Abbott Junior High School - Blue and Gold Yearbook (Elgin, IL)

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SEVENTH GRADE FOOTBALL 1$T ROWeSteve Mengler, B111 Keeney, Gary Gannonl Erl Runge, Harry Hoffman, John Whitney, Douglas Koch, Darwin Minehart, Jim Blischke. 2ND ROW-Dcm Parks, Iim Tennison, Wayne Webb, Alan Hahn, Jim Green, Emil Wolff, Toe Wilkins, Jerry Hoppe, John Giardinol Bruce Reinking, David Fields, Bob Gillam. 3RD ROW-Dick Woods, Bill Tobin, Cctrl Buehler, George Payne, Charles Smith, Barry Puklin, Bud Wells, Eugene Moring, Wayne Larson, Dale chgemcm, Iim' Pease, Harold Leonard, Mr. Hulmes, coach. The seventh grade football team won two games and lost two. The team showed lots of spirit throughout the season, cmd Abbott expects to see some good playing from these boys next year. The team was coached by Mr. Hulmes. Bud Wells did a fine job as center, as did Harold Leonard at left halfback and John Giardino in the line. Fifty-four boys were on the squad.

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EIGHTH GRADE FOOTBALL IST ROWeRcty Bradley! Ted Wilson, Wayne Knee, Bob Spell- meyer, Dick Nordenfelt, Sam Wroy, Dick Sommers, Bill Iepson, Les Moser. 2ND ROWePczut Wilcox, Jim Rayner, Jim Barman, Jack Gar- land, Wally Lcrmprecht, Tom Wagoner, Phil Johnson, Ron Kilgore, Jerry Runge, Stan Crone, Gory Summers tMoscott. 3RD ROW- Harold Zapolsky tMcmogerL Ron Burnidge, Louis Bosco, Don Toppel, Chuck Behrens, Wes Foell, Jerry Ogden! Duane Gerber, Harold Garbrecht, Poul Draper, Marvin Nelson, Coach Summers. The eighth grade football team showed their strength lost season when they went all out for the city championship and won it. The majority of the players Who won the city championship the year before in seventh grade were book in their suits again this season. The team, under the direction of Coach Carl Summers, played four games and won every one. A totod of titty-six points were made during the whole season, and of those, Don Toppel, the right-hcdfborck mode titty-five. Lester Moser, playing on left-end, mode the other point on a conversion. Among the other players who were outstanding were Poul Draper, Jerry Runge, Wayne Knee, Wesley Foell, Charles Behrens, Jerry Ogden, and Dick N ordenfelt.

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NINTH GRADE BASKETBALL IST ROWEPCIUI Wilkening, Richard Thelcmder, Dean Martin. 2ND ROWvCharles Stewart, Ronald Larson, Versiql Cork, Morris Gillespie, Don Plote, Bruce Pillinger. 3RD ROWeRobert Schaff, Dennis Miller, DeWayne Block, Couch Myers, John McMahon, Willis Schuldt, B111 Nitz. The ninth grade basketball team, coached by Mr. Myers, completed the season in the early part of March by being defeated by the high school fresh- men in the last seconds of the game by one point. The teotm was captained by Don Plote, and Willis Schuldt let in the scoring with 109 points out of the 229 point total for the entire team. A LOCKER SCENE WINNERS IN BOXING TOURNEY 'V