Benedictine High School - Benedictine Yearbook (Cleveland, OH)

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NOVEMBER .lim Ochs Becomes Aero Club President The Aero Club recently elected the following office1's: Jim Ochs, presidentg Paul Gaydar, vice presi- dentg Joseph Kall, secretary, Steve Gittinger, treasurer, Bernard Ski- ba, sergeant-at-arms. Meetings are held on the first Tuesday of every month. Bob Papp First, Bengals Fifth At Ridgewood Fastest cross-country runner in Senate competition is Benedictine's Bob Jeep Papp, and he's got a gold medal to prove it. Running magnificently in a field of 150 competitors, the slim senior step- ped ZW miles of gruelling course in 10:19 to nose out Jim Bennett of West Tech for individual honors in the recent meet at Ridgewood. West Tech retained its Senate ha1'rier championship, however, as other members of Coach Ab Stro- snider's team failed to come up to Papp's sterling performance. The Bengals placed fifth, just one point out of fourth place. John Coyne, who with Papp ran the mile in less than five minutes, and who injured his leg earlier this year, came back after a layoff to take 28th place. Dic Aerni and Carl Velbeck were the other boys to figure in the Bengal scoring. Earlier in the week, Papp finish- ed sixth in a field of 200 greater Cleveland scholastic 1'unners to receive a bronze medal. Zeleznik came in 14th, but was out of the money. Seniors 'Trip The Light Fantastic' Everyone tried to get into the act for the BENNET staff photo- grapher at the recent senior social. ABOVE-John Hogan Chack to cameraj, Louis Podesta, Steve Luptak Cmaking like a debutantel, and Jim Rose. Face behind Luptak belongs to Joe Skotko. BELOW-Cam- eraman Ken Kuczma caught Ray Borovich, Elio Carlini, Wes Sliter. Gil Verderber, and Dick Roszinski looking like fugitives from a soft- drink advertisement. Framed in the door are Ray Markiewicz, Hal Rothermel and Wally VVilgus. The girls are from Marymount. at ...v- MNw.s is was 'WMM Elect F6'HlC2lS FOI' '48 '.49 JOE KOVA B Getting the jump on national elections the under- classmen staged their respective class elections in the middle of October. The juniors elected Joe Kocab, president: Frankie Evans, vice-president: .lim McNeely, secretaryg Bob Adams, treasurerg and Ronnie Foliano, sergeant-at-arms. Joe Franko was elected sophomore president. JOE FRANKO RON MILLER Other officers are Don Furry, vice-president: .lim Franck, secretaryg Kenny Peschek, treasurer: and Ron Vittelo, sergeant-at-arms. Under the moderatorship of Father Raphael, the freshies elected Ron Miller, presidentg Frank Kos- telac, vice-presidentg Jerry Kmett, secretary-treas- surer, and Mike Schaffer, sergeant-at-arms. Footlighters Elect Perney President At the first rehearsal of Pap: Behave, the Footlights Clu elected Norm Perney their p1'es dent, according to an announcl ment recently issued. Other officers are John Hrubi vice-president, Wally Wilgus, sen retaryg and Harry Brichacel treasurer. Roving Reporte: Finds Janitor. To Be Differen Does your present Englis teacher irritate the mouth? The switch to Father Francis, he doe not bit the tongue. So says Stey Langa, the new janitor, who being taught English by Fathr Francis. Steve is helping Brothn Al until he learns the Englis language well enough to continl his studies. He took four years 4 mining engineering at the Uuive sity of Slovakia in Bratislav the capitol of Slovakia. He has Ph. D. degree in Law from tl university. Steve is a loyal supporter of tl football team and with true spii says, I am glad that our tea wins. I wish Benedictine Benga many successes. Mike Unknown to most, Mike Sarisk the school sweeper, is the father a talented artist. According Mike, he paints anything al everything. Mike, modest as he f didn't want his name in the scho paper, but when asked of his so he brightened up and even smile His son has had many pictur exhibited at various art niuseur throughout the country. Unfort nately, Mike couldn't rememb how many. In answer to the question, Do he paint with water colors? Mi' replied, Any color. Brother Al Many of the new students BHS may wonder what Club 15 Brother Al organized Club 15 keep the school clean and ne: The group daily sweeps the schc and cleans the rooms after t last class. Soon you will see the membe wearing badges on their chef with emblems denoting that th are proud members of Club 15. Bob Crosby recently sent l photograph to Brother Al. In 1 turn, Brother Al had Club 1 picture taken and sent to Bob.

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NOVEMBER Pictured above is the charging :ngal first. string that hopes to me the Latin Lions tonight. In e backfield, l. to r., are Ed Be- l, Jim McNeely, Gil Verderber, m Liberatore. On t.he line, l. to r., e Bill Sterbik, Ray Borovich, Ed nwell, capt., Chuck Noll, Ray smbarski, Ron Foliano, Bill Sha- r, Ed Stakolich. Bengals Lions Tangle In 'BIG UNE' I The varsity and Coach Joe Rufus are dedicating tonight's game to the monks, fathers and brothers, staffing the high school. Figers Stay Unbeatenp L11 Opponents ollapse Currently leading the East Senate with a perfect 4-0 record, enedictine's blazing Bengals now have rolled up a total of x straight wins for the season. In so doing, they have limited e opposition's scoring to 23 169 themselves. Coach Rufus' torrid offense ed up two touchdowns in the st, second and fourth quarters the Collinwood game to set a W Bengal scoring record, 40-0. e Railroaders were held to a net in of ten yards and never were le to penetrate Benedictine cer- ory. A stubborn St. Ignatius eleven iost upset the apple cart a week er as it played Benedictine on nost even terms, forcing the ngals to hold on to a lone TD in ristering a 6-3 victory at West ch Field. points while piling up a total Ed Stakolich took a 23-yard Ver- derber pass in the end zone late in the first period for the only Ben- gal score. A muddy field and aroused Wildcat play kept Bene- dictine outside the Ignatius 30- yard line for the rest of the game. Using only four plays all after- noon the Varsity walloped Central 40-14. Benedictine's stock went up in this game with the emergence of Ralph Yanky and Frank Sopko. Yanky scored twice, and Sopko reeled off long gains all afternoon. Belin, Borovich, McNeely, and Liberatore scored the other Bengal T.D.'s. reshies Lose To Kirk 18-135 The First quad To Tumble From Unbeaten Ranks in their last three starts the ngal frosh defeated Willoughby d Latin while falling to Kirk nior High. F a t h e r Florian's freshmen fred a decisive 39-0 victory over lloughby on the afternoon of t. 13. Mike DiAngelo scored ice in the second quarter, and ? Gazdak, Leo Minter, and John cks scored on TD apiece. l'he Baby Bengals came from lind to beat Latin 13-6 on Oct. 19. Trailing throughout the game 6-0, Mike DiAngelo and Leo Min- ter each scored in the waning mo- ments of play, clinching the vic- tory. After beating Kirk Jrs. once this year, the Freshman lost the second game 18-13, in the first night game ever played by the frosh. It was played on Oct. 28 under the lights at Shaw Stadium. Frank Bucks and Kenny Fayder scored T.D.'s for the Baby Bengals. Jay Vee's Extend Strealq Win Two Keeping their season's record clean Joe Iofredo's Jay Vee's trampled over Collinwood 19-0, Oct. 14, and repeated the perfor- mance with a 13-7 victory over St. Ignatius on Oct. 20. In the Collinwood game Dom De- leese made a 65-yard run with an intercepted pass, John Borso counted on an end run, and Deleese scored the final touchdown on a pass from George Tomcisin. St. Ignatius was the first team to score against the Jay Vee's. But John Borso scored once on an end run and again on a pass thrown by Jack Slekan to drop the Ignatlans. Sam Lauro kicked the extra point. Tonight Benedictine tangles with Cathedral Latin in one of the most important clashes of the school's football history. The Bengals, unbeaten and un- tied, will be shooting the works against the once-beaten Lions at the Stadium. Kickoff time is 8 p.m. The contest holds such impor- tance because the winner will pro- bably represent the east side ln the Charity game, November 27. Benedictine has never taken part in the fall classic. Latin's head coach, Augie Bossu, has done a fine job since the open- ing game loss to Massillon. Since then the Lions have dumped St. Ignatius, East High, Collinwood, Central, and Holy Name. You Gotta Be A Football Hero Frankie Evans, star Bengal fullback, injured in the early stages ol' Benedictine's romp over a highly-rated Collinwood, is shown here as he reads one of a score of cards and letters sent him at Huron Road hospital by friends and well-wishers. Evans is out of the hospital, but is unlikely that he'll see any further action this season. The flowers were a gift of the junior varsity team.

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iw! W ' 0am latin THANKS FUR THE MEMURYH Whatever happens from here on in, this has been the greatest single season in Benedictine football history. There'll be no other like it. You can beat Latin for the first time only once. There'll be other great teams, other impregnable lines, other terrific backs. But there'll be nothing quite like this again. You kind of felt it coming. You felt it when our guys ran over Holy Name. You became increasingly confident when successive opponents fell like tenpins under the llengal jauggernaut. Week after week you became surer. And then that pep rally. There won't be another like that, either. Sure, the girls were good. Steve Luptak did a fine h'l.t'. job. The band was tops. lt was all swell. But it took a couple of guys with football in their veins to knock the props from under you. Joe Rufus was first. .loe Rufus. the rotund guy who looks as though he should be selling real estate rather than coaching football. He said just the right words. said them almost grudgingly, as if they were rationed out. They fell like a ton of bricks somewhere inside, and you began to feel that lump take shape in your throat. Ed Powell was next-just a kid with a man's heart. He'll probably never score any touchdowns on the gridiron. He's not built for speed. But he scored one then, and Latin was at least one touchdown behind when he finished. It was then that you knew. It had to be. Powell probably didn't say fifty words, but every breath that escaped him was loaded with emo- tional dynamite. lle picked out each word from somewhere in his heart.. And when his voice broke and the hand came out in a fight gesture and he said, We'll give 'em everything! - you knew. You knew deep down inside. Latin was finished, and you were almost finished, too. You wanted to cry. Some of you did cry. You hoped nobody noticed. You blinked to keep the tears away. You didn't have to feel sheepish. Ab Strosnider, a guy who's been in football longer than most of you are in the world-Ab Strosnider was using a big handkerchief to wipe away his tears. Captain Ed walked off the stage, and a thousand kids and a score of usually sedate faculty members went temporarily screwy. Congratulations to the coaches. the team, the band, the entire student body. l aculty adviser of the BENNET On behalf of the faculty ffwiiiff E be- 7- Q 1 . L.-. Malces Dream Routing Latin BENEDIC'l'INE TRIPS LATIN . . I5-0 shouted the headline in the Plain Dealer Sat. morning. Nov. 6, letting Cleveland know what happened the evening before in the Stadium. Bengal Varsity Come True By But to Benedictine students and followers this was only telling what they felt deep inside them before the game was even played. Each week we felt surer as seven opponents fell one by one before the Bengal attack. We had piled up the impressive total of 188 points while holding our opposition to a mere 30. Only once had we been hard pressed to win-the time the Ignatius Wildcats held us to a 6-3 victory. But still we were riding high. Latin, it is true, lost its opener, but they had improved consistently with win after win, and now nestled close on our heels. For the city this was the game of the weekg for us, the game of the year. And there we were sitting in the Stadium-some 20,000 rooters. The alumni in their own special section were out in full force. The fresh- men, everyone with his beanie, the student body, the faculty and loyal friends were all there hoping and praying for a victory. We had to win! The whistle, the kick-off, the game was on. For two periods 22 boys raged a grim scoreless battle on the turf before us, see- sawing back and forth, with neither team claiming an advantage. Rain started heavily, drenching the field and us in the stands, but. that. did not matter. We just sat and watched as our boys started to move up that slippery, muddy gridiron after the half. , Finally late in the third period, Ray Gembarski blasted through the Latin dc- fense to block and down a desparation punt in the end zone for two points. That was the b1'eak we needed! Senior halfback Ed Belin and junior Jimmy Liberatorc each ploughed into thc end zone for two bard earned touchdowns. The score now stood 15-0. Then came the final gun! infra' l our heads are better than one and so the Bengal captain and three of Benedic- tine's coaches held many planning sessions before entering the Latin game. Kneeling here CI. to r.J are: head coach Joe Rufus, I9-I8 varsity football captain, Eddie Powell. and assistant coaches, Joe Iofredo and Ab Strosnider.