The Legal Eagles went 6-1 with Don Dickson serving as team captain for a second season.
Score | Opposing team |
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34-0 | Delta Theta Phi - Beer Bowl |
7-0 | Delta Theta Phi |
19-12 | Scrubs |
0-7 | Phi Delta Phi |
13-6 | Delta Theta Phi |
6-0 | Phi Delta Phi |
7-7* | Phi Delta Phi - Law School Championship |
* won on two penetrations
Left to Right: John Warner, William Cranz, Coach Wright, Henry Woodward, John Reese, Brady Coleman, Carroll Kelly, Don Dickson (co-captain), William Bailey, Jerry Lucas, Thomas Higgins, Curtis Dyer, Graydon Dunlap (co-captain), James Stofer, Bob Hinsley, Bruce Willis, DeWitt Alsup, Rex Nichols, Fred Pfeiffer, Michael Furman, Tom Crum, Richard Morris.
Kneeling: Tanner Hunt.
Not Shown: Bill Kilgarlin.
Game date | Score | Opposing team |
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n.d. | 26-28 | Phi Delta Phi |
n.d. | 22-0 | Phi Alpha Delta |
n.d. | 14-6 | Delta Theta Phi |
n.d. | 0-18* | Delta Theta Phi |
n.d | 18-14 | Phi Delta Theta |
11/8/1961 | 13-0 | Phi Delta Phi - Law School Championship |
11/16/1961 | 18-6 | Phi Alpha Delta - Beer Bowl |
* Game was forfeited after an ineligible player was discovered on the Delta Theta Phi team.
Front Row: John Reese, John Holmes, Bruce Willis, John Drolla, Allan Graber, J. R. Taylor.
Back Row: Curtis Dyer, John Link, Tom Crum, Frank Putman, James Doherty, John Patton, Don Cooper, Coach Wright.
Game date | Score | Opposing team |
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10/13/1962 | 20-26 | Phi Delta Phi |
10/20/1962 | 0-6 | Defendants |
10/24/1962 | 6-8 | Delta Theta Phi |
11/4/1962 | 20-26 | Exes - Beer Bowl |
Team members included James Cox, Robert Taylor, John C. Drolla, Glen Brown, Michael James, Donald Haley, Richard Fogel, David Beale, Maurice Doke, Wade Whilden, Don Cooper, Bruce Willis, Benjamin Wallis, Frank Putnam, James Bell, John Patton, John Holmes, James Burroughs, Thomas Whitcomb, Joseph Horrigan, Thomas Bunkley, Knox Jones, Merritt Hitt, and Donald Higginbotham.
Game date | Score | Opposing team |
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n.d. | 21-8 | Exes - Beer Bowl |
10/17/1963 | 14-0 | Tauri |
10/24/1963 | 10-16 | Phi Delta Phi |
10/29/1963 | 14-12 | Phi Delta Phi |
10/31/1963 | 37-0 | Tauri |
11/7/1963 | 20-16 | Phi Delta Phi |
11/11/1963 | 13-12 | Phi Delta Phi - Law School Championship |
Professor Fred Cohen served as acting coach of the 1964 Legal Eagles since Charles Wright was at Harvard as a visiting professor.
3 wins - 1 loss
Game date | Score | Opposing team |
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9/30/1964 | 22-0 | Cedar Choppers |
10/8/1964 | 29-13 | Executioners |
10/20/1964 | 14-6 | Outlaws |
n.d. | 12-15 | Outlaws - Law School Championship |
4 wins - 2 losses
Game date | Score | Opposing team |
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9/23/1965 | 12-0 | Phi Alpha Delta II |
n.d. | 6-13 | Tauri |
n.d. | 31-6 | Barsons |
11/4/1965 | 17-6 | Tauri |
11/7/1965 | 36-8 | Eagle Exes - Beer Bowl |
n.d. | 0-19 | Outlaws - Division Playoffs |
Standing: Platt Davis, Bill Bowers, Coach Wright, Knox Nunnally, Charlie Talbert, Robert Spellings, Charlie Barnhill, Wade Whilden (captain), Peter Lekisch.
Kneeling: Ron Siler, Daryl Crown, John Young, Currie Bechtol, Mike Dalton, Ed Equivel, Mark Hart.
Not Shown: Bert Graham.
Standing: Bert Graham, Platt Davis, Coach Wright, Charles Talbert, Knox Nunnally, Bill Bowers, Mark Hart, Bob Spellings, Wade Wilden, Charles Barnhill, Peter Lekisch.
Kneeling: John Young, Daryl Crown, Mike Dalton, Ed Esquivel, Currie Bechtol, Ron Siler.
5 wins - 1 loss
Game date | Score | Opposing team |
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10/18/1966 | 6-2 | Tauri |
n.d. | 32-0 | Phi Alpha Delta II |
10/30/1966 | 20-0 | Exes - Beer Bowl |
11/1/1966 | 14-8 | Tauri - League Championship |
11/8/1966 | 26-0 | Outlaws - Law School Championship |
n.d. | 12-20 | Grads - Graduate Division |
Standing: Coach Wright, Don Haley, Knox Nunnally, Mike McCollum, Mark Hart, Jerry Wolfe, Mike Gammon, Daryl Crown, Charlie Barnhill, Tom Stockton, Platt Davis, Bill Wylie.
Kneeling: Bert Graham, Ron Siler, Currie Bechtol (captain), John Young, Mike Maguire.
Not Shown: Bill Bowers.
7 wins - 0 losses
Game date | Score | Opposing team |
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10/2/1967 | 68-0 | Phi Alpha Delta II |
10/2/1967 | 71-0 | P's Peons |
10/11/1967 | 22-0 | Delta Theta Phi II |
10/29/1967 | 7-0 | Exes - Beer Bowl |
10/30/1967 | 12-0 | Delta Theta Phi II |
11/8/1967 | 6-6* | Outlaws - Law School Championship |
11/ 1967 | 59-0 | Photons - Graduate Division Championship |
* won in sudden death
Back row: Mark Maguire, Kevin Holcomb, Bill Wylie, David Stitt, Small, Gareth Cook, Rodney Satterwhite.
Middle row: Kenneth Watson, Jack Hanks, Bert Graham, Randall Howard, Michael Wood, Mike Gammon, Richard Beacom, Coach Ward.
Kneeling: Platt Davis (Offensive Captain), Jerry Wolfe (Defensive Captain).
In 1968, Charles Alan Wright was a visiting professor at Yale. Wright asked Bernard Ward, a visiting professor at Texas to be the interim coach of the team. Not long after Wright arrived at Yale, he received a letter from Ward. In it, Ward related a conversation he had had with colleague Pete Louiseaux.
Pete L.: Bernie, you’ll be moving into Charlie’s house?
BJW: Yes, the dear fellow has left me his house, his office, his secretary, and his football team.
Pete L.: His football team!
BJW: Yes. Well, he knows that I have limited experience and….
Pete L.: Never mind what he knows, I’ll tell you this: You can leave his house in shambles, you can mess up his office, you can play around with his secretary, but, brother, you better win with his football team.
Under Ward’s tutelage, the Legal Eagles went not only undefeated and untied, but unscored upon. Wright coached the Eagle Exes in the Beer Bowl that year. The Exes lost 0-46, Wright’s worst defeat as a player or coach in the history of his career.
Game date | Score | Opposing team |
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10/20/1968 | 46-0 | Exes - Beer Bowl |
n.d. | 1-0 | Delta Theta Phi II |
n.d. | 12-0 | War Ponies - Law School Championship |
n.d | 23-0 | Photons - Graduate Division Championship |
Standing: Dean Greenwood, Ed Small, Mike Gammon, Gareth Cook, Coach Wright, Randy Howard, Steve Matthews.
Kneeling: Platt Davis, Ed Junell, Jack Hanks, Dick Watt, Jerry Wolfe (captain), Robin Gibbs
Not Shown: David Fleischaker, Tyler Colley, Bill Wylie, James Kauffman.
5 wins - 0 losses - 1 tie
Game date | Score | Opposing team |
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10/2/1969 | 16-0 | Avengers |
10/8/1969 | 14-2 | Vultures |
10/22/1969 | 24-12 | Avengers |
10/26/1969 | 14-14 | Eagle Exes - Beer Bowl |
11/3/1969 | 30-6 | Phi Delta Phi - Law School Championship |
11/5/1969 | 29-7 | Whiz Kids - Graduate Division |