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

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Pre-season TavoriTes To cop The coveTed PAL crown The BearcaTs oT San iv1aTeo wound up in a TiTTh place He wiTh Willow Glen. This year's LiTTle-Big conTesT was more Than a TradiTional one as boTh The BearcaTs and The PanThers sTood on Top oT The league. A win Tor The lv1aTeans would have given Them a championship He wiTh Lincoln, while a Burlingame vicTory would have given Them undispuTed possession oT The league's Top rung. Once again, as has been The case Tor The pasT six years, The Blingums sTopped The insipired aTTack oT The CaTs 26-2I wiTh a greaT second halT splurge. The TirsT bid oT The young season was againsT lvlonTerey. This conTesT ended in a 7-7 He, wiTh Tom Guidry scoring The only Touchdown on sa pass Trom Ralph Wensinger. Hayward was sTopped 2I-20, as Roland FuiiTo scored The game-winning six-poinTer on a pass Trom Wensinger. Bobby Wilkinson proved To be The hero as he kicked Three sTraighT conversions. One week aTTer Capuchino was snowed under 37-O, JeTFerson Tell To The inspired deTensive play on The parT oT The CaTs. Leroy OTTley, Woody Wilmore and Chuck Mc- Clennan Turned in sTandouT perTormances. Wensinger and Guidry Tallied To accounT Tor The Tinal counT oT I4-O. San Jose, nexT hazard, sTunned The MaTeans wiTh a greaT second halT rally. The Bulldogs emerged 33-20. Previously undeTeaTed SouTh CiTy Tell To a supreme Team eTForT, wiTh Guidry, Wen- singer and Mickey Lax shining in The 2l-I3 vicTory. Seven days aTTer Menlo-ATherTon succumbed 26-6 on lv1cConville Field, Palo AlTo dashed The BearcaT's TiTle hopes wiTh a iaring 7-7 Tie. The CaTs losT a hearTbreaker in The Tinale To Burlingame. Two blocked kicks spelled disasTer Tor The MaTeans as boTh resulTed in PanTher Tallies. Blingum's Bill Wells raced inTo The end zone Tive minuTes Too soon Tor a BearcaT win. i

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bi .....,, , fri K 3 VARSITY FIRST ROW, Iefl' fo righl: Dick Hunl, Andy Andersson, Bob Wilkinson, Tom Barrie, Bob Rodriguez, Bob Harris, Dan Douglas, Charles Lax, Tom Guidry, Charles McLennan, Jack Rowen, Jim Gilkey. SECOND ROW: Lepoleon McLemore, Kenii Mafsuda, Ben Hanada, Fred Shuler, Phil Harris, Leroy Oflley, Bill Odom, Elmer Yamada, Ralph Wensinger, SI'-an Kompsl, Dave Gansel, Henry Torres. THIRD ROW: Dick Raufmann, Jim Whifaker, Angelo Aguiar, Roland Fuiilo, Jim Hensel, Wall' Sims, Gary Cable, Dick Husfon, Norlon Ziegler, Roy Guslafson, John Eberhardl, Larry Hunl.

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