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THE BACKFIELD: Hulswit Horton (LH).
PIGSKIN PROFILES: 135-Pound Team
The 135-pound team this year looks as if it will have a good sea- son. The line, both on defense and offense, is a strong one. The big
The Jayvees
About twenty-five boys have ap- peared for practice for the Jayvee football squad and as usual most of the "hopefuls" are new boys in the school. The task of finding boys will- ing and able to operate in the quar- terback position has been a time- consumer. It appears that Temple and Richardson will alternate at this spot. A t the halfbac~ positions, we have good material in "Bev" Hutter, Richardson, Meador, Walker, and Nance. Four boys-Parker, Roper, Jenkins, and Freeman-are scrap-
ping for the fullback spot. At ends we have Moir, a vet of two seasons, competing with Haynsworth, Payne, and Gregory. Another returning player, Kizer, is being pushed at the tackle position by Crawford, Chris Hutter, Shield, and John Scholl. Lawther, if he gets into condition, should be the right guard with Gehring as his understudy. At pres- ent, Bernhard is playing left guard, but Lynn and Shouse are eager to possess this spot. Ted Harriss is the number one man at center, and Lynn and Ryon are working hard for this position. Slowness in spotting men for the positions in which they can best play has consumed valuable time that we needed to devote to the readying of an offense. Little atten- tion has been given to the defense, but Ted Harriss, Richardson, Shouse, a n d W a l k e r h a v e shown u p well. From the formation of the "big cir- cle" at 3:25 when Kizer, obly assisted by Mr. Bent gives the groan-produc- ing exercises, until the fun-ending "imp bell" at 5, the intersquad com- petition on many doys is spirited.
The Co-Captains: HORTON AND SHOWALTER
THE BIG DOCTOR
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Early Christmas morning a nurse
noticed a man waiting in the lobby. When she osked why he was there at such an early hour he told her
that he had twelve children, oil of whom were delivered by my grand- fatlier and no bill had ever been sent. The man said he couldn't enjoy Christmas without first seeing "Doc." Once my grandfather was osked by an intern why he spent so much time in the wards seeing the charity patients. He replied that they were
the ones who need attention most. The rich could buy attention; the poor couldn't.
He had a willingness to serve and to sacrifice personal desires for the comfort of others. Often he would be called in the middle of the nigh~; then he would get up and drive the twelve miles into town t o perform an emergency operation. Often he did not come home for supper. What had to be done, had to be done. He never grumbled about the heaviness of his work, but his face showed the exhaustion of his body. I often won- dered why he never had an accident coming into town at night as often os he did. He had only one good eye. The other had been put out while he was operating. A spurt of blood from a diseased tissue caused the infection which was never cured. Yet he continued to operate. I once heard another surgeon tell him, "Lish,
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a slow backfield. However, it looks as though the backs will shape-up after some actual playing experience.
The line right now is Mansfield and Lawrence at ends, Tegeler and Bunn at tackles, Bottger and Allen a t guards, and Churchill at center. The backs are Bonfoey at quarterback, Hansen and Nance at halfbacks, and Neil Hunt is at fullback.
The reserves on the line are Black- well, Hodges, Boone, and McKee at ends. The tackles are Barton, Carr, Vandergrift, Cooke, and Whitehouse. lvey, Flippen, and Ryon are the guards. Backs are Bourne, deRosset, Duncan, Lee, H u t t e r , H u n t , W i n - borne, and Redick.
The coaches this year are Mr. Bar- ton and Mr. Walke and the mana- gers are Brown and McCaskey.
The 135-pound team is training for boys who will l a t e r g o on up t h e ladder to play Jayvee and Varsity football. This team teaches the boys the fundamentals of football , and because of this Mr. Wyatt and Mr. Lee are saved much time and effort when boys start playing with them.
The 135-pound team is usually not a very experienced one and it is because of this fact that sometimes their record is not too good. The boys on the team, however, put a lot of effort into their football and the rest of the school should be very proud of these efforts.
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