Euclid Shore High School - Shore Log Yearbook (Euclid, OH)

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Til Pill - I§L1 Back row: Peter Althen, Nick Pilla, Coach Van Deusen, Tony Yurglich, Roxy Montana, Manager Brenton Herman. Second row: John Bestgen, Bill Gill, Joe Kremm, Captain Dick Timms, John Luikart, Lee Grand Jackson, Mr. Metts. Front row: Robert Jennings, John Kleifeld, Ed. Osborne, Herbert Watkins. FOOTBALL REVIEW Early in September Coach Van Deusen sent out the first call for football candidates. About 35 responded. Among them were several letter men of last year. Our new coach began by teaching the boys the fundamentals of the game and getting the men into form physically. He stressed most the scientific side of the game, teaching them to use their heads, and the easiest way of doing things correctly. He kept them hard at work learning to tackle properly, to run the ball, and to make themselves important cogs in the machine known as the football team. The squad was soon cut down and enough material kept to make a first and second team. Day after day the coach and boys worked and sweated, until at last a varsity was picked, and the team lined up for the season. The varsity was as follows: Speed Jackson and Hack McGrath, two good ends from last season; tackles, Yurglic, a new man, and Joe Kremm, of last year's team; guards, Nick Pilla and Roxy Montana, two green men. Dick Timms, a letter man, held down the center position. The backfield was the coach's big problem. The first starting lineup was Kleifeld at quarter, Jennings and Bestgen at the halves, and Osborne at full. Watkins was the utility man of the team, playing anywhere from one end of the line to the other and finally ending up in the backfield. Frequent changes were made in the backfield; Kleifeld's ability to run the (Continued on page 36) [11]

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fll P§If - H ® L I Back row: Coach Van Deusen, John Luikart, Eugene Borbely, Manager Kenneth Vogel, Dick Timms, Nick Pilla, Mr. Padgett. Front row: Hubert Watkins, Robert Jennings, Captain John Bestgen, Eugene Fryan, Roxy Montana. BASKETBALL REVIEW Now that we have a perspective on the 1926 basketball season we can see how Shore came out in the race. The team worked well as a whole, but at times the shooting was erratic. We all hope for a better season next year. The only member of this year's squad who will graduate is John Luikart. Opening the season of the conference games with only one letterman and a stage-frightened team, Shore met their first defeat by Shaker Heights. The next two teams in line were West Commerce and Longwood. The Shore basketeers were on their toes and victory proved an easy matter in both cases. Euclid, our next opponent, gave our boys a heart breaker by defeating them for the first time in four years in a non-conference game. Then the Rocky River leather tossers tossed baskets until they made a decisive victory over the Shore quintet. Euclid's powerful team then came over on our floor for a conference game and the Green and White steam roller tried to take revenge but after hard fighting the brave players lost the game by a few points. The last team that our boys played was John Marshall. Both teams had started the season with a defeat. So a fast excit- ing game was witnessed by Shorites and the boys brought home their third victory. Captain Bestgen deserves a great deal of credit for the fine display of basket- ball that spectators witnessed. Bob Jennings, our star forward, played a hard game all through the season and had some real scoring records, while Gene Fryan and Watty Watkins fought hard to keep up the team work. John Luikart and Gene Borberly showed Coach Van Deusen that they were both able to get the jump at (Continued on page 39) [13]