Hoisington High School - Cardinal Yearbook (Hoisington, KS)

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Hs 0 Ed Herres, left played foot- 5 fly-fi' I Elf iff-4 Ill il P1337- two years, an 1 I , ll. ny, hates is .,.,3 ' e ' -Ae rift?-A .-.xge-sr. . X 'Xe iq . 1 as 1 QW 5 seg! - Z A v f r I m I I . .. . ' ' l X., 'T' - fel. 1' '.-L -Vt A 'li 3 . - ' Q v .' , ' . V 4' Theodore Gullford, right guard, has played football three years. earning bill thrl-IB two Years- letters. proved three letters. Chalky as he is known Ed was 4 51132111 Bild be the carrier in the by all the boys, has proven himself to Play and P855 SDUHY. Ed Of the 201 run up by the be a tough customer. He get more iS.2H excelleflt inals to the opponents 69, Frazier tackles than any other boy on the scored 72. Squad, Q B il! .:. as f ' Q Q A a S2 '. ,I 5 -Im sg5?3'H. TS Ill I ,V ' I ' ., T ,.. ,fl Beg. mums. A If l mil I., ills - ' f'!ff . V , 1,-, . ,G A P, ara, , aa., I Ill lll,lllQ?'1 f LXQQZFQ, X, V - -I eg!-1 VV: ig. 4.-Q.-ii'fs1 l .4 -4-fre-,.j-Zjq,-.312 .. as ag..- at D QQ, ' , 4. fr -.S flzgs.-riff? ,igevf ' 1+ ,, li! J' - e 9-9 Q :Arie 5? i MM- liz ' . 'W A7 AQ.- 'Z'-1 , ' : -' ' 51 E ' 1 ' ' , . .30 '31 , - - be -. ' -. .a w l Q. .13-y- --.r ' ,, .-, l .T 5? 'Lf ' L - if 1 'Q MEF . f -, , -I '-4. . 5?-est.-.5 W - .- , V e - ' 1' '--' -' La' .- . - 4 1 1 cf - Afi .A --or 'i' ' , ' ' ' ' '- . F f 4 '--15 , '-.3 '- 5 fml ' ' '?:' -5 , , S' ' - ' .. 'fl--if Y ',, 7' 1' ' , gf., 25 V - , sent: -' Q, 'fu 12 55,5-Q., 1 t.: ' - - -..- . ,g , .- A ,. ,S 55-71 -- f ' 1 Herman Skolaut, senior tackle. has played football two years, lettering this year. Herman injured his' back at the beginning of the season. but he W 'saw his share of action before the sea- l son ended. Norman Hogan, junior tackle, has played football two years. lettering one year. Norman injured his ankle which bothered him all season. He- played a steady game all season, seldom slumplng. Norman is a good trainer. Bill Christopher, Junior left guard. has played two years and lettered two with the Cards. He is a candidate for all state guard. Bill ran into two tough breaks this season. Early in the. season his leg was 'stepped on dur- mg practice and burst 3 blood vessel. Bob Blrdsong, left halfback has played three years with the Cards and lettered two. Bob was the lightest member of the squad. Bob injured his shoulder last year and he played with an extra heavy padding on it. Ray Thayer, junior back, has played football two years, lettering this year. Ray broke his wrist in early season practice and he didn't see much action because of this injury. Fourth Row-Left to Right-Conner, Younger, Russell, Francis, Bracken, West, Guliford, Meyer, Winter, Whipkey, Madden, Mr, Dumler, Third Row--Russell, Bott, Hayden, Susanlc, Tindall., Deines, Geyer, 0'Neal, Corrigan, Kaz-st, Miller, Johnson, Second- Row--Coach Boyd, Keyes, CUSh1Y1b9I'I'Y,Gulifor-da Blandon, Birdsong, M, Birdsong, Popp, Thayer, Winter, Hogan, Bradshaw, First Row--l-lerres, Myers, Jaynes, Whiteman, Neal, Harman, Humphrey, Christopher, Skolaut, M, Skolaut, Francls. ie

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... . l'1'liLl51'lC.'J 1 rn 1 Kenneth Boyd football and Ruben Dumler basketball in track e4?F' 4 Bill uhedn Neal, quarterback, Bob Birdsong, basketball Kenny Smith' captain of the captained the 1940 Cardinals, captain, was one of the best 1940 .track Squad: was league Red was an outstanding blocker, ball handlers in the C,P,L, chamP10n 4UaPteI'mi15Pw Interest in athletics in H,H,S, reached the highest point in several years this year as the Cardinals pro- duced winning teams in all sports, After winning the league championship in track the previous spring, the Cards finished second in both football and basketball for the 1940-1941 season, The Cardinal gridders turned in a successful season which was spoiled only by the forfeiture of the first four games, due to an ineligible man in the line-up. The highlight of the season came when the Cards WOH over the Central Prairie League Champs from Lyons 25-0 in the final game of the BBBBOH, The Cards got off to a brilliant start when they handed the Russell Broncos an 19-12 beating, with Fra- zier Blandon running wild to score three touchdowns, After Russell, the Cards turned in easy victories over Sterling, Ellinwood and Lindsborg, Immediately after this came the discovery that these games must be for- feited, With all chance of a league championship gone, the Cards knocked off Larned 12-6, St, John 36-0 and Clef- lin 6-O, The only actual defeat on the record was to a truly great team, the Stafford Trojans who t00k t0 the air to defeat the Cardinals 25-7 on Nov, 15, After this, the Cards finished the season by downing Ells- worth 25-7 and Lyons 25-0, Nineteen boys received letters and Bill Neal, quar- terback, was elected captain, In basketball, the Cards again were second only to Lyons, The Cards finished the league season with six wins and four losses, In non-league games, they won two and lost twog winning from Russell and St, John and losing to Great Bend and Kinsley, Russell again served as the Cards' first victim, Playing a tight zone defense, the Cards took advantage of the breaks to win, 18-12, eww- In the league opener the Cards again were nhotu and easily defeated Sterling's Black Bears, 27-6, They followed this with a win over Ellsworth giving them the lead in the league, Then the lowly Vikings of Lindsborg handed the Cards their first league defeat, Championship hopes faded when the Cards lost to Lyons 28-25 on the Lyons court, after a terrific struggle in which the Cards played their best ball of the season, Victories over Ellsworth, Lindsborg and Ellinwood followed to keep the Cards firmly entrenched in second place, The climax of the season came when the Cards met Lyons on the Hoisington court in the lust league game, The Cards hoped to repeat their feat in football, and in the first few minutes it looked as though they mightg but the mighty Lyons scoring machine got under way and Hoisington lost, 31-46, Nine boys were awarded letters and Bob Birdsong was elected Honorary captain fw'meswsm, The Cardinal track squad of 1940, coached by Ruben Dumler, had a great season which was climaxed by win- ning the Central Prairie League championship at Sterl- ing, In this meet, Frazier Blandon won three firsts, setting new meet records in the 100 yd, dash and broad jump and e,ualing the record in the 220 yd, dash, Captain Kenny Smith's neck-and-neck finish with Smisor of Sterling in the 440 yd, dash was another highlight of the meet, as was the fact that Hoisington's great all-around athlete UChalkeyN Guliford accomplished the amazing feat of placing in the lOO yd, dash, the half- mile run and the shot-put, The Cards also tied for first with Great Bend in a triangular meet and won many points in later meets, The squad of 1941 is expected to be even stronger with most of the letter men returning, go rf J, Kirkpatrick, Jaynes, Whisman, 1 Y' A Hardy, Arbsland, C, Kirkpatrick,

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