Benton Township High School - Scarab Yearbook (Benton, IL)

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BENTON 46—MARION 14 BENTON 52—JOHNSTON CITY 12 The Rangers won their first conference victory of the season over a strong Marion team. This game showed a much improved Ranger squad. The back-field and line were co-ordinated perfectly. The scoring was divided up between Lowery, Johnston, Conner, Burkett, and Phillips. Phillips made his score on a blocked kick recovery. The strong aerial attack of the Marion team was held powerless until the last few minutes of the game, when the second team was sent in by Coach Rollins. The great Ranger line, led by Jim Lovin and Cotton” Cosgrove, began to show its power. BENTON 0—CHRISTOPHER 0 The Ranger’s hard luck streak continued from the Central game, and the Rangers were still unable to cross the last stripe. Most of the play was within the Christopher half, but the Rangers couldn’t get across the five yard line. The Rangers marched to a rousing victory over a weak, but game Johnston City team. The Rangers offensive was starred by long runs by Johnston, Lowery, and Sanders. Ewing Johnston brought his total of touchdowns to nine and Lowery raised his to seven. In the last quarter, the second team was sent in, and Johnston City made its two touchdowns. BENTON 45—DuQUOIN 0 Led by Captain Jim Lovin, the Rangers beat DuQuoin 45-0. Lovin set up a touchdown by blocking a kick, and Red” Lowery, the hard-driving fullback, made four touchdowns and three extra points. Johnston, Burkett, and D. Conner also scored for the Rangers. These hoys played on first eleven. Raymond Carlton Chester Grammar Doyne Garrett Hack Rote—Smith. Bennett. Sewell, Giles, Seymour, Jackson. Front Row—Fletcher, Sanders, Shutt, Warren, Wilson.

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 THOUSANDS CHEER £ %± BENTON 12—CENTRALIA 6 The Benton Rangers took their second conference victory over the hard-playing Ccntralia Red-birds. A strong wind held the play to the ground, but the poor kicking of Ccntralia set up Benton’s first touchdown, and the second was made on a 5 3 yard punt return by Dale Connor. The first half of the game was all against Benton, but in the second half the Rangers outplayed them. BENTON 7—SALEM 7 The third rated team in the State, Salem, came to Benton with the still fresh memory of their 184-0 victory over Fairfield. The game started off as a big brawl with two 15 yard penalties on the Rangers in two plays, but it ended as a real game that showed the true power of the Rangers. BENTON 0—EVANSVILLE 32 To open the 1943 football season, the Rangers journeyed to Evansville, Indiana, to meet a strong Central High team. Central was supposed to have one of the best teams in the state and gave the inexperienced Rangers a good trouncing. The Rangers received several injuries which hindered them later.

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☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ■ ☆ “First Comes Courage” BENTON 14—HARRISBURG 7 A slightly headstrong Ranger team took the field against a hard-fighting Harrisburg team to win their third conference victory 14-7. I he Ranger attack was sparked by Red” Lowery who did all of the scoring for Benton by running over two touchdowns and making the two conversions. One of the Benton touchdowns was made on a freak blocked-kick play. Lowery used a little fancy headwork by Bill Cosgrove and a low Harrisburg punt to score the winning touchdown. This game was the last game for Chester Grammar who left for the Navy soon afterwards. Chester played a splendid game all year and was chosen on the all-conference first team.