Allegan High School - Echo Yearbook (Allegan, MI)

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99 -L BOYS' INTRAMURAL STANDINGS Won Lost Noresmen . . . . 6 3 Irish .... . . 6 3 Finns . . . 5 4 Scots . . . . 5 4 Yanks . . . . . 4 5 Canadians . . . 4 5 Swedes . . . . 4 5 Danes . . . . 2 7 LEFT: RON JENSEN going up for a basket. BELOW: BILL DOMBROW- SKI and opponent jumping. BOYS', GIRLS' INTRAMURAL PROGRAMS GOVERNING RULES MAKE IT POSSIBLE FOR ALL PLAYERS This year, as last, Mr. VanWagoner organized the noon hour basketball league for boys. The league gave every high school boy an opportunity to participate. The league was eornprized of eight teams the Yanks, Canadians, Scots, Irish, Danes, Finns, Swedes and Norsemen. At the season's end, Dick Milhie1n's Irish and Howard Nahikian's Norse- men were deadlocked in First place with 6-3 records.

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FRESHMAN BASEBALL TEAM: FRONT ROW: C. Pullen, B. Yoakam, M. Foster, N. Rininger, T. Gorby, D. Ringewold, J. Lampros, C. Granger. BACK ROW: Mr. Van Wa- goner, M. Haven, A. Gates, P. Knoblock, B. Irwin, J Billman, W. Brower, M. Belt,G Cook, D. Nahikian, T. Patton. INITIAL FRESHMAN SEASON SUCCESSFUL FRESHMAN TEAM PREPARES PLAYERS FOR VARSITY FRESHMAN BASEBALL SCORES In 1956, freshman baseball was initiated at Al- legan by Mr. VanWagoner. Considering that the team had to practice under very adverse conditions and had to play all of their games away, Mr. Van- Wagoner believes the season was not only successful but will help to provide even better players for Mr. Buist's varsity team. Allegan ............ 2 Otsego ...... . . 3 Allegan ............ 10 Bloomingdale . . . . 5 Allegan . . 7 Vicksburg . . . . . 5 Very few of the area schools have freshman teams and so the frosh team had only three games, winning two and dropping one. Pitching chores were shared by Mike Foster and Jim Lampros. Batting honors went to Chuck Pul- len, .444 and Chuck Granger, AT PRACTICE: Pete Knoblock, Chuck Pullen. Jim Lampros pitching Pete Knoblock, Chuck Granger

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The girls' intraimlral league, under M1's. Bl'OSIl'I'IS clirvetion, provided noon hour activity for all interested girls. Mrs. lirosier held training sessions for rvfc-revs, in an attempt to have Iac-ttvr ofhciating at these contests. As the result. rule infractions were much easier to detect. The balanced league provided many tlirill-packed battles, PROVIDE NOON HOUR RECREATION U K TO HAVE A CHANCE TO PARTICIPATE IN BASKETBALL GAMES GIRLS' INTRAMURAL STANDINGS Won Lost SChanz's team .......... 5 0 Hale's team .... . . 4 1 Hileski's team .. 3 2 Bergman's team . . . 3 2 Carlson's team .... . . . 2 3 Granger's team . .. 1 4 Brown's team . .. .. . 1 4 Meade's team .... . . 1 4 ABOVE: HELEN JUGEL and Sharon Cady struggle for possession of the ball. LEFT: LEAPING in front of Letty Lam- pros is Janis Jones. 123 E