Central High School - Blackhawk Yearbook (Davenport, IA)

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To prepare themselves for future battles which will be fought for the honor of the Red and Blue of Daven- port high school is the purpose of the sophomore football team who, during the 1939 season, played nine games, winning five, losing three, and tying one. In the opening encounter, the sophs lost a hard fought game to the Lyons’ varsity team by a score of 20-0. At Du- buque the next week, Coach Rosing’s boys beat the Little Rams 12-6. Play- ing the annual grudge battle with Rock Island, neither team could push a counter across the goal. Score 0-0. In the next four games the yearlings made a great record for themselves, whipping four tough opjxments in succession. They were Moline 13-0, Last Moline 7-0, Rock Island 13-7, and Clinton 19-0. In the remaining two games, the sophs met adverse condi- tions and lost both. Last Moline in a return game won 7-0, and Moline in the final game followed the Varsity’s example and beat the valiant sopho- mores 25-6. SOPHOMORE SCHEDULE Ours Opp. Sept. 15 Lyons (Here) 0 20 Sept. 22 Dubuque (Here) 12 6 Sept. 29 Rock Island (There) 0 0 Oct. 6 Moline (Here) 13 0 Oct. 14 East Moline (There) 7 0 Oct. 27 Rock Island (Here) 13 7 Nov. 1 Clinton (Here) 19 0 Nov. 10 East Moline (Here) 0 7 Nov. 16 Moline (There) 6 25 Pictured at the left is the 1939 sophomore football tram. First row, left to right: Kerns. Klinger, Nagel. Heck. Hateman. Haustinn. Hogue, Sit .. Johnson, Hen- dvr. Meier. Showalter, Callahan. Second row: Hred- fvldt, Krakow, Perkins, Kearny, Parke. Hurlingame, Slaton, llatlivld, Pearson, Kiefe. Potter, Neihaus. Preston. Third row: Coach Atkins. Lothringer. Wulf, Moss, White. Wells. Harrilson. Krorger, Paulsen, (Hie. Hliss. Tomi. Crow, Coach Hosing. Pictured above are the track, football, and basketball coaches of Davenport high school. Left to right they are: Jesse Day, Douglas Atkins. Clem Kridgr, William Hosing, Merle Makeever. and Paul Still. Above and below, you see the Blue Devil team in action.

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tf-ootball VARSITY SCHEDULE Ours Opp. September 15 West Waterloo (Here) 28 0 September 19 East Moline (There) 0 7 October 6 Rock Island (Here) 6 0 October 13 Dubuque (There) 0 12 October 20 Mooseheart (Here) 7 7 October 27 Iowa City (Here) 6 0 November 1 Clinton (Here) 18 0 November 10 I)e Vilbiss, Ohio (Here) 7 19 November 23 Moline (There) 0 34 Paced by a conglomeration of unexplainable disappointments and brilliant performances, the 1939 Davenport high school football season of the fall is now a thing of the past. Throughout the season, the Blue Devils were led by the stalwart work of Captain John Staack on the forward wall, and Ronald Baker in the backfield. Starting the season off with a bang in their 28-0 triumph over a flashy West Waterloo eleven, the Imps looked like they were headed for a splendid season. The following game, how- ever, seemed to put a momentary stop to this thought when an inspired East Moline team subdued the seemingly powerful Davenport ag- gregation by a score of 7-0. Davenport returned to the “wins” column, when it managed to eke out a 6-0 victory over Rock Island, a perennial hazard to the Devils, and also a Quad-City title competitor. The game at Dubuque on October 13 proved to be one of the unexplainable disappointments when the Davenport team was given a decisive 12-0 beat- ing by the Rams. To get revenge for the 21-7 defeat handed to them by the Davenport team during the 1938 season was undoubtedly the keynote of the scrappy group of football veterans from Moose- heart, when they played the fighting Imps to a 7-7 deadlock, on the night of October 20, at the Brady street field. The following game brought sweet revenge to the Blue Devils’ camp when they outplayed and outscored a determined Iowa City team (the only team to beat Davenport during the 1938 season) to the tune of a 6-0 score. The night of November 1 saw the Daven- porters perform brilliantly when they entirely outclassed the Clinton River Kings 18-0 on the annual Davenport high school Homecoming celebration. It is best to speak only briefly of the remain- ing two games of the schedule, for the Imps again lapsed into a period of unexplainable dis- appointment, when they dropped a losing battle to a great De Vilbiss, Ohio, eleven by the score of 19-7, and then in the big Thanksgiving game with Moline, a game which the dopesters figured would be a nip-and-tuck battle, in which the valiant Blue Devils were literally snowed under by a barrage of touch-downs, and were glad to settle with a final score of 34-0 in favor of the Maroons.

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 AcUvitie.4 Left: Art Club float in llamccniniiu; Parade. • Bixht: Prize- winninx ». A. A. float. Ora Mae Wichelman »tandin|. • Be- low: Betty Maxwell, John Stank, and Kirhard Krauthamer. The 1939 Homecoming; celebrations began with a parade through the business district of Davenport at 4:45 p. m., Wednesday, November 1. Miss Schar- lotte Junge, Queen, and her attendants were the stars of the procession, preceded by the R. 0. T. C. Color Guard and the I). H. S. Band, followed by a colorful parade of floats entered by the high school’s many and varied student organizations. The G. A. A.’s very original float won first prize, and second, third, fourth and fifth prizes were earned by the Student club, Dramatic club, French club, and Quill club respectively. Once again Davenport high school bowed to the reign of a fair-headed queen, and her attendants. The crown of monarchy rested this year on the beau- tiful head of Miss Scharlotte Junge, who reigned supreme over all of the many activities of the Homecoming celebration. She was sponsored by the R. 0. T. C. Service club and the Jane Addams club. Her attendants were the Misses Betty 28