Gettysburg High School - Boomerang Yearbook (Gettysburg, SD)

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FOOTBALL With a team loaded with eight returning lettermen the Battlers opened a seemingly successful 1946 football season by handing the Highmore Pirates a 14 to 6 licking. The Pirates were first to score with a quick drive over the goal early in the first half. The Battlers returned with a touch- down with Donald Miller going over for the six and Dana Peep skirting the end to put the Battlers in the lead with a 7-6 margin. Highmore then started the last quarter threat driving down into Battler territory, only to have Jim Combellick, Battler end, grab a Pirate pass and scamper for a 64 yard touchdown. Uncle Sam then stepped in and took one of GHS's key backs, Don Miller, for his own use. The next game did not prove as successful as the iirst with a weakened Battler team receiving a 52 to 0 walloping at the hands of the potential champions, Miller. Miller finished the season un- defeated and unscored upon, and was rated number one football team in South Dakota. The Battlers were again shut out ine their third game of the season when Cheyenne's Braves handed them a 12 to 0 defeat amongst snow and mud. Cheyenne's first score was started by a pass intercepted in the early stages, then with a series of runs and a final pass into the end zone setup their first touchdown. The try for the extra point failed. Then at the change of quarters a Battler punt put the Indians on their own 9 yard line. Then with a triple reverse that completely stymied the home team Cheyenne picked up a 91 yard run which provided the second 6 pointer. The Battlers then took to the air but could not put the pigskin across and Cheyenne won with a two touchdown lead. Mobridge spoiled GHS's Homecoming by slipping past the Battlers in a tougher game than the score indicated-18 to 6. The Tigers' first score was sent over in a series of line plunges, and they sent their fullback over in the last stages of the first quarter. The Battlers then took over on their own fourteen and following some outstanding field running by Chuck Newland, Battler Q-back, set up a pass by Chuck to Jim Combellick for the Battlers only score and to tie up the game. The Tigers came back to run back two Battler punts for touchdown in the second half and to provide their 18 to 6 win. In the final home game of the 1946 season, the Battlers were downed by the Pierre Governors in the Battlers 5th straight defeat. A heavier Governor ll, outcharged the Battlers for 4 touch- downs and 3 extras to set up their 27 to 0 win. In the last game of the season the Battlers were guests of the Faulkton Trojans, with Faulkton edging the Battlers out with a one point margin, 7 to 6. The game started out to look like an easy win for the Battlers as they staged a first period drive into Trojan's territory only to lose the ball on a fumble. In the second period the home team completed a pass for the six points of the game, with an end run to extend their lead to 7 points. The Battlers were held scoreless until the final minutes when Peep completed a pass to Chuck Newland in the end zone. Then a determined Faulkton squad held the Battlers try for the extra point to win the game 7 to 6. 11 sg 5 .... ES! Q

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BAND Gettysburg High School has long been proud of its band, and justly so. For three years prior to losing our first band master, Mr. Schuster, to the armed forces, the band placed first at the Hickory Stick Music Contest in Mobridge. In 1942, after winning at Mobridge, it went on to the National School Music Competition Festival at Aberdeen where the beautiful plaque which hangs from the north assembly wall was awarded to it for placing second in the Class C size schools. For over a year during the war there was no Gettysburg Band until Mr. Jerome Urban came at the beginning of the 1944-45 school year, and began to rebuild the organization. A Spring Concert was given in 1945, and the outstanding Unfinished Symphony by Schubert was the crowning per- formance. With the beginning of the 45-46 school year the band dug in in earnest for the Spring Concert at Mobridge. It presented a War Bond concert in December and the Spring Concert in April with the overture Orpheus the outstanding numberg and went on to Mobridge to take first itself, and one ensemble and eight soloists also placed first. . This year the band is again preparing for The Spring Concert and Mobridge. Two ensembles and fourteen instrumental solos are being prepared by the band members and Mr. Urban for this spring's sessions. The Pep Band, composed of fewer members than the Concert Band, has been active at home basketball games for years. For the last two years it had joined with the Onida Band to play for the District 16 tournament. This year, players from the newly organized Agar band came into the Tour- nament Band in addition to Gettysburg and Onida musicians. Mr. Urban has directed this tourna- ment band for all three years.

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,.Yv.r..,.,,.,.,, . ...W , W.. we V, f F 0 O T B A L L CO-CAPTAINS John Cronin Francis Glodt John Cronin or Gronin' Cronin as he was known on the football field is a three year letter- man winning his first letter in his sophomore year. Two of the the three years were spent on the first eleven and this year he was elected as one of the co-captains. Francis Glodt, better known as Fritz, was one of the team's mainstays as he was always trouble to the opposing team. Fritz is also a three year letterman, with two years on the starting squad. As a token for the good work in his football career, Fritz was elected the other co-captain. u l lst Row seated: Chuck Newland, Jim Combellick, Edward Glodt, Maynard Westphal, John Cronin, Howard Kunstle, Fritz Glodt, Dale Smith, Dana Peep, Rollie Hinckley. 2nd Row left from right: Arnes Thompson, Calvin Huber, Dean Voltz, Martin Nold, Jack Moore, Harvey Huber, Duane Nichols, Neil Neyhart, Larry Swift. 3rd Row left from right: Darrel Thompson, Robert Spicer, Verne Wager, Jim Tays, Coach Novak, Ronnie Olsen, Robert Houck, Morin Keltgen, Richard Klein, and Keith Keltgen. 35.