Central High School - Centralian Yearbook (Phoenix, AZ)

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FLASHY FOOTWORK-Jim Bostrom appears captured but dis- plays some fancy maneuvering to whiz past Camelback safety man. Bobcats fought hard to edge Spartans 9-7. RIGHT: Stand back! -Mike Foley appears to be warning Rincon players to clear the way for him. Plan must have worked, as Foley charged through for a sizable gain. Rincon High lost this battle. Beat The Birds, Finally. Sweet as was the victory over South, Central's defeat of West made history. Never before had a CeHS team bested West Phoenix in football. The final score, i4-l2, failed to indicate the complete mastery Central displayed. lt took a second-half rally featuring sparkling offense and defense to plow down North High's Mustangs and capture the City Title, l3-O. Held scoreless first half, the Cats smashed to two TDs the first two times they handled the ball-on a 2-yard sweep by Mel Dunn and an l8-yard sprint by Mike Foley. Catalina fell to the Bobcats Nov. i8 in Tucson. ln a thrilling finish to the l96O grid season, the graduating seniors dominated the play. Linemen contributed brilliantly, forcing bulges through which Dunn and Al Moutran romped to 26-6 score. Slaughtering Catalina, the Bobcats counted their seventh win in eight starts. Displaying the state's finest defense, the club allowed less than 6 points a game to opponents. DON'T DROP IT!-Tension mounts on Bobcat bench as Central rallies against West in last quarter. Worriers are Bentle, Manager Cox, Gelt, and Bos- trom, who was injured in Yuma game. C1437 Individual leaders were Moutran with 49 points and Dunn with 48. Moutran had 49l net yards gained to Dunn's 475. All-State Conference honors went to Fullback Moutran, first team, and Dave Whittaker, second team. End Tom Fife, Tackle Terry Schmidt, Halfback Dunn, and Center Engle won honorable mention. High praise went to Coaches Eastin and Bob Ruman for skillful handling of their great squad.

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Thai Yuma link Strikes Again. COME TO PAPA-Mike Foley is trapped by North High guard as he nears goal line, Central High won this rough gridiron match I3 to O. Great was the word for Central's Bobcat grid season, with the Red and Gray roaring to a 7-l record against the state's most rugged teams, But for a sad l5-l3 loss to Yuma's Criminals in what at first appeared sure victory for the Cats, Coach Ron Eastin's boys might have won the State AA title. For the T960 season, Central scored l58 points to the total for all opponents-47. One consola- tion: mythical City Title went to Central. Follow- ing a great showing at the Phoenix Union Carni- FOOTBALL FIRST-Al Moutran stretches longside to grasp a first down for the Bobcats vs. North, dragging middle of Mustang line along with him. RIGHT: There he goesl- Dave val, CeHS rode over Carl Hayden 37-7, shouldered Camelback aside by a tense 9-7 before bowing to the Yuma jinx. Rincon was next victim, 26-O, with most of the Central scoring coming from superb team play, But it remained for the South High Rebels to prove the mettle of Coach Eastin's musclemen. The Oct. 2l clash which opened second half of the grid campaign revealed the Cats' potent offensive as they scored two TDs first six minutes of the game. Whittaker darts right to elude Rincon High defensemen but is toppled by the alert center as he heads for what looked like an open field. But in spite of such reverses, Central won 26-O. H423

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Junior Varsity gridders had lots of breaks for l96O, and most of them were bad, The almost- but not-quite winners of several close ones ended the season 4-5, but that was hardly indicative of their real worth. With even their fair share of luck, the JVs could have had wins instead of losses, Coaches Leitsch and Kemp declared. First game of the season found the Central High lads victors over a scrappy Carl Hayden club, l4-7. But the next game, versus Mesa's JVs set the locals back O-l4 in a game so close that the score could have been reversed with little change in statistics. JUNIOR VARSITY-Bottom: Michaels, Moore, Liston, Abromo- vitz, Chambers, Pingatore, Neiman, Boal, Greenway, Leonard. ROW 2: Trojanowich, Johnson, Coach Kemp, Stahl, Hershfield Heeter, Mazzola, Swan, Coach Leitsch, Piepergerdes, Womack 1 43. A. l. Good 'J' Team Nets 4-5 Score Camelback High School's JVS felt the wrath of a stirred-up grid gang, Central emerging 20-l3. Now, perhaps, the season would turn out the way it should, the CeHS boys decided, as they went for Mesa and revenge. Alas, the vengeance must wait for yet another game, the Bunnies mauling the Junior Cats 34-l4. Washington proved to be vic- tim No. 3 for the Leitsch-Kemp lads, l4-7, but again the hot-cold virus attacked and West tromped on them 27-l4. Carl Hayden again obliged with the locals' fourth and last victory, l4-7. Then South blanked us l8-O and North's Colts kicked us around 3l-l4 to wind up the season. Outstanding for Central were Dick Boal, Craig Liston, Gary Stahl, Bill Hershfield, Stuart Lane, Jim Gentry, and Jeff Orgill. The club as a whole won high praise for good sportsmanship and will to tight. ROW 3: S. Lane, Parrish, MacMorrow, McMillian, Alberti, Welcome, McGurie, Ricker, Smith, Romley, Meyer. TOP ROW: Fronstein, Gilbert, Musbach, Gee, McCullough, Gentry, Orgill, Beggs, Walrath, Leonard, Ring, Kelly. Q ,. H447