Woodrow Wilson High School - Hoofprints Yearbook (Los Angeles, CA)

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A BASKETBALL SQUAD-KNEELING: Gallagher, Zenzola, Gutierrez, Diamond, Langimm, Garcia, Coach Naslund. STANDING: Van Horne, Kraus, R. Garcia, Hardy, Rivera, Chapman, Rashoff, Goldman CMgr.I. L I E The keynote in Wilson basketball for 1955 was new faces, both in players and in the coaching department. All but one member of the l954 varsity squad had graduated, and the coach had also departed. The new mentor, Mr. Gordon IBudI Naslund, steered his inexperienced crew to a four win-six loss record and a fourth place loop finish. Vic Diamond, the lone returned monogrammer, sparked the sophomore-iunior packed lineup by scoring a total of l35 points in I0 league games. He was named to the leogue's second team. Other regulars were Larry Kraus, who had the team's best free throw average C63 per centl Joe Rivera, Jim Garcia, and Bob Ashford. O P ,f VICTOR DIAMOND JIM GARCIA Center Guard .AMW 5 f BOB ASHFORD LAWRENCE KRAUS Forward Forward VARSITY BASKETBALL League Games WILSON A8 MARSHALL 43 WILSON AO FRANKLIN 45 WILSON 53 VERDUGO HILLS 60 WILSON 5l LINCOLN 67 WILSON 43 EAGLE ROCK 40 WILSON 3A MARSHALL 55 WILSON 37 FRANKLIN 28 WILSON A9 VERDUGO HILLS 52 WILSON 42 LINCOLN bl WILSON 56 EAGLE ROCK 43 B BASKETBALL League Games WILSON 34 MARSHALL 47 WILSON 39 FRANKLIN 54 WILSON 33 VERDUGO HILLS 62 WILSON 36 LINCOLN 35 WILSON A0 EAGLE ROCK 46 WILSON 34 MARSHALL 75 WILSON 30 FRANKLIN 53 WILSON 37 VERDUGO HILLS 35 WILSON 37 LINCOLN A7 WILSON 22 EAGLE ROCK 53 Diamond, ramping into a revengeful iump, slips the leather from a Nlor- shall man's hands.

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SPIKESTERS-FROM TOP Cleft to rightlz Darn that guy . . . but anyway Wilson wins! says Weisweaver as Seratto takes a first in the 100 yd. dash, instead of him A Putting for the stars is topnotch Verne Chapman, against Eagle Rock A Oh, my aching feet, cries Hill as he takes a sec- ond in the League meet 180 yd. dash A First place C spikesters Tony Lincoln and Ernie Jones A Down the home stretch and out in front against Eagle Rock...Jim Johnson A Two stories up, Rivera skimmed over the bamboo for a fourth in the League as . v ' VI 4 , . W' . 35 .R 5 swf ANTHONY LINCOLN ERNIE JONES finals. A TRACK Prodire Meet WILSON 36 NARBONNE 6011, BELL 32117 u e e s Le gu M et WILSON 29 MARSHALL 68 WILSON 38 FRANKLIN 66 WILSON 38 venouco 66 wiisoN 71111 LINCOLN 3411, WILSON 53 EAGLE ROCK 51 wr, 'N MARSHALL FRANKLIN VERDUGO 76117 LINCOLN 54 77 81 EAGLE ROCK 7111, Qin I Ala- ' B TRACK League Meets WILSON 18 WILSON 14 WILSON 18117 WILSON 35 WILSON 23111 ? DO at E , mv -:tfilfis . f :ff Bel 1. ijiiwgss, .1 nn 4 -r 21,1 :vii QNX Su 'inn- r-'-9 C TRACK League Meets WILSON 52 MARSHALL 25 WILSON 69111 FRANKLIN 711, WILSON 42 VERDUGO 35 WILSON 40 LINCOLN 37 WILSON 50111 EAGLE ROCK 25111 It seemed a little difficult to believe, but when the smoke of the 1955 Northern League C track campaign had cleared, there stood the Wilson team with the schooI's first undisputed spike crown in history. Th. team went undefeated in six meets and the Ieagut final, cracking a host of school records in the process Ernie Jones smashed the old shot put record when he tossed 48-V2 in the City prelims after hitting 47-IOV2 earlier in the season. Anthony Lincoln tied the low hurdles record with a 14.7 effort. Both Lincoln and .lones were league champs. Tom Serrato and Howard Wiseweaver ran second and third, respectively, in the circuit meet 100 and Ted Hill and Fidel Arredondo were second and third in the 180. Art Lopez nabbed a fifth in the high lump. C TRACK SQUAD-FIRST ROW: Coach Samarin, Huven, Lopez, Janes, Hull, Lopez, Hill, Coach Barthel. SECOND ROW: Cas- setty, Del Rio, McNicol, Iisman, Perez Garcia, Tanimoto lNIgr.J. THIRD ROW: Seratto, Lincoln, Arredondo, Sandahl. .sf F 1 ,w.i

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11, as Diamond makes another. RN 3 Q . CAGERS VS. MARSHAllfLEFT TO RIGHT: Smack into the silver rim goes a spinner from the versatile hands of Larry Kraus A Letting go of a push shot Garcia sets the pace for a victory A Watch it, buster, this one's headin' for home cries Diamond A What have you done! screams Marshall s man Q Q , ij , 1 . i A E JOE RIVERA IRVING RASHOFF Forward Guard Richard Montague, a slender guard who special- ized in a good shooting eye and a deadly lump shot, supplied most of the action for the B basket- ball team. The 5'-10 sharpshooter led the team in field goals 6341, free throws 4331, rebounds 1721, and scoring C101 pointsh. The team got off to a slow start, finished with a record of two wins and eight losses. The Mulebabes defeated Lincoln, 36-35, in a first round tilt and upset Verdugo Hills, 37-35. Wayne Martin, who scored 81 points, Joe Huven, who had 51, and Ed Rose, who had a free throw average of 75 per cent, were other sparklers. B BASKETBALL SQUAD-FIRST ROW: Coach Naslund, Huven, Springer, Kohn, Montague, Martin, Honig. SEC- OND ROW: Rose, Lewinstein, Zemel, Smith, Sherwood DeLussa, Long, Slotnick, Goldman lMgr.D. r PETE ZENZOLA BOB GALLAGHER Guard Guard