Harold L Richards High School - Golden Year Yearbook (Oak Lawn, IL)

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PROSH SOPH HI R Opponent and Oak Lawn Thornton lfractional North 38 1' v ergreen Park 31 Dovi ners Gros e South 39 34 57 40 32 105 40 27 26 55 46 31 In varsity cross country competition, Dave Johnston In the varsity meet mth lwergrecn lark Ron sprinted toward the finish line forthe Bulldogs. Deason gave his team utmost strtngth and en durance, The freshman-sophomore cross country team started the season with high hopes of many victories and new track records and individual honors. The best runner on the team was a sophomore, David Balija. Coach May was certain that these runners would have a very good season, and the team worked hard at their two-and-one-half mile cross country course marked out at the Northwest Field. The frosh-soph went on to complete a glorious season with an outstanding record of ten wins and only two losses. The team captured third place in the South Suburban League. David Balija took first place, and Steve Barratt added fourth place, in individual honors in the South Suburban League. The team presented Coach May an award, a special bronze plaque, in honor of his expert training. determination and skill at various meets FROSH S0PH CROSS COUNTRY TEAM, FRONT ROWS lilffy llllllell, RiCll- john Lilja, Gary Weiler, Mike Williams, Don Kiner, Mike lix and Coach Xlay ard Sievensen Xlark Lewis lhomas llincks, Steve Barratt, David Balija, john BACK ROW: Nlark Lamb, manager, Fred Sizing, David Knders Niike Baird Moore and allies Ruggio SECOND ROW: Bill Allyn, Greg Lamoureaux, George Lausch, Charles Quinn, and Ken Hense, manager V'7' Q

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1 M. . if if -Q i i kt VARSITY CROSS COUNTRY TEAM: Dave Forsberg, Steve Britt, Chris Bau- mann. james Newquist. Ron Deason, Robert Swedko, Dave johnston and Coach May. Cross country team ran with Hopefully Coach May checked his stop watch to see if the runner had Our varsity cross country team participated in the South impfvvfdhiSfCC0fdli11lC- Suburban League, one of the toughest in the state of Illinois. Coached by Willie May, the varsity runners worked hard at building enough endurance to compete with the other top-notch VARSITY schools. HLR Opponent Since the boys exerted 10071, effort during all their meets, they managed to come out fifth in the league. With a large num- 81 Eisenhower 25 ber of outstanding sophomores and juniors returning next year, Oak Lawn 30 Coach May can look forward to an outstanding season. 47 Crete Monee 15 79 Eisenhgwef 22 Preparing for the track meet, Mickey Ricketts exercised diligently to be in top Bremen 39 condition. 43 Thornton Fractional North 16 ' 42 Bloom 17 50 Thornton 15 1 42 Evergreen Park 19 50 Downers Grove South 15 50 Thornridge 15 50 Tinley Park 15 50 Reavis 15 Z24

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226 Tennis players grew in Tennis opened the Spring season in sports. Our tennis team encountered very strong competition in the South Suburban VARSITY TENNIS TEAM. FRONT ROW: jeff McCoy, Bill Nicholson, Randy Visser. and Ken Cooley. STANDING: Mr. Yates. Coach, Robert Cione. Captain, Ken Larson, Larry Hansen, Chuck Dahlke. Rich Batson. and Dale jurich. League. Although none of the players on the team had had any VARSITY previous high school tennis experience, the team managed to tie for third place in the South Suburban League team events, HLR Opponent and the singles players became semifinalists. Mr. Yates, the ten- 0 Tho,-nridge 5 nis coach, guided the boys well in perfecting the needed skills 0 Arlington Height5cF-S7 5 and strategies of tennis. The first tennis team of our new Cam- 0 New '1'rierQF.Sj 5 pus showed rapid improvement and notable promise for future 0 Qak Pal-kcF.Sj 5 WIIII'lII'Ig tennis ICHITIS. 0 Tinley Park 5 2 Bremen 3 Mighty effon wrinkled Chris Bau- Countering his opponent's maneuver with a strong 0 RICII Central 5 man's brow as he scoreda point for backhand. Ken Cooley was plainly enjoying the 1 Thoynl-idge 4 the Bulldogs. action. 0 Sandburg 5 Engrossed in the coordination ofa powerful serve. Dale jurich was trying his best to get another point for the Bulldogs.