Enid High School - Quill Yearbook (Enid, OK)

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14 5 Congratulations Seniors! You have earned the honor of being a Sen- ior, and now comes the big iesi . . . that of be- ing a useful American citizen . . . 'ir Remember . . lt Pays to Shop at PENNEY'S We have grown from one store to over 1,600 in 40 years through application of sound, honest principles and the thorough training of young Americans. Penney's celebrate their 25th year in Enid this year... i943 106-8 West Randolph, Enid, Okla. g V 6 0L A llIlIlllllllllllllllllllllllll Illlllll Q OUR STATE Ti-ua Quitt MAGAZINE gootbaff Champions By ALBERT IOHNDROW When the first football practice of the year was called on September l, no one suspected that champions were about to be made, no one even guessed that Enid would this year bring a never-before-held honor to alma mater. Even T. King, amicable mentor, voiced skepticism before the beginning of the season which held a long list of formid- able foes. True, the Plainsmen had some re- inforcements left from last year's fairly suc- cessful eleven such as Simmons, Pritchard, Gildea, Cummings, West, lack Day in the line and Keeton, Leierer, Kelly, Iohndrow, Luther, Sleeper and Burdick in the backfield slots, and also some outstanding new comers in the form of Iuniors Clarence Paine and Bob Buxton, Sophomore Floyd Winfield, and Seniors Bob Miller and Lee Van Pelt, but nobody could forecast a bunch of champs. But let the story explain itself. The Hrst match with a highly-touted Well- ington, Kansas team was played on Saturday afternoon after being rained out the previous night, but the Plainsmen were ready and willing, and so the score read 'iEnid 28-Web lington l2. This game was, now as we look back, handwriting on the wall, since the Enid boys scored three of their four counters by passes from Jim Keeton with either Pritch- ard or Leierer on the receiving end. This combination was later to bring fear to our foes and fame to the Enid eleven as a great passing team. VV. Beckham gave everyone a pleasant surprise by kicking four out of four. Enid took to the road for Norman for a Thursday night game and also with the pur- pose of erasing last year's 0-0 tie, but alasl This yt-ar's team could fare no better. Al- though outgaining the Norman Tigers in yardage and camping continually in their territory, somehow our boys just couldn't find that scoring punch and though coming very close on a field goal try by lim Keeton from the 12 yard line, the papers read Nor- man Ties Enid Againf' 'iPlainsmen Fail to Scoref' At Shawnee the next week Enid and Shawnee fans witnessed something of the spectacular in the hard-fighting game, Shaw- nee having a decided advantage of a more experienced line over our 85-yet-LIIISUYC stal- warts as well as some highly touted backs. Although hampered by injuries, one of these being Millard Cummings, our first string left tackle, the Plainsmen made two heroic stands at her goal, fighting desperately each Shawnee attempt. Enid had a scoring threat of her own when passes by Keeton drove down but failed to materialize when two touch down passes were dropped even, so the headlines said Enid Great in 0-0 Tie with Shawnee. Plainsmen Turn Back Central Cards 33- 7 and Famed Aerial Attack Clicks in Last Half were banners on sports pages after the Oklahoma City Central game and pro- claimed that an Enid team after a sluggish Hrst half which saw Central take a 7 point advantage, could come back like an alto eth- er new team to the wild delight of the Tnid fans and to the chagrin of the Cards. The Plainsmen led by Keeton, ran rough-shod over the City boys and completed 15 passes for a total of 193 yards and 33 points. Those responsible were Iarrin' Iames Leierer and big Stan West who snagged Keeton's accur- ate passes. Beckham made three conversions and missed for the first time of the year. The next contest was with Capitol Hill of Oklahoma City, also. This was the most try- ing game of the season. Scoring on long sustained drives and quick opening tricky plays, Capitol Hill pushed 93 yards in five plays to take a 7-0 lead, but it was short lived as Iim Keeton hurled to big lames Leierer for a counter which incidentally was the combination which scored two more touchdowns, lim Keeton personally account- ing for two others. Although Capitol Hill made things hot with two more scores, they were unable to surpass the better-conditioned Plainsmen. The final score read 26-19. Ponca City presented a looming cloud on the Plainsmen horizon for the next game, especially since lim Keeton was absent. But Enid fans had a surprise as did Ponca when the hometown team led by Floyd Winheld, passed to Kelly and ran for both Enid touch- downs, After Enid's first score the Poncans quickly retaliated with seven points of their own, but the Plainsmen came back to take the game 13-7. Although Classen was reported to have a good team this year, the Plainsmen proved to be too much of a match for the Comets as the papers announced Enid Downs Clas- sen 20-0.', In their last Mid-State Conference game of the year, the boys put on as fine a showing as one could wish with lim Keeton and Winfield going over for two touchdowns and Kelly snagging one of Keeton's aerial bombs for another which together with two perfect placements by Beckham made it read Enid 20-Classen O . 'locals Swamp Maroons 46-14 was the news heralding the drastic defeat of an llll- usually weak Blackwell eleven. Scoring was evenly divided among the Enid backs with Vernon Kelly playing a spectacular game, taking all honors by scoring four rallies, al- though he was given fine assistance by the stalwart Enid forward wall. When the scores were all in, Iohndrow came through with two counters and peppy Calvin Sleeper for one. Blackwell took advantage of the old hidden ball play to score twice in the last period. The Plainsmen during the lweck of pre- paration for the Maroons, had kept an anxi- ous eye on the strong Perry eleven which