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Show Wednesday, August 10, 1977 JTHESS Paae 7 Brown Takes Crown In Heber Demo Derby More Dozier Interview Continued From Page 6 - Lowell Brown and his '65 Chrysler . A 1 J .;- l Park City's own Lowell Brown won the demolition derby held in Heber last Wednesday night. Brown, who led a Ritz Demolition Demo Team armada ar-mada of four cars, attributed his smashing success to a "well-planned attack." "I hit 'em easy when I couldn't hurt 'em and I hit em hard when I could," the three-year veteran said. "I went out to win this year and I got lucky." Brown said his '65 Chrysler "functioned like a well-tuned race car should," with only a temporary failure of the power steering flawing the otherwise stellar performance. to prize, the pridr Park City was permitted to drive his customized car in the Wasatch Wa-satch County Fair parades held Friday and Saturday nights. Having made good on his prediction of victory in the Heber event, Brown is now pointing for the demolition derby to be held at Ernie's sports complex on Labor Day. "If I win at Ernie's it's on to Belmont for a shot at the triple crown," Brown revealed this iwcause there are some people that would perceive this a the onl thing ue are going to (In I don't mind admitting that the lootball program is very important, it's the lirst event in the fall and it sets the tone lor the whole year It's big. but athletics are big and I think they build positive attitudes that have great carryover into other areas. Let me tell you about a weird phenomenon in Park City. Looking back to your immediate history, the people of this town plainly have a right to be totally turned off. They have a right at this point to be saying. "Hey. stick it in your ear. we ion t care " But you know something" I'm finding so much hunger, so much desire to get out and make something happen that I'm just turned on about this whole thing. I really feel good about it, Gary. I talked to some of the boosters the other day and 1 don't even want to talk about the past -to hell with it. I don't want to talk about why the problems (regarding athletics i exist. I just w ant to talk about what we're going to do. Let's look ahead. I met with these boosters and outlined live H.S. Football Begins Park City High football coach Richard Groth announced an-nounced Monday that football foot-ball practice, or "what is more popularly called 'hell week,' " will begin next week. Pre season preparations start Friday, August 12, at 11: am, when 9th-12th grade players will meet with Coach Groth for "Socks, Jocks, Shoes, and Mouthpiece Day" and full uniform distribution. A $30.00 fee will be charged for these items and full uniforms will be issued. Prior to reporting to the first football practice on Monday, all players must have a physical which can be Banjo Outplays Club The powerful Club soft ball team suffered its second defeat of the season Sunday morriingalCity Park as they ) were trounced by the Red Banjo ladies, 30 to 11. The Banjo, using heavy psychological warfare, had the Club players tense from iho ctort Banjo pitcher Pam Rapp-lean Rapp-lean was consistent and allowed few walks. Rapplean also boasted two grandslams; augmented by a grandslam by Pam Shepherd. Club catcher Mary Kinsella pounced on would-be base thieves throwing out a player at second, third, and home in the InsinP pffort An extra fifteen minutes of sleep almost cost the Rec. Dept. a forfeiture for tardiness. tardi-ness. but1 the-' well-rested squad woke up fast in the other ladies' contest. Taking advantage of tight in! ielding. the Rec. Dept. downed an, unenthusiastic Coal & Lumber Lum-ber team 26-4. arranged through the Park City Family Health Center. (Call 649-7640 and ask for Mike Anderson.) Groth describes practices as "two-a-days", which include in-clude daily morning and afternoon l14-to-2-hour sessions. ses-sions. "Training will include stretching, conditioning, basic ba-sic fundamentals, footwork, and form running," Groth said..:... v , ... , Subscribe . A X' X Jb '1? & 'X 'X 'X' '1? 'X 'X' 'X '1? '1? 'X f&t 'X 'X X 'X' fa GET A LITTLE ON THE SLIDE AND A LOT AT THE CORNER STORE AND ENJOY L(B Bslbs Saturday Aug. 13th & 20th Sunday 'Aug. 14th & 21st 2 p.m. -5 p.m. del icatesaen restaurant improvements we must make before we start . We've got to have a scoreboard We've got to have an experienced sideline crew ol at least three adults every game. We're going to have to erect a film platform. We've got to install a set of earphones in order to establish communications between the sidelines and !ie of the coaches up on that platform and we've got to film every minute of every game. The people of this town need to know that the Board of Education and the Superintendent have made every effort to help. They put up a pretty big sum of money and I went out and spent every damn cent of it. But I'm really talking in three phases here, Gary. First,- we've got to have the best gear money can buy, and that's where the money the Board made available went. Newspaper: Can I ask you what they coughed up? Dozier: $3500. Newspaper: Was this just for the football program? Dozier: I went down and spent $3485 for the football year, period. We bought new lids (helmets), new shoulder pads, new sideline capes for the cold weather and it's all first class gear. We didn't buy any cheap gear. Now, that takes care of the number one priority, protect the kids. Now that the Board has expended its funds and made the essentials available you've got to start on the next phase and start talking about building the program and that's where the film and communications systems enter into the picture. That sort of thing has got to come from the public. By the way, the School Board will pay for half the ' cost of the scoreboard and I talked to one man who has pledged $500. V Now, the third part of this is the sustaining part. You get grandstands, lights, track. It's a tnree-stage development. Newspaper: What are the people going to be able to look for this fall? Dozier: Well, this first year we're going to try to work on fundamentals, try to impress on the kids the need to become involved and motivated, and field a team that is somewhat representative. Next year we're going to be competitive. We'll be in there hacking at people. The year after that we hope to be a determining factor in the state playoffs. This is no overnight thing. We're not going to immediately turn this right around and the people have got to be realistic in their expectations. Newspaper: However, should the Mighty Miners put together a few victories, or maybe a couple of winning seasons, you'll find that the people in a town as sports conscious as Park City will attend games in greater numbers, especially with the new field. Dozier: The key could be stands and lights. Football became a Friday night habit in Woodland. We would draw 7.000 to 8,000 people. We couldn't draw flies on a Saturday afternoon or night. But it was a habit on Friday-night. Friday-night. That's where you brought your dinner, that's where you came to see your friends, that sort of thing. Now, hopefully, they'll be ready next year (stands and lights for the '78 season). But there just has to be a lot of people getting involved. To build that stadium in Woodland we raised $160,000 in donations, combined this cash with over $200,000 in donated labor, put up 40 candle power lights when most high schools had 10 and ended up with a facility appraised at $400,000. And it didn't cost the district a penny. Newspaper: That takes care of the tangibles. Now, how do you improve the mental attitudes? Dozier: From all I've experiences I truly believe a kid can't sit at home and hear his coach called a no good SOB and be expected to go out on the field and have the respect and admiration for him that it takes to get the job done. We need to be positive about it and look at these men and the task that's facing them realistically. THE Park City, Utah 4- t We need to look for the positive things to dwell and build on, not the negative ones. If our goal in the opening ball game is to get five first downs and we accomplish that goal then that is a positive thing and we applaud the coach that's out there doing the work. For $450 he could earn more shining shoes up at the local saloon. We need to understand that a coach, by himself, can't overcome negative attitudes and bad words that the kids are exposed to in other places. So everybody's got to buy a share of the positive approach that the good things are going to happen. But they may not happen overnight. It's my understanding that its going to be a young ball club this year so we'll have to go to battle with youngsters, but that's both good and bad. Bad for right now, great for two years down the line. There is no substitute for experience, getting your head ground into it and finding out what the mistakes are and how to correct them. This all comes back to film and a very sensitive aspect. How does a kid know he's blowing a job unless you take him to the film and show him? How is he to know what it takes to be a football player unless you take him to the film and say, "John, that guy across the line from you is a good football player, he s kicking the hell out of you, look what he's doing." Or obtain some film from a college athletic library and say, "Hey team, let's look and see some of the things these guys are doing." There's another thing we can do with the film. If the booster club wants to meet and view the film one night a week I'm sure our coaches would be more than pleased to get together for coffee and donuts and say, "This is what we're trying to do and look here, this is where we got hurt. Here are some of the bad things." Not that you're going to run a kid down, that just isn't going to happen. "This is what we didn't do here. Now this is why we looked good and were successful " Pretty soon you find your fans becoming more knowledgeable. Newspaper: And this contributes to a better attitude at home'' Dozier: Sometimes you have a proud father sitting in the stands and he sees his kid make a great tackle, I mean a real stick, but he didn't see the other 42 times where this kid was defeated. I've had fathers come to me and say, "Jack, why?" and I say, "Jim, come on into the film room in just a minute. I'm not going to comment, in fact I'll be outside. Here are the controls." Ninety-five percent of the time that resolves it. You didn't have to put the kid down, you just ask the father to be as honest as he could be while watching. Newspaper: I'm sure you were hired to improve academics as well as athletics, but do you think that your experience in the latter was the primary reason for your retention as principal? Dozier: Absolutely. The Board of Education made no bones about it. They indicated that they had heard the community and that, indeed, my athletic background and ability to build programs was probably the determining factor in my favor. However, let me stress, and this is the bottom line, we're going to try to establish and strengthen any program that affords us the opportunity to reach young people. To build some enthusiasm and positive attitudes whether that program be academic, athletic, or in the performing arts. It just doesn't matter. Building an athletic program is not greatly different than building an academic or performing arts program. What you need are your basic resources, dedicated people, and lots of energy. Get a lot of people involved and the rest will take care of itself. The Main Street Photographer is celebrating his third anniversary this week. I want to thank Park City for the warmth and generosity it's people have shown me. It is my hope to continue providing photographic service to our community equal or superior to what has been provided over the past few years. (A.L |