Central High School - Brecky Yearbook (Washington, DC)

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URING this year's football season. we have had more than ample opportunity to acquaint ourselves with the boys who make up Central's great backlield. Their names have met our eyes in local headlines and, farther down, in the sports stories, and many a time we have seen their photographs or had the boys them- selves pointed out to us in the corridors o' the school. With all this in mind, the names of Jimmy Porter, Bennie Steiner, Harry Martin, Johnny Bredbenner, Harold Evans, and johnny Dawes should be anything but unfamiliar. Yet it is the linesmen-those unglorilied, though deserving, players who open up t':e holes and block and tackle so that the backs may com: off with the top soil -with whom the average fan is not familiar. It is such boys as George Davis, Bob Belk, Dan Magnuson, Jack Wilhelm, Herbert Tucker, Steve Adams, Morty Neviaser, Irvin Tarason, Sam DiBlasi, Dick Farr, XValtee' Goodrich, Bob Lanzillotti, and Jackie Snnperton who in every contest give their all just as well as the celebrated backs but who, unlike the latter group, receive no glory. Now, don't get us wrong. We don't maintain that glory is such a wonderful thing, or that a boy should compete in a sport mera-ly for the glory which he can get out of itg but. as long as there is some to be obtained, we feel it should be distributed to those who deserve it, whether lines- men or backs. Though Central's 1939 football line may not be the greatest of which the school has ever boasted, it still ranks as one of the foremost of the past inter-high series, and this article is hereby dedicated to the boys who compose it. We write this as a tribute to their fine play. The natural plan for a summary of this kind is to start with the centers, where we find Co- Captain Jack Wilhelm, Reed Smith. Leonard Sweig, and Kenny Williams. Wilhelm has played practically every minute of every game and is be- lieved to be a popular chioce for all-high recog- nition. Smith and Sweig are important in Coach Hardy Pearce's plans for next season. iizear ensure Bois NAIMAN '40 Bulletin Slvurls lidilor. At guard we lind thc greatest variance in weight, with 230 pounds of Bob Belk taking turns with Morty Neviaser's 145 pounds. Herb Tucker, Harry l'istolas, Bob Lanzillotti, Bill Kelley, and Earliest Fritz fill out the roster of that particular position. Lanzillotti previously was a member of the backlield but, due to a scarcity of guards, he was moved up to the line where he has played regularly and clone outstanding work. Incident- ally, Harry Pistolas is the brother of Nick Pisto- las, a great Central guard of former years, who a few years ago obtained All-American honorable mention at Columbia University under Lou Little. The main brunt of the tackles' burdenhas been carried by Steve Adams, Big Dan Magnuson, George Davis, and Irvin Tarason. George Strombos, a converted end, also has seen service in this position. Of the group Magnuson has probably shone the brightest, having the advant- age of his size to back up that five-man line and snag those short passes. Besides making several long runs on this type of play, Big Dan has proved himself one of the best punters on the squad, though given little chance to demonstrate this ability under tire. At end is the strongest single line position of the squad, with Sam DiBlasi, Dick Farr, VValter Goodrich, and Jackie Samperton, any one of whom could cinch regular jobs on any other high school team, taking turns. Wilber Rock is the understudy to this quartet. This line may be used to furnish proof of the efficiency of the Central junior varsity, which, of course, is the object of much ridicule every year. The jayvees of the last few years are rep- resented on the 1939 edition of the line by Herb Tucker, Harry Pistolas, Leonard Sweig, Morty Neviaser, Steve Adams, Bob Belk, Bill Kelley, and Jack VVilhelm. VVith eyes open to all of this, our hope is that a few more bouquets may be thrown at the cen- ters, guards, tackles, and ends in the future, and that the importance of the group in the success or failure of the team may be realized by all. THE REVIEW E231

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