Hillman Community High School - People Yearbook (Hillman, MI)

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3 into shape. 'Q Foofrsam C 915' on Vanwwagonner Field t . 1 this fall of 51 and did Our first game was with r the lights in Mich-a-ke lv rough game. The starting line-up that night was: Center John Coles Right Guard Tim Neidllng Left Guard Arthur Hunt Right Tackle Delbert Joslin Left Tackle Bob Tucker Right End Dan Herrick Left End Ron Marquardt Right Halfback Wllmirth Mann Left Halfback Albert LaFleche Fullback Martin Powell Quarter Back Lowell Elowsky Although we were beaten badly in that our first game of the year we still had high spirits, and trained all the harder for the next game but to no availe We were beaten again by Onaway 35 O W just couldn't seem to get out of the rut 4+ The closest we came to winning a game was With Rogers City, 31 6 Bert LaF'leche making the only touchdown of the year for Hillman on a Blocked pass -fi Our new coach CElwood Hauslerl had the football boys out wO weeks before school started, V a fine job of whipping the boys . .g , tn S. Catholic Central in Alpena under I -wls park on September lb, and ' I, although the team looked good we knew we were in for a Catholic Central won the flip and chose to receive. After the kick off it was one touch down after another for the Thunderbolts and when the whistle blew for the end of the game it was a lop sided U5 0 victory for Catholic Central The rest of the games and their scores are as follows Alpena Reserves -11 'A M10 I Y I Catholic Central Mio Gaylord Onaway Y gu...S'-4 Hillman Hillman Hillman Hillman Hillman Hillman V ' , Q u 0 ' ' ' 6 Fr X Y ' I A 23-O b VS fl , 7 ' ' 27-0 VS . M , Q V- M5-o vs 37-0 ' VS 35-0 VS 35-0 VS ' ff '-'fl A V , 2 r ,, 4 A' E ' ' ze- 'lf' 4.3. ' ' T 'qi ' , ' Q V of if .474 V t Q M , - ' , -T A f ' T ,I - JK

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L QASKETBALL Ne got off to a pretty good start this year in baeketbally losing a nip and tuck gam to Johannesburg by one ooint on thei own floor The final soo e was 45 H4 They were fourth high t in the state last yea and it made' fe 1 pretty good to glv zcn a cognized team so good a tussel We kept up the good start fo a while by t olnc lnp Pagan QQ 19 It was a mighty game and boys played basketball Aft this win we we e getting pretty cokkey' Next we played Gaylord it Marys and we were 'right on their tall' all the way, but in the last few minutes of the gems we fell back and the final sco e was 52 44 in favor of Gaylo d Aft r that we went into s slzmp and lost 5 games by lopsided eco es Then cams the time to olay Atlanta We all kn w it was a hopeless cause, for Atlanta was p etty good this year, n t having lo many games we would h ve glv n ou f right arms to have taken them Howev fooled ourselves by losing by the s mll margin of 42 CC Then We lost a couple mo e games and the time can to play Gaylord again on their own floo We knew we had a slim chance fo we con oretty close to taking them on ou own floo a few weeks before On the night of Feb 12, 1952, a handful of spectatols and rlaye s, C42 to be exactl start d off on the long t ek to Gaylord Our second team played first and made a good showing, but th y w nt down in defeat a usual Then the first team boys w nt out on the floor and Gaylo d raced ahead to a four point lead That wasn't anything unlsual, but something unlsual did happen Gaylords eco e d1dn't se m to b movinglr any, but Hlllmansdid In fact, we rolled up a 9 point 1 ai in the fi st ous t and held it throzgh out th game The f'nal sco e b ing ZQ 1 the last ou t of the game four of our men had fowls on them, and in the last few seconds of the game Richard Hs rick, Na tin Powell and Lowell Elowsky we e fowled out It was a eal victory for Hillman that night Gaylo d had only lost a coupl of games ll season and Hillman had only taken one The odds against our winning we s about lO l 41N 450' 3 GY' U' , e ' 'K sp 5 'f - ' , . ,, Y e 'V , -r . x a r - . - 1? Q . U es , .. , r a JB M e - e sl 1 re . J 54' V .1 0 g? 13 QQ? I r r ' - 3? E W , , ,,- , W . th9 M . er r n J k . . . V , - Y' - 14 . r - . . 9 . r . .wr 5 1 4 Q O - e t, , f . r fy , st V . . , 2 e r ive - F. . er, we -J . H J 9 '11 0 1' fy I! r . ' Q A 9 X' W ' Qf.W L. I r .e A ' P Y, vt f 1 . 4 . - 1 . 1 Q ...Q ,VH4 I ' if if f 4, . . , r e r . eA 'e ' , s 0 .Y 9 Y Vx , ,B - . , . 5 ' g 1: j A Y - C V u A t , r , e e W '. o ' J y '5 I I e-W A A r er . ' f Ky: y .e , . , . r e , -,5. ' . 5 In . , or ec f - jf W . w 1 N 4 v- 'A . T . r . 9 e , Q o . . . ,. ' . . :' , . - . .- . - , w . f