Joliet Central High School - Steelmen Yearbook (Joliet, IL)

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I 1'- Iubilant Ioliet Township Steelmen celebrate the winning of the conference championship in the locker room after the Argo game. It was a brisk November evening at Ioliet Memorial Stadium. Ioliet Township H.S. was beating Argo by a score of 35-0. The public address system announced, Ladies and gentlemen, your attention please. A hushed silence fell over the throng. Thornton has beaten Bloom 27-2l. The hush was broken. 5,000 ITHS fans broke out in a wild spontaneous celebration. Bloom's loss meant that IOLIET TOWNSHIP HAD WON THE SOUTH SUBURBAN LEAGUE TITLE. The noisy observance of the end of the football drought at Ioliet was joyously received. After many years of Huy Kiooiwyk, head coach of the conference champion Joliet Steel' defeat and humiliation, the Steelmen had reached the pinnacle of state high school football. We have the fighting spirit, on to victory we will go. At last those words meant something. men, rides off the gridiron after the Argo game on the shoulders of his team. The Drought Is Over '- Ioliet Hits Blue Island With a 32-7 Loss I' The gun sounded the end of the game-WE HAD DONE IT. For the first time in the long history of Ioliet High, a Varsity football team had gone through a season without being beaten or tied. This victory marked the end of the playing season, but the beginning of a new era in football at ITHS. In the game itself, Sam Miller spearheaded the touchdown drives with 21 yard and 33 yard touchdown runs. Dave Kienlen made a pass interception pay off in ot spectacular 80 yard run for a TD. Wallace Allen and Charlie Winters picked up a touchdown apiece. This game marked the first TD scored against IT since the Bloom game. This in itself shows our tremendous defensive effort throughout the entire sea- son. A good game to end a terrific year. l'T's backfield coach, Frank Miller explains some of the Sam Miller starts off on a 33 yard touchdown carry in the game at Blue Island. finer poims of officiating football lo Q referee at the Blue Island game. ': l- ' Fans congratulate players 1337 Steve Azuma and C603 Ierry Iohnson after Ioliet had completed its first unde- feated season in the school's history. -CZ?

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fABOVEl Bill Wehrspann rounds the end of the Kankakee line on his way to another touchdown. JT Squeaks Past Porters 'Y-2 For 45Vz minutes Lockport was able to hold Ioliet Joliet Blanks Kays 13-O Friday the 13th proved no bad luck to our high flying Steelmen as Ioliet racked up its fifth win of the season over Kankakee 13-0. Fullback Bill Wehrspann scored all 13 points. A third TD, a 60 yard run by Wehrspann, was called back because of an offsides penalty against Ioliet. While Wehrspann was chalking up 121 yards, two touchdowns, and an extra point, the IT defense held the Kankakee squad to a meager 83 yards. KBELOWD With 2V2 minutes left in the game, Ioliet's Dave Kienlen finds a hole in Lockport's line and races for the only TD of the game. scoreless. With 2 minutes and 22 seconds left on the clock, halfback Dave Kienlen shook loose for a 19 yard run for the touchdown. Bob Meyer kicked the extra point. Ioliet had now beaten Lockport 7-2, making the Porters the 6th victim in the present Steelmen winning streak. In a freak play in the third quarter, Iim Walser cen- tered the ball into and out of the Lockport end zone for an automatic safety and 2 points' for Lockport, Ioliet led in rushing with 162 yards to 74 for Lockport on the muddy Porter field. Tom Rickhoff breaks through the Thornridge line on a 70 yard quarterback sneak for a Ioliet touchdown. The Argonauts fell to the mighty Ioliet Steelmen 35-O. It was a long night for the Argo team. Ioliet made 418 yards to Argo's 67 yards gained. Six Argo passes were intercepted by the alert Steelmen. Ioliet made 12 first downs to Argo's l. Dave Kienlen made two TDS., while Sam Miller ran for 3 touchdowns for Joliet Whips Argo Joliet's State Rating Soars 27-O Joliet Steamrolls Thornridge As the victorious Steelmen entered their dressing room, Head Varsity Coach Ray Klootwyk was leaning on the locker room door beaming. Coach Klootwyk exclaimed, We could have poured it on them, but we wanted to play as many of the boys as we could. Klootwyk was referring to the neat job Ioliet had just done in polishing off Thornridge of Dalton, 27-O. Many Ioliet substitutes saw action in a game that saw junior fullback Wallace Allen pour it on for 2 touchdowns. Dave Kienlen and Tom Rickhoff were credited with one TD apiece, while Bob Meyer was kept busy kicking 3 extra points. Again our stonewall defense proved almost impregnable by giving Thornridge only 24 yards on the ground. In all Ioliet piled up 269 yards against the Falcons. Iim Henderson, Joliet Township's number 2 quarterback, goes on a keeper play around the left end for live yards against Argo Ioliet. Bob Meyer connected for 3 extra points. This wrapped up the scoring in the game. Joliet played one of their best games of the season as they extended their winning streak to 8 games. 88

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