Hopkins High School - Warrior Yearbook (Minnetonka, MN)

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- THE WARRIORS’ TALE Top row: Mr. Knutson. Mr. Maetzold: third row: Krnntz, Pnshlna, Corbett. Cermak. Towlcy. Ollland. Tschlmperle. Owen8- Helland. Olsen. PagelkofT, Cunning: second row: Mason. Slyce. Stahowlak. Owens. Krai. Thompson. Slpprell. Stra-shota Toenslng; first row: Korsmo. Miller. DeFore, Markham. Alberg, Jurlsch. Matteson. Hansen. Anderson. Schneider. FOOTBALL COMES BACK UP A. FT ER reaching a low ebb in the 1946 season. football fortunes started back with the coming of Coach Floyd Knutson from St. Olaf to assume the reins dropped by Coach Taddie when the latter left in the spring of ’47. The blond V.king started from the bottom, drilling in fundamentals night after night, with the result that the boys took Excelsior by straight football 18-9 at the end of the second week of practise. U High fell in a scoring scramble 28-14, but sweet was the victory scent in Warrior nostrils when the traditional rivals in Orange jerseys were outrun, out maneuvered, out-thought and out-scored 27-0 on the Park grid. Wayzata, who was to go on to a high spot in the Conference pushed over two scores in a hotly-contested game for the season’s only loss. Mound went down by the margin of two points-after-touchdown, 14-12, and in the season nightcap, the Warriors and Robins battled to a 6-6 tie. It was a satisfactory season, pointing to considerable promise for the fall to come. Tom Matteson and Gene Schneider landed posts on the mythical All-Conference team. CO-CAPT. TOM CHECKING THE BALL —25—

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GRIDIRON GREATS FOR ’47 Top Row. left to right—Jurlsch, Anderson, Cunning, Hanson, Krai; Second Row—Owens, Cermak. Schneider, DeFore, Miller; Third Row—Matteson. Stahowlak. Coaches Knutson, Armstrong and Maetzold. Korsmo; Bottom Row—Stra-chota, Alberg, Nelson, Slyce, Mason, Markham. —24—

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Basket ball: Left to Right—Anderson. Korsmo. Miller. Wolff. Schneider. Jurlsch; Second Row—Cunning. Slyce, Skog-lund. Mr. Maetzold. Mason. Krai. Mr. Stenback. WARRIORS WROTE HISTORY IN ’48 Basket BALL rose to new and dizzy heights at Hopkins during the season just passed with the Warriors ending the season in next to the top spot in the state, following a brilliant state tournament session. Entering the Field-house tussles virtually unheralded and unsung, Maetzold’s hoys went to work—with the same determination, quiet team-cooperation and will-to-win that had brought them through an un- exciting season—to wrest from the dopcsters the realization that here was an aggregation in Miller, Schneider, Korsmo, Wolfe, Anderson, et al, that deserved to he ranked with the best the state has had to offer for many years. Soundly beating the highly-touted Crosby outfit 51-31 caused much blinking and rubbing of eyes among the pickers—it was done so mat- ter of-factly yet with the characteristic Maetzold (Continued on page 30) RECEIVING DISTRICT TROPHY RECEIVING REGIONAL TROPHY