World Football League Players

Jacksonville Sharks 1974
Coach: Bud Asher, Charlie Tate
Num Name Pos Games Height Weight Birth Date Birth City College
1 Eddie McAshan QB   6' 2" 204 January 21, 1951 Gainesville, Florida Georgia Tech
2 Duane Carrell P   5' 10" 190 October 3, 1949 Washington DC Florida State
6 Edgar Scott RB   6' 2" 211 July 11, 1949 Columbus, Georgia Bethune-Cookman
7 Grant Guthrie K 14 6' 0" 210 February 9, 1948 Waynesboro, Pennsylvania Florida State
9,11 Kim Hammond QB   6' 1" 192 October 12, 1944 Miami, Florida Florida State
6,10 Kay Stephenson QB   6' 1" 210 December 17, 1944 DeFuniak Springs, Florida Florida
12 Reggie Oliver QB   6' 2" 184 October 20, 1951 Tuscaloosa, Alabama Marshall
13 Bubba Thornton WR   6' 0" 190 March 9, 1947 Fort Worth, Texas TCU
15 John Stofa QB   6' 1" 210 June 29, 1942 Johnstown, Pennsylvania Buffalo
16 Ron Coppenbarger S 9 6' 1" 198 October 6, 1951 Stuttgart, Germany Kansas State
20 Tommy Durrance RB   6' 0" 202 February 8, 1950 Daytona Beach, Florida Florida
22,26 Jerry Davis DB 14 5' 10" 180 February 5, 1951 Macon, Georgia Morris Brown
24 Drew Buie WR   6' 2" 189 July 12, 1947 Council, North Carolina Catawba
28 John Osborne DB   5' 9" 165 June 11, 1952 Kingsland, Georgia Bethune-Cookman
30,40 Jeff Davis WR   5' 11" 205 July 5, 1950 Atlanta, Georgia Mars Hill
32 Wayne Jones RB   5' 11" 200 September 14, 1951 Kosciusko, Mississippi Mississippi State
34 Solomon Brannan DB   6' 1" 190 September 5, 1942 Savannah, Georgia Morris Brown
35 Ricky Lake RB   6' 1" 220 February 16, 1950 Fort Campbell, Kentucky Georgia
37 Dennis Pete CB   6' 3" 186 August 22, 1949 Oakland, California San Francisco State
37 Alfred Haywood RB   5' 11" 215 August 6, 1948 Jacksonville, Florida Bethune-Cookman
40 Moses Moore RB   6' 2" 198 May 31, 1951 Miami, Florida Iowa State
41 Alvin Wyatt CB   5' 10" 181 December 13, 1947 Jacksonville, Florida Bethune-Cookman
42 Mike Townsend S 14 6' 3" 205 March 19, 1952 Brudidge, Alabama Notre Dame
44 Ron Lamb RB   6' 2" 225 February 3, 1945 New London, Connecticut South Carolina
46 Fletcher Smith DB   5' 10" 190 October 10, 1943 Hearne, Texas Tennessee State
50 Rich Thomann LB   6' 2" 230 September 6, 1950 Akron, Ohio Notre Dame
51 Glen Gaspard LB   6' 2" 230 May 15, 1952 Winnie, Texas Texas
52 Glenn Ellison LB   6' 2" 230 March 9, 1947 Jacksonville, Florida Arkansas
52 Mike Mullen LB   6' 2" 220 February 4, 1950 Dallas, Texas Tulane
53 Tom Johnson C 2x 6' 1" 235 October 6, 1950 Gary, Indiana Tennessee
54 Claud Simonton LB   6' 1" 225 August 30, 1950 Covington, Tennessee Tennessee
55,60 Fred Abbott LB   6' 3" 230 August 28, 1950 Brooksville, Florida Florida
56 Howard Kindig C   6' 6" 265 June 22, 1941 Mexico, Missouri Los Angeles State
56 Gary Potema LB   6' 0" 225 January 30, 1952 Chicago, Illinois Notre Dame
55,58 Johnny Mack LB   6' 1" 220 April 12, 1948 Pittsburgh, Kansas Central Missouri
60 Stan Cherry LB   6' 5" 200 November 2, 1950 Baltimore, Maryland Morgan State
63 Tom Walker OT   6' 3" 255 December 18,1951 Greeley, Colorado Northern Colorado
64 John Gordon DT   6' 6" 260 August 29,1948 Detroit, Michigan Hawaii
65 Sam Baker OG   6' 4" 260 July 22, 1949 Pensacola, Florida Georgia
66 O.Z. White DT   6' 2" 245 June 23, 1949 Houston, Texas California
67 Richard Cheek OG   6' 3" 266 January 19, 1948 Panama City, Florida Auburn
68 Carleton Oats DE 3 6' 3" 260 April 24, 1942 Tampa, Florida Florida A&M
70 Frank Cornish OT   6' 3" 282 June 20, 1944 New Orleans, Louisiana Grambling
70,72 Mike Haggerty OT/OG   6' 4" 255 October 14, 1945 Royal Oak, Michigan Miami (Florida)
71 Jim Dunaway DT   6' 4" 277 September 3, 1941 Columbia, Mississippi Mississippi
71,79 Larry Gagner OG   6' 2" 268 December 30, 1943 Cleveland, Ohio Florida
72 Bill Bushong DT   6' 3" 250 October 25, 1949 Louisville, Kentucky Kentucky
73 Bob Kelly OT   6' 3" 265 August 18, 1941 Carlsbad, New Mexico New Mexico State
75 Russ Melby DT   6' 4" 255 November 2, 1946 Ogden, Utah Weber State
76 Bob Taterak DT   6' 4" 255 July 3, 1946 Greensburg, Pennsylvania Miami (Florida)
77 Ike Lassiter DE   6' 5" 270 November 15, 1941 Wilson, North Carolina St. Augustine's
78 Ed Foster OG   6' 6" 258 June 20, 1951 Waurika, Oklahoma Oklahoma
80 Dennis Hughes TE   6' 2" 225 February 2,1948 Seneca, South Carolina Georgia
81 Tony Lomax WR   6' 3" 190 January 18,1950 Oakland, California Washington State
82 Mike Burnop TE   6' 1" 235 March 13, 1951 Roanoke, Virginia Virginia Tech
83 Thomas Whittier WR   6' 0" 170 November 4, 1947 Miami, Florida Texas Southern
84 Art May DE   6' 4" 245 November 16, 1948 Bessemer, Alabama Tuskegee
85 Kerry Brown WR   6' 2" 185 November 6, 1951 Bennington, Georgia Princeton
86 Keith Krepfle TE   6' 3" 222 February 4, 1952 Dubuque, Iowa Iowa State
87 Vernon Vanoy DE   6' 7" 265 December 31, 1946 Kansas City, Kansas Kansas
87 Carl Swierc WR   6' 1" 180 September 23, 1951 Karnes City, Texas Rice
88 Benjamin Mayes DE   6' 5" 265 March 16, 1946 St. Petersburg, Florida Drake
88,56,61 Mike Creaney TE   6' 5" 245 October 15, 1951 Baltimore, Maryland Notre Dame
89 Tony Hill OG   6' 5" 240 November 15 1950 Tampa, Florida Stetson
  Tom Smith RB   6' 3" 205 October 4, 1949 Waterloo, Iowa Miami (Florida)
Pre-Season
5 Tom Moore P   5' 11" 195 January 25, 1949   Navy
6 Bob Thomas (NFL) K   5' 10" 185 August 7, 1952 Rochester, New York Notre Dame
20 John Clifford WR   6' 2" 175 February 7, 1951 Miami, Florida Florida
21 Winston Grey DB   6' 4" 210 March 22, 1951   None
22 Moses Moore RB   6' 0" 190 May 31, 1951   Iowa State
25 Lenny Lucas RB   6' 2" 198 October 27, 1952   Nevada-Las Vegas
26 Leopold Sterling RB   5' 9" 175 November 7, 1950   Bethune-Cookman
28 Ed "Champ" Reilly DB   5' 11" 185 September 3, 1949   Citadel
30 Alex Hollie DB   6' 2" 195 May 12, 1952   Tennessee State
34 Buzzy Rosenberg DB   5' 9" 178 December 4, 1950   Georgia
36,49 Thurman Jones RB 5' 11" 220 August 24, 1948 North Carolina State
43 Monte Ledbetter WR   6' 1" 195 August 13, 1943   Northwest Louisiana
54 Bart Goforth C   6' 3" 235 August 12, 1950   Rice
55 John Mack LB   6' 1" 220 April 12, 1948   Central Missouri State
59 Doug Faust OGG   6' 3" 250 December 17, 1951   Alabama
70 Oddie Lawrence DE   6' 4" 235 January 10, 1949   None
71 Henry Still DE   6' 2" 256 January 2,1944   Bethune-Cookman
72 Howard Cochran LB   6' 2" 220 December 21, 1951   Tennessee TEch
75 Willie Crittendon DT   6' 6" 280 May 27,1947 Columbus, Georgia Tulsa
77 Frank Lasky (NFL) OT   6' 2" 265 October 4, 1941   Florida
78 Darrell Vaughan OT   6' 3" 240 April 30, 1948   Colorado State
79 Dennis Anderson OT   6' 3" 240 February 2, 1951   Troy State
80 Charles New LB   6' 3" 220 August 5, 1952   Louisiana Tech
83 Tom Whittier WR   6' 2" 185 November 4, 1947 Miami, Florida Texas Southern
83 Tom Freistroffer DE   6' 4" 240 February 14, 1951   Notre Dame
85 Willie Grate TE   6' 3" 235 May 25, 1948   South Carolina State
87 Jeff Cannon OG   6' 3" 245 December 4, 1951   Delaware
  Malachi Bissent LB   6' 3" 240     Edward Waters
  Willie Blackmon OT   6' 3" 255     Florida A&M
  Ken Burge DB   5' 11" 180     Southern Mississippi
  John Carlos WR           Olympic runner
  Hunter Carter LB   6' 2" 225     Tennessee Martin
  Charles Clarington DE   6' 3" 245     Kansas State
  Lonnie Coleman LB   6' 2" 222     Iowa State
  Mike Defino OG   6' 3" 240     Tennessee Tech
  Dean Dreher RB   6' 0" 210     Ohio Northern
  Bill Galloway OT   6' 5" 250     Eastern Tennessee
  Winston Gray DB   6' 4" 210     None
  Doug Henderson DT   6' 2" 245     Tampa
  Hugh Hicks DB   6' 0" 185     Albany State
  Billy Hunt DB   6' 1" 190     Omaha
  Stanley Jenkins RB   5' 9" 165     Alabama A&M
  Danny Lamb RB   6' 1" 208     Florida state
  Jim Mankins RB   6' 2" 225     Florida State
  Bob Martin OG   6' 2" 240     Bowling Green
  John Nugent LB   6' 2" 220     Richmond
  Mike Patrick RB   6' 1" 205     None
  Bernie Rembert RB   6' 0" 195     Arizona
  John Robertson DB   6' 1" 205     Kansas State
  James Roolf WR   6' 1" 208     Notre Dame
  Steve Schaap OT   6' 3" 231     Miami
  David Schatzke DB   6' 0" 175     Moorehead State
  Jim Seely LB   6' 4" 235     Miami
  Ben Simmons LB   6' 3"  225     Bethune-Cookman
  Bill Sivert LB   6' 1" 225     East Tennessee State
  Jiggy Smaha LB   6' 3" 230   "BC Lions" Georgia
  Gerald Spicer WR   6' 1" 190     Wyoming
  Larry Strickland LB   6' 1" 225     Florida State
  Versa Lee Sumler DT   6' 1" 245     Florida A&M
  Lewis Swain DB   5' 11" 180     Alabama A&M
  Carl Taylor DE   6' 4" 265     Arkansas State
  Terry Taylor LB   6' 2" 225     North Carolina
  Steve Tresemer LB   6' 1" 218     Western Illinois
  Bill Watson DB   6' 1" 175     None
  Travis Williams (NFL) RB   6' 1" 210 January 14, 1946 El Dorado, Arkansas Arizona State
  Ed Woods DB   5' 10" 185     Sam Houston