Central Catholic High School - Katholikon Yearbook (DuBois, PA)

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wipe iilrntur About this time a special meeting of the Athletic Association was called for the purpose of electing cheer leaders since the next game was at home and we needed someone to lead in the cheering The election re sulted as follows Paul Farber Cenevne Maloney and Mary Shaw It was decided at this meeting to change baseball to track as track was more of a High School sport than baseball Fourth Game Brockwayvllle came to DuBois for the purpose of getting revenge but were sadly d1SappOlHl16d when they met the S C H S on the local field By the zealous work of the whole team desiring to show their skill to local fans came off the field Wlth a 32 0 victory Through the earnest work of the cheer leaders the team was loyally supported by a large dele- gatlon of rooters from the whole school Fifth Game On arriving on the gridiron at Wlnburne Cooper Twsp the local boys were greatly surprised to see a team greatly outweighmg them on the field ready to do battle This team contammg two or three 1nel1g1ble men who had played professional football the local boys refused to play with them They finally consented to take these men off the field and the game began about 4 P M The first half featured by the holdlng of the heavy team on the one yard l1ne ended with a 0 0 score The second halt opened with a long pass by the opposing team which brought the ball over the goal and succeeding in the kick made the score 7 0 In the thlrd quarter aided by a 20 yd penaltv for Coach Shalala 3,SSlStlllg an 1n1u1ed man off the field and the unfalr decisions of the referee they succeeded in making another touchdown whlch made the score 14-0 Thus the game ended Sixth Game On a twelve hour notice the Manager secured a game with the strong Johnsonburg team Having very l1ttle practice expecting an open date team The teams were yery evenly matched as can be seen by the close scole The first half ended with the score 0 0 In the third quarter the local team succeeded in reach1ng the 3 vard l1ne and after two unsuccessful attempts to push the ball past the goal It was decided to drop kick lt B5 the galhant work of Captain McCall1an the ball was successfully kicked be tween the goal posts making the scole 3 0 Johnsonburg recelved and took the ball to the 17 yard line By a penalty for coaching from the side lines claimed unfair by the local team the ball was brought to the one yard 'ine After three down thex succeeded in pushing the ball about one yard over the l1ne making the gain about two yards ln four downs At a council of the ofliclals and the coaches it was found that the penalty should have been one half the distance and as Johnsonburg had only gained two yards in four downs the game was gn en to S C H S by the scole of '3 0 Nesenth Game A meeting vsas called the evening before the game of the next day which was to be on the local field at which talks were given by Mr Gleason Mr Mack and var ious students for the encouragement of a large turnout at the game Three o clock the next day saw a large de'egat1on of rootels on the SId9llll9S together with tvso teams on the field consisting of the S C H S wx th thc strong Pal s Creek as opponents Agaln the local lads showed ' 81 - , . L s ' v Q Q -y I ' f ' . y as i . . 1 . . . , I ' , I - -'A ' 1 7 1 . . 1 I k . 1 x 9 the team made the Journey and went on the field against another husky , 7. n 1 . v I , ' , Y nunn ' I l . . ' 4 Q . A . . , I ah. l ' . . I . ' - V ' '

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SPDRT M 4 nnthzrll N the open1ng of school for the term 1923 24 the students of S C H S craved athletlcs so to this end a meeting was called by act mg cha1rman Wm Plstner fPres of the Senior Classj The meet 1ng being called to order the purpose was clearly stated An elec V1ce Pres Wm Plstner Secretary Kathryn Kelly Treasurer Mary Shaw Manager of football Thomas Price Manager of basketball Wm Plstner Manager of baseball Eugene Aughenbaugh Short talks were then g1ven by Mr Humphreys Hugh Gallagher and M Shalala upon the encouraglng of athletics 1n the High School At thls meetlng it was decided to ask M Shalaa and P Guth to coach the various teams A call was lssued for candldates for football and about twenty candldates reported to Ryan s field for practlce A good schedule was then arranged by Manager Prlce which resulted as follows lst game The team after many evenings of practlce made a short Journey to Brockwayv1lle and made a fine show1ng by walloping Carl Keys former D H S star and his team mates by the score of 25 0 2nd game Overjoyed by their victory over Brockwayv1lle they declded to tackle something a l1tt e harder so a game was arranged with the Clearfield Hlgh School By the sturdy work of the line and the fast work of the backiield they defeated the C'earfield High School 16-13 Clearfield had the ex cuse that some of thelr regu ars were out of the game but nevertheless It was a strong team representlng Clearfield High School .ard game The sturdy and speedy boys of S C H S made a long trlp to New Bethlehem and bumped up against a team great y outwelghmg them but thls did not discourage the Saints and they came out of the fight w1th a 6-6 t1e being unable after reaching the five yard line to push the ball past the goal C803 e J C ,X ,X Wil s J E. lk. ! , Q ' I I W., P' tion was at once conducted which resulted as follows: Pres. Leo McCal1ian?

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