Alva High School - Goldbug Yearbook (Alva, OK)

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pus football Top Row Left to Right Coach Dean Simon Henderson Young McClure Short Appleman Woodson and Asst Coach Raymond Westfall Second Row V Weibner H Schmitt Lansdown Arb E Maxwell Vetter and Sample Third Row D Weibner Ferguson Wheat Williamson Boatman C Schmitt Percival Ross and Clme Fourth Row Crouse Vickers Kilmer McFadden ONe1l McAlester Haus child Fifth Row abara Pritchard Allen C Maxwell Prigmore and Kenney QQ Ct C0 as ! 3' il' ji! -- Q ..4 Basketball Back Row Left to Right: Dean Simon Coach' Hays Wheat' joe jabara Bill Short' Carl Schmitt' Earl Prigmore. V Frant Row Left to.Right: Bill Hale' Calvin Schwennesen' LeMoyne Wood- son' Buddy Bill McClure' Norman Vetter' Cl-larry Martin-Not Shownj l

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Football Thrs year Alva Hrgh School topped all of nts exnstxng records by producrng tor the nrst trme rn rts twenty five years a football team whose ettorts on the grldrron were nelther equaled nor bet tered To the layman watchmg the first days of practlce there was nothmg to suggest a champronshnp team One of the generally accepted necessrtxes welght was noticeably lackmg both from the lrne and the backfxeld It remarned for Coach Srmon and Assrstant Coach Westfall to srze up the srtuatron and make the most of lf What the team lacked rn brawn was re laced by gray matter there fore they used the system whrch relre upon brarn power and not werght the T formanon of Stanford fame It took but a few weeks for the squad to master the details of thls stepped up razzle dazzle as Okeene found out ln the thrrd game of the season the first ln whrch Alva used the T lt was rumored that the Goldbugs unusual success with this formatron even threatened to reduce thelr box office popularxty for several local fans were heard to remark that these was no use golng to the games when they were unable to see the ball or follow the plays The senror contrxbutxon to thxs eleven were Carl Schmxtt fullback Dale Allen guard Chester Maxwell center Pete Hauschreld tackle and Brll Short end Of that qum tet Bxll Short merrts specral drstmctron not only as captaxn of the team but because he was chosen by the Daily Oklahoman to be m the first eleven of the All State team The under classmen who composed the rest of the team were Norman Vetter quarterback Earl Prrgmore halfback Lemoyne Woodson halfback joe Prntch ard tackle joe abara end and Verlm Wlebener guard It rs with ard tackle oe jabara end and Verlm Wlebner guard It ns wxth no small amount of prrde that Alva Hrgh salutes her first unde feated untled football team l gnsleeilml l The Goldbug basketball squad hung up therr sunts thus year wrth a more than faxr season behxnd them Out of the twenty two game schedule they were vrctorrous frfteen trmes whnch made therr percentage srxty erght In tournament play the Goldbugs were runner up three dlfferent trmes rn the Northwestern Invntatlonal Tournament the Woods County Tournament and the Dxstrxct Tour nament An unusual feature of this team was that xnstead of five or sux players who composed the f1rst strmg there were ten whose ag gregate qualrficatlons were practrcally equal Fortunately only two of these graduated from the squad Brll Short center and Carl Smrtt guard Alva s total of pomts rn 22 games was 730 wxth an Schmrtt guard Alva s total of pomts rn 22 games was 730 wxth an average of over thrrty three pomts per game Y ! 7 5 , - , . - ' 4- H 1 ' , - - 1- U 9 x 9 r v 1 v 9 1 1 ' ' v n 1 v 1 1 y x ' , , J , , . - , ,J , , , - 1 x ' l 1 x . ', K y a . U 7 w 1 ' , . v a . , . . . , . , , , . . . s f '