Emporia State University - Sunflower Yearbook (Emporia, KS)

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014121de aniiall plaqeu of me 1942 geadcm Virgil Hurt Willis Allen Eldon Scharff Carl Calvert Back Guard Tackle End Gerald White Marshall Sharrai Lester Thompson Marvin Bayless Guard Guard End Center Wallace Robinson Curtis Fischer Lawrence Valburg Harlan Wolf Tackle End Tackle End

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Hornet Keeps its Sting TO BUILD a football team around five returning lettermen and twenty-three freshmen in a squad of forty-one is a mammoth task for any coach. Yet, this was the job Which faced Head Coach F. G. tiFranii Welch as he Viewed the 41 men Who turned out on those hot, dusty days last fall to begin training for the 1942 football season. Lead by co-captains Cur- tis Fischer and Bernard Taylor, the re- turning lettermen gave Coach Welch three backs, one end, and a center. Many of the additional men Who had turned in 3 ' ------ -. '-' era: 'Z:Z:.: 5;. .;2;. ...: ..:,,;... 1. ..... . ..;.:.j.:.'.;; ................. 54.34:?1.5.3.552 ' i- . ' - - - - -. :-. ----- .............. ;.;.;.' . . . . . , ' -:-.-:- :::: ;-:-:-;-' ;:-:-:; FRONT ROW: Burns, Peters, Hurt, Campbell, Chodrick, Calvert, Sattler. Groberg, White, SEC- OND ROW: Fischer, Taylor, Knox, Thompson, Allen, Robinson, Bayless, Lemeshaw, Volberg, Dick, .,:,:.::-:-:;., ................... their suits at the end of spring training were now playing on a greater team for a greater glory. From this beginning grew the Hornets 0f i112, deveIOping the famed razzle dazzle plays of Coach Welch into the equally famed hornet sting. Eight foes, not one of them the pro- verbial iipush over? lay ahead of the Hornet squad. In anticipation of these trials, the men directed their energies to passing, days of scrimmage, blocking, running, and skull practice. -- - - - v.;.;. ,; ........ ;-.-2'.'.-.'.' 333 .................. '.;.;.'.'.'.'.'. ............ :1'5 ' ;- Z-J-L;:'Z ..................... -.;.;.-.;.;.;.;.;.;.;.;.;.;.;.;. ..... ...... Wu .... ..;:i:f:':f::ti:- . L .' ...... 33 0. Mm ................. .......... ........ ......... .' '.'.':'2'. .......... .............. '-:-:-:-:-;-: ''''' .1: 3:64.35 . . ' --:s;;j'.: r. g.gyfzt-x- -2' . 'iz':-.;;ff:f:3:1::;;.;:5:.:;:t .- 1kg 339$. .;.v:fQ.'E:'..$,;:?:T'V 5:9... tah'x-v .-;'$;- :0- JJ. ' 57'1 'T-.-:-.-Z-.-L-' .- :,- 3.;:.:.:;g.:.;.;.;.;. --.-.:.:.y;- .,.:.j...:.: :.:.;.:.:$$:.:.:.:.:.j.;..f.'...;.:.:.n.j.j.nj .-.;.Q.;;:4. - ; u-f. ;.' ,nxag' 13-1.. C'lu'Ti'Tn2.2-3st .-.-.-.-..-v : :3 --rr' -;-:. -' . . W5 -.:-:-:-- .-.-:-9$E-:-;-:+x-1-.-.-2-:c-:v:.2. AIwM$$R - .o..'5-35$;-'-:-:-:-x-;$:;mgmw-mtxzc-ilx.4'+t.:-.:;:::s:-..vex-n.'-?x'-.rrw-srn...-:?-:n'.'i:-9.Lai'It-t-t-ao'.s $4.331; .- ,st THIRD ROW: Foster. Klock, I. Shields, McGee, Wolf, Nelson, Wisdom, E. Sharrai, Martin, Todd, Shields. BACK ROW: Eilts, Leak, Scharff. Maersch, Lake, Bowlin, Graber, Edwards, Welch. 21

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Lyle Groberg Back Bum Foster Back Dale Bowlin Back Warren Dick Guard Byron Graber End J 0e Edwards Back Burton Knox Back Bernard Taylor Back Robert Peters Back J ack Schultz Back Bernard McGee Back .uiwau . ..........a......- v .-..