James Whitcomb Riley High School - Hoosier Poet Yearbook (South Bend, IN)

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VARSITY SQUAD The Riley B team. commonly known as the liittens . and coached by Mr. Owen, completed its successful season of l936. He has a lot of promising material for the varsity next year. They received much fundamental work and good experience from their games which, all in all. will beneht them when they meet stronger opposition next fall. They lost one, tied once. and won 5 games, winning two from Central, 6-O and 7-6: two from LaPorte. 2OfO and 7-0: and one from Mishawaka. IZ-7. They lost to Washington. 6f0. and later tied them, O-O. CHEER LEADERS Another football season is over and two of our yell leaders have completed their last season as football yell leaders. Charles Abrams. who has been head cheer leader for the past year and a half, is to be commended on his excellent leadership to your cheer leaders. He has worked hard and deserves a great deal of credit. John Scheldrup, expects to keep up his fine work cheering our basketball team on to victory. Jeanne Dice. one of the girls. is a brand new yell leader, having come in at the begin- ning of the football season along with John. Shirley Dygert. because of the gradu- ation of Chuck Abrams. will become the head cheer Ad,- leader and has three years of cheer leading to her credit. You'll be seeing Shirley and Jeanne again next year. but Bud and A'Chuck are seniors and will not be with us next year. 'N 26 HOOSIER POET

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JUNIOR HIGH VARSITY The l936 Riley Junior High passball team under the able direction of Coach Haf- ron has had the most successful season in its history. taking the city championship with a record of 7 wins. l tie. and no dsfeats. They also fiinished the season without being scored upon. tribute to their defense. They opened their season with a 6-0 win over Madison. th:n they took in succes- sion: Harrison. lZ-O1 Waslaingttin. 6-O: Jefferson, 6-O: Central. 7-O: Nuner. 6-O: Oli- ver. l2'O. and in their last game Muessel held them to a O-O tie. Bob Battenburg. stellar right end, was elected Captain for the season. Through the season the starting lineeup was: Ends, Keiter and Battenburg: Tackles. Hannon and Erame: Guards. Bohm and Bridgeford: Center. Clemrns: Quarterback. Bul- lock and Soos: Left half. McDaniels and Bump: Right half, Beres: Eullback. Fisher. The remaining players who played through the seasons and earned an HR were: Early, Mielke. Dragon, Haines. Lahey. lVIcMillan, Eirtle. Glazer. Vodick. and I-Iopewell. TENNIS TEAM This year the same four boys played all the matches: three sophomores. Wesley Butterbaugh, Kenneth Gardner. and John Rayman. and one senior-Dale Knepp. It was the Hrst season in varsity competition for them all. They defeated LaPorte and Goshen. but lost to Central. Mishawaka, Elkhart. a nd N a p p a n e e. Butterbaugh. I Gardner. and Bayman played the singles: for the first doubles Butterbaugh and Bayman were paired. and linepp and Gardner for the second. Butterbaugh played the most consistent tennis during the season. lacking only one point of winning a varsity letter. With another summer of hard practice and competition in the various tournaments they should be i ready for a successful season l next fall. I-IOOSIER POET 27