Coachella Valley Union High School - La Conchilla Yearbook (Coachella, CA)

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Mn Dxxvks Left to right: ROW 'lz Jake Duran, Joe Rodarte, John Yoxsimer, Robert Ramirez, Joe Benitez, LaVerne Fariester, Jim Emerson, Frank Gilles- pie, Bob Carr, lgnacio Lopez, Armando Chavez. ROW 2: Bill Cotten, Jim Douglas, Curtis Cross, George Cunningham, John McClain, Bill Roberts, Raul Diaz, Gilbert Perez, Ted Newton, Richard Larson. ROW 3: Bill Ochoa, Howard Edmisten, John Hill, Don Roberts, Bob Munoz, Henry Moreno, Walter Wright, Dick Montoya, Bob O'Toole, Ben Montoya, ROW 4: Jerry Willard, Bill Hokey, Marvin Murphy, Tom Smith, Joe Maddox, Jess Tomasek, Ken McClain, Sammy Sakamoto, Gary Olesen, Jerry Julian. ROW 5: Coach McDaniel, Mel Crum, Mike Williams, Leo Ellis, Coach Hackett. Living up to pre-season predictions, the Arabs then trounced the Perris Panthers. Out to avenge last year's beating by Perris, they led at halftime 6-O. Rodarte then lengthened the C.V.'s lead by going for two more TD's. The Arabs' tremendous ground game once again proved itself fatal as CVUHS won 20-0. The CV aggregation got their first real test when they met the highly rated Elsinore eleven. The stub- born Elsinore squad held the Arabs scoreless until late in the first half when the Arabs racked up ten first downs to the Tigers' three and a score of 6-O. The Tigers scored a TD in the second half, but the Arab machine came through with a 20 to 6 bulge at the final gun, with the ball in our possession and one foot from the goal line. The fifth RCL game saw the Arabs motoring to Beaumont for an afternoon tilt in which some of the finest punting of the season was demonstrated by both teams. The Desert Raiders got off to a slow start, scoring only six points in the first half. Then in the final half the Arabs scored a pair of TD's on a 56-yard TD run by Chavez and a pass combination. The Arab eleven chalked up a 20 to O lead over the Cougars as the game ended. PAGE 85

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Under the able coaching of Frank McDaniel and Walter Hackett, the CVU HS Arab varsity football squad swept to an undisputed championship in the Riverside County League for the first time since 1946. Strangely enough, both championship teams made identical scores of 176 points for the season. The Arabs, sporting a more experienced, bigger, and faster team than in recent years, brushed aside all opposition to record an undefeated, untied league season. Fourteen returning lettermen from last year's squad reported for practice under Coaches McDaniel and Hackett, both back for their second year at CVU Alex Alexander, center, asks Coach McDaniel what formula he used to bring CVU HS its championship, while Coach Hackett patiently waits to add his views on the subiect. HS. Pre-season predictions placed the Arabs as the top team in the league, and an Arab squad composed of a powerful and aggressive line and a fast and tricky backstop justified the predictions. Halfback Joltin' Joe Rodarte, in addition to topping the touchdown score in the league with 66 points, was unanimously voted the Player-of-the-Year in the Riverside County League. Ignacio Lopez scored 50 points to place second in RCL touchdown scoring. Their teammates elected Bob Carr and Tom Smith as co-captains and voted .loe Rodarte the most outstanding player of the Arab squad. In their season opener, the Arab varsity played Blythe. The Yellowiackets, a power in the C.l.F. foot- ball circuit last year, squeezed by the Desert Raiders, 13-6, behind the power of the Guilin brothers. The fighting Arabs then invaded Chino. The veteran Chino squad edged the Arabs as it scored two TD's. The numbers on these boys' ierseys were much in evidence during the season In the final stanza the Arabs bulled over for six points but coulcln't follow up their success, and the Chino Cowboys powered to a 12 to 6 victory. A first week bye gave the Arabs a rest before they went into league competition, their first game being with the Palm Springs Indians. The Arabs' crunching ground attack smashed the Indian line time after time, and the Arabs battered to a half-time lead of 19- O. On a 91-yard TD scamper by Ignacio Lopez, the Arabs added six more points. With two TD's in the last stanza, the C.V. gridders routed the Indians for an easy 38-0 victory. In the second league encounter, the C.V. boys played San Jacinto on the home field. The Arabs got an early start and roared to d 27-O halftime bulge. Then they went on to score the second highest score in CVUHS foot- ball history 45-O. The Desert Raiders chalked up a decisive 14-7 edge in first downs and had a total of 401 yards gained. They belong to Tom Smith, co-captain, Joe Rodarte, the RCL's PAGE 84 Most Valuable Player, and Bob Carr, co-captain.

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N CM J Tom SmIll1 Bob Cqrr Joe Rodarte The following week the Arabs met the undefeated and unscored-on Banning Broncos. As luck would have it, the championship game was called after a scoreless half when a storm caused an electric power failure. This was the first time in CVUHS history that rain had fallen before and during a sporting event. The Arabs continued their winning streak when they came out on top of a 'I9-O decision over the Hemet Bulldogs. The Arabs dominated the game and led at halftime by a pair of TD's. CV held an edge of twelve first downs to the Bulldogs' four, and three TD's by Rodarte proved too much for an outclassed Bulldog eleven. The spirited Green and Gold eleven wound up an undefeated and untied season by walloping the undefeated Banning Broncos in a reply game. With an overflow crowd of 6000 watching the victorious Arabs triumph over Banning, the Arabs chalked up an all-time league scoring record. This tremendous showdown fight between two magnificent teams may well be called the greatest defensive game in league history. Many times both teams' drives were stopped short of pay dirt, as the score at the end of the first two stanzas indicated. The Arabs scored two quick second-period TD's, coming only two minutes apart, one on a 51-yard T ' unt by Carr and the other on a Montoya pass to Lopez in the left flat. Lopez was succe on bp' co ersions. Banning's lone TD was scored on a 91-yard drive sparked by Torrance. l..f XJ Benitez y ' LaVerne Fariester 'Q W! is J' is Q l PAGE John Yoxsimer Walter Wright