San Mateo High School - Elm Yearbook (San Mateo, CA)

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BE WITHOUT FOOTBALL FANS VARSITY FOOTBALL The TooTball season came - and iT passed, IT wasn'T a very good season - or was iT? LeT's Take a glance over iT. Our inexperienced grid Team came up againsT a SouTh San Francisco Team, wiTh only one pracTice game under iTs belf. ln This pracTice encounTer, The boys Trom up on The hill, Serra, Toppled down To The Tune oT 25-O. The iniTial P. A. L. TilT wiTh S. S. P. resulTed in a I3-O loss Tor our kids. A surprisingly Tlash, JeTTerson Team Took a slighTly improved BearcaT Team I8-6. Fullback Al Tommei looked greaT in This game and broke oTT Tackle and dashed almosT 60 yards To seT up The San lvlaTeo Touchdown. The P. A. L. co-champs oT Sequoia were ouTplayed in The TirsT halT and held To a 776 score unTil The fading minuTes of play, when Two S, M. passes were inTercepTed and seT up The Cherokee's Touchdowns. Sophomore ChesTer Lax made a Terrific line smash ThaT resulTed in a 62 yard iaunT inTo The Cherokee's end zone. Palo AlTo scored on a Treak play and held To Their 6-O advanTage ThroughouT The game. GreaTly improved San lvlaTeo eleven ouTplayed and ouTToughT The Paly gridders, buT were simply unable To push over a score ThaT could have won The game. Lincoln oT San Jose Turned ouT To be beTTer mudders, and capTured an 8-0 decision in a November rain. Preceding Turkey Day, a capTain was chosen by The Team Tor The Big-LiTTle game and The season pasT. George Cross became acTing capTain, along wiTh honorary capTain Mike MarTinelli, whose leTTers Trom his sick bed were an inspiraTion To The enTire Team. lncluded in The Big-LiTTle game rally was a shorT speech by a Tormer San lvlaTeo STudenT Body PresidenT, a San MaTeo TooTball hero. This 6'4'l end now aT STanTord was a Purple l-learT hero oT World War II -- San MaTeo's own Fred Beonish. Thanksgiving Day, and The BearcaTs oT San MaTeo were now ready Tor Their besT game oT The season. This game would piT The league- leading PanThers oT Burlingame againsT an underdog Team oT San lv1aTeo. The PanThers were acTually ouTplayed in The second quarTer, aTTer a nip and Tuck TirsT quarTer, and The halT ended in a scoreless Tie. In The opening series oT plays oT The Third period, a iinx sTruck when The underdogs Tumbled on Their own I5 yard line. Blingum capiTalized on The bad break and pushed over iTs winning score. The player oT The day Tor The enTire Peninsula was San lvlaTeo's Tullback Al Tommei, Tor his inspiring perTormance againsT Burlingame. Possibly The besT Tackle in P, A. L. was George Cross, who capTured an All P. A. L. Tackle berTh. SixTy minuTe man Buddy CivreTTa sTarred always aT his pivoT spoT and also earned a place on The second All P. A. L. Team. And oT course we remember The names oT STanTon, Mock, Caldwell, Dean, Tyo, Trabucco, MoTT, Gill, and l-lank STelling-TerriTic all season. We've glanced over The record and we say To The Tellows who represenTed us in The P. A. L. Pigskin Parade , Thanks Tor giving a season oT Thrills and Tor noT knowing The meaning oT The word 'quiT'! FROSH-SOPH FOOTBALL The Prosh-Soph TooTball Team was sparked by a dynamic backTield combinaTion composed oT Frank Aguilar, Tullbacki Sal Campagna and Bill Khaler, halTbacks: and Duane EckerT, quarTerback. The Team whiTewashed pracTically all comers. Sequoia squeezed ouT a Touchdown, buT Tell aT The hands oT The KiTTens I9-7. San Jose, however, crossed ThaT endsTripe To capTure The game 6-O and Take The Frosh-Soph crown. Along wiTh our speedy backs a number oT linemen sTarred, among Them: Tackle, Eugene Bruno: ends, CaTron, RoThman, and Geyer' and cenTef WhiTehead. PracTice game scores implied a highly successTul season. The Bear-KiTTens downed l-layward, I9'O, blanked Serra, ZOO and Mission, 60. ln The league opener San lvlaTeo clawed Burlingame 20-O and avenged The VarsiTy encounTer. Pala AlTo was on The shorT end oT a l2eO counr To round ouT The seasons scoring spree 96 poinTs Tor S. M., I3 Tor opponenTs. Coaches Dan Lacy and Frank Collins did an e-cellenT job 35 coaching Tor The KiTTens. 29

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WHAT WOULD SCHCOL LIFE 71 CUALH - 1 Q'-Tm liMll. -ll FROSH- SOPH 28 S d 'Y ' 1 Q 1 ,W i ,g y . If L Q L T G . 4 .. 'T , ' if rr S - ,r . 1' A' I M I 4, L J. . 3' K I . - - ll 7 1 4 2 K -. , F f li il S1 sf xl ' X, , ' L l fs - , . ' H 5 r Evl 'Ti 7 L. ' if , , ' Q ., ' 4 W X' V. A. f lu 5 K J J A, Q r ,S Z .Eg ,Zi we fe um' ,Bmw Row l. Dave Granf, Ted Parker, Bud Schwab, Henry Levy, Bob Smith, Hugo Benedeffi, George Bellramo, Peter Hazel, Richard McClure, Don Farrell. Row 2. Coach Frank Collin, Manager Sieve Saribalis, Earl Afkinson, Bill Kahler, Ronnie lld, Greg Peterson, Bill Paulson, Gordon Whifehead, Bob Geyer, Ronnie Ohlson, Jim Calron, Ted Mann, Jack Gensel, Coach Dan Lacy. Row 3. Gene Allan, Jim Cunningham, Jim Morena, Dan Birfwell, Duane Eckerf, John Bland, Ken Hagel, Jack Zahl. FOOTBALL TEAM

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ip. urn-run TY A--fx s. o- g Six-A- 4,4-1 Kxj... A -,, Y-L i 1 A ,fe BASKETBALL-10's First Row: Rickey Tiader, Theodore Sevella, George Jow. AI Owens. Second Row: Walrer Chinn, AI Berfaqna, Hiro Miiachi, Guido Pellegrinil John lndahl, Vinceni Chiappefia, John Renneri. Third Row' Bob Wainwrighfl Har' old Whife, Gran? Bernsfein, Frank Ldnzo, Irwin Rios, Chuck Fifch, Gemiio Mendoza, Theodore Nash, Bill Ross. BASKETBALL-20's Firsi Row Tom Pike, Richard Maf- suadfa, Bob Sampson, Tom Lewen, Keido Shimilu. Second Row, Bruno Deia Libra, Jim Thomas, Bob Carlson, Chuck Ginnever, Bob Alan, Ray Toqii. 30 or