Fairbury High School - Trail Yearbook (Fairbury, NE)

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lummm .M High and Mighty It's.u bucket! Anderson drives in for a setup as Rmgenberg. Lexington ace, tries to block lt. With five returning lettermen, the prospects for the 1947-l948 basketball season appeared bright. Although the Ieffs lacked height, they had plenty of experience. The leffs started the season like a Whirlwind, Winning their first three games. They defeated Marysville 36-285 Columbus 25-lE3 and beat Crete 43-37 in an overtime. Fairbury then hit a disastrous losing streak. They lost to Geneva 59-37. Taking an over- night trip didn't seem to help as they lost to Falls City 44-22 and Nebraska City 32-30. The Ieffs broke their slump by beating Wy- more 45-37 but regained their losing habits by falling to York 52-5l, to Beatrice 42-29, being D McKenzie, F A. Schoen. F K. Iones, FFF Iump ball! Kruger controls the tip during the York game as several Ieiis anxiously await the ball. Walloped by Hastings 78-32 and losing to Hebron 42-39. Fairbury played improved ball but lost to Lexington 54-39. However, the following night the Ieffs defeated Cozad in a thrilling game 42-4l. Grand lsland, defending state champions, plas- tered the leffs 6l-32. ln the final home game of the season the leffs defeated Lincoln Northeast, runner-up to state champion Grand lsland, 36-34 in the second overtime period. The leffs played Falls City in the District Tournament and were defeated 35-3l. This ended the season and gave the leffs a record of six Wins and ten losses. W. Pleis I. Luby, F E. Kruger. F

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The unsung heroes of the football squad were the reserves who worked long and hard, practicing every night. The funior leffs received ' A Th ' only rewards little publicity or glory. eir ' l football, few out of town trips to pay The reserves played four games this year. reserves played all WSIS Ct lt was unfortunate that the f th ir games away so that many fans didn't o e have a chance to see them play. Although the reserves won but one game and lost three, they showed a lot of spirit, scrap and hustle. Many of the reserves displayed promise of developing into first rate varsity performers next year. lourneying to Geneva for their first game ff t up a stout of the season, the Iunior Ie s pu battle before succumbing to a scrappy Geneva reserve team E3-U. the Barneston first team The reserves played Barneston had a large and were defeated 25-U. Jei ht advantage and a v g lso had more expe- ' ' d to be the down- rience, factors which prove fall of the funior Ieffs, f l d the Beatrice reserves 1 l t Guiding the Iunior Ieffs this year were Coach Wayne Moore and Assistant Coach Leon Smith. Coaches Moore and Smith taught the fundamentals and developed the reserves so quickly that several Iunior Ieffs were promoted to the varsity before the season ended. ent in winning their final game of the The Iunior Iefis paye on even terms for three quarters before going provem down to defeat l9-6. The Iunior Orangemen Season' pushed across two touchdowns in the fourth quarter for the margin of victory. RESERVE FOOTBALL SCI'E1?EE'EOprOnemq Traveling to Beatrice once more, the Fair- Geneva 4 U 6 bury freshmen-sophomore team defeated the Barneston O 25 or leffs only victory Beatrice - e 6 l9 l9 U freshmen l9-U for the funi of the year. The reserves displayed much im- Beatrice Freshmen - B unkow Donovan Ehrett. Eugene Murray, Bill Riley, BACK ROW tleft to rightlz Ioe Heylin, Dick Furrow, Richard Dyk zncmn, Richard r . Bob DeBord, Ioe Mees, Lonnie Weidenhaft, Bob Snyder. THIRR ROHW: Stanley Snyder. Clifford North. Dick Smith. Richard Schoen, Louis Meyer, Dick McKenzie. Iames Barber, Francis Fisher, Wi er anson. SECOND ROW: Assistant Coach Leon Smith, Duane Rohlfing, Dick Turner, Ioe Kanter, Bill Thompson. Richard Grams, Iesse Medina. Tom Huff, Roger, Schnuelle. Bob Hammond. FIRST ROW: George Kcrrabatsos, student manager, Coach Wayne Moore, Andrew Walker, Marvin Lewis, Rudy Iuarez, George Hollo- d . Pete Karabatsos. Page 29 way. Ted Lurz, Ierry Sny er

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...- D Anderson. FF I. Preston, F , , I. Hull, FF DlCK MCKENZIE, junior, was a good offensive player. Dick was pushing the two regular for- wards for a starting position all season. ALFRED SCHOEN, senior, was the tallest player on the squad and played center. KAY IONES, senior, played guard and was a good defensive player. Kay was placed on the All-Conference team. WENDELL PLEIS, senior, played guard. Butch was probably the roughest player on the team. IOHN LUBY, sophomore, was one of the fast for- wards. Iohn lacked height but he made up for this with his speed and determination. ED KRUGER, sophomore, was the best rebound man on the squad. Mo was starting center. DlCK ANDERSON, junior, received All-Confer- ence honors. Dick played forward and was a good shot. f ,pf Ioe Lesher was the hard working student manager for basketball. Carrying the suits to the locker room before games was just one of Ioe's many duties. D. Walker. FF C. Scheuler, FF D. Thoma It's practice time and Coaches Frank Sullivan and Tom Iourney discuss plans for the daily work out. Coach Sullivan headed the varsity while Coach Journey led the reserves. Illvl PRESTON, senior, played guard. i'Stub had plenty of spirit and hustle. IACK HUFF, junior, played guard. jack had plenty of spirit and determination, He was a good shot and a good defensive man. DALE WALKER, junior, played forward and was high scorer on the team. Dale was placed on the All-Conference team. CHARLES SCHEULER, senior, saw a lot of action as a guard. Chuck was a good defensive man and a good shot. DOUGLAS THOMAS, sophomore, played for- ward. Doug was the best hustler on the squad. Page Sl