Boyertown High School - Bear Yearbook (Boyertown, PA)

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Top to bottom left: Swavely, Steltz, Schell, Sweinhart, Koons, I-lausman. Pepp Cheerleaders . . . These Spell Football 1949 Season Royersford West Reading North Coventry Pennsylvania School for the Deaf Wilson Shillington Muhlenberg Spring City East Greenville son but bowed to Shillington and Muhlenberg. In Perkiomen-Schuylkill Valley League games they Won decisions over Royersford and North Coventry, but were edged by East Greenville. In non-league competition the Bears defeated Spring City, but were outclassed by the Pennsylvania School for the Deaf. Thanksgiving Day, 1949, saw the Bears, with thirteen seniors finishing their high school football careers, lose a hard-fought ballgame to East Green- ville by a 7 to 6 margin. The Boyertown attempt at the extra point was good but had to be rekicked because of a holding penalty. On the second attempt the ball fell short, strongly reminiscent of the Shill- ington game of 1948. Fifteen

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Top to bottom right: Miller, Mackey, Stoudt, Rothenberger, Houck, Smith. Crisp Weather, Roaring Crowds, Snapp Bands The B-town gridmen, under the direction of Robert L. Fleming, Warren O. Fry, and Daniel A. Rohrbach, opened the season with three consecutive wins. In the curtain-raiser an aroused pack of Bears rallied in the last quarter to nose Royersford, 7 to 6. The following Saturday, the locals broke a 7 to 7 halftime deadlock to trounce West Reading, 34 to 7. Next the Norco Wildcats underwent an 18 to 0 trampling. The Boyertown Bears finished the 1949 football campaign on the credit side of the ledger with a record of five wins, four losses. The BHS gridders waged contests in two leagues. ln the Berks County League the Bruins defeated West Reading and Wil- I nN1'f1'4 Summary Boyertown 7 Boyertown 34 Boyertown 18 Boyertown 21 Boyertown 13 Boyertown 12 Buyerlown 6 Boyertown 20 Boyertown 6

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Glrl Come Into the Plcture 1th Hockey GIRLS VARSITY HOCKEY Nancy N Rcnnmger Captaxn Second Row L to R A Quigley C Drabmsky A Dunkelberger M Graham Third Row L to R B Koons Manager G Renmnger B Cressman S Brannan J Gnm Asst Manager Fourth Row L to R P Landxs J Yergey I-I Werstler Flfth Row Mlss Wise Coach The g1rls hockey team ended 1tS sea son by placmg second 1n the league The glrls on the team played stlenu ously and to the best of thell ab1l1ty all season under the capable coachlng Th1S was the first year that the hoc key team belonged to a league They have entered the Upper Pe1k1omen Schuylklll Valley League It was tr1 umph therefore, when they came th1ough 1n second place t1e wlth Norco The managels of the team th1s yeal were Ba1ba1a Koons and Jean G11m Nancy Renn1nger, a sen1o1 th1s year, was the captaln of the V31S1ty team wh1le Eleanor E1senhart was captaln of the Jun1o1 Va1s1ty team GIRLS JUNIOR VARSITY HOCKEY E Elsenhart Captam Second Row L to R S Haier M Gerhart L Skora P Long Third Row L to R B Koons S Sell J Grlm Fourth Row L to R G Eshbach L Gabel B Herman E Fritz N Swartz Fifth Row Mlss Wise S 1.1 teen I U O ' l f- M I l ' 22 y ' R I ' . , . . , of Miss Marcella Wise. I u U 0 ' f 3 ! y I D 1 I I -r I A