East High School - Arrow Yearbook (Sioux City, IA)

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n1fAe4zele4,0nlAe6?laa4 LES DAVIS lead 0 ' eaacfa The history of East High. School athletics is closely tied up with the career of Leslie H. Davis, who was coach of football and track for nineteen years and of basketball for twelve years. Associates of Coach Davis testify that his influence on the character of boys whom he coached was as remarkable as the proficiency which they developed in sports.. Davis- coached football teams of 1927-1946 averaged seven wins against two losses each season. Basketball teams of 1927-1939 had a season average of seventeen wins against three losses. Coach Davis made the un- usual record of winning four state cchampionships in three sports while coaching at East High. The foot- ball teams of 1938 and 1939 were undefeated and STATE BASKETBALL CHAMPIONS H9341 generally considered winners of the mythical cham- pionship of Iowa. East cagers, having played in the state tournament six years out of twelve, captured the championship in 1934. The track team won the state meet in 1945. ,4Mktac'7eam4'7' Keenest rivals of the Black Raiders are the Little Maroons of Central High- School. Football games between the two had ended in ten Central victories before East tumed the tables 6-0 in 1936. Since then, there have been six victories for East, six for Central and one tie. In basketball the Raiders were first able to defeat Central in 1927 by a score of 15-9. Usually cagers of the cross-town rivals meet three times a season. Until 1949-50, the winner of the East-Central games took the city title, with seven football and eleven basketball championships going to East High. For seven straight years, 1929-1935. East kept the basketball crown. The two schools have shared the city title once in football and once in basketball. Since 1937 when East joined the Missouri Valley Conference, of which it is the smallest member school, the Raiders have won or shared the title five times in football, but have never annexed a basketball or track championship. Highest honors won by East High athletic teams are the four state championships: football, 1938 and 1939, basketball, 1934, and track, 1945. UNDEFEATED FOOTBALL TEAM OF 1938. 1 ?SV '193fi ' f S' .KA Q C

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al, 04 alla! la '7!we 7f1e4f Tlfaxecf Eloquurl Two Iowa Forensic League championships in de- bate Q1932 and 19401 highlight twenty-five years of speech work at East High School. A member of the 1932 team. Parnell Mahoney, won a national championship in extemporaneous speaking, while the team itself took third in the National Speech Tourna- ment, which was held at East High. The 1940 team captured second in the national tournament. Indi- vidual state championships have been won by Par- nell Mahoney Q19311 and Bruce Hughes 119431 in Extempore Speaking, and by Pat Betsworth Q19421 in Original Oratory. ln 1949 the debate team, having ranked second in the state. won the four-state N.F.L. district meet. Outstanding orator of recent years was Bill Kruse, Class of 1949, who topped district and state in both American Legion and Knights of Pythias contests and won the coveted Eastern trip awarded by the WNAX High School Forum. Outstanding coaches included John Schmidt. 1929-1938, C. W. Edney, 1938-1944, and Gwen Thompson, 1944 to the present. Slucfenld, .fike people, Feature of the early years at East High School were four sets of brother and sister clubs which were organized in January, 1925. The girls' organizations were Aeolian, Anungan, Alethian and Tokato: the respective boys' group were Pi-Sko, Maishu, Delta- mathian,and Viri Crastini. Every student who had earned twelve credits could belong. Merits were given for scholarship, attitude and achievement. Each se- mester a cup was awarded to the club having the 1 John Schmidt Mau' 0 highest number ot merits. Groups specializing in art, dramatics and languages organized and reorganized as interest fluctuated. At one time or another, clubs devoted to archery, acro- batics, current problems, and literature existed. Orpheon, organized in 1929, is the oldest club with a continuous record. Hi-Y and Hi Tri were organized in 1927, but they are not under the jurisdiction of the school. E r. 11 fi

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0z.e.e..,.z,1,1a,1. IZJAIGAGGSCGILB .ramp .asame fzazfasaaaaz waz. nap The first East High player to receive all-state recog- nition was Dutch Hutchinson, who placed on an All-State Football Team in 1927. Sam Epstein, in 1929, and Ward Browning, in 1928, and in 1929, received places- on All-State Basketball Teams. Browning was also named all-state in football. East also excelled in track in the early years when Ray Null, in 1928, and Howard Odell, in 1929, took first place in the pole vault at the State Track Meet. Howard Odell was also outstanding in both basket- ball and football. Next in line for all-state honors were Arden Hubbs, in 1930, in football. and Bob Muth. in 1932, in basketball. The championship team of 1934 produced three all-state basketball players - Ted Huertt, Leonard Van Royan, and Gerry Rosenberger. East's next leading athlete was Don Fleming. class of 1936, who was all-state in both basketball and football. The great football teams of the late thirties boasted three all-staters, Will Riordan 09382, Bob Odell 119395, and Frank Mosier 119403. Bob Odell became an All-American in 1943 while playing for Pennsylvania. In 1945, when East High won the State Track Meet, first place winners were the 2-mile relay team CRaun Rasmussen, Dick Rhinehart, Bill Blakesley, and Bob Norrisj and the 880-yard relay team CJim Stultz, Don Hakes, Bob Lekowsky, and Joe Coeb. Most recent all-state football players were John Tillo C1946J and Harold Corky Reister 419481. Pep has always been in evidence at East High. In 1934 a Pep Club was organized, but it soon became apparent that the club was not needed. In more recent years the pep has shown up in other than athletic activities. The zeal with which the school responded to the purchase of new stage equipment and further redecoration of the auditorium is proof of this. Boy cheerleaders were chosen in 1927, but the girls soon came into their own. One yell, the Great Big has been used since 1927. Howard Dobson. East High alumnus, first called Eastmen the Black Raiders. Even the teachers enter into the pep and school spirit. Miss Kreutz wrote the school song, On the field, on the floor',' and Mr. Marksbury wrote the Alma Mater song, which is always sung at Horne- coming. spam few... swaz Jack Naismith, the only head coach to precede Les Davis, trained teams in both football and basketball. Coach Milton S. Delzell deserves much credit for the success of athletics at East High School, for he has shared in coaching duties for 14 years. Delzell came to East in 1936 to serve as assistant to Coach Davis. In 1940 he took over the head post at basketball and kept it until Coach Rudy Carlson came to East in 1946. When Davis resigned, Coach Delzell took over both track and football. In 1949 he turned the track post over to Coach Eugene Farrell. STATE TRACK CHAMPIONS 119453. The championship two-mile relay team was composed of Raun Rasmussen, 2nd row, second from left: Dick Rhinehart, front row, on the right end: B11 Blakcsley. front row, on the left end: and Bob Norris. second row, on left end. The championship 880-yard relay team was composed of Joe Coe, front row, fifth from left: Jim Stultz, second row, third from left: Don Hakes, front row. second from left: and Bob Lekowsky. front row. fourth from left.