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Show Coach likes to fulfil team potent, tennis," but mostly ,tr really looking forward t0,na- so he can try out the", slopes of Utah. "'"t The freshmen's npw be this Saturday at 5 n 1 Stadium against na ional Mesa Junior College H Junction, Colo 9 Johnson has a wife, Connie, and three children: Christina, 5; Paul, 4; and Cheryl, 2. Keeps active In the off-season, the head coach tries to keep "active as much as possible - basketball, skiing and by CRIS COLEMAN Chronicle Staff "I think we're an excellent football team. We've got the potential po-tential to be a great football team. This is part of my philosophy," said Freshman football's head coach, Dale Johnson. Coach Johnson said that a positive attitude is important, not only in just performing, but in winning: "I'm never satisfied just to win if I know we've got a lot of talent. And if we're better than the other team, just to win isn't enough. I believe in trying to fulfill our potential -trying to get as much out of the kids as we can." Success is 'luck' But the head coach, who hails from Racine, Wis., changes from his usual positive attitude to one of modesty in explaining his phenomenal coaching success as "just lucky." Johnson brought with him to Utah eight years coachingjw-perience coachingjw-perience on the high school leM including three years as backfieW coach at Homestead H.S., out of Milwaukee, and five years as head - coach at Kohler, Wis. There his team played undefeated ball for four out of the five years he was there. And in 1971, Kohler H.S. w?s the number one ranked small school in the state. Athletic background Coach Johnson played his football years at the University of Wisconsin at LaCrosse, where he played quarterback and defensive safety for three years. He also played semi-pro football in the Central States League with a team out of Milwaukee for three while he was coaching at Homestead. Also during this time, during the summers, he was attending Northern Colorado State University, where he received his master's degree in 1967. Johnson came to Utah to work toward his doctorate degree. He specifically came to the University because it was highly recommended recom-mended to him by many friends and associates, many of whom attended NCSU with him. In his own words, he had "heard of the great program we have here and the great people who run the program: Dr. Hunter, Dr. Griffin, etc. Since we liked the west so much, we decided 'Let's go out here.' That's how we got started." Likes freshmen As far as his new duties are concerned, he says that "I like what I'm doing very much. I like working with- the freshman players. The experience I'm having this year with our group of people is just great." "I think we have a fine freshman staff. Everybody's working hard, and they're very concerned. They're putting many hours in, and I think the freshmen are very lucky to have the staff we have. And I feel fortunate to have the staff I have. They work well with the kids." Working for Ph.D. As far as coaching in the future is concerned, Coach Johnson expressed ex-pressed no desire to coach professionally. "My interest is in coaching football.. .and certainly, I would like to coach, at least stay in this type of level of football, not necessarily freshmen, but varsity-wise varsity-wise or freshman-wise. This is basically why I'm working for my At , t --f x , "W , I v DALE JOHNSON... . . .frosh football coach ' |