Herbert Hoover High School - Scroll Yearbook (Glendale, CA)

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strong Los Angeles eleven on the home field. Near the end of the second period, Chambers, Hoover half, intercepted a Roman pass on his own 15- yard line and ran to the Los Angeles 48-yard stripe before being hauled down. The stanza ended before a play could get under way. floorer is—lit hium! 0. The Hoover Lighties overwhelmed the Belmont Cees on the local field, exhibiting a well-balanced offense and a strong de- fense. The first purple tally came on a pass from Safford, halfback, to Short, quarterback, from the 18-yard stripe, following a 40-yard march. Mac- Don Id. Hoover center, intercepted a pass and galloped 50 yards unmolested to another touchdown. Led by Salford and Harris, halfbacks, the Whirl- winds drove 60 yards to score again. All tries for conversion were un- successful. Because Hoover and Whittier had the only Cee teams in the Foothill League, it was decided to play a two-out-of-three-gamc series for the cham- pionship. Each squad won one, tied one, and lost one, thereby tying for the Cee title of the league with a .500 percentage. The championship trophy went to Hoover for half the year and to Whittier for the remaining part. The Redbirds won the award last season, while Hoover captured it two years ago. Hoover d—Witiltier 0. The purple and white lighties outwitted the Whit- tier Cees on Ferguson Field to win the first of the two-out-of-three series. In the first quarter the Cardinals completely outplayed the locals, but in the second period the Whirlwinds staged a brilliant offensive attack. After advancing the ball to the 25-yard line, Paul Harris, speedy halfback, shak- ing off several Poet tacklers, rambled to the goal line for a touchdown. Hoover 0 Wliitlirr . After outplaying their rivals for four periods, the purple-and-white Cees were administered a defeat by the Whittier Cards on the Redbird turf. The Cardinal-and-white eleven was unable to penetrate into the Hoover territory further than their 30-yard marker. Late in the third quarter, a Whittier back broke through the line and sped 60 yards for the Card score. Hoover 0—Whittier 0. With both teams showing a great offense and defense, the purple Cees and the Whit- tier Redbirds fought to a scoreless tie on the local field. During the second stanza Whittier started several touch- down drives that were stopped by a strong Hoover line. The fourth quarter was nearly fatal for the Hoovcrites, when Safford’s punt was blocked behind the goal line. The play was called off, however, as a cardinal-and-white lines- man was offside. The purple Cees who won letters were Bergin, Seifert, and Speedie, ends; Gonnsen and Whitcher, tackles; Nelson and Shimcr, guards; MacDonald and Odegaard, centers; Short and West, quarterbacks; Harris, Chambers, and Safford, halfbacks; and Tosaya and Recchia, fullbacks. A Cee manager’s letter was presented to Joe Hartley. The team expressed its gratitude for the untiring efforts of Coach Victor Francy throughout the season. otis short T h e S e roll, 19 .? :7 101

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Back How: Coach Francy. Appel. Hackney. Filbert. DrGray. Scholl. Pinkham, Pike. Sato. Krueger, Hlake. B Welle». Hartley (manager). Middle How: Taylor. Fender. Spced'c. Tovtyo, MacDonald. Chamber . Mailloux. We»t. Mclllwain. Harmon. Front Row: Bergin. SatTord. P. Harri». Gonnwen. Nel»on. Odegaard. O. Short (captain), Shimer. Whiteher, Seifert. C FOOTBALL THE 1934 edition of Whirlwinds revealed a brilliant group of boys that should strengthen Hoover’s football ranks in coming years. Mentored by Coach Victor Francy, they enjoyed their usual successful season. Lee Safford and Paul Harris were the outstanding ball-packers of the squad. Coach Francy was fortunate to have two such quarterbacks as Wilbur West and Otis Short, whose level-headed playing repeatedly kept the Hoo- verites out of danger. The blocking and tackling of Everittc Chambers, Pete Recchia, and Toshio Tosaya kept their opponents in hot water. The line’s two outstanding athletes were Bob Shimer, guard and Gail Whitcher, tackle. Richard Bergin, Erling Odegaard, Mac Speedie, Leslie Gonnsen, Arnold Seifert, Harry Nelson, and Carlyle MacDonald displayed a steady game throughout the season. Outstanding plays of the year were Chamber’s 37-yard dash after inter- cepting a Los Angeles Roman pass, Safford's toss to Short which scored against Belmont, MacDonald’s sprint of 50 yards after he had grabbed the ball from a Belmont back’s hands, and Harris’ beautiful end run against Whittier in the first battle. Bleak moments were the Romans’ first-half drives, Whittier’s attack in the first quarter of the first tilt, the blocking of Safford’s punt behind the goal line in the third Card game, and the whole second Redbird fracas. The Hoover Cee’s pre-season record predicted a successful year for the team. After the Whirlwinds had held the Romans to a tic, the latter went ahead to win the Los Angeles city title. This indicates the standing of the Hoover eleven among the other squads of the Southland. The lightweights’ triple-touchdown defeat of the Belmont Cee’s showed the team’s potential power. Ifonrn'O Los A nt elrs 0. Though playing exceptional football for the first game of the season, the Hoover Whirlwinds battled indecisively with a 00 • 7' h » $ c r o 11. I V -V .7

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Back Row: Coach Butterfield. McMullin. Boitard, Barley, Ankrum. Doe, Putman, Sutton. Hoardman. Reynold». Mulwbu». Rabjohn (manager). Middle Row: Seymour, Neville. Hayward. Titchenal. Andervon. Montgomery. Sullivan Front Row: Park». Petty. Marshall. Ro»»man. Hubert (captam), Ridd. Potter. Murray. VARSITY BASKETBALL T ED by Captain Ted Hilbert and coached by Mr. Howard Nucoa Butterfield, the Hoover Tornadoes had a fair pre-season but a rather dis- astrous league year. Hoover's only outstanding practice-game win was over Pasadena, who had defeated Glendale High. In the opening practice schedule Hoover knocked off North Hollywood 38 to 22, but in a return game the Tornadoes were sunk 24 to 22. The local squad then took on a strong Fairfax five and was soundly drubbed 44 to 25. Proving that they could come back, the locals next walloped Canoga Park 33 to 5. John Marshall had too many sharpshooters and took the purples-and-whites 21 to 18. In the following encounter Van Nuys over- came the locals 27 to 13. On the home court the Tornadoes defeated the Pasadena Bulldogs during Christmas vacation 33 to 29. The second tussle with the Crown City lads was definitely theirs; Hoover, not being able to get started, was always trailing. The final score was 26 to 15. Again starting slowly, the Presidents warmed up and had little trouble defeating Compton 26 to 17. In a wide- open contest Bonita came through in the second half to win over the purple- pantied boys 27 to 22. With the Glendale City title at stake, the Dynamiters successfully defend- ed the honor in the victor's gym 19 to 12. The crosstown boys led at the end of the first quarter 2 to 0 and at half-time 11 to 0. Merle Potter, purple- and-whitc guard took high scoring honors for Hoover. Hoover took its first league game from Monrovia and then was defeated by the Wildcats 41 to 13. John Lindell was the star of both tilts, with twenty markers in the second battle. Captain Ted Hubert, playing center in the last game, put in a good showing but lacked the speed to get to the basket. A squad with three sophomores, Gene Bogard, Jack Putman and Alan Grey, and two juniors, Bart Doe and Harold Murray, showed promise 102 T h , Scroll. I 9 3