Football Announces All-Decade Teams; Will Honor at Nov. 3 Football Game
TORRANCE, Calif. – The El Camino College football program would like to announce its selections for the ECC All-Decade Teams for the 1950s and 1960s.
The members of each team will be honored during halftime of the Warriors' final home football game of the season on Nov. 3 against Fullerton College at 1 p.m.
"El Camino College has such a rich tradition of success on the Football field that we felt adding All-Decades teams would allow us to further celebrate the past and give current and future student-athletes goals of one day being named to their own All-Decade team," said ECC Athletic Director Colin Preston. "I want to personally thank Gene Engle for teaming up with Don Jurk, Ray Southstone, Ken Swearingen, Bill Vincent and Jim Bunyard to receive the information needed to select the teams. We are looking forward to a great event on November 3rd and are excited for all Warrior alumni to attend."
The ECC All-Decade Teams consist of 26 players and one head coach per squad. The 1950s All-Decade Team was expanded to include the time period from 1947-1959 with 1947 being the inaugural season for both the ECC football program and the school as a whole.
Of the 54 cumulative members of the 1950s and 1960s All-Decade Teams, 32 of them are current members of the ECC Athletics Hall of Fame. In addition, six of them (Jim Allison: San Diego Chargers; Fred Dryer: New York Giants and Los Angeles Rams; Rick Eber: Atlanta Falcons and San Diego Chargers; Terry Mendenhall: Oakland Raiders; Tom Reynolds: New England Patriots and Chicago Bears; Jim Sears: Chicago Cardinals, San Diego Chargers and Denver Broncos) played in the National Football League.
EL CAMINO COLLEGE FOOTBALL ALL DECADE TEAM 1947-1959
OFFENSE
QB- Joe Contestabile (1954)
RB- Ken Swearingen (1953)
RB- Jim Sears (1949)
RB- Socko Torres (1949)
WR/E- Norm Becker (1954)
WR/E- Don Jurk (1950)
WR/E- Jerry Hren (1956)
OL- Fabian Abram (1954)
OL- Roland Rutter (1955)
OL- Preston Dills (1952)
OL- Richard Keelor (1956)
OL- Roy Benstead (1954)
All-Purpose- Jim Carmichael (1952)
DEFENSE
DL- Jim Clark (1954)
DL- Larry Oien (1950)
DL- Bill Vincent (1950)
DL- Bob Hooks (1950)
LB- Jack Chronister (1949)
LB- Pat Regan (1955)
LB- Jerry Wear (1951)
DB- Paul Held (1950)
DB- Don Greco (1954)
DB- Dainard Paulson (1956)
DB- Gene Williams (1959)
K- Les Kazarian (1947)
P- Larry Manley (1957)
HEAD COACH- Norm Verry
EL CAMINO COLLEGE FOOTBALL ALL DECADE TEAM 1960's
OFFENSE
QB- Ron Veres (1960)
RB- Jim Allison (1961)
RB- Dave Boyd (1969)
WR- Tom Reynolds (1968)
WR- Mike Andrews (1961)
WR- Rick Eber (1965)
WR- John Featherstone (1968)
OL- Steve Verry (1969)
OL- Lindsey Hughes (1964)
OL- Jim James (1962)
OL- Rick Cooper (1964)
OL- Tom Fitzgerald (1961)
All-Purpose- Jon Robertson (1968)
DEFENSE
DL- Fred Dryer (1966)
DL- Joe Reid (1964)
DL- Terry Mendenhall (1968)
LB- John Sullivan (1968)
LB- Danny Miller (1969)
LB- Larry Petrill (1964)
LB- Joe Constanza (1960)
DB- Eddie Eno (1968)
DB- Pat Pagett (1964)
DB- Ralph Hughes (1963)
DB- Dale Hewitt (1968)
K- Otto Rieger (1963)
P- Dan Heck (1969)
HEAD COACH- Ken Swearingen (53)