Banning High School - San Gorgonian Yearbook (Banning, CA)

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oO? 99 cores Oo the eason The Bronchos started the football season off right by defeating the San Jacinto Tigers, 6-0, on their field. The next game found Banning playing the Palm Springs Indians at Palm Springs. The game was hard fought, but we came out on top with another score of 6-0. The Bronchos next defeated the Redlands Reserves © ‘ 13-0, on our home field. We met cur traditional rival, Beaumont, on their field. - The game was nip and tuck and when the final gun sounded the score stood at 6-6. “ @i Our next victory was over the San Bernardino Reserves by a score of 26-7. Then | we lost to a strong Hemet team, 26-6. Perris defeated us 19-0. The last game of the season was held on our own field, and a strong Coachella eleven trounced Banning 26-0; but the game was much closer than the score indicates. for the Bronchos actually made more first downs than the Arabs. (Top)—Jones catching a pass in the Palm Springs game (Top)—Buchanan dodging two “would-be” tacklers in the Beaumont game (Bottom)—Obst carrying the ball around end against Redlands (Bottom)—Buchanan catching a pass against Coachella

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First Row: Ronald Obst, Cecil Drake, Jack Hamilton, Frank Burk, Bill Jones, Freddy Nelson, Bill Erickson Second Row: Johnny Moore, Roy Buchanan, James Love, Jim Herra, Daril Wall, Bob Menefee, Mickey Barbour, Robert Jenks, Billy Morris A Basketball The Varsity Cagers ended up in second place in the Riverside County League with a record of 5 wins against 3 defeats. One of these defeats came at the hands of Elsinore, for the Elsinore Tigers defeated the Bronchos in the closest game of the year, 31-30. Out of ten members of the varsity team, only four are graduating, which indicates that next year’s varsity quintet should be better than this year’s. With many of this season’s “B’s” coming up to join the varsity, the team should be strong. 0S” basketball (Above) The “B” Cagers of Banning Union High School had a very successful season ending up with a .500 record. Many of their games were nip and tuck, the winner not being known until the final whistle. Most of the players of the “B” squad were underclassmen; there was only one senior on the starting line-up. With the experience gained this season, next year’s team should be even better.