Canton High School - Cantonian Yearbook (Canton, IL)

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n LU' GOELCAES COACH WILLARD O. LARSON During the eight years Coach Lar- son has been at Canton High, he has taken four basketball teams to the state tournament. Instilling the will to Win in his lads, Larson guided his proteges to 17 Wins and 13 losses. Can- ton met some of the best teams in the state. Coach Larson is well known at Can- ton High for his inimitable smile and inexhaustible supply of jokes. In addition to basketball, Mr. Lar- son is the baseball coach and has never failed to come up with good teams. 12 COACH WILLIAM J. METZGER In the last three years, interest in football here at Canton has greatly in- creased. This is due mostly to the untiring efforts of Coach Metzger. Though his material was not good this year, he has built up football and will have good teams in the next few years. Since his arrival here, Mr. Metzger has made many friends who are pulling for him to come up with winning teams. Aside from football, Mr. Metzger also is the track coach and has taken boys to compete in the State Track Meet both years he has been here. He is also coach of the Junior Varsity bas- ketball team.

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lst row: G. Babcock, O. Schumacher, L. Watson, R. Moore, F. Melgreen. 2nd row: C. Sullivan, Manager, B. Oaks, P. Watt, K. Owens, A. J. Henseler, D. Cox, M. Cox, Manager. 3rd row: Coach Metzger, Capt. B. Grove, J. Gumbel, B. Hess, K. Payne, Coach Larson. 1944-45 arsify jaskefhaff Playing one of the toughest schedules in C.H.S. history, we feel mighty proud that our team did as well as it did. Maybe our win and loss record wasn't as impressive as past years but we fought some of the top notch teams in the state. We got off to a comparatively slow start but we soon gained our strength and drive after a few games. There was quite a duel between Canton and Manual this year and we showed them what we were made of. We felt pretty badly about not making State, but then again when we think of who beat us, we don't feel half bad. This year we lose Henseler, Payne, Grove, Moore, Oaks, and Schumacher. To these Seniors we say, Good luck and happy landings! We'll still have Melgreen, Hess, Owens, Cox, Mendenhall, Watson, and Sepich to carry on for the Purple and Old Gold. To them we say, Let's go, boys, and let's show Decatur we can do it too. GAMES VARSITY BASKETBALL SCORES Canton 29 ....... ........ R ock Island Canton 49 ..,.,.,, .....,., L ewistown Canton 49 ....... ..,,.,.. E ast Peoria Canton 28. .,.,,.. ,,,,,,,, M anual Canton 42 ...t.t, ,.... L ewistown Canton 34 ,,,,,.,, ......., T aylorville Canton 45 ....... ......,. M onmouth Canton 54, ......, -----,,, K ewanee Canton 49 ....... .....,.. F armington Canton 28 ,,..,,.. ..,..... G alesburg Canton 25 ....... ........ P aris Canton 36. ,...... ....,., , Farmington Canton 32 .,,,... ........ . Moline Canton 42, ,,,,,,. .,....., Q uincy Canton 33 ....... ......... W oodruff Canton 43 .,,.,,. ....,..,. M anual REGIONAL Canton 35 ....... ......... G alesburg Canton 72 ----'- -------- E lmwood Canton 50 --vbggg ,--,----, M ,Comb Canton 59 ......,. ......, G lasford Canton 34 .------ V-------- P ekin Canton 40 ....,.. ........ M anual Canton 26, ,...,. ......,.. G alesburg SECTIONAL ' 222522 igfffff ijggiiiiliiiiif jg e.-...-- ee'----- gr ftgfn Academy Canton 48. ,.,,,. ,......,, L incoln anton ' i --'-'--'--- ' 3 es urg Canton 35, ,----- ,,--,--,, P ekin Total points, Canton-1219 Canton 45. ...... ........ . Central U31 Total points, Opponents-1141.