Kankakee Valley High School - Kougar Pride Yearbook (Wheatfield, IN)

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left: Rich Groen and Ed Pellegrino discuss current affairs at the globe. above: Greg Hohnerand Doug Henri cks study the antics of the wondrous creature in the terrarium. below: Togetherness is the key as the biology class shares resources to study the life in water. right: Mr. Nimtz and his U.S. history class study in unusual silence.

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Kougar Pride: Football practice is rough and tough and horrifying and every football player has to go through it . What do you think about it? Tom Morris: When we start out it ' s really rough because you’ve been kinda lazy all summer, you’re not really ready for it, but you start just where you are, running on the pads and jumping on the ground a lot, and starting to get used to getting hit a little bit. We sepa- rate the backs from the line, then the line starts to get their block- ing assignments down, and their blocking calls so they can function properly together . While this is going on, the backs are down get- ting used to handling the ball again. Then we start on the back- field and combine it with the line . And with this, we always have calisthenics, warm-up before practice, and a warm -down after practice, to get in condition for the games . Kougar Pride: What kind of relationship did Coach Hamacher strike up with the boys? Tom Morris: He had some different ideas on offense and defense which were quite new to everybody in the area, because he came from a different section of the state . But personally, we think he rode -jus a little too much . But since we came out with a winning season, five conference wins, no losses, we figure it was worth it . He made us work hard. There wasn ' t any horseplay at all on or off the field where football was concerned . He ' d tell us how he wanted it done, and we ' d do it that way. But al- together working with him was OK . We had gripes ; he had gripes . And we usually ironed them out his way. But that’s why he was coach and we weren ' t . Kougar Pride: Compare our home field with the other fields you played on this season .