Polytechnic High School - Polytechnic Student Yearbook (Los Angeles, CA)

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:M off? I, -his Fritz Banks Douglas Bailey Oswald Gonzales Wayne Babineau Charles Anderson Frank Laird, Manager and Gonzalez again proved stars of the occasion. most bitter rivals, Manual Arts. Osborn, Gonzalez, were capably filled by Fritz Banks, center, and Charles Hickman, guard. V With lettermen Banks, Babineau, Hickman, and Townsend all returning, and the rapidly improving Cantin, Evans, and Clark to give them a fight for their positions, prospects are very bright for next year's team. With this nucleus for the team, supple- mented by new students and lightweight players, Poly's pelota squad should reach the top of the heap. if fir' . I .2-P::'.'2W1av-A- ' 7' -9 491- .4' l P 111.1 , .p. f,- CF 4 Y 6 A up 5 ,,,,1,Z p.,f, V! Vpfypp Vpg, p up ,,, Lil, ,.,,. , 9 Robert Pompa Charles Townsend Charles Hickman Elmer Osborn Varsity Basketball Lettermen November 17 December 6 ' December 9 December 13 December 16 December 22 Ianuary 6 Ianuary 13 Ianuary 17 Ianuary 20' January 27 -A- -k Polytechnic 26 Polytechnic 17 Polytechnic 21 Polytechnic 26 Polytechnic 43 Polytechnic 41 Polytechnic 26 Polytechnic 33 Polytechnic 19 Polytechnic 35 Polytechnic 39 Los Angeles Fremont Manual Arts Huntington Park Iefferson Washington Fremont Manual Arts Huntington Park Iefferson Washington 'Played on the Polytechnic court

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Row 1: ttLettermenJ 1'iRobert Pompa, flilmer Osborn, fFritz Banks, Babineau, Bruce Clark, Bill Carpenter, tflfrank Laird, manager. Coach Mahoney, Charles Hickman, :tDouglas Bailey, Oswald Row 3: Norman Oberman, Milton Glickman, Bill Kamp, 'fCharles Gonzalez. Anderson. Row Z: tChar1es Townsend, Richard Iohnson, Bill Evans, 'iWayne Varsity Basketball Winning only four games all season, the small and light Poly quintet passed a mediocre season as far as games Won were concerned. The season, however, had several bright spots, the most brilliant being a hard-fought victory over Poly's old and most bitter rivals, Manual Arts. Osborn, Gonzales, and Anderson proved up to the task and played a bang-up offensive and defensive game. This 21-19 win was the first in a major sport made by a Poly squad over an Artisan team in six years. Another shining spot was a 26-l7 trouncing administered to L. A. High in the first game of the season. Elmer Osborn and Ozzie Gonzales again proved stars of the occasion. This year a round-robin schedule was followed, each team meeting every other team with one game on the home court. Poly was successful during the start of the series, Winning the season's total of four games in the first half. The second half was dis- astrous, however, as Poly couldn't win a single game, finishing in fourth place. A big blow to the team this year was the loss of Le Grande Farley, who was the star of early practice games and was expected to add much to the team, but he was declared ineligible at the start of the season. With Charles Anderson, guard, the only returning Poly at Manual AITS letterman, the brunt of the Parrot attack was borne by the two forwards, Elmer Osborn and Ozzie Gon- zales, up from the lightweights. The other positions 1.50

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x w ,- It -f f -'R-I .4 . 1' in, 3 -f' Ligiglvvefighf Basketball V fr' -11 -use j ,fu 1 .,,4,,ff QULW QULY Row 1: l 'LettermenJ tliludy Isais, tMon Sing Fong, 'fFrank Buckley, 'Hector Villalobos, tLarry Hernandez, 'fDavid Unoura. Row 2: Coach Betts, tFHenry Marquez, Iim Mausser, Iim Bruce, Ioe Walton. Poly at Fremont t bs E 1 ' 4 pg., 152 ' GLY, V A fg9gL1fQ Row 3: Felix Saenz, Marvin Stephens, Robert Kojima, Milton Gold, George Gee. Row 4: 4'Charles Goldstein, manager, Thomas Greco, tBud Daugherty, manager. Scoring a grand total of 281 points, Poly's strong, Well balanced lightweight quintet lost only two games all season, both to the powerful champion Iefferson squad and ended in a three-way tie for first with the Huntington Park and Iefferson teams. Putting the ball through the hoop consistently for high scoring honors were co-captains Frank Buckley and capable veteran Hector Villalobos, who ran up a total of 40 points in two games against Huntington Park. Also a steady point winner as well as a good defensive man was center David Unoura. Lawrence Hernandez and Henry Marquez capably filled the guard positions. The season schedule was as follows: December 6 Polytechnic 24 Fremont 17 December 9 Polytechnic 17 Manual Arts 9 December lil Polytechnic 44 Huntington Park 41 December 16 Polytechnic 22 Iefferson 33 December 22 ,Polytechnic 33 Washington 28 Ianuary 6 Polytechnic 28 Fremont 10 Ianuary 13 Polytechnic 26 Manual Arts 25 Ianuary 17 Polytechnic 35 Huntington Park 26 Ianuary 20' Polytechnic 25 Iefferson 27 Ianuary 22 Polytechnic 27 Washington 24 'Played on the Polytechnic court