Ottawa Hills High School - Legend Yearbook (Grand Rapids, MI)

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Mart Slager, the captain of this year's team, demonstrating his well known style of defense. , D' l i LJ x ' f ax, fa Second Team Top row: Robert Millar fmgrj, Donald Barendse, Robert Stearns, Clarence Rahill, Edward Potter, Donald Heyer, Cornie Koets fcoachj. Second row: David Ernst, George Horner, Kenneth Shireling, Neil Huizenga, Robert Ernst, Eugene Ver Merris, john Steketee. First row: Richard Bloxsom, Donald Graham, Gerald Haan. Absent members: Richard McKeough, Duane Hoffman, james Goethel. Holland Christian, 21 -Ottawa, 20 Ottawa went down in defeat be- fore a superior Holland five. The game was even all the way, although Holland got the lucky point. Christian, 35-Ottawa, 30 Christian got off to an early lead, but Ottawa tied the score, and the Eagles came back for three points. Davis Tech, 37-Ottawa, 34 The Tribe was outclassed throughout the game, but even so it put up a terrific struggle against a superior Tech team. Central, 37 - Ottawa, 34 The game was close with neither team having a lead of more than a few points all through the game. Ottawa, 33 - Union, 25 The Tribe was ahead all the time except for a few min- utes in the third quarter. Creston, 28 - Ottawa, 20 A gallant duel to th d b barely winning. e en , ut it was close with Creston Ottawa, 25 - South, 24 With fi last 12 seconds Ottawa made the point to win the game. Catholic Central, 36 - Ottawa, 33 First one team in the lead and then the other. ve minutes to play the score was 24 all, but in the Ottawa, 27 - Christian, 25 Ottawa took the lead at the beginning and at the half Christian was ahead, but then the Indians came back to make the necessary points. Davis Tech, 36 - Ottawa, 20 Outclassed by the Tech team the Tribe fought a gallant battle to the end. Lansing Sexton, 49 -- Ottawa, 27 The game looked as if it would be Ottawa's at first, but the team could not quite make it. Creston, 55 -- Ottawa, 27 For the city tournaments Ottawa drew the powerful Creston team. The Tribe did well in the first half, but could not keep up with the faster five from the northend. 60

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The spark plugs of the football team, the cheer leaders. Art Lindquist about to bring down a Union High ball carrier. On October 24 Ottawa defeated her old rival, South, 14 to 0 during which the ball was in the hands of the In- dians 'most of the first quarter. The great moments of the game were Zaremba's touchdown from the 15- yard line and Greenhoe's interception. A The Union game, which ended in a W scoreless tie, was played on a muddy field and every one was covered with it when the game finished. The season ended with a painful de- feat of 27 to 0 by Catholic Central. The team looked good in the first quarter but finally gave way under the superior power of the opposition. When the football season ended, Ottawa was tied with Creston and Tech for fourth, fifth, and sixth place. In the city Ottawa defeated South and Ctestonjtied Union, and lost to Cen- tral, Tech, and Catholic. Basketball Squad is Rebuilt In judging the success of this year's team, one should remember that last year Ottawa, with a team that had been playing together for four years, tied for the championship. Only two play- ers on that entire squad who had seen any action returned, Greenhoe and Martin, and the former was lost in january due to the eight semester rule. It was necessary then to do a rebuilding job, and to that end a squad was picked for this season's title conquest, at least half of whose members were to return for another season. In consideration of that fact, the team, we be- lieve, did very well indeed, says Coach Ludwick, and the chances seem f bright for another good year in 1945-44 First Team Top row: Henry Ludwick fcoachj,jack Gladstone, Phillip Montgomery, Williztm Hers- man, Carol Hendrickson, Hugh Lilly, Robert jamo, Robert Millar fmgrj. First row: William MacAlpine fmgrj, David Tuuk, Harry Palmer, Thomas Ohland, Mar- tin Slager, Alex Martin, Donald Veldman, Donald Frans fmgrj. Absent member: Clarke Goethel lmgrj. 59 p Holland, 59-Ottawa, 28 On December 9 Ottawa traveled to Holland to open the season. The lead piled up by the tall Holland five was too great to overcome. Ottawa, 34-South, 28 The first city league game was a triumph over the favored South High Trojans. The Tribe was ahead throughout the game. Ottawa, 40- Catholic Central, 32 The Indians kept well ahead of the opposition all through the game, even though a fourth quar- ter rally by the Cougars almost lost the game for Ottawa.

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Baseball Team Top row: Cornie Koets fcoachj, Clarence Rahill, David Tuuk, Donald Smith, Eugene Ver Merris, Robert Zaremba, Gorden Van Hoeven, Harry Schaub, Vernon Hendrickson, Phil Dennen fmgrj, Dale Miller. Second row: james Vercoe, Harold Bart, Thomas Fudge, Donald Drews, Neil Huizenga, Ben Nord, john Nammensma. First row: joe De Fouw, Thomas Ohland, jack Van Duren, Robert Breen, William Winstrom, William Hill. Absent members: Carmen Gross, Walter Koster, jack Leopold, Robert Tilma. Baseball Nine Warms Up The Baseball Team this year looks fairly good, even though it did lose the first three games of the season. These games were with Central, Creston, and Catholic Central. The score of the Central game was 5 to 11 in Central's favorg Creston defeated Ottawa 7 to lg and Catho- lic won a hard fought game by only two points, the score was 2 to 0. just before the Legend went to press Ottawa won its first game. This game was with Christian and had been originally scheduled for April 20, but was cancelled because of rain. It was played on April 29 and the Ottawa nine defeated them in an exciting game at Garfield Park by the score of 5 to 0. This year there are many new fellows out, and they look like fine material for the team. Coach Cornie Koets is at Franklin Park with them every night when they are practicing, giving them pointers, helping to iron out the defects in the system, and assisting in the practice when- ever it is necessary. BASEBALL SCHEDULE Date Opponefzl Field April 13 ...... ..,..... C entral ..... ..,........ V alley April 16 ...... ........ C reston ..,... ..,..... R amona April 20 ...... v...... C hristian .,.., ,....... G arfield April 22 ...... ,...... C atholic ....... ........ R amona April 27 ...... ....... D avis Tech ...... ........... G arfield April 30 ....., ....... U nion .........,.. .,....... J ohn Ball May 4 ...... ........ S outh ...,..., ......., G arheld May 7 ...... ...,.... C entral ....,.. .,,..........,,,,., May 11 ....., ........ C reston .,..., .,,.,,.. B riggs May 14 ...... ........ C hristian ...... .....,. F ranklin May 18 ...... ........ C atholic ..,.... ......... R umsey May 20 ...... ........ D avis Tech ,.... .,,.... F ranklin May 25 ...... ........ U nion ....... ....... F ranklin May 28 ...... ....... S outh ...... ..,.,,- F ranklin 61 Bill Winstrom, the catcher, and Tommy Ohland, the batter, wait tensely for the ball to come sailing across the plate. g ' - X X A S. .im - ' ,, x 'Sb- ,aa ,, 1 .INV ? .6 .Lf ,- fw, Q fp 7 f ,A f f xr N1 Ry 1 ,I U 0 kv ' '22 X x X 6 a Z si I!