Assumption High School - Assumption Yearbook (Davenport, IA)

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Sportlite by Scrap O’Donnell Returning from a vacation trip this summer, Father John Ryan was pass- ing through Cordova, Illinois, the site of the World Series of Drag Racing each year. Father Ryan, who had just purchased a new Jaguar sedan, was be- wildered when a man frantically flagged him down. It seems that this man wanted Father Ryan to enter the Jaguar in drag rac- ing competition against other foreign stock. Father Ryan apologized sym- pathetically and said that he had busi- ness back in Davenport. Back in late August, the Varsity foot- ball team was hard at drills over at the St. Ambrose track. Many curious spectators stopped by to have a look at procedures. One day when Leo Kil- foy, director of athletics at St. Am- brose College, was helping out with the linemen, a bystander was over- heard talking to one of last year’s graduates. “The college team sure looks small this year doesn’t it?” Looking at quar- terback John Fennelly toss the ball he stated, “Webb (a former little All- American for St. Ambrose) doesn’t look sharp either.” The listener, taking this as a joke, filled in the inquisitor about the pro- ceedings. The man, who was from out of town, said that he didn’t know the college had dropped football and con- fessed that the team going through drills looked pretty fair for high school kids. Students who think they are getting gypped on activity books this year are certainly talking through their hats. The price of activity books at Assump- tion is $5.00, which includes many ac- tivities. The cost of admittance to our four home football games and nine home basketball games alone would be $6.50 by individual ticket. Included in the ticket books are tickets to all wrestling and baseball home games, as well as many other student activities throughout the year. At Davenport’s West and Central, the cost for such books is $4.00, which cover only ath- letics. Some of the nicknames Assumption's football team has. but which the pub- lic never hears about, have interest- ing stories behind them. We recall the “four yarders” — a name thought up by Head Coach Ambrose — mean- ing that if we can grind out four yards every play we’ll never have to worry; also, the “scholar tackles”; the first four tackles on Assumption’s line, Dave Cavanaugh, Tom Kisten- macher, both seniors, and Don Miller and Stan Maliziewski, juniors, are all honor students. Bet they don’t have it like that at Harvard or Vale. DOTTIE Mickelwright '61, shuffles a puck while trying out the latest addi- tion to the AHS gym classes. Star Joins Staff Twenty-four years old, Little All- American, All Central States Confer- ence three years in a row, high scor- er in the St. Ambrose vs. Western Illi- nois game last year, the most recent ad- dition to the coaching and teaching staff of Assumption High School — that’s Mr. William McAfoos. Hired to fill the vacancy left by the elevation of Coach Ray Ambrose to the head football post, Mr. McAfoos was “signed right off the campus” of Western Illinois University ait Ma- comb. A stellar basketball player at West- ern Illinois, the new coach majored in speech. He admittedly enjoys coaching very much and thinks the football players are “real fine and possess great possibilities.” Tom Eaton, senior defensive back, sums up the team’s feeling toward Mr. McAfoos. “He’s a hard-working, un- derstanding backfield coach.” Sophomore Bill Donahoo claims the new coach as a brother-in-law. Miss Pat Donahoo and Mr. McAfoos were married shortly after school started. Youths Field Team; Sport Good Record by Gary LaFayette Six balls, six bats and $25.00. With this meager supply Davenport’s Con- nie Mack team survived a 40 game schedule in their first season of play. The balls donated by Davenport high school, the bats from the St. Louis Cardinals, and $25.00 for playing at the Anamosa State Reformatory sup- ported the team. All other expenses were borne by the players. Most of the credit belongs to Dick Wolfe ’60, who, with the help of Don Haley of Davenport High, organized the team, lined up umpires, procured bases, aligned the schedule and was one of the top stars of the team. The Connie Mackers started out as a Legion team from Assumption. They discovered, however, that the Legion wouldn’t sponsor them. With a sched- ule all lined up, they teamed up with some other area youths and played high school, and nearby semi-pro teams. Playing this past season were: Tony McAndrews, Tom Eaton, Denny Cal- kins, Karl Noonan, Paul Castro, Mick Prochaska, Jack Wiland and Wolfe from Assumption. Representing Davenport High were: Frank Stark, leading hitter and home run slugger, Danny Bellman, Denny Nickle, Gary Herr, Pat Brady, Gene Lucht, Dave Barker, Terry Stieger and Haley. Jerry Hopkins and Larry Dobereiner of East Moline joined the team later in the season, along with Charlie Bar- retto of Bettendorf. The team finished with a 23-17 sea- son record. This, however, does not show the true picture because toward the end of the season they were play- ing tough seasoned area semi-pro teams. At one time during the season they were 12-1. According to Wolfe, the highlights of the year were the defeat of last year’s state semi pro champs, Mus- catine. 4-3 and knocking off this year’s winners, the Rock Island Na- tionals, 8-5. These important victories, coupled with a third place finish in this year’s tourney, show that the team was more than “a bunch of high school kids.” Paul Castro was the No. 1 hurler with a 10-4 record. He and Wolfe were recently given a tryout with the St. Louis Cardinals and were both offer- ed a chance to sign a contract. They declined, however, in favor of further schooling, Paul at Palomar Junior College in California and Dick at Iowa State. The team will operate again next year on much the same basis, playing high school teams in Eastern Iowa and Western Illinois along with area semi-pro teams. 13

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