Grosse Pointe High School - View Pointe Yearbook (Grosse Pointe, MI)

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Every afternoon from 2:30 until 5 o'cloclr, the swimming pool becomes a center of activity. Here the boys swim-often 50 to 75 lengths. Here they get instructions on their strokes Here they get timed. Then, on the Friday afternoons of varsity meets, the gallery is filled with students as the swimmers are put through their paces in com petition against another school. Water Wonderland . . . he swimmers streaked through the water, throwing white spray high into the air. The noise of the crowd mounted to a deaf- ening roar . . . He didn't see the swimmers, and he didn't hear the crowd. He was aware only of a concentrated intentness, echoing the grueling timings, the urgings of the coach before the meet, and the prayer that all the swimmers had said in the locker room before they came into the pool. And this was the moment that it all led up to. The next event is the 100-yard freestyle, boomed the loud speaker. He rose mechanically, slipped off his robe, and walked to the edge of the pool. UBang!!7 The gun sounded, and he was off. This is Coach Poul Wheeler's first year at Grosse Pointe High School. He is no newcomer to the B. C. L., though. He was the assistant swimming coach at Monroe for three years. This yeor's team captains are Les Cutler, 128, and Chuck Babcock, 123, Both are veteran lettermen and point-getters. Les swims baclcstroke, and Chuck swims freestyle. Divers Paul Alcott, 128, and Pot Amneus, 128, promise to be winners of B. C, l.. lourels, according to Coach Wheeler, Pat does a front layout dive. Page Thirteen

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Heading the list of re- turning letterwinners is senior guard Tom Wood- rulf. As a forward last year, Woody compiled the highest individual scoring total in the BCL as well as All-State honors. Fresh ot? the gridiron, Bruce Boardman assumed duties on the hardwood as a rugged, rebounding forward. The All-State fullback earned a letter in basketball in both tenth and eleventh grades. The absence of senior Jim Millies from the Devil starting quintet via Janu- ary graduation will be probably sorely felt in late season games. lim, a letter-winning forward, has a deadly foul shot. hurt tuii . . . or Ba kethall '5 -458 Style he Pointe cage squad that took the floor in early December is one of the shortest basketball teams ever to carry the Blue Devil banner into interscholastic athletic com- petition. The team, amassed by Coach Howard MacAdam, is designed to outscrap the gangling giants of the BCL with its pre- cision fast-break, combined with the sharp-shooting of Tom Woodruff. Number one problem in Grosse Pointe's mastery of a BCL championship is Highland Park's collection of basket- ball Einsteins, who seem to have dis- covered the formula for winning basket- ba ll. Bruce Boardman drives in and lays the ball neatly into the waiting net. Rated as just a dog in basketball circles, this shot, with its many variations, is rarely missed when it Counts. The two pivot-men, Jim Kelly and Rem Purdy, vie for the round- ball in the opening jump of a pre-season scrimmage, Hotly contested scrimmages between squad members provide a chance for coaches to know exactly what their boys are capable of under game conditions. Bob Hunt, Bob Herrick, lars Anderson, Bill Hooth, Larry The 1957-58 Grosse Pointe basketball team: left to right, Coach Howard MacAdam, .lim Kelly, Marty Andrews, Bruzzese, Pete Wade, Bruce Boardman, Jim Miilies, Tom Woodruff, Verne lstock, Rem Purdy, Danny Consentino, Ted Stanley, and Assistant Coach Don Lund.

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V 1 Manda Through Frida An invaluable aid in winning football is a good scouting report. A Grosse Pointe opponent is usually scouted by the coaching stat? a week before it is to clash with the Blue Devils. End Coach Paul Wheeler studies the report carefully, searching for a flaw on which Grosse Pointe can capitalize. This picture captures the invincible spirit of the Mr, Football of Grosse Pointe, Head Football Coach Edward Wernet. A product of Grosse Pointe High himself, Mr. Wernet is completing his eleventh year in Grosse Pointe coaching. largely a result at his efforts, Grosse Pointe has become a state-recognized perennial gridiron power. With atl1rday's Herne tremendous roar rolled across the athletic field as the blue-and-gold spangled home team burst out of the locker room doors and raced down the gridiron. Forty-tive well-conditioned athletes gave their hel- mets a vigorous fling toward the bench. They formed a circle in the middle of the field. Game time had arrived. The Grosse Pointe team had been given every con- ceivable advantage and countless tips on what they would need to know and do to win the game. The coaches had done their job. Now it was up to the players. They were on their own. If they wanted to win the game badly enough, they ought to be able to... The following pages attempt to reveal the diligence of the coaching staff and the hard work that the team puts into making Saturday a success. supplemented by films of previous Grosse Pointe games. On Monday afternoon before practice the team meets with the coaches Head Coach Wernet gives an honest evaluation of the scouting report and outlines the coming week's activities. Sometimes these meetings are