Evanston Township High School - Key Yearbook (Evanston, IL)

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E ston scored twice on two Iourneying to Waukegan for the league curtain raiser, van plunges, one by Broten and one by Wheeler, to win, 12-7. Highland Park was a breather, 26-O, but eyes were already pointing toward the Oak Park tilt. In this Oak Park contest, generally conceded the championship game at the time, speedy Villager Feutz skirted right end once too often in the third quarter for the only score of this ' t urth undefeated season to win the trophy. thrill-packed 7-U fracas. Oak Park completed its o COMIN' THRU OUTNUMBERED .111- SMEARED

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WWW Four yards kept the Wildkit football team from a Suburban League title and an undefeated season. With the Schultzmen just that distance from the Oak Park goal line and with two downs remaining, the timekeeper's gun shattered the Orange and Blue pennant hopes. Nevertheless Evanston had one of her most successful seasons, winning eight contests and losing but one. Moline, one of the strongest of the Western Illinois schools, had an extended winning streak snapped on Beardsley field, and Lane Tech, one of the stronger Chicago schools, also met defeat on the same gridiron. A smoothly-functioning line consisting of Morby and W. Norman at the flanks, Smiley and Dilfrancesca at tackles, Agase and Anderson, the only first-string junior, at the guard posts, and R. Norman at center. With Southworth doing the backfield blocking from the quarterback posi- tion, versatile Wheeler, the league's leading scorer, fleet Babcock, and powerful Broten con- sistently broke loose for long runs. Defensively the line was well-nigh impregnable, only Lane Oak Park, and Waukegan being able to score E . xcept for backfield injuries, this team started every tussle. Revenging a 1938 opening game defeat by Maine, the Kits over-powered the west-siders, 18-0. The next Friday found the griclders eking out a 12-6 win over Lane Tech. E MEN FOOT LOOSE

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'W INCOMPLETE OU'I A' MY WAY Proviso and Morton next fell at the hands of the smoothly-working Schultzmen, 27-0 and 18-O respectively. The feature of the game was a forty-yard touchdown trot by DiFrancesca on a blocked punt. Three first team backs were in the stands with injuries when the Moline Maroons lined up for the kick-off. Wheeler and members of the second-team backfield aggregation were too much for the visitors, however, who returned home spanked with a 7-0 loss. Dyche stadium was the scene of the traditional clash with New Trier. Things went badly for the Orange and Blue until Wheeler and Babcock went in during the second period. On the next play the pigskin in rapid succession found itself from Center Norman to Fullback Orseski to Halfback Wheeler to Halfback Babcock, who sprinted down the west sideline for forty yards and the score. Immediately afterwards Norman intercepted a Green Wave pass and ran for another forty-yard counter. Later on Wheeler twisted through center for seventy yards for the third touchdown. Evanston won, 20-O. The Chicago Daily News all-suburban team, generally considered the official one, placed two Evanstonian's on its first team, Wheeler and DiFrancesca. This was Wheeler's second year on the honorary team. Other senior letter winners were Albritton, Benington, Brown, Craig, Dorband, Eck, Fehr, Greenwood, Iarchow, McLeod, Muggeridge, Parsegian, Pfeifer, Stevenson, Thomas, Thurber, Theisen, Warrick, and White. 'W I 23