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     Football is over once 
     
     again and as one looks , 
     
     back it can hardly be but 
     
     regarded as a great sea- 
     
     son. Faced with the des- 
     
     ertion of their head coach 
     
     and number one quarterback 
     
     the Panthers were regarded 
     
     assured bets for last 
     
     place. However,as everyone 
     
     knows it did not turn out 
     
     quite that wayas the Pan— 
     
     thers ended well with a 
     
     3-3 record for the regular 
     
     season and a 5-4 record 
     
     overall. Just how did a 
     
     team supposedly picked for 
     
     last place do as well as 
     
     they did? _ 
     
    

    
     The number one reason 
     
     has to be the amazing play 
     
     of the Panthers defence. 
     
     From the start they proved 
     
     they were going to be hard 
     
     to beat.Led by fourth year 
     
    

    
     man Peter Sprague,the front 
     
     four of the Panthers was 
     
     the toughest to run against 
     
     In the defensive backfield 
     
     the big little man of foot 
     
     ball Doug Crossman led the 
     
     way. Crossman, was over- 
     
     looked as an all—star pos— 
     
     sibly because of his size, 
     
     but it was his amazing sp- 
     
     irit and ability to sense 
     
     plays that kept the Panth— 
     
     ers defensive backfield 
     
     alive. This is not to take 
     
     anything away from the rest 
     
     of the defensive secondary 
     
     but I feel Crossman was the 
     
     leader. 
     
    

    
     On offensive the Panth 
     
     ers had a tougher job,to 
     
     find a replacement for 
     
     John Dionisi and most peo— 
     
     ple felt they couldn't.How 
     
     ever they didn't count on 
     
     Grant Canvin or Mike Read. 
     
     Amazingly, it seemed if 
     
    

    
     one had a bad day, then 
     
     the other could come on 
     
     the field and get the job 
     
     done. 
     
    
   
   
    
     The big man however 
     
     had to be Dick"Phantom" 
     
     YOst. Predicted to be a 
     
     perennial all-star dur— 
     
     ing his college years 
     
     at UPEI,Yost had great 
     
     difficulty in getting 
     
     untracked in his first 
     
     three years, but this year 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
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     Yost lived up to his ex- 
     
     pectations as he picked up 
     
     over 700 yards rushing and 
     
     ending up in third place 
     
     in scoring and making the 
     
     all—star team. 
     
    

    
     It was said that Yost 
     
     brought back shades of 
     
    
   
   
    
     Jim Foley now of the Mon— 
     
     treal Alouettes. For you 
     
     who haven't heard of Jim 
     
     foley,he was Mr.Everything 
     
     in his years at SDU and 
     
     UPEI.That puts Yost in 
     
     pretty high company but I 
     
     for one feel he deserves 
     
     it. t 
     
     Mentionning all the 
     
     great players on this team 
     
     would require me to mention 
     
     all the players on the team 
     
     Some stood out more than- 
     
     others but it takes 24 men 
     
     on offence and defense to 
     
     make a team and for a col— 
     
     lege of its size and fin- 
     
     ance,UPEI gave us a first 
     
     rate team. 
     
    

    
     Evident of this is the 
     
     number of players the Pan— 
     
     thers palced on the all- 
     
     star team;placing six,sec- 
     
     ond only to league leading 
     
     Saint Marys who had eight. 
     
     To this six: Dick Yost,run 
     
     ning back ; Dave Fox,end; 
     
     Gerry Edge,tackle; Peter 
     
     Sprague,defensivevtackle; 
     
     Steve Forse,defensive half 
     
     back; and, Al Stoddard,