Hastings High School - Tiger Yearbook (Hastings, NE)

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On a crisp lall nighl, wilh lhe smell ol burned-leal smolce slill lingering on lhe cool air, whal is more lhrilling lhan a loolball game? And whal is more colorlul7 There's lhe green ol lhe lield wilh ils while yard markers. The players in lheir orange, red or blue jerseys, darling aboul lhe lield in pre- game warm-up. Blaclc and while slriped ol- licials huddling wilh lhe coaches. And lhe slands, a sea ol color, bobbing and swaying lo lhe will ol lhe cheerleaders. You brealhe deeply ol lhe lrosly air. You yell a lillle, sing a lillle, and clap lo lhe rhylhm ol lhe band. Then you lislen as lhe songs and yells ol lhe visiling school drill loward you lrom across lhe lield. Sud- denly a shrill whislle culs lhe air. Players on lhe lield lhin oul lo lwo opposing leams. The band plays and all heads lurn lo lhe rising llag. Il is nearly game lime. Eleven men deployed in a lhin orange line, lace eleven men in blue spread oul lo receive lhe ball. There is a lense silencei lhen anolher blasl lrom lhe releree's whislle. The long orange line moves lorward -lhe ball rises upi up, and scars loward lhe men in blue. The game is or. The grealesl ouldoor game in lhe world. Foolballl 1959 TIGER fungal 23

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as Dick May sweeps around left end and with good team blocking. finds an open road to paydirt. Allen Curtis is putting a neat shoulder block on No. ll ..,, 5' .-gm. BACK ROXV: Bill Skeen, jim Adler, jerry Downing, lid Reif. Allan Koepke, john Nelson, Chuck Matzkc, Sam Hoagland, Gene Piel, Steve Cushing, Ray Moore, jim Peder- sen. MIDDLE ROWU Assistant Coach Icarl Applebee, Lon- nie Rutt, Bob Lang, Ivan Crandell, jay Banta, Allen Curtis, Larry Uhrmacher, Bob Hemenway, jerry Goedert, jerry Uhrmacher, Head Coach Ollie Smith. FRONT ROVV: Stu- dent Managers Arlen Brown and Ron McCoy, Gary Engel- hardt, Bill Cassel, joe Ray, Roland Valentine, Ken W'ider- gren, Darrel Olson, Tom Cunningham, Dick May, Student Manager Larry North Hastings High School is King of football in the Mid-East Confer- ence. For three years straight the Tigers have been champions of the conference. In five of the last six years the Bengals have won the crown. Since Oliver Smith took over as head coach in 1954 his Tigers have won the Mid-East honors four out of five years. This year, after a close squeak past Fairbury, the Varsity won de- cisive victories over Southeast and Northeast, and then impressively pol- ished off Beatrice with a parade of five touchdowns. The Bengals scored 96 points in winning the crown, to 37 scored by the opposition. Much of the success of this year's varsity squad was due to the fine play of quarterback Tom Cunningham. Chuck Matzke, end, re- ceived All-State honors while Co-captains jerry Downing and jerry Goedert were named to several conference teams. -