Cambridge High School - Trojan Yearbook (Cambridge, NE)

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FOOTBALL FRONT ROW: Bob Jones, Dean Sexton. Gene Wolf. Dick Coba. Bob Payton. Harold Summers. Duane Walters. Dick Hayes. Berl Jones. Frank Carrol. Ronald Fldler. MIDDLE ROW: Dean Brown. Dick Earsom. Darrel Rauch. Norman Kinder. RoRer Newcomb. Glenn Brook . Duane Smith. Richard Arnold. Darrel Raeburn. Gene Stevens. Coach Miller. BACK ROW: Jerry Fldler. Vaughn Stevens. Gene Thompson. Donald Kinder. Wayne Jamison. Eldon Nich- olson. Jerry Minnick. Gerald Hilton. Jim Coba Dick Trant. Paul Johnson. B?nkclmen vs. Cambridge The game with Benklemen opened the 1945 football season. The boys carried the ball 138 yards to Benklemens” 11 yards. The game ended 6 up. Orleans vs. Cambridge The first half was pretty even with both teams hitting the line consistently. The last half was in favor of the Orioles even though there was no score. Trenton vs. Cambridge The trojans had bad luck their first home game. The winning touchdown came in the second quarter when a punt was blocked and a Trenton man re- covered behind the Trojan goal. Curtis vs. Cambridge Rain fell during the entire game against the Curtis Aggies. The game ended with score stand- ing 20 to 0 in favor of the Aggies. Roger Newcomb, senior end was lost for the season as the result of a broken arm. Cozad vs. Cambridge Cozad outplayed the Trojans all the way. It was a little muddy but not bad enough to hurt the playing. Colvert was injured on the third play. Cozad came out on top 19 to 0. Oxford vs. Cambridge The Trojans came back from a losing streak to defeat Oxford 41-7. Blocking and tackling were good. Touchdowns were scored as follows: Payton, 3: Summers. 2: and Coba. 1. A knee injury kept Ronnie Fidler on the bench. Arapahoe vs. Cambridge On the second play of the game Trant inter- cepted a pass and went to the ten yard line where Payton put it over after the second attempt. Bob Payton and Harold Summers showed their stuff in lugging the pigskin down the field in the victory over Arapahoe which ended 39-6. Norman Kinder —29—

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BASKETBALL FRONT ROW: Berl Jones. Gene Wolfe. Harold LAST ROW: Wlnton Newcomb. Wayne Jamison. Summers, Ronald Fldler, Don Kinder. Vaughn Stevens. Richard Arnold. Gerald Hilton. Roger Jones. Jerry and Robert Colvert. Minnick. Duane Walters, and Coach •'Mike' Miller. Twenty-nine boys reported for basketball this year. The team started out pretty good by beating Edison and Bartley. They had only 3 hours of practice before playing Edison. Most of the home games were very exciting, for example, tho El wood game required two overtimes in which the El wood center potted the winning points from quite a distance, the Beaver City game was a close one and the Benkeiman game was a very good one in which the Trojans scored twenty-five points in the last quarter to defeat Benkeiman. It seemed SCORES OF THE GAMES 31 Cambridge vs. Edison 29 24 Cambridge . vs. - Bartley 13 13 Cambridge . vs. Arapahoe 19 23 Cambridge . VS. Culbertson 47 14 Cambridge V 5. McCook 57 16 Cambridge Curtis 21 23 Cambridge . VS. - Oxford 13 20 Cambridge VS. Beaver City 21 33 Cambridge . VS. --- Elwood 35 like the boys wouldn’t get started until the last quarter and as a result would get beat. The Trojans had to play Benkeiman first in the tournament. They beat them in an overtime. The next night we played Culbertson and were defeated The following night we played Arapahoe for consola- tion and again we were defeated. There is always another year to try in the District Tournament and Cambridge will always try to do their best and to win if it is possible. 36 Cambridge vs. ... Gothenburg 46 35 Cambridge vs. Trenton 30 28 Cambridge vs. .. Indianola 44 21 Cambridge vs Cozad 55 16 Cambridge vs. Holdrege 42 41 Cambridge vs Benkeiman 31 (District Tournament) 47 Cambridge vs. Benkeiman 42 16 Cambridge vs. Culbertson 24 22 Cambridge vs Arapahoe 29 —28—

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♦' and Dean Sexton were the outstanding linemen of the day. Elwood vs. Cambridge The game with Elwood came as a kind of sur- prise. Blocking and tackling were bad and the offense lacked some of the fire it had shown. From a statistical standpoint the Trojans were lucky to get off 7-7. Iloldrege vs. Cambridge The Trojans played a unique brand of football in the game with Holdrege. The Trojans came back again as a second half ball club. The Trojans rallied with a completed pass to Stevens by Smith. Holdrege bottled Payton up on the try for the extra point leaving the score 7 to 6. Culbertson vs. Cambridge The Trojans waded through the rain and mud to tie the Culbertson Bears November 15. The Bears couldn’t use their terrific pass offense, and + the Trojans couldn’t use their running attack because of footing. The score ended 0 to 0. This was the Trojans’ fourth and last tie. Beaver City vs. Cambridge Thanksgiving Day was a beautiful day for a football game; the sun was shining and the day couldn’t have been any better. The Cambridge Trojans took full advantage of everything. The Trojans ended the season with a win over Beaver City 32 to 0. Coach Mike Miller enrolled thirty-one boys for football this year. Eight of the eleven lettermen were seniors. The team won three games this year which gave them valuable experience. The boys of the second team will be capable of playing first team ball next year. Along with some of first team juniors of this year and the second team boys they should do very well next year. ♦ ■ —30—