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

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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

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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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dzifm Hello! Are you still there? We thought for a minute you had hung up. Do you have time to go back with us over our past year in athletics? Fine! We'll make it as short as possible. As we look back . . . can you ever forget the surprise upset our Giants made over Crispus Attucks in the sectional tournament . . . or the scoring power showed by the football team as they outscored their O Q O r I opponents 176 to H7 . . . do you remember the track and baseball teams and the aggressive way they went about their work . . . or are you thinking about the way the coaches and athletic director worked to develop these teams . . . does your heart still skip a beat when you remember the boys walk- ing onto the stage to receive the Sportsmanship awards? . . . come with us as we go back over the year.