Decorah High School - Viking Yearbook (Decorah, IA)

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ON THE AMERICAN FRONT Decorah 27-Cresco 13 Everyone at this game saw that Decorah planned to keep up their hard fighting. The Bucktonians ran all over Cresco to a final count of 27-13. Spike Davis and Blueboy Faldet gave good accounts of themselves. Decorah 14-Charles City 0 Decorah journeyed to Charles City and kept up their victory march. At the end of the first half Decorah had scored 1-L points. By playing heads-up football. the boys kept Charles City scoreless to the end of the game. Torgenrude and Grindeland showed themselves praiseworthy. Decorah 38-Waukon O For the last game of the season. the Buckton- ians went over to Waukon to meet their tradi- tional enemies. The first quarter ended 13 to 0 in our favor. The other quarters each had a smattering of scores. but since the game as a whole looked like a one-sided track meet, Decorah ended the season with another big victory. The second team, too, showed that they were not to be outdone when they went through the entire season undefeated. This scrappy team which consists primarily of freshmen and sophomores wo11 over teams which were i11 many cases much bigger and heavier than themselves. However, keeping in mind Coach Kjome's Words: The bigger they are-the harder they fall our boys defeated second teams from Cresco, Oelwein, New Hampton and VVaukon. Shortly after the close of the football season, all members of the 1939 squad were entertained at a banquet given by the school. A Hne slipper was served by the advanced cooking class and short talks were given by the coaches Hlld team members. Speaker of the evening was Coach Hamlet Peterson of Luther College. The gridsters named here are those who earned letters for their hard work, good playing and ti111e played. The awards were presented in an assembly shortly after the football banquet. The lettermen are: Neal Davis, Curtis Thomp- son. Dervin Faldet, Leonard Gray, Kenneth Nesset, Philip liosen, Curtis Larson, Roger fil'lllLl9l?1l1ll, Dick Holm, Don Torgenrnde, lien- neth Rima, Robert Rasmus, Kay Gaul, Shelby Gaul and Raymond llsgaard Cmanager's letterl. DECORAH vs. WAUKON sneak? WWINR W :rf f my ,.,. .

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liox Score: Decorah. . . . Ii-1 liime Springs Ilecorah. .. . 30 liansing ..... Decorah . .. . 18 1Vest llnion . Decorah. .. . 25 Usage ...... Decorah. . . . 27 Waukon . . . . Decorah. . . . 18 New Hampton Decorah. . . . 29 Fresco . . . . .. lleeorah. . . . 24 Oelwein .... Decorah. . . . 25 West. llnion . Decorah. . . . 15 New Hampton Decorah, ,, , 37 llresco ...... Decorah. . . . 27 Waukon . . llecorah. . . . 29 Uelwein . . Decorah. . . . 27 Osage . . . . Decorah. . . . 1-l Mcflregor . . Decorah. .. . 23 Fresco ...... Decorah. . . . . . 19 New Hampton Total 1,tl1lliN ..... 421 20 19 30 23 43 20 16 59 24 29 21 19 43 26 28 1 S 23 461 STAND UP With a conference championship to uphold and a long', tough schedule looming' up ahead, the Viking' five of the 1939-1940 season found a big' assignment facing them. Around two re- turning lettermen. Howard tlwen and Don liolmgren, Voach A. F. Hancer had to build his Viking quintet. The other berths were filled by Vhellis Evanson, Vharles Hislop and Roger tlrindeland. with Kenneth liima and Bob Ziegel- maier seeing' a great deal of action. Though Decorah did not win the conference crown, it made a very creditable showing. Ut' a schedule of seventeen g'ames played, the Hancermen won nine and dropped eight. tlpening their season with liime Springs on December 5, the Vikings, although lacking a great deal of polish, were on the long' end of ll 34-20 final score. Lansing came to Decorah on December 8 and was handed a 30-19 defeat. Don Holmgren paced the Haneermen with twelve points. 'l'he Bombers from VVest llnion had too much speed and found their l'ange so easily that, as a result, the Vikings received their first loss on December 15. 'l'he final score at West l'nion was 330-18 with the Bombers on top. Usage visited here on December 19 to be the Vikings' first conference foe. The game was very close, and in spite of an Usage fourth quarter rally, the Vikings rolled out a 25-23 win. Journeying to Waukon on January 5, the locals were trimmed by the Indians 43-27. 'l'hree of the tirst string' members went out on personal fouls before the end of the fourth pe1'iod. The C'hieks from New Hampton were hosts to the Haneermen on January 12 and climaxed the opening of their new gymnasium by tripping Decorah 20-18. This was the second conference loss for the Vikings. Decorah broke its losing streak by over- powering l'resco's Spartans 29-16 on the home floor on January 10. The Huskies from Uelwein gave the Hancermen their worst shellacking of the season when the locals traveled to Uelwein on January 19 and were trampled 59-24. llixxeicu 1fl'1NNIC'l'lI RIMA Room: GaiNm:I.ANn ORVILLI-1 DANu':LsoN f'1lAnI.i4:s Hisnol