Northampton Area High School - Amptennian Yearbook (Northampton, PA)

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Champions again! Emmaus launches a guided missile. Trom SaTurday To Monday only puT oTT The expecTed ouTcome, much To PaImerTon's misery. PaImerTon surprised The Kids wiTh a 70-yard pass Iay Tor a TD, giving Them a 7-O lead They savored Tor less Than 5 minuTes. WiThin 3 minuTes aTTer The Blue Bombers had scored, DerkiTs crashed over Trom The 2. climaxing a 60-yard drive, puTTing The score aT 7-6. In anoTher couple oT minuTes, Vogel ran around IeTT end Tor anoTher 32 yards and a Touchdown, unTiI The oT- Ticials signaled his score. The kindesT Thing you can say abouT The resT oT The game is ThaT The wind had been Taken ouT oT Palmer- Ton's sails. Beidleman, George BaITz, and DerkiTs also picked up Touchdowns To seT The Tinal score aT 47-I4. NorThampTon-CaTa sa ug ua The Time was one year IaTer. buT iT could iusT as well have been Two years, or Tive, or Ten. The players were noT The same, buT The ouTcome was. For The I4Th consecuTive year The NorThampTon KonkreTe Kids humbled The CaTasauqua Rough Riders. Their TradiTionaI Turkey Day rivals. By doing so, The Kids picked up Their TourTh league crown in a row, and Their 33rd consecuTive league win. page one CaTasaugua, who came inTo The game Tied Tor TirsT place wiTh The Kids, managed To make a game ouT of iT Tor one haIT: in The second haIT They oTTered IiTTIe compeTiTion Tor The compeTenT Kids oT NorThampTon I-Iigh. To Kuba and Gerry RudeIiTsch go The oTTensive honors for This conTesT. They rolled up all buT 4I of NorThampTor1's 237 yards gained and each scored Two Touchdowns. Beidleman also should receive his due of roses Tor compIeTing Tour of six passes, one To Kuba. Tor a Touchdown. The Tinal score was 25-I3. Season Summary You mighT say ThaT NorThampTon's TooTbaII Team is in a ruT, or, more apTIy puT, in The groove! Since AI Erdosy Took over as head coach in I939, The Kids have won I29 games, IosT 3I, and Tied 9. The have been league champions I5 Times. This year iyollowed The Tamiliar paTTern as NorThampTon won 8, and IosT buT I. The Jay Vees. coached by Joe Gerencser and Jim Oplinger, ended a six-game season wiTh I win and 5 losses. This was noT as bad as iT seemed, Though. The youngsTers played only Top Tive Teams in The Valley -- no league opponenTs. hundred Twenfy-seven

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On the Gridiron - Seier escorTs GonTar Thru a couple of would-be Emmaus Tacklers. NorTha mpTon-SlaTingTon The KonlsreTe Kids came back Trom The SlaTingTon game a biT shaken. They broughT back a vicTory, buT a hard-earned one. They needed some long runs and a couple of goal line sTands To Trip up The SlaTers. The TirsT guarTer was scoreless. buT The Kids broke The scoring ice in The second quarTer when Bill Beidle- man plunged over from The 4. lT was sTiII anylood 's ball game going inTo The TourTh quarTer, buT Richard DerlciTs, Kuba. and Vogel broughT The rooT down on The SlaTers wiTh, long runs. and The game ended 26-O. NorThampTon-LehighTon The Kids Tools command oT The l.ehighTon game in The TirsT quarTer and never relinquished Their lead. In TacT. The issue was seTTled wiThin a Tew minuTes aTTer The game goT under way. Vogel, Beidleman. Kuba. and Lou Shimoski piclced up TD's in The relenTless assaulT ThaT resulTed in a de- cisive 39-7 win. NorTha mpTon-Naza reTh The Kids. renewing a series wiTh NazareTh l-ligh aTTer a 20-year lapse, handed Them a sound Trouncing To The Tune oT 45-20. NazareTh sTayed in The game Tor exacTly one quarTer. buT aTTer ThaT The KonkreTe Kids piled on Touchdown aTTer Touchdown To ground The Blue Eagles. Kulaa. Vogel, Beidleman, and STeve l-lerschman car- ried The Touchdown banners Tor The Kids ThaT day. NorThampTon-STroudsburg ATTer The STroudsburg MounTaineers engineered a 73-yard pass play To go ahead oT NorThampTon 7-O. The Kids ri ped The impudenT upsTarTs a arT, winning 40-14. Kuga, Beidleman, Oplinger, Vogei? and DerlciTs Tallied Tor The Kids. ' NorThampTon-PalmerTon The rain which caused This game To be posTponed page one hundred TwenTy-six

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Un the Court, no quarter given - MilcsiTs guns one in ageinsT Becahi. BASKETBALL NorTha mpTon OpponenT Copley .n,,g! -s 56 57 FounTain Hill -,, 59 60 Phillipsburg e- 52 65 Becahi .... 47 72 Emmaus --- 48 53 WhiTehall ,,6. 40 43 SlaTingTon , 68 53 PalmerTon V, 57 66 CeTeseuqua ,,,, 56 47 LehighTon ,,3, 4I 43 STrouclsburg ,3.. 54 52 Emmaus .,... 46 6l Whifehell ,,,, 67 83 SlaTingTon H, 66 6l PalmerTon --, 47 68 CaTaseuqua 6,.. 57 64 LehighTon .,,, 65 44 STroudsburg ,,.m,,,, , ,,,, 5l 50 Losing Three lcey men Through greduaTion and un- dergoing a change oT coaches in mid-season, The Kon- lcreie Kid baslceTeers suTTered Through a dismal season, Tinishing wiTh a 6-I2 marlc. as did lasT season's hoop- sTers. The Kids opened The season wiTh a heerT-breaking loss To Copley. They led ThroughouT The game and held e 56-53 lead wiTh a minuTe To go. Two Toul shoTs wiTh 3l seconds leTT gave Copley e 57-56 win. STeve Herschmen collecTed T9 poinTs Tor The game's high. FounTain l-lill also squeezed pasT The Kids by a one- poinT margin. 60-59. Willard Oplinger picked up I6 poinTs To lead our hoopsTers. NexT. Phillipsburg, using iTs heighT advanTage To The maximum, Trounced The KonlcreTe Kids 65-52. Frank lvlilcsiTs was high-poinT men Tor NorThampTon wiTh I5. BeThlehem CaTholic senT The Kids To Their TourTh sTraighT loss To The Tune oT 72-47. Oplinger's Ten poinTs were oT no avail. In Their Lehigh Valley League opener, The Kids suc- cumbed wiThouT much proTesT To The Emrneus Green l-lorneTs. Gary Kohler paced The Kids wiTh I6 poinTs. For Their sixTh loss in as many games. The Kids en- TerTained The WhiTehall Zephyrs. The evenTuel league champs. They losT by only Three poinTs, 43-40. Kohler springs, shooTs, and sinks Tor a beslceT againsT PalmerTon. page one hundred TwenTy-eighT