Cerro Gordo High School - Gordian Yearbook (Cerro Gordo, IL)

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ATHLETICS COACH EBBERT Coach Ebberl came 'ro Cerro Gordo's grid- iron bringing wi+h him an unqueslionable scholas- lic record and +he collegiale spiril in a blaze of hol socks and plaid shirls. l-lis good nalure made an insl'an+ hi+ wilh The looys and made him lhe obiecl of friendly heckling. The coach's merry ,crinkling laugh appears in ready response lhough The kidding may Touch his sacred Ford. Big and slrong like Popeye. he gels his roughage from lhe green grass on lhe foolloall field. Tension in a game finds him in a characlerislic pose kneel- ing on lhe sod clurching a weary dark head. This is Coach Ebber+'s lirsl year of coaching, buf he has buill' up an unimpregnable lighling spiril and has produced Okaw Valley Jropnolchers.

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WhaT a marvelous Thing o bond isl lT holds wiThin iTselT nearly every Tone Trom The deepesT rumble oT The bass and The cool, TloaTing Tone oT The cIorine+ To The peneTraTing coll oT The TluTe and The scream oT The piccolo. The band room is a caldron oT sound: a honlc oT a saxophone blasTs Through The wailings oT The clarineTs while The TrumpeTs laboriously climb The chromaTic scale: a roll on The snare, a beaT oT The bass drum and a sharp command oT lnsTrumenTs aT resT, soTTens iT inTo a buzz oT voices and a scraping oT chairs. The baTon is poised in mid-air waiTing Tor The Tallc To cease. Whiz! Down comes The baTon. A roar oT quarTer noTes and half noTes are Thrown TogeTher like Mulligan sTew. No, No! ThaT's noT The way. May l have your aTTenTion? l.isTenl lT goes lilce This: clarineTs, one-ee-and-a, Two-ee-and-a-and The resT oT you brass people are iusT The background. All righT, sTarT aT number 27-To where The Trombones come in, and, Kenny, give me a beaT on The boss drum in The TourTh measure. and l wonTo1 big cymbal crash. Brr-There goes The bell and we mill ouT To our second hour classes wiTh The oTT said buT soon Tor- goTTen, Don'T TorgeT To puT your music away. And so, liTTle Tunes are manuTacTured and merrily senT swinging Their way inTo everyday liTe. Z Frydenger, Bell, Dobson, Baker, Krall, Adams, Troxel, ChrisTner, Hiser, SheeTs, Fyd ger, Van Horn, Robinson, Derr, Dickey, Schiff, WrighThouse, Tirey, Reeves. Leach, E. Chapman, Parkhursf, Holcomb, Remmers, Snoke, M. Hiser, E. Chapman, Pollard, Myers, ETn y D. Chapman, R. Chapman, M. Mecurn, Warfield, Burch, D. Dobson, Kepley, Adv. Born, Grove, M. Mecum, Dickson, HuTfingTon, Veech, K. Bell, Crowe. SCUND EFFECTS 29

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.Tl o Rr 555 E. Cissna, S. Peferson, W. Jones, M. Born, D. Severns, K. Hiser, R. Afer, H. Sifes, R. Lufes, G. Horton, S. Johnson. J. Mikels, D. Davidson, H. Wallace, R. Rufledge, B. Boggs, R. Nix, R. Marvin, R. Dodd, H. Snoke, H. Derr, E. Ebberf, Coach. H. Crisrnon, A. Kreig, W. Horton, G. Jenkins, M. Edgeccmb, E. Morgan, CapTain, W. Hendricks, W. ArmsworTh, R. Wyne, H. Roberfs, R. Holcomb. I FOOTBALL A pessimisTic sun iabbing aT your eyes or an aTTernoon OT smoggy chilliness and heaps aT blankeTs aren'T asseTs To comTorTg yeT The TooTball Tans sTick under such circumsTances. FooTball has iTs magneTic qualiTiesg when a crowd wades in slushy grass and huddles on bare, alooT grand- sTands To see eleven uniTs OT deTerminaTion TighT Tor losing inches, The sporT musT have someThing. The hoarse voices OT TaiThTul Tans, The crackle of hoT popcorn, ond The languid unwrapping oi candy bars make audible The auTumn aTTernoon. There's drama in The Tan pacing The sidelines, screwing his Tace in sympaThy wiTh an injured player, sTraining wiTh The elevens' knoTTed muscles, rubbing cold, sTiTT hands, and casTing TurTive glances To see if The lump which swelled in his ThroaT wiTh The sTrains OT a school song was naTiced. And noT To be overlooked is The silly adoles- cenT making vague inquiries abouT The game's Technique. All This is TooTballl 3l ,ff X