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

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The OAK 1 1940 FOOTBALL SQUAD Pontiac 12 Mt. Clemens 13 Grosse Pointe 7 Wyandotte 12 Monroe 6 Fordson 0 Ferndale 14 Birmingham 0 64 Let's have a big Yeah team!-that's the way, they certainly deserve all the cheers that we can give them. For the 1940 football team is a team of which ROHS can be justly proud. The Acorn gridders finished the seasons play with five victories against three defeats, and had the honor of placing many representatives on honor teams. The All- State selections claimed Jim Hartrick. Wilbur Pollack also received honorable mention for the same team. The opening kickoif of the season saw the Acorns pit- ted against a strong Pontiac team. The team displayed fine team work in polishing off the Chiefs 14-12, and to many observers it seemed as though the Acorns were in for another championship year. The next time out the boys failed to click and took a bigger pounding than the score iindicates from the mighty 1939-40 Border Cities Champions, Mt Clemens. Playing with a veteran team, the Bathers had little trouble in disposing the Oaks. The team tried hard to win against Grosse Pointe, but after a game with fellows the calibre of the Mt. Clemens team, it took them more than a week to recover their bearings. Thus loss number two for the season in a close game, 7-6. Two defeats in a row plus the ridicule of fellow stu- dents caused the team to perk up and really give all they PACL TWENTY-TWO Royal Oak 14 Royal Oak 0 Royal Oak 6 Royal Oak 13 Royal Oak 13 Royal Oak 7 Royal Oak 6 Royal Oak 3 62 had. This proved very successful, for the Acorns came back to life and gained three victories in as many games. They defeated Wyandottte 13-2, Fordson 13-0, and Mon- roe 13-6. These three wins in a row, plus the approaching Thanksgiving Day game with Birmingham, gave the boys the idea the Lincs from Ferndale were going to be a soft touch. You all know what happens when a team becomes over confident, well, the ROHS team was no exception. Although they lost by the score of 14-6 there are very few who saw that game who will not agree that the boys had a lot of fun. The final game with the Maples from Birmingham is always looked forward to by the team, and this year was no exception. Although they couldn't get worked up over Ferndale, it was a different story as far as this game was concerned. All those press clippings about the mighty Birmingham team made them rather hot under the collar. Heretofore the Maples had been un- beaten in their last eighteen games and were pre-game favorites. Worked up to a fighting edge, together with good blocking and tackling, and some fine signal calling by Judge Hartrick, the team was able to get the ball down to the Birmingham 18 yard line where Bob Martin put it through the uprights for the winning three points. Thus ROHS sended their season in a blaze of glory by beating their traditional rival 3-0.

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The OAK POLLACK'S TOUCHDOWN 1--Kenneth Bud Freeman, End. Two years varsity. Earned two letters, 5 ft. 11 inches tall, weighs 158. 2- James Big Jim Shader, End. Three years in varsity. Earned three letters, 6 ft. 1 inch tall, weighs 185. 3-Ber- nard Berne Baldwin, Guard. Two years on varsity. Earned two letters 6 ft. 2 inches tall weighs 180. 4-Frank Frankie Glass Center. Three years on varsity. Earned two letters, 6 ft. 16 inch tall, weighs 180. 5-John Ozzie Osborne, Tackle in 1939, Guard in 1940. Three years on varsity. Earned two letters, 5 ft. 8 inches tall, weighs 200 in round Hgures. 6-James Tarzan Sharp, Tackle. Two years of varsity. Two letters earned, 5 ft. 10 inches tall, weighs 165. 7-Richard Moldy Jackson, Guard. One year of varsity. One letter earned, 6 ft. 1 inch tall, weighs 180. 8-Robert Flame Blazo, Quarterback. Two years of varsity. Earned two letters, 5 ft. 8 inches tall weighs 155. 9-Leigh Whitey Smith, End. Three years varsity. Earned two letters, 6 ft. 2 inches tall, weighs 167. 10- Hubert Hubie Webster, Fullback. Three years of varsity. Earned two letters, 5 ft. 10 inches, weighs 165. LAST MINUTE INSTRUCTIONS PAGE 'rwmrrv-oNE

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