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

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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

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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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SCORES FOOTBALL Sept I7 Sept 24 Ocf. I Oct 7. .... .... . OCT. Nov. Nov. I5 OCI. 22 4 I7 Cerro Gordo 6 Cerro Gordo I3 Cerro Gordo I2 Cerro Gordo 6 Cerro Gordo 0 Cerro Gordo 6 Cerro Gordo O Cerro Gordo 6 Cerro Gordo's Okaw VaIIey SIanding BASKETBALL Dec. 2 Dec. 7 Dec. IO Dec. 2l Dec. 22 Jan. 4 Jan. 7 Jan. II Jan. I4 Jan. I8 Jan. 2I Jan. 25 Jan. 28 Feb. 8 Feb. Il Feb. I5 Feb. I8 Feb. 22 Feb. 25 Cerro Gordo 23 Cerro Gordo I2 Cerro Gordo 33 Cerro Gordo 28 Cerro Gordo 37 Cerro Gordo 37 Cerro Gordo I9 Cerro Gordo 2 I Cerro Gordo I9 Cerro Gordo 24 Cerro Gordo 29 Cerro Gordo 37 Cerro Gordo 2 I Cerro Gordo I6 Cerro Gordo 20 Cerro Gordo 26 Cerro Gordo 20 Cerro Gordo 26 Cerro Gordo 44 8. 'ng' Villa Grove I3 SI1eIbyviIIe 0 SuIIivan O Newman 2I IvIonIiceIIo I9 BemenI' I3 ArcoIa 26 Afwood 8 Argenfa 27 Weldon 7 Deland 6 Argenfa I5 Cisco 9 I-Iammond I2 Arcola 26 Bemenf I6 MonIiceIIo 30 Afwood I8 SuIIivan 23 Hammond I7 Newman 22 Bemenf I4 SuIIivan I4 Afwood 2 I MonI'iceIIo 32 Farmer Ci'ry I6 Farmer Ci'ry 23 Cerro Gordo, I4 Holiday Tournamenf aI ArcoIa, Jan. 2- AIIerI'on. 23. Okaw VaIIey Tournamenf aI' IvIonIiceIIo, Dec. 2-Cerro Gordo. I2: Bement I6. Regional Tournamenf of Decafur, March 2-Cerro Gordo, I8: Decafur, 28. Cerro Gordo's Okaw VaIIey Sianding-2. 32 , T97