The roster
| Mike Mees | QB | Cody |
| Mike Ragan | QB | Glenrock |
| Dennis Brunson | RB | Tongue River |
| Dirk Bush | RB | Riverton |
| Steve Dover | RB | Kemmerer |
| Terence Johnson | RB | Cheyenne Central |
| Gerry Keller | RB | Torrington |
| Clark Fuller | WR | Cody |
| Cliff Hill | WR | Natrona |
| Don Jackson | WR | Kelly Walsh |
| Pat McLeod | WR | Cheyenne Central |
| Ray Nickle | WR | Lovell |
| Russ Ackerman | TE | Shoshoni |
| Mike Fink | TE | Lovell |
| Don Strom | TE | Cowley |
| Tom Anderson | OL | Torrington |
| Homer Bennett | OL | Riverton |
| Gary Crum | OL | Rawlins |
| John Kormylo | OL | Thermopolis |
| Todd Pierce | OL | Natrona |
| Floyd Rummel | OL | Rawlins |
| John Schutterle | OL | Lusk |
| Kelly Sittner | OL | Torrington |
| Tim Waddell | OL | Rawlins |
| Jerry Davis | DL | Basin |
| Lance Deal | DL | Natrona |
| Grant Fleming | DL | Cheyenne Central |
| Vince Guinta | DL | Kemmerer |
| Tom Heydt | DL | Pinedale |
| Rick Owens | DL | Green River |
| Gary Schukei | DL | Torrington |
| Jim Eliopulos | LB | Cheyenne Central |
| Rex Johnson | LB | Wheatland |
| Kirk Lunt | LB | Lander |
| Greg Roberts | LB | Rawlins |
| Steve Stowe | LB | Cheyenne Central |
| Chuck Wilson | LB | Natrona |
| Gil Winters | LB | Pinedale |
| Dennis Camino | DB | Buffalo |
| Gerry Geldien | DB | Kelly Walsh |
| Neil Grandbouche | DB | Kelly Walsh |
| Jesse Johnson | DB | Cheyenne East |
| Dave Koza | DB | Torrington |
| Mike McLeod | DB | Cheyenne East |
| Brad Pickett | DB | Cheyenne Central |
| Mike Rafferty | DB | Cheyenne East |
| Jim Gomendi | Rover | Deaver-Frannie |
| Kevin Ryan | Rover | Saratoga |
| Mike Smith | K | Rawlins |
| Don Bracken | P | Thermopolis |
| Kevin Lepore | RS | Cheyenne East |
| Rick Dayton | ATH | Rock Springs |
| JD Sollars | ATH | Lander |
Hardest players to leave off the team: Mel Miles and Ballard Johnson (Star Valley); Mike Nissen (Worland); Rob Russell (Cody); Kelly Wilson (Wheatland); John Menke (Buffalo); David Rogers (Midwest); Denny Dunivent, Matt Johnson and Lance Parham (Laramie); Mark Kulmus (Rawlins); Ted Holmes (Douglas); Mike Madrid (St. Mary’s); Marshall Patton and Jim Hill (Natrona); Brick Cegelski (Cheyenne Central); Kevin Goglio (Green River); Bruce Miller (Torrington).
Impressions: The Milward Simpson Award started in the 1970s, and yes, I was more partial to the players who showed up on those lists. … Players are getting bigger. Offensive line averages 214 pounds per player, defensive line averages 208. … Cheyenne leads the defensive backfield for this decade, but can you imagine how difficult it would have been to pass against East in 1975 with two future NFL players (Jesse Johnson and Mike McLeod) staring down opposing quarterbacks? … By the way, East’s 1975 team, along with Rawlins’ 1974 team, each had three selections. … Find receiving statistics from the 1970s. I dare you. … I won’t repeat it here, but from what I could glean from newspaper reports at the time, Gerry Geldien’s career at ASU ended way too soon. I’ll just say the stories you may have heard about Frank Kush being a jerk are true. … That 1974 class (last year of playing, not graduation year) has nine players all on its own, and honestly, we could probably put that group up against any other year and they’d be just fine. That class is tied with another, future, group for the most selections from any single year.
Up next: The 1980s, Monday.
–patrick