Van Nuys High School - Crimson and Gray Yearbook (Van Nuys, CA)

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A A . -1- ' PAMERS UF THE BIG SAGE Nuys dropped The conTesT 36-24, buT bounced back The nexT weelc To nip Eagle Rock 47-44. ATTer Tripping The Verdugo Dons 43-4l, The Crimson and Gray rose To The heighTs by Trounc- ing NorTh Hollywood 47-25 in an exciTing game. ATTer This hard luclc dogged Van Nuys Tail, and They dropped a hearTbreal4er To The HunTers oT Canoga Park 27-26, and in The same weelc losT The use oT Their gym To The Army. ln spiTe oT This, however, The Wolves ToughT doggedly on, and deTeaTed Verdugo Hills, Can- oga Parlc, and Eagle Rock, while being beaTen by NorTh Hollywood in The second round oT play. This seT The sTage Tor The mosT sensaTional game oT The season, when The Wolves meT The San Fernando Tigers Tor The second Time. WiTh a Thrilling lasT minuTe rally, The Wolves showed whaT They were made oT and upseT The Tigers, giving Them a Tie Tor The Championship. They received added honors when Carlos Wyche was chosen TirsT sTring all-valley guard. BEE BASKETBALL The WolTleTs This year had The makings oT one oT The besT Teams To wear The Crimson and Gray, buT didn'T Tind Themselves unTil The sea- son was under way and nearly half over. Every one oT The Team had previous experi- ence The year beTore and seemed desTined Tor a greaT year. Holdovers were Johnny Boswell, Gary Erase, Wallace Hull, Charlie Nakamura, Diclc Cleary, Charlie Moore, and Hino. ln The TirsT round oT league play, The plighT oT The lighTweighTs was sorry indeed. They dropped The iniTial encounTer wiTh The San Eer- nando Tigers, won Their TirsT game OT The sea- son againsT The Verdugo Dons. aTTer dropping a conTesT To Eagle Rock. They Tinished The TirsT round bowing To Canoga Park. The second round play was sIigh+ly beTTer, in which They lcnoclced over San Fernando, Verdugo Hills, and NorTh Hollywood, while losing To Eagle Roclc and Canoga Parlc. BEE BASKETBALL Kneeling: Swee-Tman, Fraze, Cleary, McTosh, Mclnnis, HarTer, Sfandmg: Boswell, Hall, Moore, Anderson, Willis, Nakamura, Wilcox, Wallace. Page 29

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Wolf Caqers: Earl Reeser, Fo rwa rd Bob SchwarTzman, Ben Bolf, Forward Fo rwa rd Paul Cooper, CenTer Paul James, Guard Fred Wa rner, Guard Allen ATkins, Gua Page 28 rd Coach Quinn TIRE VARSITY BASKETBALL This year's ediTion oT Van Nuys' baslceTball Team was probably The hardesT TighTing squad in The hisTory oT The school. ln order To gain Three way Tie Tor The Valley League Champion- ship wiTh San Fernando and NorTh Hollywood, The Wolves had To baTTle every second oT play, and come Through under The mosT Trying cir- cumsTances. The Wolves' cagey menTor, Barney Quinn, Taced The Taslc oT building a sTrong quinTeT To recapTure The league crown wiTh buT Two re- Turning leTTermen, Long Paul Cooper, cenTer, and The speedy, clever Carlos Wyche, a promis- ing guard. Quinn Then promoTed Earl Reeser, aggressive li++le shoTmalcer, and Bob SchwarTzman, a smooThie on The Tloor, Trom The Bee Team oT The previous year, and puT Them aT Torward. To round ouT The Team he alTerna+ed Allen ATlcins, and Ben BoldT, boTh newcomers, aT The remaining guard posiTion. Thus organized, The Wolves opened Their league compeTiTion againsT The San Fernando Tigers, sTrong pre-season TavoriTes, Tor The championship. Mainly due To inexperience Van ,, sew .ws-an.

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V. .cpxl .. Top Row: Banning, Brash, Saunders, Young, Pierce, Wixon, WHT, McCombs. d Row: Briggs, Clark, Jennings, Long, Rurner, FooTe, ChrisTenson, s ll, Sigimori. Second Row: Mr. Anderson, Schrader, Clark, Safes, h, BasseTT, Varney, Clark. BoTTom Row: Sorlemme, Giroux, Bergr Loflus, Wixon. GYM TEAM Led by Eddie Curly Long and Tommy Jen- nings, This year's musclemen Trom The Wolves' hangouT, Tinished in TourTh place in The Valley sTandings. The Tellows as a whole were Trom The ninTh Through elevenTh grades. There were only a Tew seniors on The Team, consequenTly al- mosT The enTire squad is reTurning Tor TuTure compeTiTion. The Team was coached by a new- comer To The campus, Mr. Reg. Anderson. Coach Anderson has TiTTTed in perTecTly and is ex- pecTed To produce championship Teams in The nexT Tew years. STandouTs on The Team were Long on The sidehorse, longhorse, and Tumbling: Jennings on The sidehorse and long horse: Wixon, highbar and parallellsg and Brash on The rope. TENNIS TEAM The Racl4eTeers oT Van Nuys, wiTh Their new coach, Mr. Noble, had The mosT successTul sea- son in years. They lcnoclced over everyone in The Valley, excepT NorTh Hollywood, perennial champs. The Wolves beaT Canoga Park 7-O, Verdugo Hills 5-2, Eagle Roclc 5-2, San Fernando 4-3, and dropped Their only maTch To The Huslcies 6-l. Bob SchwarTzman, a TixTure Tor Tour years on The Team, was The guiding lighT, leading The Wolves To Their conguesTs. Helping him were Charles MorTenson, Clarence ATTix, Bill Edring- Ton, Bob Broclcop, and Bob SlaTer, and Don lvlclnness. s-.....f Coach Noble Top Row: MorTensen, Borkop, SlaTTer, Oland, Young, Myers, Mr. Noble. Middle Row: Mclnness, Siemens, Barih, McCulloch, Norris, Kuliian, Raehrs, SchwarTzman, EdringTon. Sirlingz Baker, Sfern, Byers, WIIRWS BEST JUGGLERS Page 30