Eastern High School - Lantern Yearbook (Lansing, MI)

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f We :fa Second Row: Coach Graff, Brower, Brockhaus, Van Riper, Miller. Coach Burnham First Row: Turik, McCaffrey, Swartz. Kowalski, Hulliberger, Roe VARSITY BASKETBALL Before the echoes of the Central-Eastern grid battle had completely died away, Coach XValter Graff issued a call for basketeers. Only two veterans were returning, John Turik and Leo Pricco. The material was promising and Coach Graff had a team of sophomores and juniors ready for the first game against the alumni on December 9. The alumni out- played the Quakers in every point of the game and after a hectic four periods the former Eastern Stars were victorious with a score of Z0 to Eastern's 13. The next night the lads were sorely outclassed by the Battle Creek live, and came trailing at the end of a 33 to 18 score. On December 16, they met the Bay City quintet in our gym: the inexperienced Quakers could not cope with the offense of the Up-State team and were administered a smart- ing defeat, 28 to 10. Determined lo break the series of losses the team turned their hearts to the game with Jackson's Vikings, When the two teams met on January 6, the Quakers gave all they had but for the fourth time they met defeat, bowing to the Vikings 9 to 4. The Ann Arbor cagers were Eastern's next opponents. Ann Arbor, one of the strongest teams in the state. kept the Quakers guessing throughout the game and covered the boys thoroughly. Eastern's boys fought a losing game but did not give up until the game was over and they were on the short end of the Z2 to 17 count. On January 20, Central was met at the Vocational Field House. Central had a team that was runners up in the 1931 State Tournament and did the same thing this season. Eastern's quintet had nothing but pluck and willingness to rely on, and what pluck they showed! The giant Sophomore. Jens Page One Hundred Thirtgfsix

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. Q + Third Row: Nlcliinstry. Chubb. Harkness. XVinner. Ross. Shelden. Osgood. Coach Peeman. Narveson. Hallenbeck. Shippey, Van Riper. Creyts. Estfan Second Row: Pearson. Ross. Schrav, Miller. Rouse. Chase. Kedroclt. Stewart. XVall. space. Hm. Byciacit First Row: Miller. Dahlberg. Hocking. Assid. Massuch. Counsellor. Skoczyklas. Padgett Bassett. Many. Joseph RESERVE FOOTBALL Under the coaching of H. C. Feeman the reserves built up a team that could put up a great stand against the varsity. Also by furnishing stiff opposition they strengthened and tempered the varsity and by running through plavs and formations of coming opponents familiarized the regulars with the type of plays they would encounter. Those who won reserve letters were: L. XVinner. R. Mcliinstry. R. Joseph. C. Joseph. R. Chubb. L. Harkness. L. Chase. M. Ross. L. Schray. H. Creyts. L. Osgood. XV. Miller. XV, Kedrock. H. Hollenbeck. VV. Massuch. G. Dahlberg. N. Counsellor. F. Bassett. C. Barnett. E. Beagle. K. Beagle. J. Brown. E. Brooks. S. Charlie. R. Godfrey, C. Howald. J. Kowalski. L. McNaughton. V. Otto. Ci. McCaffrey. E. Nihart. A. Pazan. G. Spaniola. Roy Thomas. The Reserves played seven games. winning four and losing three. Here is their schedule: Sept Reserves - - O Mason - ---- 18 Oct. Z-Reserves - 6 Vocational Y 12 Oct. 9iReserves - 6 Okemos - - l 2 Oct. 16-Reserves - Z Central Reserves O Oct. -Reserves - - l 3 Potterville - O Nov. 6iReserves A - l5 Central Reserves - O Miller Schray Brown Thomas Page Ont- Hundred Thing-live

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I McCaffrey Roe Hulliberger Kowalski Turik Kowalski, played heads-up basketball all during the game and the whole team gave their b t b t it seemed that defeat could not be shaken off. The Big Reds won, 17 to 9. Only es, u one game remained on the first semester's schedule-second game with Jackson. The Penn- sylvania Avenue five had gained a great deal of experience and on the night of January 21. they turned the tide, winning over Jackson. 15 to 5. Hurons put up a great game. but with the the Quaker courtnien won, 17 to 16. The for the second time. The Quakers. with a were out to conquer, but the Big Reds were Ypsilanti was played on February 3. The accurate shooting of Kowalski and Hulliberger, following week. Central's Big Reds were met far better team than they had the nrst semester. out for the same purpose. Again the tall West Siders proved that they were a better team by winning the City Championship game, ll to 9. On the week end of February 17 and 18, Mt. Clemens and Grosse Pointe were met. Their efforts were well rewarded, for when they returned home, they brought along two victories. Mount Clemens was smothered by ' ' h' h a 29 to 16 score, and the Grosse Pointe quintet was defeated, 18 to 16, a game in w ic everybody on the Quaker squad saw action. There were only two games left to be played. First, Ann Arbor playing on its home floor at the university city stopped the Quakers, 20 to 14. The next night the Battle C k Five was met at our gym. Each team was out to win at all costs. The score was 14 to ree 13 in Eastern's favor with only thirty seconds to play and the ball in the Food City team's possession. The man with the ball shot just as the last whistle blew, and the oval sank through the net, ringing up another loss for Eastern. Page One Hundred Thirty-seven