Lowell High School - Red and White Yearbook (San Francisco, CA)

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BASKETBALL CHAMPIONS The vicTory over Sacred I-learT placed Lowell in a Tie wi+h Poly, Thus making a playoTT imperaTive. The playoTT consisTed oT a Two-ouT-OT-Three game series, wiTh The league encounTer counTing as one oT The games of The series. Because oT This, Lowell enTered The playoTT one up on iTs rivals. The ParroTs, playing superbly, bounced back in The running by deTeaTing The Indians, 26 To I9, in The second game. In The Third and deciding conTesT a long Tield goal by Franusich puT The Cards in TronT in The opening minuTes oT play, and Trom here unTil The halT The Cards held a Two-poinT advanTage, The score aT The inTermission being 9 To 7. As The second halT began The Cardinal Torwards sTarTed breaking pasT The Poly deTense, wiTh The resulT ThaT Lowell Tound herself seven poinTs ahead aT The beginning oT The TourTh guarTer. The Indians held Their lead, and as The Tinal gun sounded iT signal- ized The TirsT maior baskeTbaII championship in Three years ThaT was acquired by a Lowell Team. The Tinal score read: Lowell 2I, Poly I2. I-Iaving safely secured The ciTy TiTle, The Cards iourneyed To Reno, Nevada, where They encounTered The Nevada STaTe Prep champions, Sparks Union I-Iigh, a Team which had hereToTore won ThirTy-nine successive games. Lowell Took an early lead, holding iT unTiI halT Time, when The score was I4 To 7. Shor+ly aTTer The second halT began The Lowell Team lapsed and losT The lead, only To regain iT early in The TourTh guarTer. The Cards held The upper hand unTil The end of The game, winning 24 To 2 I . ParTicular menTion should be made oT Carl Troppman, Lowell cenTer, who was named The ouTsTanding player oT The Prep League. He won a place on The TirsT sTring of every all-ciTy Team published, and led The league in individual scoring. Too much crediT cannoT be besTowed upon Coach NeTl. I-Iis Tine Training plus The splendid spiriT and dogged deTerminaTion oT The Team were leading TacTors in bringing The A. A. A. TiTIe back To Lowell. THE ROAD TO A CHAMPIONSHIP Lowell OpponenTs . . Mission . . 24 25 23 . . Balboa . . I8 26 . . Commerce . . 28 4I . . Galileo . . I3 32 . . ST. IgnaTius . . I I 22 . . . Poly . . . I7 22 . Sacred I-IearT . I2 I9 . . . Poly . . . 26 ,zu . . .Poly. . . I2 23I- I6I 56

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Aller compleling a successlul praclice season, lhe Lowell lighl- weighl cagers opened lheir league compelilion by delealing Mission, 34 lo I7. In The game wilh Balboa lhe Cards encounlered greal diffi- cullyin gaining a I3 lo I I decision. A lavored Commerce live proved loo much lor lhe Lowell aggrega- lion, winning, 22 lo I6. Galileo was held lo Iwo liield goals in a game which lound Lowell on The long end ol a 20 lo 9 score. Sl. lgnalius was overwhelmed, 20 lo I I, while lhe Poly skirmish pro- duced a I7 lo 8 viclory lor lhe Red and While. By delealing Sa- cred I-learl, 33 lo 22, The Cards cinched second place honors be- hind lhe undelealed Commerce live. The lirsl slring consisled ol John lgnollo and Bob I-Iarris, forwards: Diclc Shrieve, cenlerg and Jerry Grillin, Andy Moore, and Fred Wheeler, allernaling al 'rhe guard posilions. Diclc Shrieve was re- warded lor his very consislenl' and ever-dependable game by being named lirsl slring cenler on The ohlicial all-cily lighlweighl leam. JOHN IGNOFFO .SL GROSS PAUL LE BARON I 5 isdn HAUELER CENT BROWN

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TRACK For The second successive year The Lowell unlimiTed Track Team climaxed successTul seasons by capTuring runner-up honors in The A. A. A. meeT. The Cardinals, wiTh 4Olf4 poinTs, Tinished second only To Poly, who amassed a ToTal oT si 5fI2 poinis. The lndians sTarTed The season by easily deTeaTing Balboa, 8I To 32. Berkeley succumbed To The sTrong Cardinal Team, bl IX3 To 5I 2,f3. The Cards nexT upseT Poly, 62 IX3 To 52 2f3, in a dual meeT Tha+ Tound STanley Evans broad- iumping 22 TeeT 3 inches Tor The ouTsTanding perTormance oT The day. The Lowell Relays Tound Poly barely nosing ouT Lowell and Se- quoia, who Tied Tor second place. The lndians led up To The Tinal evenT oT The meeT, The relay. Poly won This evenT To bring her ToTal To 25 poinTs, while Sequoia closed TasT To Take a second, Tallying 243g poinTs, The same number garnered by Lowell. NexT came The SanTa Rosa lnvi- TaTional Track and Field lvleeT. FirsTs by Evans, Long, Maxwell, Sales, STock, and Weisgerber, enabled Lowell To Take second honors. is-:spam Ensgsn .GEORGE JOHN FTNNT , Pere sALEs LJOFIN' STOCK , K, ..,- KING. JOE SANDERSQN E Tar Q gh 4. ya LEE, :swam T U TTED TRACK UNr,:A.f Raw: Ndlnnxon, Poduquis, Granf, Humphreyl, Sanderson, Weisqerbsr, Wolf, Fsldhynl, Ender. Wiliam, DTIH. Fr