Coalinga High School - Petrolia Yearbook (Coalinga, CA)

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June 1937 The Petrolia Page 53 Coalinga High Five Ties Fowler For League Crown A Class: Top row: Heath, coach, Knight. O ' Neill, Stephen . MacLean. C i. Bznirdeau. Branson. Divis. Bottom row: Engatrom, Gow- an. Lacey. Murphy, eapt.. Western. Obert. CI. Bourdeau. B Class; Copeland. capt.. Chamberlain. Chedesler, W. Tune. Jewett. Greve, ;. Tune. Reyner. Fleisher. C Class; McCollum, Ensstrom, Gar in. Rhoads, Harrold, McNeill, Smith, Bordatraray. Bruee, Baker, Kirk- pat, ick. MacLean. Lay, Champlin, Lahargoue, Ramsey, capt. era, the Coalinga team evened the count with Kingsburg on Jan- uary 16 by winning 31 to 26, with Western storing 20 tor Coalinga. Clovis Stops Championship Coalinga won its first game with Clovis, January S, by a 29 to 26 score. In their second game Clovis knocked Coalinga into a tie with Fowler tor the division title by sinking four free throws in the last two minutes of play to de- feat Coalinga by a one-point mar- gin of 23 to 22. Coalinga-Fowler Playoff Fowler High School won the playoff game with Coalinga on February 2: ' , in a battle royal for 1 lie Division Championship. Coal- inga actually won the game in the Brsl half, leading Fowler by a score of 26 to 14. hut in the id half Coalinga blew up like a ballOOD when I.acey and Bourdeau went out on fouls and finally l .-t 33 to 2. .. For the first time in several years the Coalinga High School produced a winning varsity basketball team. Coalinga ' s quintet defeated Fowler twice but split its series with both Kingsburg and Clovis, leaving it in a tie with Fowler for the division title. The H and C class squads, while losing all their games, developed some promis- ing material for 1938. Fowler Defeated Twice On January 21;. Coalinga de- fealed Fowler by a score of 24 to 22. Although the Coalinga five Fowler an early nine-point lead, it came through after a 13 10 1:: tje ;,i naif time to control I he game all the second half. The Coalinga quintet won from Fowler on February 9 by an even er margin, this time by the Score of 23 to 22. Coalinga led all the first half. but Fowler jumped into the lead at the re- cess to hold a 2-point edge at the end of the third quarter. In a breath-takingly exciting last quarter, the locals mustered five points and held the visitors to only two fie»- throws. Split Series With Kingsburg Kingsburg swept Coalinga to defeat on Wednesday. .January 11. the contest ending 26 to 22. Led by a brilliant bucketing on the pari of Dale West

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Page 52 The Petrolia June 1937 1. O ' Neill goes over the top. 2. Lacey snags one. 3. Bourdeau blocks for Brunson. 4. O ' Neill punts out. one. 6. The team clears the way for Brunson around right end. Lacey tries for a high FOOTBALL (Continued from Page 51) and the other two were by a pass from Engstrom to Cowan and an interception by O ' Neill. Bour- deau and Powell each made a conversion. Clovis Taken 14 to 13 Winning the second league game of the season, the local team continued its streak of vic- tories October 3. at Clovis. by trimming the strongest team which opposed Coalinga, 14 to 13. A great deal of the victory was cha- ged to Ed O ' Neill, whose punting got Coalinga out of every kind of a hole, and to Cledith Bourdeau, who booted the con- versions which saved Coalinga ' s neck. Both of Coalinga ' s scores were made on beautifully executed and deceptive passes. John Brunson was on the twirling end of both plays, Jerry Sagaser nabbing one and Jack Lacey the other. Both were completed in the end zone. Washington Union Defeated Brunson-to-Lacey passes again paved the way to victory for Coalinga. This time Washington Union was the victim, with Coal- inga winning 19 to 0. After a bad first half of the game, Brunson pitched two beau- tiful passes to Lacey, who gal- loped over the zero stripe for goals. In the fourth quarter, Bill Mouren intercepted a pass on the 50-yard line and sped goalward to the 15. from where O ' Neill went over after two tries, using Coach Frank Heath ' s new spread formation touchdown play. Bour- deau again toed the ball over the goal posts. Win Dad ' s Day Game On November 6, Kerman lost to Coalinga 12 to in their first appearance before the new 800 capacity bleachers, which were packed with Coalinga fans. The players ' Dads were guests of the student body. The two touchdowns were both scored in the third quarter, one on a pass from Brunson to Lacey and the other on an end run by O ' Neill from Coalinga ' s touch- down play. Fowler Spoils Record Friday, the thirteenth of No- vember, was bad news for Coal- inga ' s team for they lost to Fow- ler 6 to 0. This put Coalinga, Fowler, and Clovis in a three-way tie for the division title. A flip of the coin eliminated Fowler, and Coalinga and Clovis made arrangements to play for the title. At the last minute the C. I. F. committee reversed the decision of the County Commis- sion and Coalinga drew the lot entitling them to play for the valley title. But first Fowler had to beat the diminutive Laton team, winners of their division. Fowler lost and left Coalinga the champions without a title. Clovis Again Beaten Staking their chances of play- ing for the valley title on the out- come of the game, Coalinga de- feated Clovis 18 to 14. Brunson, Lacey and Mouren scored the touchdowns.

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Page 54 The Petrolia June 1937 if J f f ©J Baseball: Top row; Cowsert, Zwicky, Fleisher. Borda aray, Vickery. Mechalis, White- ner, Kahl, Ramsey, Davis, Beckman. Murphy, Douglas, McCollum, Coach Heath. Bottom row; Copeland, Brunson, Becker. Obert, Stephens, Jeffers, O ' Neill, Lacey, Myers. West- ern. Bourdeau, Knight, Gilman. Track: Top row; Peck, Baker, Bruce. Lewis. M. Pow- ell. Loftis. Lahaoroue, Garvin. H. Powell. Bottom row: Gilman, Ennstrom, Koehler. Gowan. Prindle. Goivan And Gilman Lead Track Squads In Meets Coalinga track-men were fairly successful in their 1937 meets. They did not par with the squads of preceding years, hut since material for track was so hard lo find they did more than was ex- pected from them. The most outstanding stars of the season were: James Bruce, C class high jumper and sprinter; Donald Gilman, C class jumper and distance runner; Forrest Gowen, A class high and 1 o w hurdler; Francie Prindle. A class hurdler; Harold Koehler and James Switzer. high jumpers; Bill Ayers, broadjumper and sprinter, and Melvin Powell, broad juniper. Donald Gilman, however, was the most up-and-coming man of the bunch. In the King City Invitational Meet, he competed and won first place in the B class 440. Later at Lemoore he ran the A class 44(1 and took second place in a close sprint to the tape with the first Coalinga Nine Scores 5 And 2 The Coalinga High School base- ball team scored rat her low in the 1937 winning list, with five defeats and two victories. In its first game, with Kings- burg, Coalinga lost by a 9 to 6 margin, scoring two runs in the first, one in the third, and three ' n the ninth inning. On April 2, however, the Coal- inga nine scored a 5 to 3 win over Clovis High School. In this game both the Clovis pitcher and Jack Lacey, Coalinga winger, fanned eleven men. But Lacey allowed only two hits while Coal- inga made eight. Kerman High School defeated Coalinga in the closest ball game ever played by Coalinga High teams, by a score of 1 to 0. The only score of the game was in the eighth inning when Schwab- enland. the Kerman third sacker, smacked a beautiful three bag- ger and came home on an error by Ed O ' Neill, Coalinga catcher. Again Coalinga was defeated by Fowler on April 16. by a 10 to 5 score. But Coalinga finally won another game. This time the Coal- inga nine defeated Central by the fuzz off ' n their cheeks, with a score of 3 to 1. Reedley High School took Coalinga in an 11-inning tilt on April 22 by a score of 4 to 2. Coalinga lost its last game with Sanger on April 30, by the score of S to 3. place runner of Lemoore. At Selma he broke the county B Class 330 reco ' d by negotiating the dis ance in 3S.S. At Lemoore, Forrest Spec Gowen accounted for 12 of Coal- inga ' s 20 points with his running and hurdling.