Gig Harbor High School - Growler Yearbook (Gig Harbor, WA)

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:he EDWARD THElS Rlght Halfback Klcker pass er and end runner HAROLD SWENSEN Quarterback Bralns and llne plunger OHN LYSELL Fullback End runner llne plunger blocker IOHN MURPHY End Defenslye rnan ALBERT NORTHEY Guard Three year lunemarw and dependable guard EDWARD TROMBLEY Center Keeps cool at all tlmes and IQ an excellent center FRED QUISTORFF Tackle Opens holes ln op ponent s llne BOBBY THURSTON Fullback Klcker passer end runner PAUL ALVESTAD End Rellable tackler and blocker and fron man of team MARVIN NATUCCI Tackle Crltty tackle good blocker ROY SPADONI Guard Stops a hole ln any me ERNEST MATSON Rlght Halfback Played we ln backtleld posltlon Substltutes this year are Erancls lohnson Sylvester Edwards Paul Muehlen Raymond Armstrong james Hopklns George McTurnal Wlllle Arneson Bull Muehlen and Duck Fuqua Managers are Stewart Whlte Cordon Secor and Herbert Cook if at'- iv 1341- 4. ?'l 'frfff'

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QQ. K :APRS a qi l 'N 1 v lr' V 5-J ff 7oot6af ECAUSE of the graduatlon of several of our star players almost all of our team had to be replaced by :nexpenenced men The team started slowly b t flnlshed w ll and a sold foundatlon for a good team next year was made Our coach lst Lueutenant W A Laura was called away on offrclal duty before our flrst league game and he was replaced by W O Showalter who acted as coach for the remarn der of the season Our flrst game was played October 5 wlth Frfe on the home grounds The first a breathtaklng scene of lane plunges runs Neither team scored ln he Clg Harbor 5 rnexpenence was shown won the game by the score of l9 to ha an ast an O was en ha r e Our next game was October l2 wlth Roy Thus game was played against a better tranned god much heavler team Ong Harbor made Roy flght for every lnch of ground but could hardly be expected to hold them The game ended wrth a score of 33 to O In Roy s favor October l9 Ong Harbor met Kapowsln on Kapowslng fleld Gag l-larbor was a much better team than It had been and the game ended l3 to O an favor of Kapowsln October 24 Gag Harbor went to Vaughn T e game whrch as the bug game of he season promused to be good The game was played on a muddy fleld and many fumbles were made by both sudes Cug Harbor showed supenorlty rn the flrst half and the half ended 6 to O ln favor of Gag Harbor ln the second half Vaughn opened up an aenal attack and put over two touchdowns and the game ended l-l to 6 rn favor of Vaughn Our most successful game was played No member 2 wlth Ortlng at Ortlng The reams were evenly matched ln both welght and e perlence ln the flrst half Gag Harbor had the advantage The Second half proved to be lust the opposlte and the game ended In a 6 to 6 tue Although we ded not do so well thus year we gained In experlence and expect a better team next year

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- ly,,4,l Kaya' faiedaf HE BASEBALL SQUAD thus year proved to be better than was expected Under the trarnlng of Coach Wulllarn W Thomas the players showed abuluty even though they were lnexperlenced The tlrst game of the season brought to gether the ancient rlvals Vaughn and Clg Harbor The game was well played from the begunnlng and terrlfuc huts were made by both sndes Clg Harbor showed excellent abrlrty Vaughn was held to only a few hats by our star putchers john Lysell and Peter 5l4anSIS The fnnal score was lO to 8 nn Clg Harbors favor The second game was played with Eatonvulle at Crlg Harbor Thus game was a putcher s duel from begunnung to end Both teams showed splrlt and abuluty but Gag Harbor lost the game 8 to 6 The next game was played wuth Port Orchard Thus game was very thrlllrng Gag Harbor scored lO runs In the second lnnrng Port Orchard dud tts best all through the game but could not stop Ong Harbor and the game ended wath a score of l2 to 8 nn favor of Crg Harbor Wrth thus victory under thelr bonnets the team gourneyed over the water to meet the strong Kapowsun nrne They started the day an superb fashron by holdrng a lead of three to O over therr aggressnve opponents But the shut out ball pntched by Cy Creenlaw took our men off guard and from that tlme on checked the local nlne About thus tame we wonder what Thels dad to cause all the excrtement7 When all the shoutlng was over Harbor was on h los ng end of the l l to 3 score Then ln a practrce game Gag Harbor met Poulsbo lt was a valrant struggle to the end game Poulsbo was vrctorlous At the present tame the team has two more games to play One wlth Flfe and the other w th Roy The llne up thas year consisted of the follow mg players Catchers Edward Thers Herbert Cook putchers lohn Lysell Peter Skansre Ed son Bahr farst base Arthur Petersen second base Allan Watson thnrd base Edson Bahr shortstop Carl Drake center fmeld john Mur phy rlght fleld Paul Alvestad and left fueld Albert Northey , e Although Gag Harbor trted every truck in the