Litchfield High School - Wickiup Yearbook (Litchfield Park, AZ)

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ATHLETICS The1'e are many athletes at OUR SCHOOL. For these students there are football, basketball, track, and tennis. The Owls have opponents for these sports all over the Valley. Some of them are Tolleson, Buckeye, Peoria, Scottsdale, and Carver. The teams have a lot of fun when they get together, and-win or lose-the feathered flock always feels that the contest has been worthwhile. In the fall about thirty boys run several million miles and throw thousands of passes getting ready for the football games. Next comes all the running-hundreds of miles--back and forth across the gym floor and the shooting at baskets- about 40,000 times-until the teams are pretty good when the first game starts. Then three sports come at once. You can see stu- dents throwing balls, swinging bats for home runs, racquets to win love games, or running around the track. A little bit after spring gets here, April Frolics rolls around. Each class devotes all its energy, saved up during the winter, in an effort to come out on top. After a hectic day of track, field, and team events, everyone is tired and ready to go home, but the losers look foreward to winning next year. If sv is I A Q ' 1 2...

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Top row, left to right: Phill Tripp, Bob Sheppard, David Johns, George Nolan, Kyle Needham, Bill Zeigler, Ronald Gaillard, Mike Polley, Phil Brownlie, Jerry Cover, Curtis Stelly, Second Rowq Eugene Shroyer, Pug Wood, Clyde Webb, James Rostermundt, Bob Betterton, Larry Watt, Phil Tomlinson, Richard Esquivel, James Ackman, Tony Aragon. Bottom Row: Coach Komadina, Gerald Whaley, Robert Abair, Laddie Coor, Manuel Jimenez, Jackson Barnett, Jimmy Phelan, Edgar Viges, Willie Hall, Wally Anderson, Paul Aragon, Billy Barnett, Coach Garcia. Owls End Season With 2-6 Record Football, the first sport of the year was a great success, not in the won and lost column-2-6 -but in sportsmanship. Superior stated that the Owls were the best sports they had met on the field all year. Buckeye downed the Owl crew 51-18 in the opening game of the season with Phil Tomlinson scoring the Owl's first touchdown of the year. The following week the Litch- field squad lost to Peoria 19-0. Tolleson downed a fighting team, 39-6, as Pug Wood tallied the Hrst touchdown on the home Held, but for the next two games it was the Owls 19-O over St. Johns and a close 27-19 decision over the Phoenix Indians. As the game was being broadcasted over KRIZ, Santa Cruz Qliloyj put the Owls back in the lost column 24-0, with Scottsdale over the rugged Litchfield eleven the following week, 40-6. Superior outscored. the Owls 39-13 to close the season. It was the final game of the season for the Litchfield Owls - the last at L.H.S. for Mike Polley, Phil Brownlie, Phil Tomlinson, Kyle Needham, Jerry Cover, Ronald Gaillard, James Ackman, Tony Aragon, and Wally Anderson. , After the final game of the season the team selected Mike SCORES OF '50 SEASON Polley and Phil Brownlie as Co-Captains for the 1950 season. Owls OPP- . Q Buckeye ....... ........ 1 8 51 Under the guidance of Head Coach Tony Komadina and 5631112 -----' ----- 0 19 his able assistant, Coach Garcia, the team has had a successful SS.15g?1?1S ::::::ii-mmiiizjlg 32 season. In his first year in the trade of a coach, Mr. Komadina Phoenix Indians ............ 27 19 has started off well. He has taught the boys sportsmanship at gscglizdgfgz-fluffylj: 2 ig lfS lJCSf- Superior ........................ 13 39 f57J