For the sixth straight year, Coach Augustine (Gus) P. Donohue's USFÂ soccer team proved itself Best in the West, by annexing another Northern California Intercollegiate Soccer Conference Championship, and extending its win streak over league competition to 56 games without defeat.
Losing only two men from the previous season's team, Jose Leon and Funmi Osibogun, Coach Donoghue was greeted by 36 men—-the largest turnout in Hilltop soccer history as the Dons started practice last September. Pre-season prospects pointed to one of the closest conference races in many a season, with no one conceding a thing to Donoghue's Dons. Down at Stanford, the Big Red's stock was booming. And fast-swelling rumor reported that Caltornia and CCSF were about to declare victory - dividends.
Twelve lettermen formed the nucleus of the Don eleven All Conference selections: Bill Cox, Maurice Beattie, Brian Pike, and Manny Ortiz, along with veterans Mashood Danmole, Al Rangel, Adrian Manzano, Joe 1gnoffo, Bill Herup, Al Falconi, and Ron Edgeman (TheDon).
