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

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center: Healthy, but harsh, criticism keeps a football player on his toes. upper left: Coach Daigle pa- tiently awaits the outcome of a winning play. lower left: Half a football game is spent waiting, as Joe Doris and Butch Jungels can tell you. Kankakee Valley Football above: Strategy and teamwork — they learn both here, right: Howard Altman knows better than to be caught with the ball. So, he runs.

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Tom Morris: Well, the field at DeMotte would probably have been a rather nice field if they had sloped the field just a little bit so the water would drain off, and the grass could stay green. The lighting is really good on the field. I believe it ' s one of the area’s best lit fields. We could probably have used a good scoreboard . We couldn’t use the one we had because no one could operate the numbered cards . Kougar Pride: Evaluate our competition this year, Tom. Tom Morris: We started off with South Newton . I really wanted to beat them . Our teamwasn ' t together yet, so early in the season, and we lost 7- -14. Anybody who faced Harrison on the playing field shuddered . But we went down to East Tipp to play them. Harrison is nothing but a meat-eating mammoth team. They are completely out of our class. I think Kankakee Valley will be ready to play them in, maybe , five years . When we went up to North Judson, we weren ' t ready. We know when we’re ready, and the coach knows . They played Easi Gary and stomped them. We. played East Gary and lost 14- -0, on our homecoming. East Gary had two lucky breaks and they took them. Otherwise we were even with East Gary for man - size and ability. When West Cen- tral came up to play us, they thought they could beat us with no trouble. They thought we could never beat them, so they’d just have some fun with us . But we cracked down after the first quar- ter and played football. They wanted more fights; we played more football . We beat them mis- erably. We got the traveling tro- phy and the conference . left: Coach Hamacher hangs loose during the football season. He really trusts us. below: The local savages take over the football field c to the strains of the school song before the game.

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above: Dale Hamacher is a winning man. left: It takes more than unbearable cold to chill the spirit of a cheerleader, bottom: Martin Bell points the way to vic- tory for his boys. A lot of dirty work comes be - fore every glory, the hours a football team spends on the prac- tice field are long and grueling. Wins come, but so do losses. Teams help us to take both in stride. But, somehow, the little things (like being All -Conference champions) seem to make up for the trouble .