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

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Football ROM the time Owen Evans booted the first Riley kickoff down the field to Hammond Tech's visiting bruisers till Mishawaka Fullback DeMeyer plunged unsuccessfully for the last gridiron play of the year, these twelve men have been the outstanding contributors to Riley's claim for football supremacy. For wins and losses the 1938 season was not the most brilliant of Riley football, but followers of the Wild- cat eleven will partic- ularly remember it as having featured the play of som-e of the greatest players to take the field for the south-side school. Owen 1DiPPYl Evans topped all other backs ever to grace the ranks of a Riley football squad. He was a powerful and slippery runner, and efficient passer, and unbeatable punter, and capable blocker. All these tal- ents earned him the honors of all-Indiana halfback, all-conference and most valuable player. and unanimously all-city. End Earl Hartup was just as effective in his department of play, and was selected hon- orary all-state. all-conference. and all-city. Small but mighty, the Wildcat forewall did probably the greatest piece of line work in the history of Riley. At no time in the entire season did they face an opposing line that did not outweigh them, yet Riley backs fared just as well as other teams who had larger frontmen. At the top are Gal- loway, Murtaugh, and Reiter: and at the bottom Youngs, Frame, Wickens, and Hartup. Riley's 1938 backfield men were overly eflicient. Not only did they do their share in the ball-toting department, but more often formed valuable in- terference for long yard- age gains and touchdown plunges by Owen Evans. A hard - driving fullback, Knapp: a brainy quarter- back, Stephenson: a ver- satile left halfback, Evansg and two hard-fighting al- ternate right halfbacks, Smith and Bell, com- prised the mail-toters. These men represent not the greatest team in strength, or even in size, but characterize a coach's dream for personnel, attitude, perseverance, initiative, and individual adeptness. It was not always their better ability which made them stand above other teams, but the sheer doggedness and never-say-die spirit with which they fought.

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Footboll Squad Shown here is the organization Coach Wood labeled The greatest group of boys with whom I have ever been associated. From the plauded varsity man down to the strug- gling C squad gridder, every man in this picture possesses the spirit which has made Forest Woods ten years of football coaching so successful. BO'I I'OM Row tLefl to right! Stephenson. Smith, Knapp. Hartup, Youngs. lirame, Reiter. Battenherg, Evans, Galloway, Murtaugh. SECOND Row: Bullock. Hannon. Yoder. Walz, Clemans, fiirtl. Early. Wick- ens. Haenes, Bell, Bohm. THIRD Row: Annis, Adams, Horvath. Stevens. Haroff. Kuntz. Weiss, Glazer, Koepke, B. Sterzik. Rowe. FOURTH ROW: Kish, Ernsberger. Husvar, R, Sterzik, Perkey, Hillring, Toth, Muldreink, Barany, Pallatin, Nemeth. FIFTH Row: Macri, Hill, DuBois. Meilke, Hendryx, D. McMillan, Standfield, McCarthy, Amos. Miller. McCray. SIXTH Row: Grimmer. Bridgeford, Pasalich. Nelson. Burke, l.ee, Ferdinand. Barrett, Jessup, Capatina, Swisher. SEVENTH Row: Hopewell. Gervais, Linstead, Zolman. Biersdofer. Madich, Dodd, Hagquist, Weaver, J. McMillan. Perkey. EIOHTH Row: Walker, Minnis. Stan- age. Balaban. Marvel. Vvlhiteman, Clifford. Early, Weaver, Girard, Yanez. NINTH ROW: Nimtz, Farrell, l,ahey. Zeigert, Boxwell, Botich, Kolecki, Borinstein, Farkas, TENTH Row: fMdHUQ9F.Yj McKinney, Bell, Adams, Johnson, VanMeter. Varga, Klausmeyer, Warner, Goyer. CENTRAL, Zl: RILEY. 13. Hopes for a second victory over the Central Bears were completely shattered when the Cats were introduced to two young Bruin backs, Dan Preger and Al Smogor. As though still mindful of the 1937 trouncing administered by the Riley eleven, 22-7. Central's burly gridiron outfit ref turned touchdown with touchdown and then finally served up one better. to win 21-13. Owen Evans pro- vided the Cats with the lion's share of their yardage, and Ross Stephenson joined him in touchdown credits. Twice did the Central ace, Preger, cross the Riley goal, and once did the other half to the Bruins touchdown twin couple, Smogor. knife into Vv'ildcat scoring ground. All the sheer doggedness and stick-to-itiveness the Cats could muster could not stop the Bears. who. unfortunate for the Riley eleven, were playing their best game of the 1938 season. MISHAWAKA. 13: RILEY. 6. Coach Russell Arndt's Mishawaka All Cavemen made a clean sweep of things around South Bend in l938, with the Riley team no exception. After decisively brushing off Central and Washington, the Mishawakans got by on the skin of their teeth against Wood's football men, l3-6, The Maroons were at a loss to provide their own scoring until the Riley eleven spotted them a touchdown via an in- terference penalty pass. Disheartened by their inability to retaliate, the Cats were forced to allow another Caveman touchdown, sealing the Mish- awaka victory. Even so, the Riley team took credit for the most spectaf cular event of the affair, when amidst their rallys. Owen Evans raced 85 yards to touchdown terrain. Evans took the oval on the kickoff. started to his right. angled to evade Maroon tacklers, Enally cut to his left, and aided by splendid downneld blocking. express-trained the additional fifty yards down the side lines. thus performing what was labeled by sports writers. A'The most magnificent touchdown run ever seen in School liieldf' ASST COACH K055

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Th A . . L , President: Paul Anderson. Secretary: Elvira Chillik, Treasurer: Earl Krieger and Betty Brewer, Cabinet mem-bers. The class honors go to Ruby Burke, Valedictorian: Helen Weidman, Salutatorinng Mildred St l , h' d ' i eee t ir honors, and Dorothy Radican and Zoe Brninard, honor roll. e oflicers of the Senior Class are Ruby Burke President' lVlildre,l 'Steele Vice