Calipatria High School - Hornet Yearbook (Calipatria, CA)

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'1- 45.4 1'-I 'E- ? Mm Fei-ui' K? I Q ' Q Top row l to r Ray Harp Richard Thurman Wallace Wolfe Clayton Enckson lCoachl Thlrd row Theodore Hall Henry Chavez Bobby Alvey Lynn Welsh Nell Webb Second row Bllly Woods Iohn Panosh lack McDan1els Haskel Nickel Stanley Swanger Flrsi row Bruce Webb Wrllxe Cunnmgham Gerald Carrlck Ernie Dxckman Donald Sones Bruce Young 007Bv4ll The Cahpat Hornets began fhetr l947 season of football wrth hrqh hopes of wrnntnq the champlonshrp They started practlce two weeks before school opened Monday September 8 For a whtle there wasn t much of a team because most of the players were sttll out of the Valley But qradually the team was as sembled and was well underway to what they hop d would end rn a champton shrp year for the Hornets The Hornets met thetr f1rst opponenrs Mount Errotre Frtday September 25 Caltpat played defensrvely practtcally throuqhout the whole qame because of frequent fumbles rn thetr backf1eld However the Hornets topped Emplre 1n f1rst downs havtnq ntne to therr seven The ftnal sco e was 7 o showmq that the Call oat eleven came throuqh wrt 1 rather a sltm marqtn IAMBOREE e oree ound Calrpat a and Nattna eve thoutah the-J t h f t rt nat Btlly VK ood due to a Jcfv tr, ,I reserved tr' the aar e ,a rst E ptre lt r as the Ho nets Job o hol h l ertal va mtv back afte Brawley had g yen thetr lde a goo thtrtee potnt lead The C ltpat ele en was repeatedly pushed back but not mt ease Vltth both t rurtrt P of T fo 1 a ton the Cal1p.1tr1a gr d tear succe fully galned elghteen ,fa as aoarr t lvrtpe tal varst y rn the-tr qua ter o the contest COACHELLA c ober 8 0 7 th o w r t oolc a cracx therr sec ond no cor coco f' ch on t o P held Sha p L tc o o Th P whn a erce te l ofrm e rlzo

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Calipatria Opponents HOLTVILLE The following Tuesday the Calipat eleven met Holtville in their first conference game of the '47 season. Both teams battled back and forth all through the first three quarters with no scoring by either team, Late in the fourth quarter, the Hornets scored the only touchdown of the game. Completing the conversion gave the Hornets the winning score of 7-O. The Hornets penetrated the Viking end zone a number of times but were unable to score due to repeated fumbles and incompleted passes. BRAWLEY The second conference game of the season was played on the Brawley field against the Brawley Kittens. This game proved to be very successful in improving the Hornets' spirit and confidence in themselves Everyone was in great spirits that night and the Hornets trarrtped over the Kittens in a 27-O victory. The first string didn't do much playing after the first two quarters, since Coach Erickson thought ii would be nice to let the other boys play in case they had no other chances in future games. Most of the scoring was made by a series of center plunges crossbucks and quarterback sneaks IMPERIAL The following Thursday the Hornets met the Imperial Tiaers on the Tigers field Coach Erickson feeling confident that the Hornets second string could take Imperial without too much opposition started them at the opening of the game Much to our surprise the Tigers of Imperial held the Hornets for no gain and they nearly scored The first squad replaced the second in order to hold the undefeated untied unscored upon record which they held Sweeping endrun and sma hing bucks were rriainly re ponsible for the 20 O victory rung up COACHELLA The following week the Hornets grid team tourneyed to Coachella to play a return game with that team First string quarterback Patil Dickman was unable to play because of the flu Eirst scoring was the Hornets when they recovered a punt blocked by center Bruce Young tallying two points for touch back Later in the game two touchdowns were scored by fullback Donald Sores of the Hornets The final outcome was l4 7 in favor of the Hornets CALEXICO Up to this time the Hornet eleven remained untied undefeated and unscored upon But the Calexico game proved to be one of the upsets of the year The score being 6 6 Most of the men on the tearri though the Calexico team would be fairly easy but they proved tougher than expected Gerald Ca rick of Calipai scored first for 6 points The Hornets failed to con vert when a pass from Dickman to Auker nan fell incomplete Later Calexico recovered a fumble on the Calipat 30 yard line and after several drives scored on a pass into the end zone This was a garre the Calipat eleven will never forget for they were outplayed all during the game EL CENTRO The Hornet went down in iefeat for the first time when they met the Ll Centro Bone. crushers The score being El Centro 31 Calipat 6 The Hornets started off with a bang when they ran the ball after taking the opening kickoff all the way from their 3 yard line to the 25 Two plays later they had the ball on the El Centro 5 yard iarker bat El Cent o recovered when the Hornets fumbled in the backfield El Centro kickea out of danger when they found they could make no headway and the Calipatria boys swep the end to core a touchdown After the first quarter the Hornets be gan to tire under the olerwh lming odds which consequently gave El Centro the winning score of 3l points lf the Hornets had won they would have taken the Iunior Varsity Cham pionship but instead they had to settle for second place BLYTHE The followina Saturday the Horne went to Blythe to meet that team in their la t ga c of the year l was nip and tuck all thro igh the game with the Hornet coring first and then the Yellow Iacket of Blyth coriria The game ended in a lo s tor Calipat the co e 2l 14 ALL VALLEY Valley riono ren se e a ei t e ornetplaver vhicn how ey .v p Sones fullback B uce You g center Stanley Svt anger left end and incidentally only a Sophonso e so watch 'ti i next yea ard Gerald Carriclf right half Those chosen for s co d st in e Alton Amer rian left half and Paul Dickrrari quarter back 1947 FOOTBALL SCHEDULE Opponents Calxputncx Calipat ia Ca i f' Cali C lp i Calipatria Calipatria Ca i t Cal pa ri C lipa' ia Coachell exicc El Ce If vi E A t ' s . s ' . ' ' s . ' ' - ' . I i . ' Q I - . . I y . , t . . , . . I L I . I . f. . ., A . . ti t , ' ia 'i f ' . i 7 -- rr 2 r ' , ' ' . , . . ' ' J ' I - .5 A , ' : . 7 - . Q M . . 1 N J . Us e . s at '- t .' ' a i i ' ., 1: s ' ' . s A. e s 'i 1. e ' 3' ' ' , s r - 'lAll- l rs tio 5 'J r l ff h- H A s 'Ji' I .a ed th ' ' ere plenty hot this year. Those who were chosen for the first string on the All-Valley team were Donald -, 2 T UT V 3 ' , , ' ' ' . r . . fn ' r- . A ' ., ' . . 7 . ie n . r'..a w're il r. , . i . , ' . ., ' r' 7 lit Empire 6 ' ' t4 a lpatrza U larriboree O ' ' 6 Cal Q Cdlipatrv: 7 Coachell: iff lpa ria 6 . ntrc Calipatria 7 Holivgiie 3 i X t a 14 Bl'z1.e 'patria Z7 EfZ'.'.'l6'A.' U a atr'a 20 ltriperzal fl a 'pt .r , lOS O. pcnen'