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

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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

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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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COACH HARRIS A week laTer The Indians won a Three-way meeT againsT LakeporT and Ukiah. The Tinal meeT preparaTory To The A. A. A. clash was The Roseville Relays, which The Cards handily won by scoring 49'f2 poinTs. ArmsTrong, Buckley, Evans, Fahn, Harris, Humphreys, Long, Maxwell, Sanderson, STock, Weisgerber, Williams, and WolT, all added valuable poinTs To Lowell's ToTal. In The annual A. A. A. meeT, a courageous Lowell Team, scheduled To Take Third behind Poly and Commerce, upseT The dope by gaining 40lf4 poinTs, To Tinish behind Poly, who won The championship wiTh 5l 5fI2 poinTs, buT ahead oT Commerce, who Took Third wiTh 34 M3 markers. I The hurdles supplied The Cards wiTh many unexpecTed poinTs when Ray Humphreys and Mel Long Tinished one-Two in The highs, and John STock TirsT in The 220 lows. Long also placed in This evenT, Tinishing TourTh. The discus Tound PeTe Sales geTTing OTT a mighTy winning heave oT I33 TeeT 3 inches, while Henri Ensler and Lee Feldheym placed second and TourTh, respecTively, Ensler also Took a TourTh in The shoT-puT. The sprinTs Tound George Maxwell placing TourTh in The I00-yard dash and second in The 220, despiTe The TacT ThaT an injured ankle gave way TwenTy yards Trom The Tinish oT The laTTer evenT. Evans also placed second in The broad iump, and Ray Humphreys came in Tor an unexpecTed TourTh. The TirsT evenT oT The day, The mile run, Tound Bob Harris running The TasTesT race in his liTe To Take Third. The high iump proved To be a big disappoinTmenT To The Lowell supporTers, as Lee, Long, and Weisgerber were Torced inTo a Tour-way Tie Tor Third place. The Lowell relay Team, weakened by Maxwell's iniury, was unable To place beTTer Than TourTh. This ended Lowell's scoring and, alThough They didn'T emerge wiTh The cham- pionship, The Indians made a mosT commendable showing. One oT The mosT powerful lighTweighT Track Teams ever To represenT Lowell romped home wiTh The A. A. A. TiTle by scoring an overwhelming ToTal oT 7I poinTs. The l00-pound division Tound AlTTield and Turner placing second and Third, respecTively, in The broad iump. FourThs were capTured by ShaeTer in The 50-yard dash and Davis in The I00-yard dash. Lowell's superioriTy in The I I0-pound class wenT unquesTioned as The Cardinals col- lecTed TirsTs in every evenT. Gopal, in The 75-yard dash, Remy, in The I50, and lda, in The broad iump, emerged vicTorious in Their respecTive evenTs. Mahoney Took second behind Gopal in The 75, while Bishop placed Third in The longer sprinT. Jim Fahn, I20-pound hurdler, ran The I20 lows in I4.2 To seT a new record in The Trials. He laTer won his evenT in The Tinals by barely deTeaTing his Team-maTe, Takahashi. Shinkai and OngerTh ran second and Third in The 75-yard dash, while Nakashima placed Third in The 220. 58