Abraham Lincoln High School - Railsplitter Yearbook (Des Moines, IA)

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Abraham Lincoln High School • D e s Moines 0; the Cjridiron Oval Football JAen and Veil headers Reading from the L: Eugene Arrowsmith, Sidney Adams, Robert Allrcd, Arthur Anderson, Donald Davis, Rob- ert L. Carpenter, Sam Giannobule, Jack (iooding, Archie Highland, Robert Keefer, Richard Locke, Keinieth Miller, Ray Park, Robert Scharnweber, Donald Smith, Henry Sanders, Felix Tamasi, Carroll Wright, Algie Moriarity. Center, Captain Floyd Thompson. Football YelU IV hat ' s the matter tvith the team? They ' re all riyhl! Who ' s all rifiht? The team! Who? The team! Who? The team! Who? Who says so? Lincoln Hit h. T)iey are, they arc. They arc all right: Yea, lio! Football Yells H ill wc beat Roosn ' cU? Yea, Bo! Will wc? Yea. Bo! Will xve? Yea, Bo! What arc tw going to do? Beat Roosevelt! Heal Roose ' clt! Beat Rose ' -clt! Yea. Bo! Yea, Coach! Yea, McClain! Yea, yea, Coach McClain! 16

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The Senior R a i 1 s p 1 i t t c r • January 1934

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The Senior Rails p litter • January 1934 1 he spirit of the memlwrs of tlie 1933 football squad at Lin- coln High, expressed Coach I muel L. Wires, was with few exceptions, all that could he desired. The efforts of all individ- uals were directed toward the fAiccess of the team, with the result that the record was prob- ably the best of any previous 1-kmiiki. L. Wires Lincoln High teams. With this Assislmt spirit, athletics at Lincoln High Loach School seem to be very definitely on the upgrade, Wires com- mented. There is nothing that tastes so sweet as victory, and we had the pleasure of a few samples this year, states Lincoln ' s aler t Coach Arden I. McClain. A task inay be easy or difficult, he continues, but if every ounce of energy is expended with the proper motive in mind the task will be ca.sy. If we have several parts whicli are not cooperating with the whole the task will be difficult. There was more unity and cooperation shown this year in the football team than at any other time I recall since coming to Lincoln. Con,sequently the results were dif- ferent for there was a different thought in mind. If you want a thing enough you ' ll get it, concluded our able mentor, McClain. . ' kIIKN 1, .NUCl.AI.N Head Coach Gym is the education of the body, be- lieves Eunice Cripe, girls ' gym instructor, Recause a person is one-half mind and one-half body, one hour a week of gym is not enough for gym work, because all other school houra of the week are given over to the educa tion of the mind. Good health is es.sential -to enable one to be competeiu to obtain good grades in their studies, Miss Cripe further stated. The only way Miss Cripe has of giving the girls of Lincoln High more gym W ' ork is through the Girls .Athletic . ' ssociation. . ny Lincoln High School girl may belong to this club. Eunice M. Cripe Cirlx Physical f.ducalUm Instructor LoRIN H. Gr.aaff Su ' iiiiiiiiiiy Coach ■ Snioiimning l rospects C oach Loriii II. Graaff has been doing great work in developing a .swimming team in Lincohi High school since he came from Roosevelt High in Scjitemher, 1932. Tile Lincoln High swimming team last year had a good season considering that it did not have a team two years before. This year ' s team will snfTer a great loss by losing (;ienn Finiey, (Jiientin Hill, Terrell Salvers, Jack Woods and Jack Gooding. Gooding is out witli the team in spite of a broken collar-bone which he received during football season. There are a giKxlly number out this year but they are mostly from the 9th and 10th grades. However, this will constitute Lincoln ' s future swimming team. The boys are getting good workouts after school three nights a week and Coach GraafF believes the team will pull throtigh in good .shai)e. 17 Coach Lorin H. Graaff, Lincoln ' s swim- ming instructor, gives his views as to the outcome of future Lincoln High athletics staling that although the football team finished its most successful season in Maroon and (iold history, and the out- look of the basketball season is promis- ing, the temporary outlook of the swim- ming team is slim. Despite the loss of eleven men due to graduation and ineligibility, I will not give up hopes of a good team, explained Coach Graaff. Si) )rtmanshii) is devel- oped highly through Lincoln, which means the school is growing and growing fast. Lincoln ' s athletic victories are yet to come. With the husky ninth graders com- ing up, I expect to see Lincoln heading the city in sports, concluded the coach. OS? (folf Victories The golf aggregation under the supervision of Aaron C. Hutchens, vice principal, turned in a good piece of work la.st spring. For the first time in history, the Railspiitter golf team won .second i)lace in the Iowa State meet held at Woodside, May 20, for a total of 649. The golf team was comjiosed of (kiido Fontanini, Sargio Fon- tanini, Milton Moon and Corwin ' enn. These four akso won the city championship by downing Roosevelt 10 to 11 2. Guido Fontanini, a four-year veteran, will be the only one on the team at present that will be graduated in the January ' 34 class. Coach Hutchens looks ahead for a good year. He expects such stars as Allen Joss. Milton Moon, Corwin Venn, James Watson, and Richard Locke to turn in another good year for Lincoln High. Only one monogram will be awarded this winter, and that goes to Guido Fontanini.