Ventura College - La Revista Yearbook (Ventura, CA)

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lllllllllll Dan Willis, star Prep left end on the county championship team, received a first string berth on the All-Southern California football team. Sports writers rated Dan as the best Prep end ever to represent the Ventura district, Willis started his high school football career last year when he was placed on the All-County first string team. i-le climaxed his high school career by being placed on the All-Southern California first prep team, Dan Willis and Ed l-lickerson are the only ones to make the first team in the history of the school. llll llllllll lllll Five members of Ventura's championship Pirate Prep football team received the highest local honors awarded to outstanding players of the i937 season by being named on the All-Ventura County mythical squad. This team is picked annually by the players themselves. Coaches or sports writers do not participate in the selection, This is done with the belief that the players know who their best foes have been Dan Willis, end, Charles Fergerson, guard, Bill Donnelly, quarterback, Jimmie Deering, halfback, and George Peters, fullback, were placed on the first string. Lon Locey, center, and Bob Brown, guard, were picked for the second team. Don Maclsaac, end, George Watt, Tom Eskirdge, tackles, and Dick l-latcher, halfback, received honorable mention. CC ivll ti riii cd f i'rw11 1 Page 5-lj lier league game played on the Junior l-ligh gridiron, This enabled the Preps to tie Fill- more for first place in league standing. A smashing 32-O victory over Oxnard l-ligh School gave the Preps the i937 county football championship. An old jinx that Oxnard seemed to have over Ventura was elimi- nated by the two decisive trouncings administered to the Yellowjackets. Aided by efficient blocking by his team mates, Bill Donnelly made the most sensational run of the season when he circled his own right end, reversed his field, cut back down the sidelines, and then neatly evaded the remaining Oxnard man to score. This run, which thrilled a crowded stadium, was good for 55 yards. 'ID-KN XX Top Kam-Coach Shannon, Peters. Hager. Graf!!! Juffcrmt. Myers, Ililulnan, llirk NYillis, xvflll. llonclly, llnn W'illis, Lnvmt, ' ' ' k 'I I' 'ak' V N 1 ' Fr I lx' rr-S' - '- - ' ' 1 . ml 01 1110, Dckiuix, Callahan, lfnum, Newman, Hrown, I-crgurstin, Deering, Ha Suomi ll0i'l l'lHVlCl', Alu: l',s'rif gc, us. '1, an us rand, Izlwoorl, Mnclsaac-. l'ptf-,n qmwwt Tom rskrmu lmq Innu tl Hlayl L I lk

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I Nl iv 5 Alb. iiiti The Women's Ptthietic Association, composed of women interested in sports, uses a point system which enabies deserving women to earn a pin, a sweaten and a ietter Piay days anciinterciass con- tests are part ot the ciub's Work. Sociai hte is stressed as much as actuai physicai competition. Eariy in the year the WHA accepted a chaiienge from the Future Farmers to piay voiiey bait. Pttter a strenuous battie the women were vanquished by one point. Fuitiiiing their obiigation as iosers, they tavored the men with a pot iucic banquet. With a very successtui year behind them, the group assembied at Pierpoint inn tor their iast sociai activity, a deiicious dinner served Hawaiian styie, -57...