Ben Davis High School - Keyhole Yearbook (Indianapolis, IN)

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Lett to right, front row: Bill Hol- lingsworth, Clifford Chapman, James Wells, Bob Hamm, Don Wilson, James Miles, Jack Parks, Bob Britt, Richard Warrum, Harold Watkins, and Donald Doncan. Back row: John Masariu-coach, Richard Pettit, Drextle Newsom, Rob- ert Gary, Edwin Truax, Harold Sommers, Donald Wesner, Elmer Phillips, and James Toombs. Many of the boys from the reserve and freshman foot- ball teams will be wearing the uniforms worn by grad- uated seniors who vacated their positions . . . Coaches John Masariu and Jerry De- Witt worked with these boys to groom them to make ca- pable replacements. Left to right, front row: Larry Moon, Forest Claire, Lawrence Rit- ter, Bob Wand, Bill Townsend, Nor- man Baum, Joe Berry, Larry Long, Jack McMahon, and Don Wilbur. Back row: Clifford Chapman, Ed- ward Pflum, Don Dobbs, Bob Wil- bur, Harold Froman, Don Thomp- son, Bob King, Rodney Dreyer, George Lang, Ronald Morris, and Don Scott - student manager.

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In the past four years Ben Davis baseball teams, under Coach Howard Wood, won 34 of 43 games... their wins included two county titles . . .two seconds. '49 SCHEDUl.E Ben Davis Opponents 20 Avon ..... 3 9 Clayton ,,,. ..... 2 2 'Southport ..... ..... 3 ll 'Franklin Twp. .u.. ..... 8 8 'Beech Grove ..,. ..... 2 I9 Boys' School ..., .u,,r 5 Left to right, front row: Bill Day-p, Bill Arnold - inf, Don Hager - inf, ' bacher-inf-of, Jim Backer-inf, Jerry O'Brien - inf. Middle row: Wilbur McCormack- int, Irvin Nahre-of, Paul Sterrett-p, Bill Wise-p, Ralph Allison-c, Mar- vin Kinkead-inf, Kenneth Peek-of, Ray Hutchison - of- p. Top row: Joe Lawler-student mgr., Roy Sprecklemeyer - inf, Rob- ert Gardner - of, Freeman Acra - p, Monte Shambaugh - inf, Richard Roberson-of, Jack Hutchison-p, Glen Burkhardt - of, Robert Swick- inf, Bill Ping - c, Howard Wood- coach. The Giants ended the '49 campaign with a nine won and two lost record . . . losing the county championship to Southport by a slim 2 to 3 margin . . . lost only four boys via graduation. '49 SCHEDULE Ben Davis Opponents 7 Washington .....,..., ....... 0 5 'iDecatur Central ...,.. ..... l l0 'Warren Central ...... ..... 'l 8 Lawrence Central ..... .... 3 4 Cathedral .e.,,.,.,.,. .,.. 7 County Conference These six men formed the backbone of our athletics.. .they worked to- gether to build winning teams. . .they put in long and tedious hours of hard work to round a group of boys into shape . . . Athletic Director Gordon Harker has . . . Left to right: Coaches-Lou Parnell-varsity football and track, Jerry DeWitt-varsity basket- ball ond reserve football, John Masariu-frosh basketball, football and baseball, Robert Clayd-reserve basketball and baseball, How- ard Wood-varsity baseball, and Gordon Har- ker-athletic director. The difficult task of scheduling the opposition for Ben Davis teams . . . he hires the officials . . . he presents the athletic awards . . . next to the coaches he suffers most when a Ben Davis team is behind. Norman Young-c, Leon Reden-

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I. v Dale Morgan-B Norman wells' FB Kenneth Allen-E Jerry 0 Brien T Charles 'Feney-E 'Q 44 it Ping IB Jim .f?.m,1.mi-G John Manfred--T The Ben Davis football team had a very good '49 season-won four and lost four. Mr. Lou Parnell, in his first year as football coach at Ben Davis, molded the boys into a hard hitting and very strong defen- sive team. The Giants held the strong squads of Southport '49 SCHEDULE Ben Davis Opponents 7 Decatur Central .,,,, ,,.,, 'l 3 7 Southport .....,..,...,, ,,,,. l 9 13 Warren Central ,, so 19 32 Pike Township ,,.,,, H 6 Princes Hoagox:-! Jim Moore-G Dave Max-ksbury-'1' Clayton Carmichael-FB Dave ffenderaon-C Kenneth Peek-QB and Warren Central to 19 points each. Howe was the only team to score more than three touchdowns against the giants. Seniors Clayton Carmichael and Pat Pinkston won positions on the all-county teams . . . Pinkston played tackle . . . Carmichael held down the half-back position. '49 SCHEDULE Ben Davis Opponents 20 Speedway , 15 27 Howe .....,,,,,,, 33 20 Beech Grove ,.s,s , 6 39 ':'f1nklin,lnd. ,.,, ,, 6