Princeton High School - Tiger Yearbook (Princeton, IL)

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1942-'43 BASKETBALL Without a single regular back from last season, Coach Bill Howard's Tigers played ex- ceptionally fine ball. They finished the season with 13 wins and 11 loses. The boys' lack of ex- perience was more than made up by their scrap. The Princeton boys had more fight than the op- posing teams throughout the year. After a slow start, the Blue and Gray began to click with the scoring very evenly divided. The season was opened with a win over Wyanet, followed by a one-point defeat at Hall Township. Four successive Kern specialties brought home the first conference victory at Mendota. During the Christmas holidays, the Tigers faltered at the free throw line to lose to DePue, but all was well when Dean Teece held Gob Brown to seven points and our Tigers took a victory over last year's Conference Champions. Kewanee's fire- wagon fast breakers were too much for the Tigers the day after Christmas. A loss to Rock Falls and a victory over Geneseo, prior to the county tourney, kept the season on a .500 basis. With the aid of Don Larson, who proved to be a spark plug in the tourney, the boys went into the finals with Hall. After a game in which we 'Nov. - Wyanet .........,.. BHSKETBHLL Princeton Opponent .. ......... 37 22 Dec. 4-Rochelle ................. ......... 2 0 49 Dec. 11-Spring Valley .......... ......... 2 4 25 Dec. 18-DePue ....,.................. ......... 3 4 38 Dec. 23-Mendota ........... ......... 3 8 27 Dec. 26-Kewarree ........,,. .....,,.. 2 9 43 jan. 8-Rock Falls ........ ......... 3 3 46 Han. 9-Walnut .,,......... ......... 4 0 28 Jan. 15-Ottawa ....,.,,, .......,, 3 6 47 lost to Hall by only one point, it was felt that victory lay aheadg but again first place eluded Princeton. After the defeat by Ottawa, our .500 percentage was set at stake when we met Rock Falls on our own floor. However, in the last min- ute Dean Teece came through with the game- winning basket. A small, fast DeKalb team handed Princeton its third conference defeat, after trailing for three quarters. Dick Gibons teamed up with jack Eakle to set Geneseo back for the second time during the season. A greatly improved Men- dota team headed the local boys by two points in which game the locals could not find the hoop in the first half. The regular playing season was closed with a defeat at the hands of a red hot St. Bede team, and two earlier defeats were avenged with victories over DePue and Hall Township. In the Regional Tournament the Tigers claw- ed a high scoring Ohio team, only to lose to LaSalle-Peru in the semi-finals. Letters for the season were awarded to Clif- ford Frantzen, senior and honorary captain, Dean Teece and Don Kern, co-captains elect, Dick Gibons, Eugene Gildermaster, and Don Larson, all juniors, and jack Eakle, a sophomore. SCHEDULE Princeton Opponent Jan. 22-Geneseo ......,...,......................... 27 22 Jan. 25-30-County Tournament tl'Feb. 5-Rock Falls ....,.......,..........,,,,... 31 30 i4Feb- 12-DeKalb ...,,...,.. ,,,,,,. 3 6 42 glieb. 15-St. Bede ......,. ,.,.,,. 2 9 58 'fFeb. 19-Geneseo ...,...... ....... 3 6 24 tfFeb. 23-DePue ................,,,,,,,,,,,,.,,,,,.,,,,,.. 31 27 f'Feb. 27-Spring Valley ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, 32 27 ftMar, 1-7-Regional Tournament i'Home games. r-441

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field and Larson paved the way for Hanson and 1942 FOOTBALL SEASON Sept. 11-Walnut at Princeton Sept 18--Kewanee at Kewanee Sept 25-DePue at Princeton Oct. 2-Geneseo at Geneseo Oct. 16-Mendota at Mendota ........ Oct. 23-Rock Falls at Princeton Oct. 30-Hall at Princeton .............. Nov. 6-Ottawa at Ottawa ........ This fall under the tutelage of Coach Foster Keagle, the Tigers won the first football cham- pionship in our school's history by defeating Ot- tawa 7 to 6 on their own field, winning thereby undisputed championship of the North Central Conference. However, two weeks afternthe final game, it was discovered that our Captain, Bill Hanson, was over age, and Princeton was forced to forfeit all games won, thus blotting out so tragically the best record in our history. On September 11, after two weeks of hard practice, the Tigers took on their annual first game rival, Walnut. The Walnut boys were game, but Princeton was just too strong for them. Princeton easily won this game by a score of 39 to O. A week later the Tigers invaded Kewanee for a game which is always looked forward to from year to year by both teams. Although Prince- ton outplayed Kewanee throughout the game, making 10 first downs to Kewanee's 2, the Tigers could not match Kewanee's speed and were de- feated 34 to 0. Princeton met DePue, another an- nual early season rival, on September 25 on Bry- ant Field. Still smarting from the defeat dealt them by Kewanee, the Tigers were out for blood. Although the Zinc City lads scored on Princeton for the first time in 6 years, the Blue and Gray completely overpowered a much too weak DePue team by a score of 46 to 6. On October 2, the Bengals traveled to Geneseo to meet a confident and greatly inspired Geneseo team. This, our first conference game of the season, is considered by Coach Keagle as the best played game of the en- tire season. One of our touchdowns was account- ed for by a 78 yard run by Rumley .The final score was Princeton 24, Geneseo, O. An open date for October 9, gave the boys a chance to build up and round off some of the rough spots for the tough games to come. This seems to be just what the team needed as the outcome of the last four games seemed to prove. On October 16 we met Mendota at Mendota before a large crowd. Both teams played hard football, but the Tigers were able to subdue all Mendota threats. High- I 43 Princeton 39 O Opponent 54 46 6 26 0 27 0 7 7 34 7 6 12 Rumley with excellent blocking. We won by a score of 26 to 0. A week later Rock Falls traveled to Princeton for our homecoming. Rock Falls was considered one of the best teams in the state, hav- ing been undefeated for two years. The whole game was played on even terms. Princeton was first to score, but soon afterwards Rock Falls tied the game at 7 to 7. Thompson and Shipp were continually breaking through Rock Falls' forward wall to set the opposing backs for losses. This game is considered by many fans as the best and hardest fought game ever played on Bryant Field. Even though both Princeton and Rock Falls were regarded as exceptionally strong offensive teams, the game ended in a 7 to 7 deadlock. On October 50, Hall played Princeton here. Outplaying them in every department, the Tigers defeated Hall for the first time in 28 years by a score of 34 to 12. Hanson, Teece and Walker were outstanding in this game. We went to Ottawa on November 6 for our last game and also the most important, since the Championship of the North Central Conference was at stake. This was a hard and bitterly fought contest. The work of Pease and Gildermaster was outstanding. The game ended with Ottawa a few yards from our goal line and the score 7 to 6 in our favor. Although this year's team was comparatively large, it was unusually fast. In the backfield Rum- ley, Hanson, and Highfield were exceptionally speedy, and our line continually outcharged the opponents. Princeton greatly outscored its oppo- nents by making a total of 183 points to our op- ponents 65 points. In fact, the Tigers excelled in every department. The letter winners who will graduate this year are as follows: Captain Bill Hanson, Clifford Frantzen, Don Fahlberg, Ken- neth Shipp, Wilmer Thompson, jack Ferris, Ron- ald Miller and Stephen Kasbeer. The lettermen who will be back next year are Captain-elect Don- ald Rumley, Herbert Pease, Dean Teece, Howard Walker, Eugene Gildermaster, Donald Kern, Dick Highfield, Donald Larson, joe Zearing, and Rob- ert Carlson. . l

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ASKETBALL TEAM First Row: fleft to rightl-Dick Gibons, Jack Eakle, Donald Kern, Dean Teece, Roger Richards, Donald Rumley, Harold Powers Second Row-Carl Olson, Mr. Keagle, Gene Gildermaster, Donrld Larson, Mr. Howard. Third Row-Dick Robb, Donald Swan, Robert Ferris, Howard Troupa, Howard Ross, Charles Hays. Fourth Row-Verne Shaffer, George Skinner, Douglas Conley, Carl Croissant, Roger Smith, john Miller. Not in Picture-Clifford Frantzcn, CCaptain in 1942-194333 Donald Fahlberg, Russell Halberg, james Marine, Robert Jaskowiak wi