Herbert Hoover High School - Scroll Yearbook (Glendale, CA)

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Daniels. Guard Anderson, Guard Dens more, Full Nanscl. End Dalton's, Tackle Beyer, Half Bligh. Center Dcdrick, Half Sullivan, Guard Fauth, Center Doyle, Tackle Burkheimer, Half oLettermen Fullback Jim Dcnsmorc, Hoover s triplc-thrcatcr, pulled the Purples out of more than one scrape during the '44 season and was recognized by fellow gridsters by being elected the most valuable player on the team. Jim's consistency in passing, punting, and line bucking will long be remembered by fans. Those who knew him recognize him by his flashing smile and dark curly hair, and his famous winning personality. The combination in the backfield of Jim Dcnsmorc and Rod O'Meara, quarterback, was one that will be hard to equal. For the entire season Rod was credited with playing four quarters in every game, while Jim missed only one quarter during the whole season.

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Hilderbrand, Tackle O'Meara, Quarter Smith, Half Nuchols, Tackle Cox. End Burn, End Budge, Guard Miller. End Short, Half Pence, End Kizer, Quarter Cavorctto, Guard Jornado Guard Roy Cavorctto, stimulant to an underdo » Hoover eleven, was awarded the honor of being placed on the all-Southern California C.I.F. team selected by the Southern California Board of Football for the Helms Athletic Foundation as well as being chosen as season captain by his teammates. Cavo- retto played heads-up and hard-hitting ball every second of play. Don Cox, another Hoover senior, was named on the second-string all-C.I.F. team. Don, who was placed on the third honor sejuad last year, was sidelined for a majority of the games because of an ankle injury. The battles he was able to enter proved Cox one of Hoover's strongest defensive assets. 22

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VARSITY FOOTBALL—Back Row: Davis, Allan, Beaty, Peterson, Hcck. Russell, Foushcc, Butlin, Beaton, Glynn. Mann, Andrew, Hoover. Second Rou : Miller, Dedrick, Morris, Cox, Bligh. Hildebrand, Short, Nuchols, Beyer, Doyle, Dallons, Nansel. First Row: Pence, Dens more, O'Meara, Budge, Sullivan, Fauth, Calkins, Atkinson, Daniels. Cavoretto, Burkhcimer. The Purples wound up their '44 season with a blast of fire when they held 'the best Glendale team in years' to a 0-to-0 tic in a wet Rose Bowl and then returned two weeks later to wax Burbank by a 31-to-12 Purple victory which pushed the Bulldogs to the bottom of the Group 4, C.I.F. cellar and left Hoover standing in a third-place tic with South Pasadena. The Tigers dealt the worst league blow to the Presidents on their own field by a score of 36 to 12. Although backed by a larger quantity of clean, fighting spirit than has ever been shown in the history of Hoover, the purple-clad Tornadoes were caught short of veterans, and, as a result, dropped their first five games, three of them practice tilts. The big factor which will count in the next season s frays will be that priceless something which is indispensable to a successful squad—experience. Delving into the league barrel, Hooverites find that the Pasadena College Lower Division came out on top, and the fellers across the rtacks rested in the second berth. Hoover s game with Pasadena was lost on account of fluke plays which cost the Purples a conversion point and a safety. The score read 9 to 6 at the game's end. More history was made in two practice games when both Glendale and Hoover were on the receiving end of fisti- cuffs and down-right damage to public property. The Tornadoes and the Dynamiters played against Mark Keppcl and Santa Monica in respective order. The Keppcl squad, which walked away with a 19-tO-7 victory over the Presidents, won their league laurels and won a C.I.F. play-off with Pasadena. Another stone wall the Wilsonmcn ran up against was Inglewood's terrorizing T-formation, which took home an impressive 28-to-7 win for the Sentinels. Fortunately Glendale's T” was easily bottled and corked by stolid Tor- nado guards and crashing ends and tackles. Alert Dick Short stopped a Glendale pass which many thought would have been ruled complete by the officials. A score then would have been inevitable. Another bit of Wilson strategy was evident in the placing of Rod O'Meara, defensive safety man, to the line- backing position directly behind Glendale’s fullback since previous team scouting had revealed that the Dyno full was carrying the ball for a majority of the plays. The final battle with Burbank was a streak of purple to the eyes of a frost-bitten, turkey-stuffed crowd as the Hoover juggernaut really began to roll for the first time. The Tornado machine was slow to get started, but the speed which was sported in the Bulldog tussle should increase and carry over into a powerful overdrive for next season.