Grants Pass High School - Toka Yearbook (Grants Pass, OR)

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Page 28 T ti E I € l A 19 3 3 Football The 1932 football season was a very successful one for the local gridiron artists. Only two games were lost during the entire season. Aside from the championship year of 1930. no other Grants Pass team of footballers can boast of as good a record. This record is practically as good as the one made in 1930 when the local boys captured the Southern Oregon gonfalon. That season the Cavemen lost one game, tied one, and barely nosed out Medford 7 to 6. T his year the Klamath Falls team came out ahead in one game and the score of the Medford clash was reversed 6 to 7 with the Pearpickers on the long end. This is the first season in local gridiron history that the opponents have been held to such a low season's total score. Only 33 points were scored against the local pigskin chasers while the Cavemen garnered a total of 133. In the championship year 74 points were scored against the Grants Pass eleven. At the close of the season the sports writers of the various papers picked all-star teams. Thompson. McGuire. Palmer, Cook. Strack, and Neely rated positions on this mythical team. Much credit for this year’s showing should go to Coach Beer, who against great odds worked unceasingly for the good of the team. Most of this year’s team graduate, so the prospects for a winning team next season don’t look so bright. A summary of scores for this season follows. The Grants Pass scores appear 0 North Bend - 0 6 - - - Alumni ------- 0 7 - - - Eureka - - - - - 0 12 - - - Klamath balls ------ 0 6 - - - Medford ....... 7 21 - - Ashland - 0 6 - - Klamath Falls ...... 20 25 - - - Roseburg ....... 0 44 - - - Ashland ------- 6 6 - - - Alumni ------- 0 135 33

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19 3 3 I I I ic) r a Page 2 7 Wyatt NmI) Kennedy Frady Beer Towne Jaquette Shaw (tinn Cook Hamilton Fa Kan Towne Orr St rack Thompson Johnson McGuire J. Hamilton 1’almer Coach Beer Frank M. Beer, our head coach, came to us from the Castle Rock. Washington. High School. While at Castle Rock, Mr. Beer had better than average success with his football teams, and his basketball team of 1931-332 captured the state title. Mr. Beer is a keen student of football and basketball. A Medford football fan was overheard to say that this year's Grants Pass football team showed more real football than any other team'of footballers to be produced in the Caves City. Mr. Beer fell heir to a squad of practically green players in basketball this year. The progress these inexperienced players made this season was remarkable and Mr. Beer s knowledge of the game was shown in the advancement of the team.

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19 3 3 ■ H I i c r a Page 2 9 Coach Ginn, I.. Hamilton, Burden, Cook, .lackaon. Palmer, J. Hamilton. Coach Beer. Basketball Falling heir to practically all green material this year, in basket ball. Coach Beer had to spend a good portion of the season teaching his proteges the fundamentals of the game. Along towards the end of the season the boys got to clicking and turned in some good games of basketball. George Jackson was the leading scorer on the squad with 102 points to his credit. The other high scorers were: Cook. 90 points: Burden. 65 points; L. Hamilton, 30 points; J. Hamilton. 17 points; and Palmer 8 points. These points were scored in conference games only. With the exception of Burden, all of this year’s first string will be lost next year. The biggest ray of hope for next year’s team lies in the fact that the “B squad of this year was composed mostly of Sophomores, so they will know a little about the fundamentals of the game. The complete record for this year follows. The Grants Pass scores appear first: 26 - Rogue River ...... 10 29 - Twenty-Thirty Club .... 27 38 - Cave Shop ...... 30 17 - Medford ....... 33 45 - Rogue River ...... 27 13 . Ashland ------- 35 29 - Alumni ....... 34 33 - Rogue River - - - - - 17 27 - Alumni ....... 28 52 - Central Point ...... 24 19 - Klamath Falls ..... 40 36 - Gold Hill 19 14 . Medford ....... 34 27 - Ashland ....... 23 24 - Klamath Falls ...... 25