Loras College - Purgold Yearbook (Dubuque, IA)

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Tjjp A’t ' -lL HT -q» « c F k : V T V- - %t. , V, i Top Row, left to right—Quigley, Milroy, Ullman. Kelly, Kcvanc, Mudorc, Dolan, Scharding, Wag¬ ner, Flick, Kamenjarin. Second Rote— Peterson, Armoska, Mocs, Engel, O’Leary, Cormany, Healey, Tierney, P., Sensor, Marty, Mulhall. Third Row —Coach Schramm, Swerinsky, Murray, Tierney, T., Genoar, Gutcr, Linehan, Corcoran, J., Poskus, Southward, T., Voclker, Gotto. Bottom Row — LaBarge, Goodwin, Corcoran, E., Schneider, Grom- mes Padovic, Tiedeman, Cavanaugh, Knochel, Southward, R., Ennes, Coach Thomas. THE 1940 FOOTBALL SEASON September 22—Loras 22 September 29—Loras ... 7 October 5 —Loras 6 October 12—Loras . 7 October 18—Loras 29 October 26—Loras 27 November 2—Loras 27 November 10—Loras 2 November 16—Loras 33 November 24—Loras 0 Won—6 Lost St. Mary’s 13—Here Rockhurst 6—There Morningside 6—There Central 22—There Simpson 0—Here Upper Iowa 6—Here Parsons 6—Here St. Thomas 19—Here Luther 0—There St. Ambrose 0—Here 2 Tied—2 20

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THIS SEASON’S EVENTS SEPTEMBER 16—Jackson Flannery, George Grady and other celebrities enroll as freshmen at Loras on opening day. Bud (Savannah) Sullivan goes into action with that Southern drawl. 18— Tommy (Andy Hardy) Boyle receives diploma from Triangle after comple¬ tion of a very successful four years. Im¬ mediately enrolls at Diamond ' s Grille. 19— Jack McNeil feels the sting of Ben O’Keefe ' s lath (I mean wrath). Takes it standing up! 22—School year is officially opened with Solemn High Mass in St. Joseph Chapel. Loras grid machine gets off to auspic¬ ious start with 22-13 victory over St. Mary ' s. 2 5 —Intramurder touchball season opens. N. Y. A. students kept busy mopping up the blood. 26— T. J. Mulgrew and Al X Lask com¬ pete for the hand of the Seattle miss. Mulgrew grabs early lead as he tells her about his stable of horses. 27— McFadden defeats Payton for Senior class presidency by three votes. Very interesting day as words and rumors are bandied about the campus. 29—Duhawks and Spook” LaBarge grab thriller from Rockhurst, 7-6. OCTOBER 3—Al Spahn is victor over Paul Mulvchill in Junior class president race. 5—Loras held to tie by Morningside on muddy field. Bill Pcndergast and Jack Bogen decide they like the same girl. No hard feelings. 7— Fourteenth Street disappears — Loras Boulevard emerges. 8— Bob Combs resigns eight offices in or¬ der to devote full time to his books, thus causing a shortage of ink and sta¬ tionery in Keane Hall due to resultant balloting to choose his successors. 10—Doyle and Fahrner warn all people in tri-state area that they have enrolled in the C. P. T. aviation course. 12—Tea Dance in fieldhouse. Jack (Dick Powell) Lewis makes official debut to Dubuqueland. Gridders upset at Central. 1 3—Red Goodwin turns on personality. Is elected soph prexy by a sizeable margin. 17—Tony Wagener chosen to head Frosh. 1 S—Payton named Purgold editor. Ascap dedicates I’ll Never Smile Again” to him. 20—Mixer at Mercy. Bill Graber and Emil Fleidkamp discover Loras coeds and they are also discovered. Dick Stevenson jumps the gun a bit. 23— Bill Pcndergast says Bogen can have her! 26—Upper Iowa and Doc Dorman go back to Fayette with memories of the sound licking administered by Loras and Line- han, 27-6. 31—Halloween party for residents. Nuts and apples by Fathers Breen and Long. Combs presides at auction. Receives bid from Lucky Strike. NOVEMBER 2—Parsons receives sound trouncing from rampaging Wintcrmen, 27-6. 4— Tappa Kegga Barons win intramural touch football crown ' mid weeping and gushing of tears. Infirmary goes back on regular schedule. 6— Don Ameche, former student, visits old campus haunts. 7— T.K.B. ' s also annex volleyball title. 5— Homecoming dance. R. J. O’Brien im¬ ports as usual. 9—Parade, pep rally, bon fire and (cen¬ sored) . 10—Loras stadium dedicated. Huge throng watches St. Thomas outswim Loras in sea of mud. Arch Ward, James S. Kearns, and Eddie Anderson guests at banquet. 13—R. J. Collins is quoted — Flying is great.” 16— Loras 3 3—Luther 0 . Tim Linehan runs wild. 17— Walt Walljasper’s Cats and Jammers” get in the groove. 22—Clarke sophomore soiree. Pat Clarke and Gus Kerndt take the long way to the affair. 24— Loras and St. Ambrose battled to a scoreless tic as Elmer Laydcn and mam- oth crowd watch. 26— Dramatists present Father Malachy’s Miracle.” Very well received. 27— Home for Thanksgiving vacation. Ro- nan and Larkin take over Zephyr.

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FIOTBALL Takes the Stage from September until Thanksgiving The 1940 Loras College football squad went through a ten game schedule with six wins, two losses and two ties. Len A. Win¬ ter was still head coach, completing his third and final year at the helm of the Purple and Gold machine. Gailen Thomas and Al Schramm, both former Duhawk line stars, assisted Winter. Six veteran backfield men and eleven let¬ ter winning linemen reported for practice which opened during the first week of Sep¬ tember. Tim Linehan and Larry Guter co- captained the squad. Twenty-five other hopeful candidates, including the annual frosh aspirants, also reported for the pre- season drills. Loras finished third in the final standings of the Iowa Conference race with four wins and one loss in league strife. Twenty- seven major L” awards were given to suc¬ cessful players at the close of the season. Heinie Engel of Dubuque, a back, and Ralph Cormany of Beloit, a tackle, were elected co-captains of the 1941 squad. Sweaters and letters went to Co-captains Linehan and Guter, co-captains-elect Engel and Cor¬ many and to the following: Joe Healy, Ray Armoska, Charles Genoar, Mark O’Leary and Charles Murray, all seniors; Ed Moes, a jun¬ ior; John Corcoran, Herman Swerinsky, Paul Tierney, Ray and Tom Southward, Louis Gotto, Paul Goodwin, Barney Grommes, Bob Mulhall, Bob Cavanaugh and Terry Ennes, sophomores; and Larry LaBarge, Fred Schnei¬ der, Ange Padovic, Tom Tierney, Jack Sen¬ sor, and Ed Poskus, freshmen. Loras placed four men on the Associated Press’ Iowa All-Conference team: Linehan, Guter, Healey and Corcoran. Assistant Coach Gailen Thomas Head Coach L. A. Winter Assistant Coach AI Schramm