Joliet West High School - Alpha Omega Yearbook (Joliet, IL)

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Denny Duchene picks up valuable yardage with an off-tackle power Charlie McLurkin gets boxed in as he sweeps end in West's twenty-five dive in the Joliet West-Kankakee West game. to nothing shut out over the Kankakee Eastridge Raiders. West's Tigers Reign Over Sister Schools A team with character comes back after losing a game and wins the next one, Coach Klootwyk said at Monday's practice after West's first conference loss against Argo. West came back to shut out two teams in a row, beat- ing Kankakee East twenty-five to nothing and Lockport West twenty to nothing. Then the Ti- gers went on to post a four-five season and four-three conference record. West's season was highlighted by the trouncing the Tigers gave Joliet East and Joliet Central in two successive weeks, forty-five to thirteen and thirty-three to thirteen. SCORES est Joliet Catholic ..... est Champaign .... . . est Joliet East .... est Jolet Central . . . . . est Kankakee East . est Argo ....... est Lockport West . est est Kankakee West . Lockport Central f,,b.i. 3 v'f': QM Coaches Seitzberg, Klootwyk, and Miller stand beside honorary co-captains Mike Cookas halfback, and Mike Nippert, a guard. , .Ji

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VARSITY FOOTBALL--FRONT ROW: R. Smyder, S. Florey, D. Guffey. THIRD ROW: Coach Klootwyk, J. Ward, B.. Fritz, R. Zier, D. Peterson, M. Furlane, M. Cookas, D. Mahoney, J. Stogis, G. Ferguson, R. Prola, M. Benham, S. Koivula, L. Lynch, D. Smith, P. Wilson, C. Hoff- Brauer, C. McLurkin, A. Shelby, J. Bond. SECOND ROW: Coach man, M. Williamson, T. Pratto, D. Finkle, B. Winke, Coach Miller. Not Seltzberg, R. Clemons, C. Gates, B. Odenthal, K. Stawick, D. Duchene, pictured: B. Benson. M. Nippert, R.,Tozzi, N. Grabavoy, R. Zolla, R. McLurkin, G. Arthur, R. Chuck Gates with Denny Duchene and Mark Furlane demonstrate the gang tackling which held opponents to an average of l4l yards rushing.

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West's offense grinds into gear against Kankakee Westview. Title Hopes Still Burn At West's Homecoming Title Hopes Still Burn , read the Joliet Herald-News. Wins in four of West's last five games was the reason behind the headlines. With homecoming week at West the football team was tied for second and had a chance for the first place trophy. Only two games to win, and West could capture the first Illini 8 cham- pionship. i Despite a cold wind, West's student body came out in-mass to see the first varsity foot- ball team with a winning conference record. Finding a seat at the homecoming game was hard because the capacity crowd didn't leave an empty seat in the stands. t 4 In two hours of tough crunching football the Kankakee Kayhawks defeated the Tigers nine- teen to thirteen, disappointing the homecoming crowd. Nevertheless, the team finished with its first winning conference season with a four- three slate. Quarterback Mahoney brings the crowd to its feet as his pass to Hoffman is completed late in the fourth quarter.