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By the time Whittier back-up quarterback Michael Guth came into Saturday’s football romp, the damage had already been done. The Leopards were up 52-7 and there was no sign of the Leos tiring.

There is the story of the fighter who wants to go one more time with the champ. Sometimes he is fortunate enough to win and end his career in a blaze of glory. On the other hand, the fighter gets humiliated, never posing a threat to the champ, getting beat to a pulp. Unfortunately, that last fight is all most people remember even if the fighter had a great career.

Sports results and schedule for the week of Sept. 29, 1995.

There will never be another football season like this year’s. The fighting Leos may take it all the way to the playoffs again, but missing from the cast will be the players that Rex Huigens molded in his first year as head coach.

In Rocky Balboa’s first fight, all he wanted to do was prove that he could go the distance with the champ. Last year the University of La Verne football team won the SCIAC title outright for the first time in school history, proving they too could go the distance.

La Verne’s football team successfully defeated the Clare­mont-Mudd-Scirpps Stags last Saturday and smo­thered NCAA Division III passing leader, John Shipp, in a 45-22 victory.