Clear Lake High School - Cardinal and Black Yearbook (Lakeport, CA)

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'XJ SENIOR PLAYERS Lloyd West Bruce Busch Richard Lofferty Jam Roy Mmltom Adolf Duck Wagner 29

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VV? ivv Agp'-v' 20 Fronlrow left to right L West L Hile G Means Middle row K DeBolt K Machado B Busch D Harmon R Iverson Back row D Kimball J Sullivan R Lalferty S DeVoto J Ray D Wagner M Adair Mr Proulx Zfzflsvfy gbafgdy High in determination and spirit the Cardinals of T950 had a successful season The Cardinals opened the season against Hamilton City The hometowners started off with a rush and led 20 6 at the end of the first quarter The superior manpower of Hamilton City proved too much however and the final score was 45 28 in the visitors favor Our next foe was last year s league champions the Trolans of Lower Lake The game proved to be an offensive battle, with Lower Lake proving to have the most guns, 60 43 The next week Middletown came to Lakeport to see what she could do to make it three straight losses for the Cardinals Busch blocked a Middletown punt with two minutes to go and Devoto recovered on the visitors' twelve yard line Four plays later, Adair carried the ball over to win the game, 20 15 After Wheatland came out on the long end of a 52 T3 score, Adair ran wild and the defensive team played up to par for the first time Lakeport scored 32 points in the first quarter and went on to end the game at the start of the fourth quarter of the traditional Upper Lake Armistice Day Big Game, 52-6. ln the most crucial game of the season, Lakeport traveled to Kelseyville to meet the powerful lndians. Lakeport went down to defeat 20-l9 in a hard fought game. A bad pass from center caused a safety and the downfall of Lakeport. The seniors on the squad were Milton Adair and Dick Wagner, co-captains, Bruce Busch, center, Richard Lafferty, end, and Lloyd West, a defensive standout. 28

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Qwkt 1 E 4 - .u 5 .JUNIOR VARSITY PLAYERS Front ro left to rght Mr Hendr cks R Brumm P Arana A Cle ela d L McDan el P Coll ns Mddle ro D Bender C Marschall P Mulls S Ledbetter W McNally J Tho as Mr Ledbette Back D Burger W Young B Meyer D T plett B Ho ell A McCoy R Thompson G Thurston CS Wlds zmfaft Ylmsvfy Qkeffzzl ln the Northwestern League Lake County Duvusuon the Chucks came out on top for the second straight year wuth four wuns and no losses Coaches Hendrucks and Ledbetter dud a very good 'ob un coachung the JV s They taught the unexperuenced freshmen and sophomores the art of football with tricky backfueld plays and good blockung and tacklung With good runnung by Wallace McNally Robert Brumm Phullup Mulls Carl Marschall and good blocking by Duck Burger, Alfred McCoy, Bull Howell, and Duane Truplett, the Junuor Varsuty even gave Varsuty squads a tough game The squad started off the year by tyung the furst game with Hamilton Cuty at the thrullung score of T4 T4 The vusutors and the local Chucks played a clean, hard game but could not seem to score the tue breaking TD The second game was taken by the Chucks when they rolled over the Lower Lake JV s by a large score of 47-l2. Superuor blocking and tackling enabled Lakeport to run up the large score. ln the sixth game with Upper Lake the Chicks again went to town and lifted the score to a safe height. Upper Lake dominated the first halt by scoring all of their points while holding Lakeport scoreless. The Chicks proved too powerful and easily won the game in the second half. The local J.V. power won their seventh game from Kelseyville with a safe score of 26-6. Kelseyville put up quite a fight but couldn't slip through the tough defense of the Chicks. The boys who played good, clean games all the way through should be excellent material for a good team next year. 30