Ephrata High School - Tiger Yearbook (Ephrata, WA)

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FOOTBALL 1947 The Ephrata High School football team has a record of which it can be proud The fellows started their season in the invitational Wenatchee Merry Go Round Three teams competed on the well hghted turf field Wenatchee Ephrata and Omak Although Ephrata gained the most vard age they came out on the short end ot the event with the Omak Pioneers finishing in the lead and incidentally going on to become one of the State s few unbeaten football teams The teamwork of the Ephrata line and the iunnlng of Bob Rabbit foot Burd and Lewis Powerhouse Benville ieceived excellent comlrendation from the Wenatchee Dally World follow mg the invitational In the first game of the regul r schedule Ephrata defeated Leaven worth in a hard fotlght battle Leax enworth made the first touchdown and was stopping Ephrata cold ln the first quarter but the fellows werent to be outdone and came back to win by a touchdown One factor in Ephrata s late start was that team thought that with Leavenworth being so high in uniforms to keep warm Obxiously this was an error as the temperature during the game soared to the seventies and at the end of the first quarter manv hot thirsty Tigers were seen through the haze that hung over the dusty field Ephrata then defeated the Wenatchee B using the second string var sity players The following week Ephrata came from behind to score two touchdowns against Ritzville in the second half and win by one touch down The next game was with a county rival Grand Coulee Ephrati came out of this game one conversion short to lose one of the two games lost throughout the season On a very muddy field and 1n a drizzling rain Ephrata fought Okanogan to a 6 6 tie ln the second defeat of the season poor pass defense and hard running bx the Cashmere backs combined to produce the bad score of 0 33 The last two games on the schedule were xictories the Chelan Goats and Moses Lake Chiefs falling as x ictims Ephrata bested Chelan 7 0 and won a completely one sided game ox er aich rixal Moses I ake 44 12 1 v ' ,, ' 7 7 ! , ' KC ' - I 71 ' KK YY ' 4,1 ' 4 it l - . - I Y . ' K6 JY ' ' 7 . . , the mountains and all, they had best wear extra sweatshirts under their - ll v I 1 , . .1 7 x Ll 77 ' 1 - ' - . , g L - 'D ' v Q ' ,' l W A .l 1 J ' .

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Following the leadership of the Chttile ideis were xou the Student Bodx At the touin irnent xou demon str ited that Ephi xtt didnt need to haw the other members of the lufll ence iootin for the Tiger Team so long is the 'Etude nt Bodx both Grade Hgh school was s lidlx .in HOISIIX behind thc ni The closest that girls can come to inter-school uthletivs. is to be elected to the honor and respon- sibility oi' being cheerleader. Joan Bush. DOIN Loree. and Iidris Peterson. in terrns of personality. 2'fJDE'2lI'llHC'6. and cheering ability. were represen- tqitives of whom Ephrzita can be proud, A couple of Tiger Rahs for the three Yell Queens of Ephraitzi High. QQA, Hx, .. ff 9 Aff frkwtsi 1 i7 us ask thc fcllovts xxith whom thu hed hrxx the C l s t in id Coith Roth id Assistant Coach Foth i ill him A tl o X did in Jilotin ,ci t is i the student b dx is 1 uhm le ui h tc expris than thn it f i c 1 est each of these men his gix en to his couhin iob . , i, ,t . , K ,-Q , . i .. . A L- : Nl . K L I , K I C1 X - ' x 1 - 1 ' ' . . , . - . . g . . .I , 1 . SU A Q Q JC I ' s K 1 v ' L A , A , '. X .L e is if for ., fi, ts- and 1 . r . iz. -o ' ' fi , 1 W - . . , ' X 4 Q '- Y 5. 5, T r 'R -0 -1 X W I K1-P7 4? ' - , F 1, ' '. . 1 , -9. A 5 ' no J It 2 ' ' X ' I' 'Noi' ' r i ' ' - one wg rn ef Yr 'll find thzif Het 2 ' ai . ' L ' C '- un -I rating for ie fine j h thgl' ' ' 3 ' ' ig the Ti-1-' Tim 'ip wht-the 1' it was vietory' or dc-feat, Their athletes and 5 , o 1' tp L ' i s i -.' ss V' z Vs 'o' th ' time. efft rt. ond inter-