Fairview High School - Challenge Yearbook (Fairview, PA)

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May, page Nineteen Qtliletics . . . X, l X r I 41. . .1- 'iff 'Q- Front Row-left to right-C. Pogson, R. Mcllruy, R. Muller. D. Schwartz, K. OSteI'ljrur,g, O, Place, Q IP PB Bdl EL1o1dPB 'lLXY'lellH11dan -ecom tow- .. Ogart, J. ar s ey, . 901 , .. arron lcaptafln , . V 'EIS og' , . . 0 an , d L, Pittle. Top Iiow-A. Rubin lassistant manage-rl. H. XYalter. H. Cassell, U. Gruluhs, A, Sl-zelly, M. East, H. Erven, L. von Treptow :manage-rr, and Coach Mooore. FOOTBALL The.1935 football picture held a gloomy as- pect as the coach sounded the first call for candidates. We had only five lettermen- back this year: Leopold, Holland, Barron, Weislogel and Pittleg and because of the fact that our entire line had graduated, things looked al- most hopeless. But these gaps were filled quickly with good looking material, and by the day of our first game we had worked up a team that had only one weakness-inexperi- ence. Through the first part of the season the team surprised everyone Qincluding Mr. Moore, I thinkj in that it suffered no big set- backs. As the middle of the season approached, we found that we not only had a good defensive combination, but that the inexperienced fellows, with a few games behind them, had rounded the team into a smooth scoring machine. The following schedule is the story of grid warfare for 1935: Date Team Fvw. Opp. Sept. 7--Alumni ...........,.. 6 0 Sept. 14--North East ...... 6 12 Sept. 21-Academy Reserves ..... 6 6 Sept. 28-West Millcreek ...... 2 18 Oct. 5a-Harborcreek ........... 21 0 Oct. 17-McKean .............., 34 6 Oct. 26-Wattsburg ...... 40 O Nov. 3-Edinboro .... 22 7 Nov. 10-Girard ...... 7 26 Totals ........................................ 145 75 From this two things stand out: Fairview was the only team to score on the champion- ship Millcreek eleveng and we were the high scoring team in the County Conference. Looking at the schedule we find that the team turned in a remarkable number of wins considering the fact that we started from scratch. We opened the official season at North East after taking the measure of a slightly disor- ganized Alumni team, 6 to 0. North East man- aged to squeeze out a 12-6 win, though most Fairviewites still think we had the best team. Then after playing to a tie with a tough Acad- emy Reserve outfit, we went down to Mill- creek and got buried in the mud. CWe were

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Page Eighteen THE CHALLENGE e May, .1936 The Present High School Building THE NEW GYMNASIUM AND AUDITORIUM Since 1927 we've been patiently awaiting the day when we'd have the use of a gymnas- ium of our own in which we could have the same opportunities and advantages as the neighboring schools. At last, if our eyes aren't deceiving us, we are assured of a gym- nasium which is to be as good as any of those around us. Since December, we've been Watching the slow but sure progress of this project. We can't blame the slow progress on the workmen. because King North Wind and Dame Snow held the work back a great deal. After a false alarm about the day the project was to begin, we had orders to park our cars in the road instead of in the driveway: and the workmen finally arrived. There was much hammering of stakes and tying of strings to outline the foundations. The first really ex- citing sign of progress was the giant steam shovel. We never tired of watching the shovel claw into the earth and carry large buckets of dirt to the trucks. And steam shovels seemed much more interesting than class work! Bags of cement and piles of sand and gravel next appeared in our back yard-athletic field to you-and with the building of frames and the pouring of cement for the foundations, it looked as if something worthwhile was being done. But not until the window and door frames were set up did this strangely shaped hole in the ground begin to look like a build- ing that we could really use. For a few days before they got the driveway cindered, the heavy trucks wallowed in oozy mud and spent most of the time getting stuck. Then steel girders were stretched out on the grass, and piles of bricks and tile were unloaded. We marveled that they could dump bricks off the trucks and have them land in neat rows in- stead of all in a heap. We spent all the time we could spare-and some we couldn't-from one whole day watch- ing them unload the big cement blocks for the entrance. They had to use inclines and rollers and plenty of muscles to get those in place. But some of the smaller blocks were laid in rows on the grassg and the boys called the area the graveyard , and walked around during the noon hour picking out their own tombstones. As we write this, the brickwork stands six feet high along one wall, and We are all anx- iously anticipating the day when the gym is entirely finished. And every student in high school is grateful for the long hours which the members of the school board have devoted to finding ways and means, to interviewing sales- men, and to perfecting plans. Perhaps we should also thank those nameless taxpayers whose money furnished the federal aid which made the project possible. Certainly those of us who have worked on plays and operettas in the basement auditorium, and those of us who have practiced basketball in an icy barn or taken showers next to the coal bin will appre- ciate the new gymnasium to the fullest extent.

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Page Twenty THE CHALLENGE May, 1935 buried to the depth of 18 to 2.1 However, on the following week we got back to solid ground to clean up a light Harborcreek combine 21-O. Next came a scrappy McKean eleven aching for a win to atone for the 40-0 walloping they received from Fairview the year before. Well, if they ached before they game they must have ached worse afterward, because we took them into camp 34-6. The next week we went out to Wattsburg and saw a splendid example of real football spirit-a team that stayed in there fighting, even though hopelessly beaten. Our athletic teams might well profit by Watts- burg's showing. The final score was 40-0. We followed this up with a decisive win over the Turtles from Edinboro 22-7, after which we iand everyone elsej thought that at last our big chance had come-to beat Girard. But on November 10 when they beat us 26 to 7, this hope vanished! Well-we'll beat them next year! Our record is: 5 won, 3 lost, and 1 tied-one of the best seasons Fairview has ever enjoyed -but we're looking forward to an even better one next year, with only one team member leaving. He is Bob Barron, left end, and our honorary captain. He was a valuable asset to the team, both with his stellar line play and his unruffled manner. The latter put grit and pep into the rest of the team. We're really sorry you're leaving, Bob, for we certainly wish you were going to be with us next year. The varsity lettermen include: Barron, Weislogel, Schwartz ........ .......... E HdS East, Erven, Cassel .................... .-.-- T ackles Walter, Bogart, Grubbs ........ .--.--- G U21'dS Skelly ,A,,,.,,,,,i,,,,,,,i,,,,,,,,.,,A, ....... C enter Bardsley ...........1...... --.---..-.- Q Haftel' Leopold, Pittle ,i,,,,,,,,,,,,.,..................., Halfbacks Holland ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,.,,,,,,,,,............,.. FLlllb3Ck The faithful subs, many of whom will be seen in the varsity lineup in the next few years, are: Osterburg, McCray, Place, Munch, Muller, and our prize recruit, Snake Hips Pogson. Along with Bob Barron we have a manager graduating LeRoy von Treptow. We want to give Von a vote of thanks for the way he pro- vided for our wants during the season. And now, Jerry Moore, we want to take this opportunity to congratulate you on your fine leadership through this, one of your most suc- cessful campaigns, and on the way you've up- held clean sportsmanship at Fairview. FOOTBALL BANQUET On the night of November 13th, 1935, the good laymen gathered from far and near to eat, to listen to Tolette's jokes, and to do honor to the 1935 football team. The P. T. A. women prepared a great feast which the senior and junior girls served iwithout a single casualtyi, and which the footballers devoured with much justice, and also with the satisfaction of having finally received a great deal for nothing, as they were treated to the affair by the merch- ants of Fairview and Avonia. The menu included mashed potatoes with gravy, roast beef, celery, radishes, noodles, peas and carrots, cranberry sauce, cabbage salad, rolls, bread, apple pie and coffee. After everyone had eaten heartily and had gotten into a comfortable position, we got down to the business of the evening. Ange got away to a whirlwind start with a' smoky Ethiopian joke, after which he became serious and introduced in turn Mr. Hauck, who wel- comed those present and pointed out some of the obstacles that have to be overcome in or- der to turn out a winning team at Fairview, Mr. Holland, who gave an interesting sideline view of the season, Captain Barron, who de- scribed the benefits he, as a player, had re- ceived from football this season, and Mr. M-oore, who awarded letters, and in turn introduced the speaker of the evening, L. C. Drake. Mr. Drake is coach at Academy High School in Erie, and his team won the city championship last season. Mr. Drake spoke on his experience as a coach and pointed out how different coaches depend on different things to 'build up their teams. At Southern California and other big colleges for instance, they Grow 'em big and have em three deep . But at a place like Fairview a coach has to depend on something else to turn out a winning combination. Mr. Drake showed that one of the biggest factors 1n a successful small school team is community support, this being one of the big- gest reasons for the good record Fairview achieved last season. In closing, he lauded Mr. Moore for the way he rounded out a really good team from so few candidates. After everyone had enjoyed a good speaker, Angelo thought he'd show them something in contrast by calling on some of the rest of the team members. But they proved too well pre- pared, and by the time Ange had got them stopped, they'd told so many stories about him that he wished he had never thought of calling on them. These speeches concluded one of the biggest banquets in Fairview's football history. F. A. N. CLUB This year the F. A. N. Club has quietly used its efforts and finances for Girls' Basketball. It has been a huge success, and we have en- joyed our work because we felt that we were training girls for the team next year which will have so many advantages in the new gym- nasium. There have been just a few of us, because officially we didn't have basket ball last year, and couldn't take 'in any new mem- bers. This year playing basketball made the following girls eligible for membership: Vir- ginia Anderson, Betty Getz, Margaret Essick, Ann Williamson, Arlene Anderson, Wilma Furber, Doris Pieper, Betty Walker, and Vir- ginia Stuntz. The officers of the club for the year are: Catherine Williamson, President, El- linor Weislogel, Clerkg and Charlotte McCray, Treasurer. We are leaving to the club much ambition, and a brand new gymnasium-we hope.