Emmerich Manual High School - Ivian Yearbook (Indianapolis, IN)

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Sports, an activity that showed over half of the Manual student body participating, was an area of high interest for Redskins. Cylde Boggan grimaces for that extra inch in the long jump track Drummer Tommy Thompson plays the Redskin beat at an early morning pep rally on Manual ' s campus. Pep rallies created high spirit and enthusiasm for many of the teams and activities this year. Activities 7

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Activities kept Manual morale high throughout the 1978-1979 school year. Before school, afternoons, evenings, and even during precious week end hours, Manualites were busy practicing sports, rehearsing plays, cheering at pep rallies, creating Homecoming floats, executing marching band routines, planning Pow Wow booths and otherwise investing their energies and enthusiasm in Manual activities. In a way, it was involvement in activities which made Manual pupils feel they were Redskins, part of their school and proud of their school. Manual ' s activities were as diverse as the talents and interests of its students— from Bowling Club buffs to dedicated athletes, Spanish Club aficianados, theater fans, and promising reporters. What remained the same, however, through all the activities, was the Manual spirit. We are the Redskins! Taking off on their 25 mile ride, Manual bicyclists head out across the Pleasant Run footbridge. The Pride Ride funds help purchase equipment for the football team, and create pride and caring for the Redskin football team. 6 Activities

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;ins capture 78 City Crown Strong pitching and clutch hitting was Coach Bill Rosenstihl ' s explanation when the baseball team captured the City Tourney title to make Manual and the community exclaim proudly ' We are the Redskins. ' Rosenstihl said the team ' s pitching carried the team through the tourney, as it lacked hitting going into the final game of the tournament. Going into the tournament, we were very confident of our hitting, but it fell out from under us. Luckily we had two fine pitching performances by Geroge Greer and Fred Shipley, said Rosenstihl. Winning 9-7 in the final game over Marshall, the team was down seven times in the game before taking the 9-7 lead in the sixth inning. The winning blow came as Randy Munn blasted a pitch over the left field fence to score three runs. When I saw the pitch was coming in at the letters, I knew I ' d swing, because that ' s where I love a pitch to be. I took a full cut and it was gone, said Munn. The home run was Munn ' s first in nine years of organized baseball. I felt really great. My arm was not sore at all, and I didn ' t have to pitch out of the stretch. I had good control during the game until the seventh when George came in for me, said Shipley. Greer relieved in the seventh inning of the final game, and he had won two previous games in the tourney. The four consecutive tourney wins helped to push the team ' s record to a 16-5 season mark. Southport beat Manual in the Sectional Final to end the successful Redskin season. The baseball season was the exciting culmination of an active Spring at Manual High School. Randy Munn tries to bunt his way on the base paths. Munn hit a home run in the sixth inning of the City Final to give the Redskins a 9-7 city championship. Elated with joy, Manual supporters mob catcher Mark Gilvin and other players after the final game of the City Tourney. 8 Baseball