Germantown High School - Record Yearbook (Philadelphia, PA)

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Led by john L'Bonnie Fraser, one of the outf standing goal tenders in the Public High Soccer League, the freefbooters concluded a season which, although not unsuccessful, failed to bring any vicf tories home to the halls of Germantown High School. The season was not an unsuccessful one because the boys, besides tying teams from Gratz and Frankford, played a game that, while not crowded with victorious contests, was an epic of sportsmanship. The team, coached by H. Hynson, was also stalf warted by Alan Myers, member of the class of June, 1945. OCCZI' Paced by Ken Dixon, sprinter extraordinaire, the pebblefhoppers of the crossfcountry team crashed through to an unexpected fourth place in the Pubf lic High Championships. Not only successful in the championships, the team also carried away top honors in a dual meet with Frankford and Roxborough. joseph Seigert, Robert Thomas, and Royce Webb teamed with their captain, Ken Dixon, to make victories such as these possible. Too much cannot be said of Ken Dixon's work, for, had he not won, and paced the team as he did in the championships, such an illustrious record could not be recorded on this page. One lz11f1drr'd ,ross Country

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Football First Row: Richards iAssistant Coachl, Trexler, Garvin, Graves, Miller, Hardy, Kirk, Staf- feri, J. Erickson, Nathern, Leswing, Butler, Bannak, iCoachJ. Second Row: Bencker, fMan- ager, Jacobs, Ashmead, Guthrie, Scott, LeRoy, Clark, Cholerton, Nasife, DiMuzzo, Kath- rins, Henry, Borzner, fHead Managerl. Third Row: Shields, Gibson, R. Erickson, Gran- denetti, Grifliths, Mushrush. Fourth Row: Ward flVlanagerJ, Anderson, Lupton, Gourley, Frank, Galante, Weissberg, Rimshaw, Benner fManagerJ. Drawing great crowds of excited spectators, foot' ball held the spotlight among the fall sports at Gerf mantown High School. In the early part of September approximately seventy-five hopefuls reported to Joseph Bennak, head coach following Al Webb's entrance into the Navy, attempting to place themselves in the starting linefup. With an experienced backheld ref turning from the preceding year, Coach Bannak, reverently referred to as L'Mother Bannak by his boys, concentrated his efforts on developing a strong forward wall. While the team experienced quite a few pitfalls among their opponents, the season was not what would be termed an unsuccessful one. Victories against teams from Germantown Academy, Central High School, and Norristown High School, made the season a memorable one as these teams are rivals of long standing. Undoubtedly an event of major importance in shaping the future achievements of the team was the sudden seizure of Coach Bannak with pneu- monia before the Northeast game. As a result of this, Mr. Bannak was unable to witness his team's seven-to-nothing victory over the red and yellow from Central High School. During Mr, Bannak's illness the team was coached by Paul Kehs and Lt. Alfred Webb, home on leave. Outstanding among the members of the squad were: John Erickson, diminutive guard named on the second team of the AllfPublic football squad, Dale Mushrush, and jack Trexler, tackles, Bob Hardy and Russ Kirk, backs, Irv Leswing and Bob Gibson, end and guard, respectively, all of whom were honorably mentioned for the same AllfPublic squad. At the conclusion of the season the team mem- bers elected ,as their captain, Pat Stafiieri, now serv' ing in the United States Marine Corps. Pat was outstanding throughout the season because of his linefcrashing abilities and was known to have raff fled, as Johnny Jacobs would say, quite a few of the team's better helmets. rf Ninety 'nine

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I'aCli Ym Placing a well-balanced squad on the field, Mr. Baron, coach of the track team, has not been able to witness ine results of his handiwork up to the time this article was written. A hint of the team's power was given on April 27th and 28th when a selected group of runners distinguished themselves at the fifteenth annual Penn Relay. This team of runners, coupled with a team of fieldfmen coached by Joseph Bannak, have shown up well in their first two encounters with Central and Overbrook. While the team was not too im- pressive in the meet with Central, they distinguished themselves when they were unfortunate enough to lose to a strong Overbrook team by 'llfz points. Outstanding members of the team were: Bob Moser, Ken Kellner, john McAfee, hurdles, Gene Watts, Bob Burgess, sprintsg Ken Dixon, Joe Sei' gert, Bill Lichten, Bob Thomas, distanccg Bob Miles, john Miller, Monty Gardener, pole vaultg Bob Lowry, broad jump: Bob Johnson, john Miller, Bob Ona Izzmdred 0110 Miles, Ralph Guthrie, high jump, and Ralph Guthf rie, shot put. John Miller, Monty Gardner, pole vault, Bob Lowry, broad jumpg Bob johnson, John Miller, Bob Miles, Ralph Guthrie, high jump, and Ralph Guthrie, shot put. Though lacking in manpower, as seems to be a general thing in today's world, the musclefflexing men of the gym team made a commendatory record for themselves this past season. Wiiiiiing meets with Girard and South Philadel' phia, and placing fifth in the Public High Gym' nastic's Championships, proved to be the prme highlights of the season. Two boys, Bob Miles and Hugo Stein, returned from the 1944 team to aid the squad in its ay complishments. Miles, perhaps the most outstandl ing of all the team members, placed fourth in the championships and was noted for his work on the side horse.