Carl Sandburg High School - Poet Yearbook (Orland Park, IL)

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VARSITY BASKETBALL 1954 55 RECORD Eagles Opponent Maryville Beecher Lemont Reavis Peotone Oak Lawn Plainfield Rich 'l'Beecher '9'Crete 'l'Grant Park Beecher Bremen Plainfield Lincoln Way St Procopius Reavis Lemont Oak Lawn Rich Bremen Minooka Lincoln Way 1fL1ncoln Way ffMorgan Park 'FG P Holiday Tourney ffD1str1ct Tourney BOTTOM ROW L TO R D Busch B Kaehr D Anderson T Lonson ROW 2 J S1ma1t1s Manager D Andersen P L1tke Manager ROW 3 G Miller A Reeve R Welngartner Coach I orstad D Gee O Rich J Spidel y Starting the season with two returning regulars the varsity Eagles took fourth place in the Southwest Suburban Conference The team was handicapped early in the season when Spidel injured his ankle in a practice game but John came back at mid-season to mold a better quintet The Eagles finished the season with 12 wins and 13 losses Sandburg being in its first year was well rewarded by the two trophies won by the '55 squad the first for taking third in the Grant Park Tourna- ment and the second for winning first place in the district tournament 9 TSO!! Jhn Mward Guard 45

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,J X Homecoming Queen Judy Kral dances with her escort, Tom Lonson. RIGHT Leading mascot be- hind senior float is Ron Nagel. Other seniors are John Spidel and Bob Berry. Hey, how did sopho- more Craig Reuter get in there? 9'-, .Haw 73 Q un.: A, A 1 gigs! !! ABOVE Andersen plunges for first down as Sandburg wins first Homecoming game 14-0 against Lin- colnway. LEFT Members of the foot- ball team congrat- ulate the queen and her court, 1. to r. , Jan Wenckus, Chuck Willeford, Judy Enblom, Dave Andersen, Doris Johnson, Dave Vance, Queen Judy Kral, and Tom Lonson. F? VLKQQ H ,x-4 Iluikftv L

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Seasun Ends With Thrills ,ns 1' if -.-...,. sf B aehr Don Gee 4 uard C1 rt e orward In the flrst of the snaps below M111er 1101 out Jumps one of the Braves to take a rebound off Sandburg s back board whlle KBEIOWJ Gee 1142 gets the up off to start 0 the Bremen game In the last snap Wemgartner Q63 ups P one rn Begmmng the season w1th a loss to Mary v1l1e the Eagles went on to w1n three games rn a row over Beecher Lemont and Reav1s The Eagles next met defeat from the hands of Peotone and Oak Lawn before losmg aga1n to an old Fox Valley Conference foe Pla1nf1eld The f1VC ball men also ran up aga1nst hxghly rated R1ch and were beaten even though Gee dunked 1n 23 po1nts and made honorable men t1on on the Herald Amerlcan Prep Team of the week Team moral p1cked up when Sandburg took th1rd place 1n the Grant Park Tournament by beatlng Beecher and Grant Park and loslng to Crete After the Chnstmas hohday the Sand burg f1ve lost two games to Bremen and Plam fleld both by e1ght poxnts The Eagles then won a lop s1ded v1ctory over L1nco1n Way and really downed a Reav1s qu1ntet w1th Ron We1n gartner scorlng 30 po1nts and collectlng 26 rebounds and makmg a forward on the Herald Amencan Team of the week. After beat1ng Lemont, Sandburg aga1n lost to Rrch and Bremen. The Eagles then gave the fans a real thr1ller aga1nst M1HOOka but lost 1n the closlng m1nutes 62 72. In the last conference game of the regular season the ball men swamped L1ncoln Way 74 47. In the d1str1ct tournament on the local court Coach Jorstad's f1ve beat Lmcoln Way 77 37 and Morgan Park M. A. 52 24 to take f1rst place and to w1n the1r second trophy. For next year Coach Jorstad forsees even better results from hrs team as four of th1s year's starters Gee, Kaehr, Busch, and We1ngartner w11l be back on the hardwood. L05 Q 0 ' :N V E? L ?fN i7 mf , 'ZQQVZLQ ' 'if ,V X fav h 1 I o Q W ' ' y 1 I . , I o ' I' X . , . Y Y 5 , . , .