Frederick High School - Warrior Yearbook (Frederick, CO)

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WARRIORS FOOTBALL OF YORE Art Mosher fSponsorJ The follow rng story about to be unfolded rs undoubtedly new stuff to most Frederrck students today but perhaps some of the older alums who were here rn the days rmmedrately precedrng the 2nd World War wrll remember wrth nostalgra thrs tale that wrll forever remarn ched rn Frederrck football annuals The football outlook for the Warrrors back rn 1939 was not brrght All of the lettermen had graduated and there were not more than 14 freshmen werhrng over 120 pounds Coach Rockne Tesone had to do somethrng and do rt fast to snap Frederrck s 73 game losrng streak The problem possessed hrm He hardly knew where to turn One Sunday afternoon he was walkrng through some farmrng country as was hrs custom rn those days Wrestlrng wrth hrs problem of how to freld a football team he hardly notrced the passage of trme and as dusk began to descend he realrzed he had lost hrs way He whrpped out hrs Boy Scout Manual to frnd whrch srde of the tree moss grows on but before he could frnd the proper page he was aware of a huge shadow besrde hrm He looked up and there stood a great hulk of a man Coach Rockne gasped The brologrcal currosrty was at least 6 feet 7 rnches tall and werghed 350 pounds rf he werghed an ounce He wore a T shrrt and hrs muscles bulged lrke watermelons Duh h h krn I help you out mrstuh? rnqurred the fellow The Frederrck mentor never one to be slow on the draw whrpped out a form contract and sard How would you lrke to go to Frederrck sonny? Sonny wrggled one of hrs 6 rnch toes blrnked an eye and expressed hrmself beautrfully wrth a resonant Ruh h h Before the monster knew what had happened the redoubtable Warrror coach had made hrm put hrs thumb on an rnk pad Then the tremendous thumb was rmprrnted on the contract under some mrcro scoprc prrnt Coach Rockne Tesone was posrtrve he had the answer to hrs football problems now The large a Lummox Gary was hrs name rt developed was duly regrstered at Frederrck The frrst day Lummox came out to practrce he was clad only rn some crude burlap sacks A order was sent to Chrcago to have a specral football unrform made up It was more drffrcult than Rockne had supposed to teach the ape the fundamentals of football He had no conceptron of whrch drrectron to run The scrappy and game Warrror frrst lrne whrch averaged 126 112 couldn t stop the huge Gary Coach Rockne worked long and hard on the grant After erght long hard weeks of practrce the Warrrors were ready for therr frrst game wrth Loursvrlle Prrates They were confrdent because the arduous weeks had pard off Gary was set Remember Lummox the coach sard affectronately rn the pre game pep talk 200 Frederrck students wrll be up rn those stands cheerrng for you The Prrates wrll never be able to stop you so get out there for the glory of old Frederrck Lummox s mouth dropped erght rnches rn a sort of grrn and Rockne knew that he understood As the team ran out on the freld the tremendous student body of 1939 200 strong rarsed therr vorces rn a thunderous cheer Rah Rah Rah Lummox Lummox Grve them hell You re our man The Prrates won the toss anu erected to recerve Lrttle Sam krcked off for the Warrrors and rt wasn t a bad krck for Sam It just about reached the mrd freld strrpe Crusher DeBorskr Prrates full back Just got hrs hands on the ball and never knew what hrt hrm Wrth an awful rmpact Lummox Gary the tremendous ace rn the hole for the Warrrors pounced on hrm The game was delayed momentarrly as the remarns of the Prrate fullback were carrred off rn a beer mug The fans were on therr feet for rn the same motron Gary had fallen on the lost ball The ball too was completely deflated by the force of the tackle so a new one was brought rnto Plal' Page Sponsor FORT LUPTON STATE BA NK WALTERS JEWELRY Longmont Colo -v 11 V . . V . 1 V . . . . -1 . . V . V V . . 1 . . . , . ' 1 V V . . V . . 1 . V V V . . 1 1 I 1 , ' 11 - - 11 - 1 , . 1 1 1 11 , - - 11 11 11 ,- - - - Y I - - - 11 11 1 1 - V . . . 1 1 V . . V . V 1 - 1 , . ' . fl V . . . V . . ' I K I V . . . - 1 1 - 1 V . . . . . 11 11 1 - - 11 - 1 1 ' l - 11 , . . . . , . I I I .1 1 1 1 1 1 -1 11 ' 1 . V , , . V- . . . . - , . 1 V Q I , . . 1 1 1 ' . , V I I . l 1 . , , .