Central High School - El Centro Yearbook (Fresno, CA)

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Q 1 .fe it Centrals Grizzlies line up for a practice session before an important game. Heading the list of students' main inter- est is athletics. Boys are the participants and girls the supporters. In the North Sequoia League, Central was always a main contender and a feared enemy. Other schools in this league were Dos Palos, Chowchilla, Wash- ington, San Joaquin Memorial, and El Cap- tain. Football, basketball, baseball, tennis and track are the better known and played top sports. Create competive Spirit Coaches this year were kept busy prac- tising, instructing, creating new plays, and teaching. Head coach was Suge Carter. The returning coaches were Bob Porter and Dick Keosheyan. New to Central were Frank War- ren, Felix Wilkerson and J. W. Wright. The tennis team coach was Mrs. Tubbesing. Sports added a fine competitive spirit and a social acceptable past-time, My 7 This shot shows Central's Grizzlies in action during a game with one of the schools in the North Sequoia League.

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Varsity squad. Front row, from left: Alex Prudhume, John Bruton, Bill Redfearn, Ed Crouch, Ray Gullet, Martin Hart, George Norman, Alex Montanez, Byron Huntington, Charles Clay, Jim Vtfebb, Alfred Prud- hume, Charles Craig, Al D'Avila, second row: Manager Lester Hamm, Larry Wright, Leonard Hoskins, Den- nis Meisner, Lee Cunningham, Don Hamm, Douglas Evans, John Allison, Dick Price, Merle Discoe, Fred Colombini, Ernie Smithy, Robert Simonian, Peter Snyder, Managers Carl Henderson, Lynn Moyers, third row: Coach Suge Carter, Phil Alderson, Harold Carter, Manuel DiSantiago, Mike Bottasso, Don Dauer, Bill Car- rasco, Ralph Hood, John Rocha, Yancy Harmon, Martin Buchanan, Ralph Salazar, Adam Rocha, Jerry Rad- ford, Sal Montano and Coach Bob Porter, Carter and Gitizzlies Start off With a Bang! SPORTS at Central begin, naturally enough, at the gym, from there they expand to the football field, the baseball diamond, the basketball court, the track and the tennis courts. The center of all sports activity is head coach and physical education director, Suge Carter. Helping him along are coaches Bob Porter, Dick Keosheyan, Felix Wilkerson, Frank Warren and J. W. Wright. Coach Car- ter, a graduate of Fresno State College and an ex-Edison High athlete, is now completing his freshman year as head ofthe Central P. Ed. department. Coach Carter and his- Grizzly eleven started the football season off with a great, big bang! First, they beat Caruthers High, 13-0, in a non-league game on September 25. On October 2, the following weekend, we met our first defeat at the hands of arch-rival Kerman, 21-12. The Grizzlies then rolled over Orosi High, 16-14, in the last non-league game, on October 16. Coach Suge Carter Central started the North Sequoia League off with a loss to San Joaquin Me- morial, 32-6, on October 23, then made a fast recovery by tearing up the new El Cap- itan High os Merced, 19-6, on October 29. Making it two victories in a row, the Griz- L zlies clobbered Chow- chilla High on Novem- ber 6, 34-18. Along came the Dos Palos Broncos to give us our second defeat in league play. 1 That defeat placed Cen- I L tral and the Washington Panthers in a tie for third place. Central in- i 4 vaded Washington in Easton on November 20, for the final game of the season, which we won, 25-O. Central finished in third place. i