Central Catholic High School - Echo Yearbook (Fort Wayne, IN)

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rin 5 af WL, cilonom 9 if Although not emerging entirely victorious with out-of-town foes, the lrish made their city tilts count. Against local competition they proved successful. These games were fought down to the wire. The Concordia game was our only easy match. Up-set minded North Side did its utmost to stop the ground attack of the Andersonmen. Penalty after penalty set us back on our goal in the final minutes to enable the Redskins to score for a tie. South Side proved our strongest city competition until C.C. rallied its forces and sent Jack Scholl piling over for the deciding factor. ln the season finale the Central Tigers capitalized on a last minute miscue, eked out a tie, and the Irish claimed the city title by a narrow margin. The opposition was kept off balance by our mixture of the T formation and the single wing attack. Two city champion- ships in three years gives evidence that the football picture at C.C. has been bright indeed. Jack Schall and Gene Eifrid are happy about their All-Ft. Wayne status . . . Bill Becker, Joe Henry, Jerry Moore and John Friess complete C.C.'s half dozen members of the all-city team . . . Bud Brown administers a crushing tackle to halt a Redskin march, Eifrid recovering for C.C. as Morel moves in . . . Ed DeWald moves at Richmond where he went 90 for the TD. S

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. . MCCQ66 af .i!0l'l'L8 Riddled by iniuries throughout the i952 season, C.C. nevertheless racked up its second City Championship in three years. Many potential all-city players were iniured before the sea- son had hardly begun. Two time all-city halfback Acy Chandler broke his arm. Eddie DeWald, our sprinting star, after a successful first game against Richmond in which he darted 90 yds. for a touchdown, was put out for the season with a kidney iniury. First string tackle Tom Huhn sat out the September drills in a hospital bed with a bad knee. Co-captain Bob Arnold and quarterback Jerry Hipskind came up with fractured ankles. It can be safely said that these iniries added a few gray hairs to the head of coach Fordy Anderson. Never- theless the team produced six all-city players, adding again to C.C.'s glory on the gridiron. The season proved a moderate success showing what can be accomplished with grim determination, hard driving and spirit. lt displays, too, that C.C. has come a long way from its defeatist attitude of past years, thanks to the coaches and the excellent calibre ofthe boys they had to work with throughout the football campaign. Our cheerleaders Dick Parquette, Vernon Urbine, Don Sorg, and John Rohyans, spur the Irish on to victory . . . .lack Scholl bulls over from the two for victory over South . . . Gene Eitrid twists and turns . . . Tim Miller hustles around end against a tough Archer eleven. i 1 'L

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QQUQAIOZ5 QCLJOIQ xS?CU'L6!0lfi fri The essential item in winning any Championship is team play. This characteristic shone brightly in our T952 City Champs. The team had many outstanding individuals, but their ability stood out only against the backdrop of the hard driving play of the rest of the squad. C.C. led Ft. Wayne schools with six boys on the All-City team. Co-captain .lerry Moore, 60 minute center and rugged line-backer easily led all competition. Gene Eifrid's field generalship netted him a well-earned berth on the aggrega- tion. Joe Henry's mighty mite blocking at the guard spot was all-city dynamite. Bill Becker for smooth kicking and all around play was chosen unanimously for the honor. Jack Schall's crush- ing drives ofT guard and tackle placed him on the coveted team. These players received acclaim, but you cannot 'forget the hard work of Bob Arnold, the broken field running of Bob Wruble, and the tine passing of Tim Miller to name a few of the players who formed the backbone of the team that lives up to the name Fighting lrish. Richmond ,,,,, ,.,., 2 7 C.C. 6 Concordia ,,,A, 6 C.C. 19 New Castle .,.,..,,.,,, ,,,,, 7 C.C. 19 Kalamazoo Central ....20 C.C. 6 Hamilton Ohio .,... ,,.s. 2 5 C.C. 6 Gary Roosevelt ,.,,. l9 C.C. 14 North Side ..,.,, ,.,,, 6 C.C. 6 South Side .,,...,,,,.,,,,,,,,, ,,,,, 0 C.C. 6 South Bend Washington ,,...... 47 C.C. O Central ,.,,. ,,.,,,,, ,,,,- 6 C .C, 6 104 Gene Eifrid leaps high for a jump pass . . . John Friess on the receiving end . . . Bill Becker exhibits form which brought him unanimous all- city rating . . . Jack Scholl readies for the battle . . . Co-captains Jerry Moore and Bob Arnold survey the situation. g i 7 '