The roster
| Steve Cockreham | QB | Lusk |
| Tom Wilkinson | QB | Greybull |
| Don “Skip” Anderson | RB | Greybull |
| Frosty Franklin | RB | Powell |
| Larry Garcia | RB | Laramie |
| Herb Mapp | RB | Natrona |
| Garry McLean | RB | Evanston |
| Jerry Gadlin | WR | Cheyenne Central |
| John Godbe | WR | Laramie |
| Larry Martoglio | WR | Cody |
| Randy Sanderson | WR | Star Valley |
| Don Westbrook | WR | Cheyenne Central |
| Lew Roney | TE | Laramie |
| Rick Tanner | TE | Byron |
| Barry West | TE | Cheyenne Central |
| Nick Bebout | OL | Shoshoni |
| Dennis Havig | OL | Powell |
| Jess Manzanares | OL | Rawlins |
| Tom Massey | OL | Basin |
| Mel Olson | OL | Star Valley |
| Glenn Patterson | OL | Worland |
| Jeff Probst | OL | Greybull |
| Kent Ramon | OL | Green River |
| Milan Trbovich | OL | Lander |
| Steve Anderson | DL | Douglas |
| Kent Bloomfield | DL | Evanston |
| Chris Johnson | DL | Laramie |
| Martin McGuffey | DL | Cody |
| Dave Schilling | DL | Natrona |
| Tom Thompson | DL | Lusk |
| Herman Williams | DL | Natrona |
| Terry Ackerson | LB | Laramie |
| Benny Bowman | LB | Laramie |
| Dave Carter | LB | Rock Springs |
| Tom Gorman | LB | Guernsey |
| Jim House | LB | Laramie |
| Tim McKinney | LB | Lander |
| Keith Nate | LB | Cokeville |
| Everett Befus | DB | Riverton |
| Allen Frude | DB | Laramie |
| Larry Hinton | DB | Riverton |
| Jim Isaac | DB | Hanna |
| Wendell Jackson | DB | Cheyenne Central |
| Greg Kipper | DB | Laramie |
| Dan Silbaugh | DB | Newcastle |
| Jim Ward | DB | Buffalo |
| Tom Binning | Rover | Pine Bluffs |
| Rollie Parkison | Rover | Tongue River |
| Scott Freeman | K | Laramie |
| George Squires | P | Laramie |
| Orlando Cordova | RS | Shoshoni |
| Craig Laker | ATH | Star Valley |
| Dick Sherman | ATH | Cheyenne Central |
Hardest players to leave off the team: Mike Jay and Charles Gulley (Torrington); Wally Stock (Star Valley); Ken Madia (Sheridan); Dan Bush and Dan Siek (Natrona); Rick Carroll (Wheatland); Mike Murdock (Big Piney); Mark Hopkinson (ugh) (Mountain View); Jerry Hart (Shoshoni); Tom Bramlet (Lusk); Bart Parham (Laramie).
Addition (7-21-24): Another player who deserves special consideration is Glenrock’s Ron Stewart. He scored 36 (!) touchdowns his senior year as the Herders went a combined 26-1 his final three years. Stewart was killed in action in Vietnam. (Thanks to a current Wyoming head coach who let me know about Stewart and his story.)
Impressions: This team’s makeup definitely represents the approach of the time — run the ball, stop the run. Running back and linebacker in particular were full of a lot of athletic dudes, making those choices particularly tough. … Offensive line averages 203 pounds, defensive line 206. … I wish we could have seen Rollie Parkison’s senior year. A couple all-decade players didn’t play their senior years, but Parkison’s is the most recent. As I understand it, he was beyond the eligible age for high school sports by his senior year. Still. … Shoshoni’s Orlando Cordova, the team’s return specialist, was Wyoming’s only three-time all-state football player between 1929 and 1981. … Laramie, which was arguably the team of the decade, has 11 selections on the team of the 1960s.
Up next: The 1970s, Saturday.
–patrick
A good Job, but a hard Job. Many Great Players.