Central Catholic High School - Echo Yearbook (Fort Wayne, IN)

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In ihe bruising Nor+h Side game, Bob Eiferf s+ops a Norfh back in his +racks as Bob Rauner, Bob Bogenschuiz, Jim Becker and Terry Faylor move in. ' goof! .gpoirif - jou9A .SZAQLJLLA A+ fhe beginning of 'rhe 1953 fooiball season, Head Coach Fordy Anderson and Assis'ran+ Coach Ed Cobe++ were faced wiih a ierrific iob of rebuilding a 'Team which had los+ +en members of lasf year's s+ar+ing +eam io graduafion, and had bu+ 'five leH'ermen refurnirg. Ahead also was a schedule fougher 'rhan any in fhe his+ory of C. C. and as rough as any of +he schedules of 'The oiher For? Wayne schools. In The face of such opposirion, one mighf expecl' a squad as inexperienced as ours io will in an+icipa+ion. We didn'+. The coaches knew and we knew 'rhal' we had fo enrer each game wifh +he de+ermina+ion +o win and +he convicfion +ha'r we could. The more experienced opposi+ion proved 'loo much for us, especially when if came from ouf-of-fown schools, bu+ in every game we lived up +0 our nick-name, The Figh+ing Irish. 110

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C0l Q5 all .SZAQCJLLZ The Fighling lrish gave all lhey had lhis year foward a winning season, buf were all buf floored by 'rhe feams 'lhal loomed ahead, iirsl by 'rhe Richmond Red-Devils and nexl by Jefferson of Lafayeffe. C. C. 'rhen s'rar+ed upward by Jrying Cenlral of Forl Wayne and demolishing Concordia, only +o see fha las? glimmer of viclory die sfeadily away as again 'rhey 'lasled defea+ al 'rhe hands of Gary Roosevelt Kalamazoo Cenlral and Gary Tollesfon. Perhaps l'he mos+ hear+ breaking of all 'rhe games +his season was played agains+ Norlh Side. The las? minu+e of play finally gave fhe Redskins a win. Viclory was cerlainly no+ handed +o any of l'he schools in lhe race 'for lhe cil'y crown by C. C. ellhough Soulh deal? us a 45 'lo 13 defealz Sou+h Bend Washingfon pu+ on +he finishing +ouches as +hey passed lhrough on Their devaslalirg march +o 'ihe slafe crown. Below, Leif: Inside and ouiside, Ronnie I.e'f:h inches fhe a r fhrou fha lou 1 Cenlral line and Bob Rauncr slrirfs fhe Tiger end for a shorf gan rc ex i is ome fhe form +ha+ broughl him an all-cify berlh.