Mission High School - Mission Yearbook (San Francisco, CA)

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Ig . t 'i7fQISQ9? ., A 4 .5 . All ag tl as ' 5 'll 393: Bears Wm After 18 A FOOTBALL TEAM NAMED DESIRE That hest describes the l95-l A.A..X. Champion- ship Mission High School varsity loothall ICLIIH. Some people may still helieve there have been stronger Bear Championship teams, hut it is vel y doubtful whether any Bear team has had the guts this team showed. Coach Dutch Elston in his lirst year as head coach was named Coach ol' the Year, which is a great and rare thing lor a new Coach. PAGEANT-SEPT 20 BEARS STOP WILDCATS-13-O Mission played S. I. in the Pageant and had a good day in beating them I3-0. This was the start of a great year lor the Bears. BALBOA-SEPT 24 BALBOA BEATS BEARS-0-12 Mission started its season inauspiciously hy dropping its opener, I2-0, to Balboa. lt was a tough game to lose as two passes beat Mission. LINCOLN--NOV 15 BEARS KILL HORSES-7-0 Mission, a one-touchdown underdog, played a good defense game and heat Lincoln, 7-0, to get into the playoffs. Bob Oliver scored the winning touchdown for the Bears. PREVIOUS PAGE: The ramblings of Garlin Bluford played an im- portant role during the football wars and here GalIopin Garlin is seen ripping through the center of the Mustang line in the championship game. Rushing in to assist Gar is Clarence Brown. Photo by Joe Rosenthal, S. F. Chronicle. 'I'WIiN'I'Y-Sl X ,M ...WJ A an TOP LEFT CORNER: MEET THE MENTORS ll. to rl: Jayvee coach Roger Fanfelle, Head varsity coach Arthur Dutch Elston, and Line coach of the varsity, Paul Friar Olivier. LEFT: THE GALLOPING FORM of Garlin Bluford is seen leaping over the TD stripe in the second Poly game won by the Bears and which broke the Parrots victory strinq at 36. BELOW LEFT: THE DEFENSIVE WORK of the Bear varsity really sparked the team to action. Here the forceful effect of the gang tackling of three Bearmen convinced a Poly ball carrier that he wanted no more. BELOW: FOLLOWING VICTORY Line Coach Paul Olivier shook hands with Parrot Coach Milt Axt, who proved himself as fine a gentleman in defeat as he had been in victory. Said Mr. Axt of the Bears win: Two championship teams played today, and one won. Mission deserved their victory. They are a good team. The quality of Mr. Axt's remarks can be measured by the startling fact that his utterances followed by just a few seconds, the snap- ping of his team's 36-game win streak.

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First Grid Crown Frustroting Years SACRED HEART-OCTOBER 9 BEARS MASSACRE IRISH-41-6 Xlission showed considerable improvement over the season's opener in downing' Sacred Heart, -ll-li. It was in this game that the Iilston crew showed signs ol' making the playolls. ST. IGNATIUS-OCT 14 BEARS TAME WILDCATS-7-0 'I'he St. Ignatius game was strictly a delensive battle. Mission was able to score only seven points, but that was seven more than the 'Cats tallied. lt was in this game that Frank ii'att, unheralded tackle belore the season began, dehnitely showed he was a leading candidate for All-City honors. POLYTECHNIC-OCT 21 PARROTS FLY OVER BEARS--19-13 In the Poly game the Bears eameflose to beat- ing the Parrots but lost, I9-I3. Poly jumped to a I3-0 lead, but 1Qlston's crew fought back to tie the score in the hnal quarter. Only a last minute drive by Coach Milt Axt's crew enabled the Parrots to come out on top. After the game, Axt went on record as saying Mission was dehnitely the team to beat. LOWELL-OCT 29 BEARS SCALP INDIANS-32-19 Mission made Axt's remark seem all the more true when it scored 20 points in the first quarter and then went on to whip a strong Lowell team, 32-19, in its next outing. It was in this game that Maurice Frazier broke loose for a 64-yard run on the first play. WASHINGTON-NOV..3 EAGLES CLAW BEARS-0-7 YVashington. a two-touchdown underdog, up- set the Bears, 7-0, and came within an ace of knocking the champs out of the playolfs. The game was played in the mud. GALILEO-NOV 9 BEARS CHEW UP LIONS-38-7 It was in this game Mission started its greatest comeback. They defeated Galileo, 38-7, with Gar- land Bluford leading the way. fffmltirizlerl on Page Nj TOP RIGHT CORNER: THE CLINCHER in the Lincoln game came on this olay that shows the Lincoln ball carrier Stan Glass fum- bling after a bang up tackle by Alonzo Williams. Tackle Dave Bruce gobbled up the ball and lumbered 67 yards to a TD to put the Bears ahead by a I3-point margin. UPPER RIGHT: The great rally-when BEAT POLY rang throughout the halls of the Bear Lair-and when the spirit that had never been seen-or will ever probably be equalled-was led lgy 3.8. prexy Sal Vergara and yell leaders Jim McRory and Carol ra y. RIGHT: McRory's Monster in the BEAT POLY rally spilled over into l8th street, blocking traffic, and having a ball. BELOW RIGHT: THE EVIDENCE of what the Bears did to the Mustangs and how the Bearmen won themselves the first football championship for Mission in I8 years.