West High School - Westerner Yearbook (Denver, CO)

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Z I ke G 4 l 9. J W I MORRIS CHAPMAN Woooi' RINNE HARRISON Coaching Staff NEWTON C. MORRIS, our head football, basketball and baseball coach for the last nineteen years. has been instrumental in placing the athletic activities of West High on a par with those of other schools in the city and its vicinity. He has untiringly trained his players, putting into them his own fighting spirit and love of fair play, and impressing upon them the fact that good sportsmanship is the greatest triumph. ELBERT F. CHAPMAN is head track coach and helps Mr. Morris with the football team. He has been at West for over six years. While in college he competed in football, basketball and track. He played tackle on the football team and ran in the Sprints. hurdles and relays in track. WILFORD H. WOODY played football, basketball and tennis in college. He is in charge of all sophomore athletics. Little is heard of Mr. Woody and his sophomore teams, but it is he who trains them until, by the time they are juniors, eligible to compete on the varsity, they are already well versed in the basic principles of the game. FRED L. RINNE was appointed wrestling and baseball coach at West this year. He played semi-pro baseball and managed several city teams, He has also coached at Manual and East High Schools. He studied coaching under Harry Hughes and Jeff Cravaeth. This is DON L. HARRISON's first year on the West Faculty. He also assists Mr. Woody in coaching the sophomores. Mr. Harrison played three years of high school football at Colo- rado Springs High School and four years of college football at Colorado College. He has studied coaching under William T. Van De Graff and Percy Locey. l08

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FOOTBALL SEASON The 1934 Orange and Black Football Team was one of the most success- ful in the history of Vfest High, the season ending with the West Cowboys sharing the Championship with the South Rebels , Living up to pre-season expectations, West opened their season by defeat- ing North 34-18. In their second game the Cowboys beat their ancient rivals from East 12-0. West won their third game, defeating South 7-6. It was one of the most thrilling games of the season. West conquered Manual in another hair-raising game. The accurate place-kicking of Will Rogers, All- State guard, gave West its sezond one-point victory. At the beginning of the second round, the Cowboys defeated North 12-6. An overconfident West eleven aided a weak but lighting Angel eleven, to hold West to a scoreless tie 0-0. West and South battled to a scoreless tie in the second meeting of the league leaders. The game was featured by the superb kicking of Jack Waltman, Cowboy halfback. In the final game, Manual handed West its first defeat of the season 7-6. West pla:ed five men on the all-city team: Norman Compton, end: Harry Blackmore, guard: Bernard Boysen, center: Will Rogers, guard: Morris Worl, quarterback. Will Rogers made the all-city team for the second time: he also was named on the all-state team. FINAL CONFERENCE STANDINGS Team W. L. Tie Pct. T. P. O. P. West ,,.. ..,.,,. 5 l 2 .750 74 39 South ..... -.. ,. 5 l 2 .750 81 13 North -- 3 3 2 .500 73 71 Manual ...... 2 5 l .313 24 41 East ..,. -ti 6 1 .iss 6 94 X , , .7 fl ef. , bfi ,.i:lii 2- V UQ Cheerleaders ,f'I.f 'A J 1 Z' The cheering was handled this year by this well organized and snappy trio: Paul Pomponio, head cheerleader, and his able assistants, William Borke and William Yockey. This f' group did much to keep the West spirit alive in the student body. They added pep to every student rally. They w e r e especially prominent at all football games and under their leadership the Cowboy cheering section was one of the largest and most en- thusiastic groups to repre- sent a Denver school. BILL YOCKEY PAUL POMPONIO BILL BORKE 109 .Qt W E 2 V l ,O I