The pre-season looks bright but then opens with an upset loss to Bishop Egan, 18-7. The team follows up by getting back on track and ripping off nine straight before meeting a 10-0 Pennsbury in Fairless Hills in what is billed as “Super Bowl II” (along the way running back Sroba is featured in Sports Illustrated’s “Faces in The Crowd” when he scores 38 against Easton). And once again nothing else seems to matter as all eyes are on the game against the Falcons when the teams meet. In a see-saw battle, the ‘Skins are down 23-21 with under a minute to go in the fourth. Driving for the win, Neshaminy is inside the Falcon 20, and setting up for a chip shot field goal by future NFL All Pro, Matt Bahr, when quarterback Bob Grupp throws to Sroba across the middle. Drilled by Pennsbury’s Ron Dudala just as he grabs it, the ball comes loose and is fallen on by a Pennsbury player. The argument between the refs of whether it was an incomplete pass or fumble goes to Pennsbury and the team ends the year at 9-2.

Sroba goes on to star at the University of Virginia while Grupp does the same at Duke before he is drafted by the Kansas City Chiefs where he serves as their punter during the late 1970s. He also plays in the 1980 pro bowl. Bahr played 17 seasons in the NFL and appeared in multiple Super Bowls. Fullback Lenny Barker was a two sport star, playing baseball for Neshaminy in addition to football. He is drafted by the Texas Rangers and will play in the majors for 11 years. In 1981 he throws a perfect game for the Cleveland Indians becoming one of just 23 players to so do. With the win he joins another former Redskin, Bill McCahan, in an exclusive major league group of special pitchers. Admittedly, Barker’s club is somewhat smaller as McCahan’s 1947 no hitter has been matched by 237 other major leaguers. Swartz retires after the season with a 43-11-1 record in his five years as the head man (he is replaced by Allison). Swartz had been a coach at Neshaminy for 18 years.