Florida Military Academy - Dugout Yearbook (St Petersburg, FL)

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ruiaouooura if f f f 1+ f THE FOOTBALL TEAM Front Row: Capps, Morton, Marshall, Schneck, Noel fMgr.l, Major Mendels, Sergeant Matthews, Bradham, Anderson, McQueen, Shouppe. Second Row: Moody, Spearman, Danison, Wilkinson, Captain Joseph, Wiley, McLeish, Hydrick, McPhail. Back Row: Elkins, Leon, Daly, Lay, Steele, Conlin, Christie, Waynick Bethany. 1 lFfO0TlBAlLlL The Brooksville victory of December third brought to a close the 1937 football schedule of the Florida Military Academy. This year has been the most successful season enjoyed by the school since l932, when a strong F. M. A. eleven won five games and lost two in competition with college Freshmen and '4Big Ten opponents. A glance at the past campaigns reveals that the Colden Wave gridiron forces rolled over four opponents, were beaten twice, and tied once in their hard, seven-game sched- ule. Included among the soldiers' foes were two members of Florida's Big Tenn foot- ball conference, an organization composed of the State's largest schools. The remainder of the schedule consisted of games with teams which are members of the Southwest and Central Florida Conferences. Although composed of 'gminor leaguei' members, these two circuits rate high in the estimation of the larger schools of the State, and are never regarded by them as being easy games. When the initial football practice of the year was called on September 6th, eight veterans reported to Coach Joseph. The returning lettermen were George Anderson and Joe Bradham, guards, Bill McQueen, centerg Jack Wiley and J. B. Moody, ends, Page 92

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THE DUGOUT and Byron Shouppe, Horace Capps and Bob Elkins, backs. The first game of the year was scheduled with the Plant High School Panthers on October 2nd in Tampa. Finally the afternoon of October 2nd arrived. Before a crowd of 2500 spectators, the Plant eleven was able to capitalize on the breaks of the game, together with the fact that F. M. A. was unable to cope with the steady stream of reserves that were con- tinually being sent in against them, and Plant won by the score of 21-6. F. M. A.'s only score was the result of a ten-yard smash off tackle by Shouppe, late in the third period. Nevertheless, the game was much closer than the score indicated as evidenced by the fact that F. M. A. was able to secure 7 first downs as compared with Plant's 9. The lack of reserves had greatly hindered F. M. A. in the year's first 'fBig Tenw con- test. The Academy's starting line-up for this game and most of the other games of the season found Wiley and Danison at ends, lVlcLeish and lVlcPhail at tackles, Bradham and Anderson at guards, and McQueen at center. The back-field positions were held down with Shouppe at quarter, Elkins and Capps at the half positions, and Steele at fullback. Following the defeat by Plant High, the Golden Wave,, returned to its own grid- iron on the following Friday night and fought Largo's L'Packers,' to a thrill-packed 7-7 deadlock before 3000 fans who were time and again sent scurrying by intermittent TEAM CAPTAINS Left to Righz: Shouppe, football, Capps, baseball, McPhail, basketball, Coach Joseph, head coach, Wiley, boxingg Elkins, track, Anderson, football. Page 93 4 r , ,, , 7 5,45 .x'fi 6 ' 1.,.f'9. . rm? ruiilglpxz if H y ,N .M f. 5 5. Qgtjtig i ,Q age.. id 5: e ...F E 1 1-41, if 12. L .qfms sgzil ., 1 1.7 i4:: 2a- 1 . ggi-4..vf,1.'l 1- aft.. ' l . 1. . 'gi'-.wa ,,,Af,- 'ffl -v,l,'1- 'r f17-fl. si ' ' 5 fif?ti? i ,rf 1 . 'ii , raw g '- M -x'-2.g.1':Q, Yr. Elm. . '11, . it-1' ,55ff1w.? .L t ,wwf 5 5. it-sew WIFE' '- 2'-fifgfifc .rggi1K' ,Qy.51.1 - 'H r -.Mu ...'w4L.,q.q N -- f L. Q, i5g,Q5v few 1.-qv sl- i. M A,,1i-,Fi Q if -4 5 Viv! QQ'-f4 Q 1 ,-gr, gjiug 112.425 , '-fm '-sl-nw. ,gg R - 'ails V .. fUW--if 5,1-!,'a 'sf, . ET .:QJ1? ' . 5If 'H f fig-z.. .5 I.. ' s:. 'v4. .IA X Q5 .,.,, 1J' Q g if : 5.1 X-, 'V 2 I -iv? 'z.., Sq ,zz lf,-ir'Wi7, fg1 - ' 'f5??f5l1f1fP , f., -Egs-63. f'5,.,.. ' .1 -x .1 .f f 3 -.if ,.,, A -ma, -.fi H. : 1..'J3l' ipaq , .J