Football
- Preliminary Round
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- Lost to Yugoslavia (1-9) → did not advance
- Team Roster
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- John Carden
- Ronald Coder
- Bill Conterio
- Rolf Decker
- Jim Dorrian
- Svend Engedal
- Harry Keough
- Bill Looby
- Alfonso Marina
- Ruben Mendoza
- Lloyd Monsen
- Ed Murphy
- Dick Packer
- Zenon Snylyk
- Herman Wecke
- Siegbert Wirth
- Al Zerhusen
Head Coach: Jimmy Mills
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Famous quotes containing the word football:
“... in the minds of search committees there is the lingering question: Can she manage the football coach?”
—Donna E. Shalala (b. 1941)
“You can’t be a Real Country unless you have A BEER and an airline—it helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a BEER.”
—Frank Zappa (1940–1993)
“People stress the violence. That’s the smallest part of it. Football is brutal only from a distance. In the middle of it there’s a calm, a tranquility. The players accept pain. There’s a sense of order even at the end of a running play with bodies stewn everywhere. When the systems interlock, there’s a satisfaction to the game that can’t be duplicated. There’s a harmony.”
—Don Delillo (b. 1926)