West Philadelphia High School - Record Yearbook (Philadelphia, PA)

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lq r Manager, STANLEY MORRIS Coach, WESLEY HACKMAN FOOTBALL FTER a lapse of three years, the Orange and Blue' Gridders came back into the limelight as champions of the Public High League. The most notable achievement of the season was the fact that the gridmen finished the Public High season undefeated and kept their goal-line uncrossedg a worthy achieve- ment indeed! They garnered nine consecutive league tilts in smashing their way to a championship, beating such aggregations as Central, three times champion, Over- brook, Gratz, Southern, Northeast, and Frankford. Two defeats blemished an almost perfect season. Both defeats came from the hands of non-league rivals viz.: W'est Catholic and Allentown. The Allen- town game was the opening fray and was lost by a 6-0 score on a last-minute for- ward pass. In a bitterly-contested game at the Phillies' Ball Park, and with the largest school-boy crowd that ever watched a game in Pennsylvania, 20,000 looking on, the Speedboys were downed, 9-0. The Burrs were a little too strong for the Orange and Blue. McFadden, Blue and White back, kicked a 33-yard field goal which was followed by the only touchdown of the game in the third period. Western did put on a spirited rally in the third and last quarters which netted about 65 yards, but they were stopped on the Burrs' 18-yard line. The game ended with forwards being flipped all over the held by Harrison and Peltz, but to no avail. From the championship squad, four men were placed on the All-Public High team viz.: Harrison, Peltz, L. Leonard, and Clark. Harry Harrison, stellar quarter- back, was named as a halfback on the all-scholastic team. Ray Peltz, Les Leonard, and Bill Leonard received honorable mention for the same team. Incidentally, Harrison is next year's captain. The following players were recipients of the varsity award and gold football as a token of the championship: Harrison, Donaldson, Rosenberger, Nannos, Peltz, Pitman, Bensinger, Clarke, Captain Schreep, Mackay, Howard, Lennon, L. Leonard, W. Leonard and Elberson. THE RECORD OF THE CLASS OF JUNE, 1933 Page 23

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FIRST ROW-Genevieve Sayers, Janis Gilfillan, Robert McSherry, Mabel Russell, Jack Krernens, Harriet Spatig, Bernard Belasco, Edna Smith, Dorothy Kirschmann. SECOND ROW-Ruth Oliver, Adelene Belber, Mildred Lazawick, Anne Hedson, Frances Eglit, Freda Chessler, Theda Diamond, Freda Tannenbaum, Beatrice Greenwich. THIRD ROW-Mary Veasey, Irving Harris, Frank Rutman, Charles Davis, John Montgomery, Morton Packman, Martin Riskoff, Florence Meeter. FOURTH ROW-William Patterson, Harry McDougal, Alvin Newmeyer, William King, Harper Myers. WESTERN NEWS ESPITE the obstacles occasioned by the depression, the Western News Staff has continued this term to furnish the students with a paper of which they may well be proud. As in former times, the staff was selected from a trained jour- nalism class. Mr. Edelman is the sponsor of the paper, While Jack Kremens has shown himself to be a very progressive Editor-in-Chief. Associate Editors: N ews-MABEL RUSSELL Sports-BERNARD BELASCO Features-HARRIET SPATIG Business MGMdg6f-ROBERT MCSHERRY Advertising Manager-MARTIN RISKOFF Circulation M anager-HARRY MCDOUGAL Page 22 THE RECORD OF THE CLASS OF JUNE, 1933

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.41 J TRACK The Speedboy cindermen finished second to Central in the city meet, after one of the most brilliant seasons Western has had in years. But for the illness of Tom Fitzpatrick, 3-event man, whose absence meant the loss of at least 5 points, West Philly might have boasted of another championship squad. We were nosed out, 42 to 37. Horace Clark retained his t'440 title and added the 220 while Skeets Elberson copped the 100 for another individual championship. The trackmen also won the mile relay championship in record-breaking time at the Penn Relays and captured four consecutive triangular meets against Public High teams. Point winners were Clark, Elberson, Campbell, Williams, Rosen- berger, Fitzpatrick, Dunmore, Cleaver and Murray. Page 24 THE RECORD OF THE CLASS OF JUNE, 1933