Burlington High School - Cougars Din Yearbook (Burlington, CO)

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'I947 FOOTBALL SEASON Fifty-two men reported to Coach Tolos for the first time a week before school started in September. Forty of them stuck it out through the long season, and all played in at least one game. Seven were lettermen from former teams. The Wray Eagles opened the season on Walters-Hudson Field September 12. The teams were evenly matched and the Cougars gained a 7-0 victory over the Class A visitors. The only teams to defeat the Cougars were St. Francis and Estes Park. The St. Francis game, a comedy of errors, was scoreless up to the last ten minutes. The boys enjoyed the Estes Park trip as a vacation and were plainly lying low, looking to the Limon game. Limon's Badgers fell for a series of spread plays both at Limon and at Burlington, but the Badgers were easily the best team faced all year. The next game was easily won over the undermanned Hugo team, with our sec- ond team playing over half of the game. Charles Mills, a second string end, broke his leg in this game, putting him out of the championship playoffs, as this game end- ed the conference season. Springfield's league champions came up hopefully, but their season had ended when they went home. Fowler, victors over Ordway, enjoyed Thanksgiving dinner in Burlington. Then Louisville, conquorers of Eaton, flew to Burlington with their eyes on the championship. The series of spread plays gave the Cougars one touchdown. Louis- ville failed to score by a yard and the heart went out of them. Just before the half Louisville's star halfbank, Tesone, received a nose injury and was unable to play in the last half. At half time the Cougars held a 13-0 lead. O H. AU as 85' QW ' ev 'J' FD IS' 3 FF D' H7 P-' Ph 5- rn O O C UQ 2 va 'S 94 3. 3' 0 2- '4 D- Q I5 Q-4 FD Q- 55 0 UQ W 5 fb 2 5 W vs 0 O v-1 0 Ein, 555 5 5 :rmon mU'er 4:23 CD:-0 E52 DEW swf? 93'4'V3 555 Bmw I-9 233' 'Egg 2 ':1 UPS We--m f?'T'n. mm .,,U. 21 33' nas, 353 52? .':::v 'DPL Un. E? 551 '+I-'cr 55 Qt- 0 353 'ta SS rug- 4444'-

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State Champions 1947 FOOTBALL SEASON BACK ROW-Mike Winningham, Gerald Plautz, Don Langston, Ray Rose, Dick McKinley, Warren Bauder, Torn Fromong, R. Kintigh, J. Busby, Dale Eberhart. FRONT ROW-Carl McNeill, Don Pavel, Paul Brown, Alvin Kloeckner, Marlin Eber- erhart, Darrell Farnsworth, Wilbur Lengel, Douglas Hillman, Richard Farns- worth, Ed Hatcher. KNEELING: Coach Chris Tolos, Ray Dunn, Joedy Hendricks. Coach Chris Tolos SUMMARY Cougars Score Opponents Burlington Y ,. 7 Wray . Burlington , as or 0 St. Francis Burlington Y, ,,,,, 33 Yuma ,, Burlington ,,,,,,7 13 Limon ,, Burlington ,, 32 Hugo Burlington ,, H ,,,7 14 Estes Park Burlington , ,, , 6 Limon ,, . Burlington . 34 Hugo ,. Burlington ,B ,B N ..,,. 20 Springfield Burlington ,, . ,i,,,7 26 Fowler W, Burlington ,,7,7 ,,,,7,,, 4 5 Louisville ,,,, TOTAL ,7,7c,,e ,, , 7 101 TOTAL Score 0 13 ., ,,,. 19 , 0 A 0 ,,. 19 O 0 6 ,, 0 0 15