Cambridge High School - Trojan Yearbook (Cambridge, NE)

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FOOTBALL The Spirit of Football came to Cambridge early this year with the boys’ checking out suits even before school started. Twenty-two boys checked out suits, and it looked like a pretty successful season. However, too many first-string men were lost from the year before, and the team as a whole was a little too green. The schedule was as follows: SEPTEMBER 22—ORLEANS Cambridge came out on top in this game, which was a very slow-moving one. The day was very hot, the fans were impatient, the boys were sweating and swearing. SEPTEMBER 29—CULBERTSON This game really brought out what was in the Trojans. Although the score was 0 to 0, it was undoubtedly one of the outstanding games of the year for the Trojans. OCTOBER 6—CURTIS The score of this game was 33 to 6. However, as in some of the other games of this season, this was a better game than the score would seem to indicate. The Tro- jans fought a good, though losing, battle. OCTOBER 13—COZAD This was another scoreless tie for the Trojans. It was a slow-moving game without much action. OCTOBER 27—GOTHENBERG The Gothenberg game was the same old story with the Gothenberg boys coming out on top of a 19 to 0 score. The first half was close, with the Trojans holding their own. NOVEMBER 3----ARAPAHOE This was the best game the Trojans played during the whole year. Some of the boys remember a swell Pheasant Dinner that took place the night before the game. Maybe it was that that sparked the 25 to 0 victory over Arapahoe. Who knows? NOVEMBER 10—HOLDREGE This was the surprise game of the year. The Trojans went to Holdrege expecting somewhat of a drastic defeat. They brought back the short end of a 13 to 6 score, and an account of a very exciting game. On a touchdown march from one end of the field to the other, the Trojans came within yards of scoring a second time. (The Holdrege fans suspected crooked refereeing.) —26—

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SPORTS A GOOD SPORT CODE 1. Thou shalt not quit. 2. Thou shalt not alibi. 3. Thou shalt not gloat over winning. 4. Thou shalt not be a rotten loser. 5. Thou shalt not take unfair advantage. 6. Thou shalt not ask odds thou art not willing to give. 7. Thou shalt not always be ready to give the opponents the shade. 8. Thou shalt not underestimate an opponent nor over- estimate thyself. 9. Remember that the game is the thing, and that he who thinkest otherwise is a slacker, and not a true sportsman. 10. Honor the game thou playest, for he who playeth the game straight and hard, winneth even when he loseth. —25—

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Back Row: Ronnie Fidler, Harold Summers, Ross Newcomb, Denzel Thompson, Bob Newcomb, Stanley Meininger, Don Summers, Dick Trant, Vaughn Stevens, Bob Payton. Front row: Paul Johnson, Joe Hougnon, Max Tomlin Dick Coba, Bob Mc- Kinney, “Shorty,” Dwyane Walters. “Pete” Peterson, Charles Cotton, Bob Colvert. NOVEMBER 17—BEAVER CITY Another surprise game. This time in reverse. Full of confidence, the Trojans learned what over-confidence can do to a team. This time we were on the short end again, 7 to 0. The boys layed it to the fact that all were trying to “kill somebody” instead of working as a team. NOVEMBER 24—TRENTON Cambridge was on the ball and in the mud, taking Trenton for a 19 to 0 clean- ing. Hitting hard in the first play of the game, it was the Trojans’ game throughout. NOVEMBER 30—McCOOK We wound up the season with the worst defeat of the year. It also was not quite as bad a game as the score would seem to indicate. Although the final score was 40 to 0, at the half-time it was only 13 to 0. The Bisons were full of over-confidence the first half, and the boys lit into them from the first. However, Coach Terry gave his boys a working over at the half, and they came back in the form they were seen to display all during the year. —27—