Cody High School - Comet Yearbook (Detroit, MI)

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Mike Lofton, Cody end, narrowly evades a Western defensive halfback as he lunges for an oncoming pass to complete a successful first down. Rain soaked, cold, and covered with mud, Cody gridiron stalwarts watched intently as their fellow teammates plunged through Mackenzie's feeble defense for another touchdown. Straight-arming a burly Northwestern lineman, half- back .lim Morgan desperately attempts to pick up additional yards on an end sweep. These are the times that try men's souls. Frustrated Coach Young eyes the bench during the half-time intermission in search of a replacement for lineman Riclsard Call who was injured by Western's defensive tack e.

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-l In a flying one and one-half somersault, diver Ron Syria displays the perfect form and pre- cise timing that won for him the Metropolitan League Diving Championship. Getting off to a flying start, Comet freestylers Jack Wisney and Bill Dergis placed first and second in the grueling 200 yard event against Western. Thrashing their way to a first and second place finish in the 100 yard free style against Chadsey are Bob Boucher and Mike Pilkington as Cody participants cheer them on. Comet tankers had high hopes of swimming away with city honors as they churned their way through the 1958 schedule. In our opening dual meet, we encountered little opposition as we dunked Western 63-19. We streaked ahead again to swamp Southwestern 73-16, and to overwhelm Chadsey 63-22 in the following meets. However, in a battle of unde- feated squads, Redford edged out the Cody swimmers 46-40, and for the second straight year dimmed Comet hopes of a divisional title. Mackenzie drowned all hope by handing us a second successive defeat when their medley relay four pulled ahead in the last few seconds to post a 44-42 victory. In the last two scheduled con- tests, we took first place in the new 100 yard breast stroke event to tie Cooley 43-43, and dominated Cass Tech completely as we swam off with all but one first place. Cody highlighted an eventful year by smashing three team records, in the 100 yard butterfly, the 100 yard backstroke, and 100 yard free style. Climaxing the season, diver Ron Syria out per- formed all opposition to become the new All- City Diving Champion. Thirty-nine

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uen recon Acoreol Lg gri iron Aqua A season of many fumbles, injuries, and the usual run of bad breaks brought Cody's football squad through a schedule of equal wins and losses. Tackling Western, last year's title holder in the gridiron opener, we failed to patch up an injured line and fell to a powerful Cowboy offense, 33-6. ln the second game we eluded the jinx which had caused at least eight fumbles in the Western game, as our small but powerful eleven victimized Southwestern, 32-12. Again, stealing the show with exceptionally good ball-handling, we trounced Northwestern, our third opponent, 35-26. ln the next two contests, a rugged Chadsey squad handed us our second defeat, 25-14, and Redfordls hustling backfield scored 39 points to Cody's 12 for our third loss. We then slipped past neighboring Mackenzie, 25-13, sliding through a muddy field for four touch- downs and a homecoming victory. But out-blocked, out-run, and out-tackled, the scoreboard posted a 14-0 shut out as we lost to lVlumford's opposition in a non-league game to finish an in and out season of victory and defeat. VARSITY FOOTBALL TEAM . . . Front Row: G. Young fcoachl, J. Dingo, J. Hubbell, J. Morgan, R. Monczka fvaflrairil. I. Pieper, M. Greenhnlge, D. Fitch fcoachl. Second Row: M. Hubert, E. Burns, D. Prieur, P. Goldman, D. Begay, R. Call, F. Porler, L. West. Third ROW: L. Seltz, R. Adams, R. Brown, M. Boca, R. Rybinski, K. Prokes, J. Gemignani, K. VanCamp. Fourth Row: J. Burdak, F. Anza- Ione, R. Sluka, A. Stevens, M. Lofton, J. Csicsila, M. Rudick, Back Row: G. Rilett fstudent managerl, R. Ford, L. Maas, W. Sulak, G. Lyle, K. Baird, R. Schifko, R. Granfeldt fstudent managerl. F orty-one