Fisher DeBerry
Fisher DeBerry
James Fisher DeBerryis a retired American football player and coach. He served as the head football coach at the United States Air Force Academy from 1984 to 2006, compiling a record of 169–109–1. DeBerry led 17 of his 23 Air Force Falcons squads to winning records and captured 12 bowl game bids. Three times his teams won the Western Athletic Conference title, in 1985, 1995, and 1998. DeBerry retired on December 15, 2006 with the most wins and highest winning...
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It's obvious we didn't tackle very well. We were in position all night to make plays and we couldn't tackle.
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We felt like we had some young players that were developing at the free safety position that might have a little bit more range and might give us the potential to get more interceptions back there. That's the main reason.
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We just want to win a football game. You got to face reality of where we are. We're playing right now for the pride of the academy, the lightning bolts we proudly wear on the side of our helmets, for a winning season and position in the conference. I don't know anymore that you can play for.
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You know what's interesting? There is a much higher percentage of African-Americans at the speed positions than there is in society as a whole. I wonder if that's genetic, or mostly genetic.
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I'm not going to answer that until I evaluate the film. He certainly did a great job of rallying our football team.
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I most disappointed in our football team in the number of penalties. That was very uncharacteristic of Falcon football. We had a breakdown in all three areas of the game. We didn't kick the ball very well. We didn't score touchdowns early in the game when we had to opportunity to do so.
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I'm very pleased to get the monkey off our back. Our fullback played an outstanding game, and I thought we played with passion and emotion all day.
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I'm very pleased to get the monkey off our back, ... Our fullback played an outstanding game, and I thought we played with passion and emotion all day.
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It's very obvious to me the other day that the other team had a lot more Afro-American players than we did, and they ran a lot faster than we did, ... It just seems to be that way, that Afro-American kids can run very, very well. That doesn't mean that Caucasian kids and other descents can't run, but it's very obvious to me they run extremely well.
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I want everyone to understand that I never intended to offend anyone.
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It just seems to be that way, that Afro-American kids can run very, very well.
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The intent is to honor those who have been the most instrumental in a young man being at the academy,
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Their defense had 11 Afro-American kids on their team and they were a very, very good defensive football team. It just seems to me that Afro-American kids can run very, very well.
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We felt Mark was a pretty good tackler but unfortunately he didn't make a lot of things happen as far as getting interceptions and forcing turnovers and things like that,