Madison High School - Cauldron Yearbook (Madison, OH)

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football if- H3 With the week before school in Sep- tember of 1942 came the opening of foot- ball practice. Coach Duffy found himself again confronted with a shortage of man power with only 23 boys reporting. How- ever, out of these 23 he had 9 lettermen with which to form his team. The letter- men consisted of six seniors, Captain Roy Pethtel, Ray Pethtel, Dave Bailey, Bob Jones, Norman Turri, and Tony Perme. The other three were Rolland Conklin, Lon Wirtzberger, and John Henninge. The rest of the squad consisted of Jack Page, Wal- ter Neubert, John Spaulding, Neil Skinner, Don Easterbrook, Leonard Zindarsic, How- ard Luse, Bill MacBeth, Roy Whipple, Ed Plants, and Herbert Kubach. The Blue Steaks were set to work im- mediately and worked hard on those first warm days of September. Then under the lights of Hickok Field late in September the Blue Streaks met their first trial. They met the former football greats of their high school, the Alumni, who put a strong team on the field coached by Frank Tarr, form- er coach of Madison. The Streaks fought hard that night but in the final seconds of play after battling through almost four scoreless periods the Alumni pushed across a touch down to carry off a hard earned victory 6-0. A week later the Blue and White tra- veled to Chagrin Falls to open the Western Reserve League Play. Madison had just entered the league this year and was an- xious to win. However, after leading at the half 12-0, the Streaks bowed to Chagrin 13-12. Following the Chagrin game the Perry Pirates payed us a visit. It was a bad night for the Blue Streaks for everything seemed to and did happen to them. They left the field with a 54-0 score against them and trying to understand just what had happened. With their pride at a low ebb and their fighting spirit at a new high the Streaks went to visit Mentor's Champion Cardinals. The first period went scoreless with Madi- son fighting a great weight advantage, and then the Mentor Machine began to roll, the outcome being a 33-14 defeat. Following Mentor came the Chardon Mountain Boys who scored twice in the first three minutes of the second half to turn what might have been a victory into a 19-0 loss. Back came the Alumni full of confi- dence and sure of a victory, but on a cold October night the Blue Streaks avenged themselves and won their first victory. They outplayed their rival for three periods to win 6-10. Wickliffe then came and in a sea of mud made one fifty yard run and kicked a beautiful field goal in the closing minutes to win 9-0. Ten seniors found themselves under the lights of Hickok Field and in the Blue and White uniforms for the last time when Geneva came to town on a cold November night. The ground was frozen and the lack of weight in Madison's backfield failed to dent Geneva's Second Place Lake Shore League team, and the outcome of that bat- tle was a 19-0 defeat. Madison's season in the score column was not good ,but the enjoyment of playing together with their team mates and other boys made them enjoy it just the same. At the close of the season Madison had two men picked on the Western Re- serve League All Star Teams. Bob Jones —first team center and Capt. Roy Pethtel —second team guard. To Roy Pethtel outstanding during his three years on the Madison Varsity and unanimous choice for Captain his senior year, we pay tribute for his hard work and fine leadership the past season. To next year's football team we, the seniors, wish to say Good Luck. 27

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'field Qltillelij VARSITY First row: Normon Tuuri, John Henningc, Don Plonts, Bob Jones, Roy Pethtel, Ed Struno, Dave Bailey. Second row: John Spaulding, Wal- ter Neubcrt, Rolland Conklin, Neil Skinner, Lon Wirtzberger, Tony Perme, Don Easterbrook, Roy Whipple. SQUAD First row: Jack Page, Walter Neu- bcrt, John Spaulding, Neil Skin- ner, Rolland Conklin, Don Plonts, Lon Wirtzberger, Ed Struno, Bob Jones, Roy Pethtel, Dove Bailey, Tony Perme, Normon Tuuri. Second row: Mr. Duffy, Orton Cowles, James Forte, Forrest Wickcrf, Leonard Wirtzberger, Howard Lusc, Don Easterbrook, Leonard Zindorsic, John Hen- ninge. Bill McBeth, Roy Whipple, Ed Plants, Ralph Skinner, Bill Schultz, Mr. Trcscott. 26

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 halpshoctels First row: David Bailey, Neil Skinner, Rolland Conklin, Robert Jones, Roy Pethtel, Mr. Duffy. Second row: Roy Whipple, Orton Cowles, Tony Perme, Walter Ncubcrt, Forrest Wickert. Third row: Jimmy Carroll, Richard Darrow, William MacBeth, Walter Stickcl, Lawrence Wirtzberger, Charles Bollard. In December of '42 when Coach Duffy called the opening basketball practice, he found only 20 men reporting and out of these only 2 lettermen. The lettermen. Bob Jones and Dave Bailey, together with Roy Pethtel, Herb Kubach, Tony Perme, Rolland Conklin and Neil Skinner soon comprised the Blue Streak Varsity. The Madison Courtmen opened the season fine by drubbing Thompson, 48-22 on their own floor, which is the first time in several years they had beaten Thompson there. Then the season's scores came as follows: Madison 48 Thompson 22 Madison 15 Geneva 35 Madison 22 Fairport 46 Madison 35 Perry 28 Madison 38 Thompson 29 Madison 21 Perry 31 Madison 26 Wickliffe 34 Madison 24 Alumni 20 Madison 18 Perry 29 Madison 30 Fairport 43 Madison 18 Geneva 26 Madison 30 Wickliffe 42 Madison 29 Perry 18 Madison 25 Alumni 28 Madison 24 Perry 15 Madison 18 Kirtland 36 The Western Reserve League, which Madison recently joined, had been dissolv- ed for the duration and all the games were independent contests. At the close of the regular season, Lake County needed a rep- resentative of Class B to go to the section- al tournaments at Orange. This brought about a playoff of Kirtland, Madison, Perry, and Wickliffe at Mentor on Wash- ington's Birthday. Madison placed second in the County when they beat Perry, but lost to Kirtland's Champion Hornets. The Blue Streaks' record is not outstanding, but it held its share of victories. The Baby Streaks played hard, and al- though their victories were few, their games were close and exciting. The graduating Blue Streaks feel sure that if the boys would only turn out, next year's varsity could carry the Blue and White to greater success. 28