San Ramon Valley High School - Kernel Yearbook (Danville, CA)

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T W FOOTBALT--'52 ' A peppy gang of football players rallied around Coach Brown for the l952 season. Suits were given out on Monday, Sept. l2, and the squad settled down to learn the fundamentals of Football. After two weeks of practice the squad traveled to Hayward to play the first game of the season. After a hard game they returned home with a score of Hayward 7--Danville 0. But defeat meant nothing this early in the season, and the team was in high spirits ever the next game with Pleasanton which was played on the home field October 7. The team proved themselves by winning 7 to O. On Saturday, October l5, the team traveled to Gonzales where ther played a good game consider- ing the circumstances. Their team averaged much heavier than ours and they looked twice our size when they came on the field. The team couldn't get settled down to real play until late in the game. The final score was Gonzales 45--Danville 6. On October 2l, the team traveled to Half Moon Bay where they played a good game with the Half Moon Bay first team. Danville lost by a 7 to O score. The game was played in the fog, which is a good an excuse as any. October 26, Pittsburg played Danville at Danville, a large crowd witnessed a very good game in which Coach Brown's boys made good with a final score of Danville 19--Pittsburg O. On November 5, Pittsburg repaid Danville for the October 26 victory. A good game was played, but not a game that was particularly good for Danville, for Pittsburg accumulated l4 to Danville's O. On November lO, Danville played its last and most successful game, even though the scores weren't very large. Danville's team was in fine shape and out-played the-Half Moon Bay team in a very spectacular game. The final score was Dan- ville 6--Half Moon Bay O. 1-fl v,.il- , ,,,,,,-M e . 'sn ',,..j-Y '

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Woodside? That belongs to the Woods now, doesn't it? And a fine old place it is, but when Leonard Eddy came into the Sycamore Valley in 1850 there were only deer, and elk, and grizzlies, and the white sycamores there. He had come to California, a forty-niner, but farming was more attractive and proved to be more profitable than mining. Planning to return to Illinois to be married, he sold a part of his place in '55 to Phillip Men- denhall, the original patriarch of all true Cali- fornians, for he was the first American to be mar- ried in California, Mendenhall,built a house ve- ry much like the Eddy home, partly of Georgia pine which he had brought around the Horn. You can measure the age of this house by the height of the ceilings, The same low ones may be seen in eastern houses built before revolutionary times. Perhaps it was the New England style of the house that attracted Mr. Wood for he was of a promin- ent revolutionary family of Concord, Massachus- setts. His great-great-grandfather, Colonel Bar- rett was in command of the minute-men on April 19, 1775. The Mendenhalls had planted a grove of locust trees and Mr. Wood was among the first men who brought the Eucalyptus to California. Miss Charlotte Wood says she remembers the little flat of a hundred blue gums that her father brought to plant on their place. But here I am trying to tell you about the Woods. Miss Wood can do that much better than I, and too, she can show you a collection of relics that are sure to interest you.

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5.-G-5, -t., 5 x....., w, Q .TRACK ' '55's Track Team has finished a season, un- defeated, the first in the history of the school. Thirty-eight fellows, full of pep and determined to break every record in sight, reported to Coach Brown at the beginning of the season. Danville set her pace ay defeating Antioch, Livermore, and John Swett High School, consecutive ly, and climaxed these victories by winning a five-way meet held at Martinez and participated in by: Antioch, Alhambra, Brentwood, Concord, and John Swett High Schools. On April 22 a team of picked boys went up to Davis to compete in the California Aggic's in- vitational Track and Field Meet. In 1952 the boys had won the meet, much to their surprise, and they were determined to repeat the victory, if it was humanly possible. When the dust had settled on the track that afternoon, Danville had accum- ulated 42 points, her nearest competitors were Riverdale and Alhambra tied at a 20 point score. We carried home two silver loving cups as a re- sult of the day's victory, one for the Relay, won by Dondero, Frick and Arven and Arlen Scott, and one for the meet. Besides these cups the boys came home with fourteen medals for placing in the various events. One of the most interesting feats of the A day was Eldred Ramos' jump of 12 feet for a new record in the pole vault, Danville new holds six records for the Davis meet. Mr. Frick, father of Bch and Walter, very kindly let our principal, Mr. Bisig, use his movie camera to take pictures of the meet, and the results were very interesting. Mr. Bisig caught practically all the interesting finishess of the day, including an aeroplane view of the sky and ground. lt seems the camera started to run suddenly, and he couldn't seem to find the button to turn it off. We leave these pictures to the school for future classes to sec, hoping that they will be spurred on by them. ,