Jenkintown High School - Jenkintonian Yearbook (Jenkintown, PA)

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Thwtyftwu FOOTBALL Standing-left to right: Hopson, Kessler, Hall, Hedler, McKean, Oliver, Fallows, Lange, LaRoche, Wolford, Schaffer, Mgr., Bitzer, Assistant Coach Goldberg, Coach Dougherty. Second row-McCowie, Entwisle, Muyskens, Pierce, Hannon, H. Baker, Gleason, Tomlinson, Comly, Getchell, L. Baker, Beckman. Third row-Creed, Still, Walton, Rossiter, Murphy, Green, Fahren- haltz, Sutters, McCulla, Richard- son. BOYS' BASKETBALL Left to right: Getchell, Comly, Wambold, Defoe, Entwisle, Fal- laws, Baker, Bitzer. TRACK Top row-Left to right: Mueller, Baker, Edwards, Hedler, Goydon, West, Burnett, Royce, Mobley, Malone. Second row-Left to right: Taddei, Berret, Pierce, Bidlack, McCowie, Snyder, Oliver, Bellis, Kearns, Laroche, Esbenshade, Lange, Coach Dougherty. Sitting--Left to right: Gleason, Patton, Bitzer, McKeon, Getchell, McCracken, Armon, Lorbenbaum.

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FUUTBHLL H TH HEN Coach Dougherty called the first practice for the football season of 1938, he anticipated a very successful season with many of his veteran stars to bulwark the line and perform in the backfield. The newly christened Drakes in their first two games defeated Souderton, 13 to 7, and rode rough-shod over Quakertown 26 to O, with Gleason scoring two touchdowns. Prospects of a championship were ruined when the team, weakened by illness, lost the Little Brown Jug game to Lansdale, and the following week, lost to Ambler. On the evening of October 21, 1938, Jenkintown made local football history by playing Sell-Perk in one of the first interscholastic night games in the vicinity of Philadelphia. The stadium was packed to capacity with several thousand cheering fans. With the aid of the uniformed cheer-leaders and an inspiring band, the football season was colorfully and successfully closed. SHETBHLL OACH Dougherty started the 1938-39 basketball season with what Bux-Maint coaches styled a third rate team, and promptly proved those prognosticators wrong by coaching it to three championships and the distinction of being the only team in Bux-Mont history to complete two consecutive undefeated league seasons. The Drakes' first victory of the season over the favored Souderton team foretold the tremendous scoring power, the cool decisive brainwork, and the conquering strategy which enabled the team to win the coveted York Road Championship, their second consecutive Bux-Mont crown, undefeated, and the Brown Prep Foul Shooting championship. The fine foul shooting, which won many of Jenkin- town's games, was shown by Getchell, Comly, and Wambold in the Brown Prep Contest. Wambold took top honors by sinking 46 out of 50 tries, with Getchell and Comly placing third and fourth with 42 and 41 fouls respectively. VVe con- gratulate a most remarkable teaml HBH HEN the coming of Spring heralded the track season of 1939, Coach Dougherty was greeted by an excellent turnout. However, he was doomed to early disappointment as his team lost the first meet with Lansdale. In the next meet, a triangular contest between Ambler, Hatboro, and Jenkintown, the Drakes finished second to Ambler. At the Mont- gomery County Championships, Gorham Getchell won the pole vault and high jump, Alex Barret took third place in the discus. I Early in May at George School the team garnered 11 points against a field of twelve schools. A week later the Drakes nosed out Germantown Academy in the triangular meet at Cheltenham. Getchell brought four first places home. With May 20 came the District P. I. A. A. Championships at Franklin Field. Here Gorham Getchell broke the district Class B pole vault record by vaulting 12 feet, and took a second in the high jump, going 6 feet, being beaten by a scant inch. This gives Getch,' a chance for another State Championship in either event. xu.. Thirly'th1ee