Deer Park High School - Antlers Yearbook (Deer Park, OH)

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TRACK AND CHEERLEADERS TRACK This year our track team was very short of materiul-nevertheless the boys made c: good showing. Paul Spahr, dashman; Johnny Jack- son, dashmcm; Johnny Bull Meeker, broad iumper; Joe Thorman, shot putter; Chuck Brandt, high iumper; and Claude Crowe and Vic Feinuuer, relay men, were our most important entries in the meets in which we competed. The Plainville relays and the M. V. l. l. track and Field meets were our main evenfs of this year. SECOND ROWeCcach E. Phillips, J. Thurman, B. Summers, P. Henry, J. Jackson. V. Feinaver. FIRST ROW P. Spuhr, J. Meeker, C. Benhase, J. Bedford, K. Palmifer. 25 CHEERLEADERS Cheerleaders Thelma Shrouf, Betty Currens, DoHie Sficklond, and Pa? Suter, with Ginny Snyder as head cheerleader, were active again this year. This group was given much praise this year for their exceEIenf work. Put Sufer and Betty Currens were new this year, but they seemed to work well with Stickland and Shrout who have hcxd ?wo years experience, and wilh Snyder who hqs had Threee P. Sufer, T. Shroui. B. Currens, D. Sticklund, Ge Snyder,

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FOOTBALL TEAM FIRST ROWeA. McNeeve, B. Williams, B. Rhodes, C. Crowe, W. Mersch, R. Forste, 8. Thompson, J. Bedford, E. Hansen, W. Fricke. SECOND ROW-Mr. Watters, Jt Meeker, 8. Enters, C. Benhcse, J. Jackson, 0. Wilson, D. Leslie, C. Henneman, J. Garrison. Mr. Carr. THIRD ROWeE. Stinson, C. Byrnes, F. Pascholl, T. Piepmeyer, D. Buck, Rt Yeats, B. Louder, Jl Hull. FOURTH ROWeB. Huger, L. Bailey, 3. Richart, E. Mueller, C. Cordell, A. Sprogue, J. Thurman. Boomlng punts, spiralling posses, plunging runners, scatty dashes, and bone-crushing tackles are a few of the welluremembered incidents in the training of the Wildcat gridders of 1944. On the losing and of the score all the time..mude a tough thing for the boys, but the training of new players promises good returns 'For next year, as only four of the squad were graduated, and one other goes into military service. ' Bachman, quarterback; Mersch, end,- Thompson, tackle; and Forste, end; were the Seniors on the squad, and Curly Crowe, iunior halfback, seems headed for the armed forces soon. Other boys on the squad who won their D, and will be on deck for the team next full are Enters, end; Thormon, tackle; Jackson, fullback; Richort, tackle; Wilson, guard,- Meeker, center; Sprague, halfback; Piepmeyer, halfback; Garrison, guard, and Henneman, guard. 24

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VARSITY BASKETBALL TEAM The prospects 'for the Deer Park High School 1944-45 basketball season were rather dismal when the season started. Shortly before the first game was scheduled to be played, the team had the great misfortune to lose two of its best players when the Noble brothers enlisted in the U. 5. Navy. How- ever, the candidates for the team who were ieft determined that they would do everything in their power to make the season as successful as possible. That they were successful in their attempt is proved by the fact that they were able to win seven games during the season. The team that Coach Carr started in the maiority of the games was composed entirely of under ciassmen. Three seniors helped to round out the ten players making Up the varsity squad. The fact that the starting five were underclassmen is ample proof that the Deer Park team for the 1945-46 season should be very strong. The majority of the teams that were played this year consisted of Seniors, and these players will not be back next season to represent their schools. On several occasions Coach Carr had very good opportunities to observe that this year's team had a very outstanding spirit, Many games were piayed against teams which were larger and had had more experience in the court game, but on every occasion the Deer Park players came through with real fighting spirit. i'Chuck Brandt was selected early in the season by the other members of the team to serve as captain, and it was under his able leadership that the team demonstrated outstanding qualities. FIRST ROW-A. Piepmeyer, W. Krenning, C. Benhuse, C. Brandt, H. Aicorn, H. Berninq. SECOND ROWeMr. Carr, C. Crowe, P. Henry, A. Sprague; R. Forste, L Bailev. MlSSINGeR. Bachmun. 26