Colonial Heights High School - Omnibus Yearbook (Colonial Heights, VA)

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Spirited classes battle on field during game and halftime With the arrival of November came plans for the annual Junior-Senior Powderpuff game. Girls signed up for the various teams as boys from each class got together to form the cheer- ing squads. Long practices took up a few of the evenings as the aspiring teams learned both offensive and defensive plays from foot- ball players posing as the coaches. Cheerleaders learned a few cheers but mainly spent their time limbering up their throwing arms. When the night of November 28 arrived, exuberant teams ieered at one another while they waited in the fieldhouse for the start of the game. Emotions let loose as the players lin- ed up at the scrimmage line and snapped the ball. Penalties plagued the Senior team and gave the Juniors the set up for their first touchdown. After 16 minutes of battling up and down the field, halftime activities com- menced. The Senior cheerleaders showed their talents as they bombarded the Juniors with fill- ed balloons and dozens of eggs. After the crowning of Jackie McCarter as Powderpuff King, the second half began. Coaches and players lost their tempers as the game progressed. A final touchdown in the last few minutes of play gave the Juniors the winning score of 14-0. . V-,sly -lil.: s-wglrlglf 's'IfS5i1: t, cs 1' 4 , Jn. i-1 1gg. Q-. .' n regfgfj J.-Mggvfi..gs.gQ,.. J. , ,..t.. ng:-1' 'SJx'bi '..l...i?' 1.4.-.MIQL 2 5 1. While in the library, first runner-up Dana Webb con- gratulates Jackie McCarter on his being selected Powder- puff King for 1973. 2. During the last practice before the game, coaches Jon Outlaw, Danny Fisher, David Krupp, and Jackie McCarter discuss special plays with the Senior Powderpuff players. 3. Scrimmages held during practice sessions enable players to perfect their techniques for the big game. 4. Waving the pulled flag in the air for the referees to see, a Senior player signals to other team members that the play has ended. 5. Advancing on the field, Senior cheerleaders use garbage can covers for shields as they bombard the Junior stands and cheerleaders with eggs and water-filled balloons. Powderpuff 25

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HS cheerleaders they happened to be performing doing stunts, making signs, or selling ribbons, CHHS cheerleaders very rarely a break from their spirit promoting ac- Trying to get students to show their 2 help spark spirits, support teams' efforts spirit enthusiastically became a full time job' for the cheerleaders. Since pep rallies became scarce during the school year, cheerleaders devised other ways to show the players that the school supported them. Handicapped by the broken bleachers, cheerleaders held out- side pep rallies during football season. Sometimes players awoke to find signs urging a victory mysteriously placed in their front yards during the night. To the delight of many a player and dismay of quite a few coaches, parties took the place of the absent pep rallies. Study halls became sign making time for the cheerleaders as they used this period to create many gigantic signs which covered cor- ridor walls. On some days, iackets, shirts, and vests suddenly bore ribbons obtained from the .il ll il 4 cheerleaders which enabled the wearers to show their spirit. Trying to promote spirit in the various classes as a whole, the cheerleaders created the spirit horn which was awarded to a different class each week, depending on how much spirit the class displayed during the week. ln addition to all their spirit promoting work, the cheerleaders themselves became involved in an entirely different type of cheerleading. Consisting of numerous stunts, these new cheers caused many extra hours of practice to fall upon the cheering squads. Aching muscles and numerous cases of lost voices plagued many a squad member as they learned the cheers for upcoming games. 3 'I. Before the pep rally begins, Patty Freeland points out where the other JV cheerleaders are to stand when they perform their cheers. 2. Executing a cheer during the foot- ball game, Carole Shortlidge yells to the crowded stands. 3. Furrowed brows and cries of despair escape from the cheerleaders as they listen to the many plans being described to them by the head cheerleader, Kathy Bandy. 4. Waiting for the bell to ring, Diane Hubbard, Lynne Covington, Julie Garrison, and Maureen McCarthy munch on candy and laugh over the day's events. Cheerleaders 27