Fairbury High School - Trail Yearbook (Fairbury, NE)

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NEXT YEARS FIRST TEAM Reserve athletic teams in Fairbury High School include rio seniors -and no undersclassmen who are capable of first-team play or substitution. Thus, F. H. S. reserve teams often win few games. This years light football reserve squad was composed largely of freshmen and sophomores, lmproverzient during the season, in which there were no topeheavy losses, makes the prospect for the l942 first team bright. The Reserve grid lettermen are as follows. Lyle Austin, Robert Beachler, Arthur Bitter, lack Chas- dek, Paul Eaton, Eldon Hayes, Frank Hayes, Calf vin Hirsch, Clifford Holmes, Bill Keenan, Iohn Kno- bel, Harold Long, Stuart Madison, Bill Mcliimmey, Norman Mitchell, Eugene Mees, Leon Ridenour, Carl Robinson, Elmo Schueller, and Reuben Will- eoxen if RESERVE BASKETBALL TEAM -A' ln basketball, Coach Carnes had an unuszually inexperienced group with which to start the :sea son. After dropping a series of corrtelztas by Wide margins, the junior lcffs, finally deiriorisstrated the skill of their coaching by llfllillllllfl the izeanori with close defeats at the handzs of unbeaten Plyf mouth, once-beaten Milligan, and :strong Diller in addition to four victories, the most noteworthy of which was a 56 to 22 conquest of Reynolds. One of the most thankless and unheralded tasks in sportdom is that ol a reserve team player: He must take daily beatings from laraer and iriore experienced players, with ne hope of immediate reward for his toil and sacrriice, For the loyalty which proiriptpa these irrizaurrsr heroes, and for the contribution which they make to the training of the first-team players, Fairbury High School salutes the left reserves and their coach. Rack row tlfrlt to iiahtt' Douglas Graul, Norman Mitchell, Leon Smith, Lyle Austin, lack Nelson, ant Ltr-n lXlt'l l'N'Vllt Middle raw Coach G G Carnes, Lawrence DeBusk, Francis Rice, Dean Terrill and Rtvrl l'rrten Vrnnt row Bill Mcliimmey, Glenn Hausman, Orley Prather, Ernest Myers, Bob Backer, and Llitte: 'l llnlmfa- eifwaf A7

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NEBRASK1-YS EIGHTH-BEST TEAM Finishing the season in eighth pace among Nebraskas prep school teams, the Ieffs were un- defeated in twelve games against non-conference foes. The final seasons record shows fourteen vic- tories and four losses. The defeats included a two-point and a four-point loss to Northeast High School of Lincoln Cconference champion and run- ner-up at the state tournamentlg a one-point set- back at the hands of a hot Hastings five, and a two-point loss to a strong York team. To offset these defeats, Fairburys season in- cluded a twelvefgame winning streak which car- ried the team to second-place ranking among the state's Class A clubs one weekHa-twenty-three- point victory over a Geneva team which finished the reguar season in first place among Class B teams in Nebraska-a nineteen-point conquest of North Platte, winner of one of the state's four Class A regional tournaments-a decision over the high-ranking Falls City outfit fthe first such win in recent years for a Ieff teaml-and victories over Superior and Hebron, which brought a third consecutive title in the Hebron College Invita- tional tourney. Besides the victories enumerated above, Coach Sloan's cagers won regular-season games over Lexington, Wilber, Crete, Beatrice, Wymore, Hebron, Nebraska City, Nelson, and Clay Center, Kansas. Although this season did not bring the high- Richard Millar, F flelt belowj est total of victories, it did bring the fewest de- feats--fand considering the narrow margin in these defeats and the caliber of opposition, the l94l-42 squad deserves its reputation as the best yet developed in Fairbury High School. Iim Denny, F Carroll Nispel, F Eugene Mens, F Bill Gear, F Leland Smith F

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State Champions - - Demonstrating the versatility of Fairbury High School's big-four track men Cljrank Shipman, Leonard Hand, Richard Miller, and Bob Kortel, this quartet won the annual state pentathlon competition. ln this competition, each ot four men competes in tive eventsefand the points are totaled to arrive at the team score. Among the individual performers, Korte, Shipman, I-land, and Miller ranked second, fourth, sixth, and ninth, re- spectively, in Nebraska. Fairburys track team, easily the state's best in field events, won the Fairbury invitational, Southeastern Nebraska, and Mid-East champion- ships. Prior to May 6, when this copy was prepared, Korte had the state's best javelin cast to date, Hand lead the discus throwers, Miller had the season's second-best pole vault, and Shipman was near the top in the broad jump and hurdles. As the state championship meet neared, the Ietts loomed as one ot the two or three favorites to win the Nebraska high school title. IEFFS IN ACTION BELOW Upper lelt: Bob Korte. Upper center: Richard Nestor and Eugene Mees. Upper right: Leonard Hand. Lower lelt' Darwoocl Long. Center' Richard Miller. Lower center: Frank Hayes. Lower right: Frank Shipman. Not in pictures' Harold Iones, Calvin Hager, Lawrence DeBusk, Don Kenney, Darwin Hamm, and Bill Gear. at,::r,.., W. X L Q E