Northampton Area High School - Amptennian Yearbook (Northampton, PA)

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Un the Court, no quarter given - MilcsiTs guns one in ageinsT Becahi. BASKETBALL NorTha mpTon OpponenT Copley .n,,g! -s 56 57 FounTain Hill -,, 59 60 Phillipsburg e- 52 65 Becahi .... 47 72 Emmaus --- 48 53 WhiTehall ,,6. 40 43 SlaTingTon , 68 53 PalmerTon V, 57 66 CeTeseuqua ,,,, 56 47 LehighTon ,,3, 4I 43 STrouclsburg ,3.. 54 52 Emmaus .,... 46 6l Whifehell ,,,, 67 83 SlaTingTon H, 66 6l PalmerTon --, 47 68 CaTaseuqua 6,.. 57 64 LehighTon .,,, 65 44 STroudsburg ,,.m,,,, , ,,,, 5l 50 Losing Three lcey men Through greduaTion and un- dergoing a change oT coaches in mid-season, The Kon- lcreie Kid baslceTeers suTTered Through a dismal season, Tinishing wiTh a 6-I2 marlc. as did lasT season's hoop- sTers. The Kids opened The season wiTh a heerT-breaking loss To Copley. They led ThroughouT The game and held e 56-53 lead wiTh a minuTe To go. Two Toul shoTs wiTh 3l seconds leTT gave Copley e 57-56 win. STeve Herschmen collecTed T9 poinTs Tor The game's high. FounTain l-lill also squeezed pasT The Kids by a one- poinT margin. 60-59. Willard Oplinger picked up I6 poinTs To lead our hoopsTers. NexT. Phillipsburg, using iTs heighT advanTage To The maximum, Trounced The KonlcreTe Kids 65-52. Frank lvlilcsiTs was high-poinT men Tor NorThampTon wiTh I5. BeThlehem CaTholic senT The Kids To Their TourTh sTraighT loss To The Tune oT 72-47. Oplinger's Ten poinTs were oT no avail. In Their Lehigh Valley League opener, The Kids suc- cumbed wiThouT much proTesT To The Emrneus Green l-lorneTs. Gary Kohler paced The Kids wiTh I6 poinTs. For Their sixTh loss in as many games. The Kids en- TerTained The WhiTehall Zephyrs. The evenTuel league champs. They losT by only Three poinTs, 43-40. Kohler springs, shooTs, and sinks Tor a beslceT againsT PalmerTon. page one hundred TwenTy-eighT

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Champions again! Emmaus launches a guided missile. Trom SaTurday To Monday only puT oTT The expecTed ouTcome, much To PaImerTon's misery. PaImerTon surprised The Kids wiTh a 70-yard pass Iay Tor a TD, giving Them a 7-O lead They savored Tor less Than 5 minuTes. WiThin 3 minuTes aTTer The Blue Bombers had scored, DerkiTs crashed over Trom The 2. climaxing a 60-yard drive, puTTing The score aT 7-6. In anoTher couple oT minuTes, Vogel ran around IeTT end Tor anoTher 32 yards and a Touchdown, unTiI The oT- Ticials signaled his score. The kindesT Thing you can say abouT The resT oT The game is ThaT The wind had been Taken ouT oT Palmer- Ton's sails. Beidleman, George BaITz, and DerkiTs also picked up Touchdowns To seT The Tinal score aT 47-I4. NorThampTon-CaTa sa ug ua The Time was one year IaTer. buT iT could iusT as well have been Two years, or Tive, or Ten. The players were noT The same, buT The ouTcome was. For The I4Th consecuTive year The NorThampTon KonkreTe Kids humbled The CaTasauqua Rough Riders. Their TradiTionaI Turkey Day rivals. By doing so, The Kids picked up Their TourTh league crown in a row, and Their 33rd consecuTive league win. page one CaTasaugua, who came inTo The game Tied Tor TirsT place wiTh The Kids, managed To make a game ouT of iT Tor one haIT: in The second haIT They oTTered IiTTIe compeTiTion Tor The compeTenT Kids oT NorThampTon I-Iigh. To Kuba and Gerry RudeIiTsch go The oTTensive honors for This conTesT. They rolled up all buT 4I of NorThampTor1's 237 yards gained and each scored Two Touchdowns. Beidleman also should receive his due of roses Tor compIeTing Tour of six passes, one To Kuba. Tor a Touchdown. The Tinal score was 25-I3. Season Summary You mighT say ThaT NorThampTon's TooTbaII Team is in a ruT, or, more apTIy puT, in The groove! Since AI Erdosy Took over as head coach in I939, The Kids have won I29 games, IosT 3I, and Tied 9. The have been league champions I5 Times. This year iyollowed The Tamiliar paTTern as NorThampTon won 8, and IosT buT I. The Jay Vees. coached by Joe Gerencser and Jim Oplinger, ended a six-game season wiTh I win and 5 losses. This was noT as bad as iT seemed, Though. The youngsTers played only Top Tive Teams in The Valley -- no league opponenTs. hundred Twenfy-seven

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1-ur 7 f none was asked g every second tough and hard, The Kids Tinally picked up a noTch in Their vicTory column againsT SlaTingTon. Passing The ball Tlawlessly and shooTing wiTh a high degree oT accuracy, They whipped The SIaTers 68-53. In Their nexT game The Kids really gave signs OT awakening. They shackled CaTasauqua wiTh a TighT zone deTense. Oplinger led The Kids To a 56-47 win wiTh 20 poinTs. The TourTh hearT-breaker oT The season came when LehighTon eked ouT a 43-4I double-overTime vicTory. IvIiksiTs' sTeady one-handers gave him I6 poinTs Tor The game's high. Back inTo high gear again, The hoopsTers sneaked by STroudsburg 54-52, wiTh I-lerschman coming oTT The bench IaTe in The game To puT The NAJI-IS baskeTeers inTo The lead. The Kids wenT back To Their slump in The nexT con- TesT. a second halT opener againsT Emmaus. MiksiTs' 20 poinTs did no good. as NorThampTon wenT down 6I-46. Herschman Takes oTT Tor 2 more. Marchak lays one up againsT The Blue Bombers. ' WhiTehall I'ligh rolled over The KonkreTe Kids 83- 67 in The nexT sTruggle, despiTe MiksiTs' 20 poinT con- TribuTion. Awake again. NorThampTon ToughT back a deTer- mined SIaTingTon lasT period bid Tor a 66-6I Triumph. Oplinger was high man wiTh I6 poinTs. Leading by one poinT aT half Time, The KonkreTe Kids waTched PaImerTon score I8 poinTs To Their own 6 in The Third period To rouT Them 68-47. CaTasauqua obTained revenge Tor a TirsT half de- TeaT aT The hands oT The Kids, winning 64-57. George Gasper picked up I4 poinTs Tor NorThampTon. To end The season on The righT TooT, NorThampTon shoT by LehighTon To The Tune oT 65-44. Herschman led The Kids wiTh I4 poinTs, The NAJI-IS baskeTeers Tinished The league season wiTh a record oT 5-8. The ouTIook Tor nexT season seems a IiTTIe brighTer, since Coach DoTTer will have a sea- son's experience and The helm Trom The beginning oT pracTice. IvIiksiTs, Kohler, and Herschman will gradu- aTe This June. Dogged by bad luck Through an I8-game season. Joe Gerencser's and .lim OpIinger's Jay Vees wound up wiTh 4 vicTories and I4 losses. page one hundred Twenfy-nine