Gettysburg Academy - Osoga Yearbook (Gettysburg, PA)

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GETTYSBURG ACADEMY Football I'he fall of 1923 w1ll long be remembered by all of us as an exceedlngly brlght one among our many seasons of puntmg the plgSk1Yl Coach Dulebohn produced a mlghty clever bunch of carriers of the oval although he was greatly handlcapped 1n havlng to use green materlal At the call candldates to the number of forty donned old sh1rts and breeches and pro ceeded to tear up the athletlc field By the tlme the hrst game was due the team was whlpped 1nto efccellent shape wlth Dlck Young as the talklng machlne The game wlth Wu nesboro resulted 1n '1 t1e and made our team buckle down to more serlous. and severe practlce ln the afternoons The Frederlck game was cancelled and so the gang proceeded to clean up Ilxgerstown Hlgh Harrlsburg Academy loomed up as a gl mt 1n our path 'md after a hard grmdlng battle they finally succeeded 1n get tlng ahead of us by two touch downs The playmg of Tenney ln thxs game w1ll go down 1n the schools hlstory as '1 true ex ample of grlt and solld muscle At last the game of games was due and prep 1umped mto the fray to w1n or d1e Gettysburg Ihgh managed to throw two snappy forwards to the wlnd and lucklly succeeded 1n makmg them touch downs The k1Ck was made on one Jack Croasdale and Tenney kept preps head out of water and thus saved us from a more humxllatlng defeat Jack ex celled IH gett1ng hlS man all through the game and Ed wlth a llttle head work made Hlgh School shudder w1th1n five yards of her posts The team then treaded 1ts way to Mt St Mary s to eradlcate ltS wrath upon that strong team They made the Mounts stand up and take notlce ln the first half But IH the second half the lncreaslng substltutmg of fresh men from the St Marys Slde lme quelled our attack and finally Wlth a great deal of alr play they managed to cause us defeat In summmg up our season we must say although our team 1923 Page 75 , . u ' ' vu ' u ' av ' , . . . U ,, . . . c , - L, ' . . . . . L . . u ' ' n - K , . cu K . . . V x C A I Y l . ' 1 VI ' r .. T Cl Y! ' C K n n L C Y x 2 C Q . . ' Y . - C , L c - . . . . ,i . A A C as xr ' ' L 1 u A V 1 ' li 1 . 3? ' ! . . . . , . . . ' u . ,, . . L . . . . . , . n . . . U . r H

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GETTYSBURG ACADEMY recelved three defeats out of fiye games good sportsmanshlp was shown throughout every game and each 1nd1v1dua1 player ova es much to Coach Dulebohn IH that he made clean hard fight 1ng play ers out of them Bob Wood our brayn ny and staunch rldge pole outplayed all of h1s opponents 'mt the centers posltlon and many tlmes broke up the other team s pet plays As '1 tacklel he was a dangerous person to lun up agalnst Another of the stars was Way ne Whlte our husky fullback H1s style of game vsas of the hlghest standard lll h1s class of academxc teams Through centel vms h1s fax orlte play and only the concentrated defense of the entne opposlng team could check h1s gfuns Glanlun our r1ght guaxd a glefzt blg bov appeared fol the first txme 1n l'llS young hfe on the gudxron and from the law mateual was produced the finlshed a1t1cle Dxz played a game vsorthy of much pralse C0llQ1Cl61 1Tlg' the fact of h1s lnex perlence Cly de Stott 11ght tackle was 'ln ever dangelous proposltlon to h1s opponent Thxs vs as due largely to h1s stelhng game of clean football throughout the season Roy Sloop left guald a Vlfglllla mountalneel and a mlghty tough man to buck up agalnst espec1ally when comblned wxth grlt and fight Both these attrlbutes mav be tacked on to Rov who played scrub football last year but vxho vxlthout a doubt rlghtly gfuned h1s varslty posltlon thls season B111 Cardner rlght tackle a scrappy wlld cat and firey demon sure does make an 1rony comblnatlon and of such materlal was he bullt HIS hablt of shovung hlS teeth and plunglng 1nto the fray wlll long be remembered by the broken heads and knock outs which he produced B111 should ln tlme to come develop 1nto a player worthy of renown Rlchard D16tZ rlght end Throughout h1s season Dick played snappy football and developed lDtO a good rehable end man Hls sllck tackllng and gr1t go down as memorial IH our fotball h1s tory Rlchard Ayoob quarter back full back halfback Dlck seemed to be an all around man for he d1Vld6d h1s pos1t1on ac Page '76 7 L, L L f K , - - . Y 1 -f A ' Y . 7 K Y . , . . . Lv L C L 7 , 1 Y L L. C L L , Y ' , L . , L V . V V . . . H 1 l . . . . . . I 1 V 'w .W v - L . C L L C . 1 . L . ' . L C L - 1 . 'u 1 1 . 4 1 1 1 , . . . Y v . J. . 1 Y . t , c ,' W ' , ' as ' rr 'C L, L u .Y Y Y . Y . . . . K L L L ' V C' 1 1- , , r v '1 1 w . - -V L . , l 1 L . . . v w Y . Q . . . L . . . C L' C L a 1 . . . . N V . Y Y 5 L 7 . L L L U v v w y 7 v' C L L - , C L v C . L L L L f . V. 1 , , I Y. . . . ' as H cc ,, . . . . . L . , . . . 1 ' n ' 9 ' - K -