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

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O C BASKETBALL SQUAD FRONT ROW Langdale Boyce Servant: Smuth Lopez BACK ROW Mark owntzCNlgrI Cohen Coach Chortkoff Stern Caplan Probably the most excmng Wllson basketball team In I955 the C s landed In a second place Northern League tue under Coach Burt Chortkoff former Wllson hoop standout who returned to has alma mater to coach the C and D teams Wnnmng seven of thelr ten games they were tltle contenders rught down to the ware Jerry Monello and Art Servant: were the team s sparkplugs consustently huttlng In double fngures Each had one game hlghs of 22 pomts Monello wound up wuth 97 pomts and Servant: with 93 D BASKETBALL SQUAD FRONT ROW Coach Chortkoff Garcna Nutzberg Garafolo Maderua Brownstem BACK ROW Markowntz INlgrI Sharp Garber Goodman Carpenter Muller Cassetty .2 QM' League Games WILSON WILSON WILSON WILSON WILSON WILSON WILSON WILSON WILSON WILSON D BASKETBALL L ugu Games WILSON WILSON WILSON WILSON NILSON WILSON WILSON WILSON WILSON WILSON MARSHALL FRANKLIN VERDUGO HILLS LINCOLN EAGLE ROCK MARSHALL FRANKLIN VERDUGO HILLS LINCOLN EAGLE ROCK MARSHA FRANKLIN VERDUGO HILLS LINCOLN EAGLE ROCK MARSHALL FRANKLIN VERDUGO HILLS LINCOLN EAGLE ROCK Wllson s D hoopsters showed promlse and spunk endmg thenr league campaign wuth four wuns and sux losses The squad coached by Mr Burt Chortkoff won nts flrst Northern loop games but then lost to the front runners One of the keys to the team s record was the fact that the scoring was dlvlded equally Erme Ma delra had a slum margin over Manny Nntzberg Gary Garofolo and Ron Garcua C LL 28 30 28 22 14.4 29 30 as 15 27 G 8 22 LL I9 29 10 X 28 20 16 I7 to 6 1 - 1 1 1 .1 ' 1 1 2 - . . . . , . I - 1 ' I , . . . . . . I ' - l - l : 1 ' 1 ' 1 . 1 ' 1 . I - 1 1 1 1 1 I ' . , . 1 ' I - 1 1 I I 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

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ff l '5oy4 4640725 Building the type of athletes needed to form the winning school teams Wilson is striving for, and giving younger boys an opportunity to develop in coordination and sportsmanship, is the purpose for the iunior high boys' athletic program. Junior teams competed after school iust like Wilson's senior teams do, only the games were intramural between iunior homerooms rather than inter-school. Football, basketball, base- ball, and volleyball tournaments were held. At the iunior track and field finals, several school records were broken. The pro- gram was directed by Mr. De Saix the first semester and Mr. Wiker the second. ,Jr is WWW fd' V