Emery High School - Eagle Yearbook (Emery, SD)

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Emery's gridiron success was due to their forceful line and the powerful running of their backfield men.. Emery 0 Bridgewater Emery 2 0 Letcher Emery 35 Carthage Emery 48 Artesian Emery 25 Canova Emery 35 Alexandria Emery 13 Plankinton Con erence Play-0 s Leading the Emery Gridders through a successful football campaign this year were four senior defensive standouts: Bob Arend, DeWayne Ahrendt, Earl Richter, and Jim Terveen. The Eagles compiled a record of four wins and three losses, losing two of these to old rivals Bridgewater and Alexandria. The Emery-Alexandria game found the two teams clashing for the conference title. With Rodney Jones at the helm, the Eagles defeated Carthage 35-19 in our first afternoon homecoming game. Royce Huber led the Eagles in their running attack. He had 72 carries with an average of 3. 7 yards per carry. Our quarterbacks for the year, Bruce Huber, Clyde Bartel, and Richard Mayer, completed 73 out of 162 passes for a total of 893 yards. The Eagles scored 176 points to their opponents' 154 points. Seniors provided the backbone of Emery's offensive and defensive units. The Beavers await the attack of the Eagles' offense during the conference championship game.

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These boys comprised the Eagles football squad for 1966. Eagles Place Second in Final Our energetic cheerleaders sparked E l P Cl b. Senior ards E 1R'lt d the age ep u gu , ar 1c1er an Jim Terveen, served as co-cap- tains for the Eagles.

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Team Captain, Bob Arend, Coach Jones smiled proudly after his The jubilant cheerleaders lined permitted everyone to admire Eagles won the trophy. up as they await their steaks the District 22 Championship after the tournament. trophy. Athletes Brou ht Home Honors Mr., Thomas promised the boys steaks if they won the District Championship, and that promise was fulfilled. Immediately following the game, the players, coaches, managers, and cheerleaders paid a visit to Chef Louie's Steakhouse, Everyone was so excited that the whole room was in an uproar. Nerves finally started to loosen up as everyone began to fully realize what had happened. Mr. Thomas also treated the team, managers, and cheerleaders to steaks after the team took second in the Region VI tournament. The track team brought home a first place trophy in the Corn-Belt Conference Track meet at Mitchell. By placing second in the Regional track meet at Mitchell, Emery qualified to take ten track boys to the State meet. Pork and Big John were still excited hours after the victory. Darwin and Nick, two of the Eagles' Head track coach displayed our Corn- The track managers took starters, finally start to relax. belt Conference trophy. time to show off the con- ference trophy.