Sutter Union High School - Gold and White Yearbook (Sutter, CA)

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4ll1 A TEAM TOP ROW, left to right: Ivlr. Behnke, coach, S. Putman, K. Sparks, G. Bordsen, H. Rohleder, NI. NlcGahan, Nlanager. KNEELING: T. Krull, C. Perry, C. Engstrom. A F ASKETI-if LL When baslceTball season came around, a good crowd oT players Turned ouT Tor The A Team, OT which mosT members had experience in B, C, and D games in years beTore. ATTer quiTe a Tew pracTice games had been played wiTh The surrounding schools, alumni and The,Yuba Junior College, The league season sTarTed. SuTTer goT oTT To a good sTarT by winning The TirsT game wiTh Live Oalc 29-l5. BuT in The nexT Two games disasTer hiT our varsiTy, when we losT To Biggs and E. Nicolaus. The nexT game oT The season was an easy vicTory over WheaTland, 52-14. WiTh The beginning oT The second halT, SuTTer goT oTT To anoTher good sTarT by again winning Trom Live Oak, 36-23. The deTeaT by Biggs aT The beginning oT The Season was avenged by a vicTory laTer oT 29-26. Again E. Nicolaus was Too good Tor us and puT our pennanT hopes on The shelT Tor anoTher year. ln The lasT game of The year SuTTer proved iTs meriT by deTeaTing WheaTland, 45 To 15. Even Though SuTTer did noT win a pennanT, They had a good season. Playing sixTeen games lincluding pracTice gamesl, They losT only six. Members oT The Team winning leTTers were STanley PuTman, Clyde Perry, Clarence EngsTrom, KenneTh Sparks, Gordon Bordsen, and Tom Krull.

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FF V 'IBA LL HUSKY CHAMPS Wilh a new coach al Suller I-Iigh, Ihe Suller six-man Ioo+baII squad slrarled oul on Oclrober 4, I944, for a very sucessful season. Wilh school slrarling Iale, Ihe Ioolball players had Io ge'r ready for a game in 'rwo weelcs. Under Ihe supervision of Coach Wagner and his assisl- ani, Mr. Behnlce, many diliferenl plays were given which Suffer used slcillfully for six wins and one deleal. The only deleal being when Live Oak be-al us by a score of I8 Io I4. This game, however, was avenged when we played Live Oalc again Ialer in Ihe season and beal Ihem by a score of ZI Io 8, which pul us in a Irie wi'rh Live Oalc. An agreemeni was made belween Ihe coaches of Suller and Live Oak, Suffer was elecled Io play Durham in a seclional playoff. The playoff game was played a+ Durham on a wel, muddy field. Even Ihough 'rhe Iield was muddy and Ihe praclices had been few, Suffer I-Iuslcies won Ihe game by a score of 25 To O, Ihis going down in Suffer I-Iigh's Ioolball hislrory as one ol Jrhe besl Ioolball seasons Ihis school has had. II was 'rhe Iirsl championship lor Suller I-Iigh in four years. The members of The Team winning Ielrlers were: C. Perry, L. Chesini, C. Engslrom, G. Tull, G. Bordsen, S. Pulman, G. Phillips, I-I. Murphy, M. DeGrood'r, B. Creasy, L. Beaman, B. Feilhs, R. Nellro. LEAGUE GAMES BIGGS ............. ....,... 6 SUTTER ......,... ...... 2 6 LIVE OAK ,,..,...,...,...,, I8 SUTTER .......... ...... I 4 WI-IEATLAND ,......... O SUTTER .......... ....... 6 O WI-IEATLAND ....,...,. I4 SUTTER .......... ...... 4 7 BIGGS .,.......,...,.. ,,.. O SUTTER ........,. ...... 2 LIVE OAK ,.......,....... 8 SUTTER .......... ...... 2 I SECTIONAL PLAYOFF SUTTER ......,. .,......... 2 5 DURHAM .......... ...... O

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ll I' f'Pl l' f sifsnr. BALL XX llf f'PF'f n-'b r ' rxJlf... Fir B TEAM BACK ROW, left to right: Mr Wagner, coach, B. Feiths, R Tarke, F. Stearnes, B. Frye G. Phillips, Junior McGahan Manager. FRONT ROW: G Rohleder, B. Creasy, A, Win- ship, E. Wood. C TEAM BACK ROW, left to right: lVlr. Decater, coach, A. Winship, R. Young, B. Frye. FRONT ROW: M. Lathrop, G. Rohleder, E. Wood, H. Byer.