-
son as a football coach.
Together, we were able
to be victorious six times
in eight games that sea-
son.
In 1980-81, I coached
the Siuslaw High School
JV girls’ basketball team.
Jay Scanlon, the varsi-
ty coach, allowed me
to keep several talented
players on my team be-
cause we wanted those
girls to experience suc-
cess on the court. Th is
team won 19 games and
lost but once in a home-
cooked game against the
Elmira Falcons.
Two weeks earlier, we
easily defeated the Fal-
cons on our home court
by 20 points. When the
buzzer sounded to end
our game in Elmira,
there were four start-
ing Vi-kings sitting on
the bench aft er having
fouled out. Even before
looking at the scorebook
I knew we were called
for over 30 fouls. By
comparison, the Falcons
were called for less than
10.
Th is season laid the
foundation for the Siu-
slaw Vikings’ future.
Led by now SHS Hall-
of-Famer Stephanie Os-
born, the Viking girls
went on to take a state
title in 1987. Th e loss
of this season may have
delayed the success of
the Siuslaw High School
girls’ basketball pro-
gram.
My 1986 SHS varsi-
ty baseball team won
11-straight games in
the middle of the sea-
son, with wins over
Brookings and Reed-
sport during that stretch
awakening Viking base-
ball support. Aft er our
11th win, I was instruct-
ed to have the players
wash their uniforms.
Not knowing we would
have such success, I told
the players, aft er beating
Reedsport 1-0, not to
wash the winners’ dirt
off their uniforms.
Now that we were re-
versing that idea, I did
add they did not have to
wash their dirty (win-
ning) socks. Poor play
—not clean uniforms
— resulted in our los-
ing the next game. Th en,
in a must-win game,
we missed the playoff s
when a passed ball in
the last inning brought
the winning run home
for our opponents.
Two of the six seniors
on that 1986 team would
go on to set Siuslaw
baseball rec-ords that
may never be broken:
Shortstop Piper Harris
scored in every game
that season and stole
57 bases; pitcher Dean
Anderson would pitch
12 innings in a dou-ble-
header against Brook-
ings without allowing a
single earned run.
When the 1990 foot-
ball season began, my
Siuslaw JV football team
had won 27 leagues ti-
tles in a row — and
I knew league teams
would be primed to end
our streak. During that
time, Coach Len Lutero
discovered that talent-
ed sophomores on my
team were game-ready
because each had played
considerable time as
freshman. As a result,
he began to move more
players up to the varsity
level dur-ing this season.
We were able to re-
main undefeated going
into the fi nal game of the
season at Gold Beach.
However, due to play-
ers moving up to varsity
(which is the goal of any
JV program), I was with-
out six players who start-
ed games for me during
the sea-son. In the Gold
Beach game, we found
ourselves behind, with
four minutes to play and
on our own 45-yard line.
We used the bread-and-
butter plays that have
been the foundation of
Viking football for three
decades.
We ran the ball. It was
veer right and veer left
until we scored with
under a minute to play.
Th at victory conclud-
ed four years of unde-
feated league seasons.
It was the most diffi cult
of all the undefeated JV
teams I ever coached.
Next week, I will fo-
cus on the parents in
the fi nal installment of
this three-part “what
if ” series. What is it
like for parents to miss
watching their athletes
com-pete, particularly
their senior year?
I will focus on one se-
nior season for each of
my athletes.
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