Palmer High School - Terror Trail Yearbook (Colorado Springs, CO)

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FOOTBALL LEFT-Bilbrey 1331 gets off for a good gain in an end-around play against Canon. RIGHT-ln the same game Winternitz stops McKellar at the line of scrimmage. OLD MAN FUMBLE kept his jinx on the Terrors and took his yearly toll of breaks and inabilities to capital- ize on all touchdown opportunities regardless of high hopes and stout hearts. With nineteen experienced lettermen returning from the squad of last year and a large number of promising newcomers from the junior highs and from first year juniors and seniors from which to build the team, the outlook was quite bright as the Terrors' cleated shoe-ers swept into their 1939 grid campaign with Coach Eddie Allen return- ing to the helm for his second consecutive year as head coach. Nevertheless, our boys, in their worst defeat which was suffered at the hands of the Salida Spartans, were separated from the victors by only a nine point margin. Coach Allen was ably assisted during the season by the veteran, Coach Erps, until basketball practice started, and then Bunny Bischof of Lever fame gave his aid. Canon City 6, Terrors 0 Even with the perfect football weather and the eager and enthusiastic fans, Home- coming Day proved a sad occasion for the Terror gridsters. Opening the league season at the Will Rogers Stadium, site of all our home games, against the Canon City Tigers, the Brown and White warriors played their worst game of the entire season, Starting slowly, the Terrors couldn't get off their heels during the first half, while the Tigers repeatedly hit the line for long gains and finally managed to carry the pig- skin spheroid over the goal. The second half produced many long and spectacular runs by the Terrors, but they failed to capitalize on their breaks, thus losing touch- downs and throwing the game to the four winds. Central 6, Terrors 0 Out-of-town competition for the C. S. H. S. Terrors was opened by a thrill-packed 91