Kimball High School - Lancer Yearbook (Royal Oak, MI)

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CO-CAPTAINS of Kimball's football team for the 1959' season Jerry Riutta and Larry Wasen. These graduating seniors helped our team to victory and will be missed next year. COACH PIN Ryan appears to be thinking up new strategy to insure another victory for the Knights. His coaching ability helped he varsity squad to a 5-3 record. Congratulations to a fine team and a fine coach. ln Slushing Mud, The Knights End Season. 5- .3 No matter what the' weather, rain, snow, wind, or mud, each Friday night spelled excitement for. students as they trooped to the football field. They were rewarded when the Knights posted a 5-4 score in over-all play and tallied an Eastern Michigan League rating of 4-2, putting them in a second place tie with Birmingham. The Knights, coached by Mr. Pin Ryan and Mr. Paul Temerian, started their season triumphantly, . lg .n-Al.,..,.l breaking a two-year tie streak by defeating South- field, 26-6, showing the team's tremendous fighting spirit. But their luck didn't hold out the next Week-end with Birmingham as they suffered a disappointing defeat, 21-0. However, they bounced back by beatir Mt. Clemens, 13-7, on Oct. 2. Hazel Park followed as K.H.S. rolled over them, 12-0. Cass Field was a sad scene for the home team at ROW: Earl Ryan 1Mgr.b, Chuck Baker, Jerry Holbrook, Greg ard Brian Krause, Bill Duncan, Gary Gutow, Ken Jeffery, Rick amer. Znd x-ow: Craig Rutherford, Gil Coss, Tom Eldridge. Hughey ughan, Doug Vernier, Butch Harris, Bob Sheridan, Joe Alleman, in Cameron, Dick Green, Don Chamberlain. 3rd row: Coach Pin Ryan, Gary Moody, Wayne Clark, Doug Whan, Dennis Custance Chuck Rosenberg, Ron Sparrow, Larry Wasen, Jerry Riutta Bob Sutter, Doug Forier, Gary Wirth, Howard Vanderbeck, Craig Kirby Dave Wills, Coach Paul Temerian,

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W g S C T EVERYBODY DOES the cha cha cha. This fancy footwork was introduced in the Ferndale football game by number 14, Ron Sparrow, and an unidentified Ferndale player, IN THE Mud Bowl between the Royal Oak Dondero and Roy Oak Kimball High Schools, Chuck Baker valiantly tries to gal yardage for the Knights. Tie For Second Place In EML Standings the end of the Fitzgerald match, for they lost, 12-6. The outlook brightened, however, as East Detroit fell, 25-6, and Port Huron bowed, 19-6, in probably the best game of the season. The Knights were chilly victims of fast-running E.M.L. champs, Ferndale, 26-13, on Nov. 6. Friday, Nov. 13, the big event came: the fight with Dondero to capture the Oak Stump. Dondero slipped and sloshed to a 13-6 victory. Several of Kimball's first-stringers received honor positions on the All-Oakland County Class A Teams iThe Pontiac Press,i S.O.C. Class-A All Stars iR.O. Tribunei. A11-Suburban, All E.M.L., and All State Teams lThe Detroit Newsl. Sharing these awards were Gary Wirth KEJ, Chuck Rosenberg CTD, Gerry Root CCD, Craig Kirby QED, and Larry Wasen QBJ. ASSISTANT COACH Paul Temerian helps Chuck Rosenberg off the f 1 ' led during the Dondero football game. Chuck returned later to make another of his many famous tackles. AND WHERE did you come from'P thinks the unidentified pla er - y from East Detroit, as Gary Wirth makes a spectacular interc t' ep ion on the 15-yard line of the Shamrocks.