Champaign High School - Maroon Yearbook (Champaign, IL)

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SWIMMING REVIVED Winning a meet over Peoria Cen- tral, winners of the Big Twelve meet, in the home pool and losing by only three points to the powerful Danville squad, in their pool, the Maroon tankmen finished their season by placing third in the Big Twelve meet, again only three points behind Dan- ville, in the Y. M. C. A. pool at Peoria. Coach Roy Swindcll's team was at a great disadvantage since they did not have the pool at their use last year, and only o11e letterman re- turned this year. This team did well under existing conditions. Those placing in the Big Twelve meet at Peoria were Howard Russell third in the fifty yard free style, Ross Mayer third in the breaststroke and Bob Bailey and Don Allison, third and fourth respectively in the hun- dred yard backstroke eve11t. Both the free style and medlay relay teams placed third. The free style relay was made up of Bob Bailey, Don Allison, Allen Platt, and Howard Russell while the medlay relay included Bob Bailey, Ross Mayer, and Howard Russell. Don Allison and Allen Platt were elected co-captains for next year's team. Norman Twinstrip and Ross Mayer will also return to help com- pose next year's team. Those who received letters at the close of the season were Howard Rus- sell, Ross Mayer, Co-captain Bob Bailey, Allen Platt, Don Allison, Co- captain Bob Petry, and Dermont Es- tridge, while Norman Twinstrip, Charles Riley, and Dean Garland re- ceived numerals. In the picture on the opposite page, reading from left to right: lst row, Co-captain Petry, Russell, Co-captain Bailey, Estridge, Allison, Plat. 2nd row, Mayer, Twinstrip, Hornkole, Porter, Riley. 3rd row, Coach Swin- dell. ALL STATE CHAMPS The Champaign High School mat team, ably coached by Johnny Wa.tt, University of Illinois coaching stu- dent and sponsored by Mr. Hess, ended its wrestling schedule by wrestling the state championship crown from Urbana at the annual state tournament, held at McNabb. This is the second time since the Down State Wrestling Tournament made its debut three years ago that Champaign has won the champion- ship. Delmar Fincham, Frank Brew- baker, Carl Canady, Co-Captain Dick Sizer, and La Rue Shanks won cham- pionships in their individual weights. Co-Captain Bob Petry and his brother Paul won second places, while Benton Bales came through with a third place. The only mar on the records of the Wattmen came in mid-season at the hands of Urbana, but the Maroons wreaked their vengeance twice later by trouncing the Urbana grapplers in the second dual meet and in the state tournament. In dual meets Champaign won ten and lost only one. During the seeason they twice defeated by top heavy scores Danville, Gibson City, Uni- versity High, and John Swaney High of McNabb. They came out victorious over Morton High of Cicero and Ur- bana. Other point winners for the state champions were Kim Hill, Ray Peters, Oris Fletcher, Howard Rus- sel, and Pete Costa. Others who fur- nished competition for the regulars were Warren Brewbaker, Martin Harris, Walt Burroughs, Bill Gilbert, and Bob Arseneau. In the picture on the opposite page, reading from left to right: lst row: P. Petry, Canady, Costa, Sizer, B. Petry, Shanks, F. Brewbaker, Hill, Fincham. 2nd row: Advisor Hess W. Brewbaker, Strohl, Harris, Bur- 1'oughs, Kenney, Bales, Coach Watt. Page Eighty one

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GROLLA'S TEAM WINS If a lot of noise, worse than your neighbor at the breakfast table crunching grape-nuts, is heard com- ing from the gym, it is probably the girl 's gym classes playing volley-ball. Each class was divided into two parts and the Winner was entered in the tournament. The victor of these first games are shown here with their cap- tains: Reeta Dunlop, Imogene Grolla, Edith Ehler, Flora Blackstock, Helen Oliger, Mary Peovler, Sylvia Spald- ing, and Luella Stone who dished out enough pep to each member to give them a good appetite for first place. These eight winning teams met on the night appointed to try for cham- pionship. They were divided into couples: Oliger played against Stone, Spalding against Dunlop, Peovler against. Grolla, and Black- stock against Ehler and with bee-like team work they strove to get the ball in the opponent 's ground. To the server, gravity seemed to be sleeping, for the ball popped up like an egg in a frying pan and never landed in the right place. Oliger's, Spalding 's, Grolla's, and Blaekstock's teams were victorious. Oliger and Grolla came out ahead in the next round, and Grolla and her followers took the championship and went home singing like tea kettles.