Palo Verde High School - Olympian Yearbook (Tucson, AZ)

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Jackrabbits, and single wins over North Phoenix, Glendale, Douglas, Bisbee, and Austin of El Paso. Tucson held its opponents scoreless in the first Five games, Mesa scor- ing the first touchdown against the powerful Badgers. Tucson started off the 1945 season with a bang, when Left Half Oscar Carrillo re- turned the opening kickoff 80 yards for a touchdown in a 15-0 conquest cf the Coyotes in Phoenix. Quarterback Lee Legs Carey fractured his wrist, keeping him out of action most of the season. Right Half Cay Morrison tallied the other TD, and Tom Fridena, fiery center, scored a safety. The Badgers, second game was a 12-0 win in the first of a series against Austin Panth- ers before 9,000 at Tucson. Carrillo and Fullback Bill Walker plunged over for Tuc- son's two second-half scores. Carrillo scored two touchdowns, one on a 49-yard run, and Fullback Karl Eller tallied once in 20-0 win over St. Mary's here. This was followed by a 32-0 rout of Bisbee in which Eller scored two tou hd ,E Realm and Hank , Cub Coaches c owns, one on a 78-yard run. Frank Borman, quarterback, ran 86 yards for one score, and Bill Walker and Herman Bing- ham also scored. CAREY VS. PHOENIX UNION 83

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UNDEFEATED VARSITY SQUAD Stale Champions The Tucson Badger gridders marched through an eleven-game schedule Without defeat to complete their third consecutive undefeated season and Win their third state championship in a row, While running their victory string to 32 straight games over a four year span. Such outstanding senior stars as Art Pacheco, Joe Kelley, Oscar Car- rillo, Jim Tolley, Wayne Crutchfield, and Tom Fridena finished their third and final season with a great Badger outfit that never once tasted defeat. Under the very able coaching of Rollin T. Gridley, the Badgers amassed 228 points to their opponents 33, in taking a pair of victories from Phoe- nix Union Coyotes, St. lVIary's Knights, and their greatest rivals, the Mesa FIRST SQUAD . A. ,,, Q ..,- . .:,, , in ,1: ,:. TQ. J I , it A - , ,sw ag P A '.t-,., E , y was -f':g Q , Q ' 1. an vllz ,., ' T X ' is H mum . . 4 H jan W V2 , In . maui I n H ,la mx- V W 9 dame A w ..g '? nw. . U' Mi S fi 5 59 - E? 0-'F-Q13 ,Qi 'W ESF ,. ,Qi ' i,.x?ts1 , ? i gf, 5' - - F , 55. 'W' 'ft sf-iff' :Emi - of 123 E,-as ' t Fggsegbf 4, ia fi ea 1 't ,,, .. . A 2 3: ,, , J: :, 'iz .Q ' an 1..f'. z . l .mu :twat 4 - in f 5 1 ff- - ' ..: 2.1. 1 ..-...A-af.-' ' ' f .Z.L'.I,.1Z.N.L'.4 , if Ao..-4 1....,g,,:x, .Q W4 mtg' H 'QE-w,f., '?o ,,wX2,',,,,.,at.lx.Mnu.fx , sl: . ,'1 l , .zgi .. ., 1 P- 4: IA, -:::-Q-A- Z :I K! ,... ,.,, . mf -2' A A ,- ' r ff rf, , Q Q. QQ p A ' ix 'v'. ' ',gf::. 1 ,-:- ' W. I ,. ,.,,,,,,' ff-5 H- .. ,Q A.-. M M ' N A . in fit , V , . ' A H ' ii' ' N, ,Q , 'A' Q h wy ' A W 82

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Borman quarterback Eller fullback Tucson Tucson Tucson Tucson Tucson Tucson Tucson Tucson Tucson Tucson Tucson Crutchfield guard SUMMARY Phoenix Union 0 Austin of E1 Pa St. Mary's 0 Bisbee 0 North Phoenix 0 Mesa 7 St. Mary's 0 Douglas 6 Phoenix Union 7 Glendale 13 Mesa 0 Tolley guard