Marine City High School - Mariner Yearbook (Marine City, MI)

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FOOTBALL (concluded) A week later, on October 11, the boys boarded the new bus and journeyed to Algonao to play the Muskrats - - traditional rivals who reigned supreme over Marine City for over ten years. The story changed this year, and Marine City came out on top with a 13-0 victory. DeCou and Shackett went over for the touchdowns. The streak continued the following week when the Mariners, back on their own field, defeated Yale 26-12 in a county game. On October 25 the local lads trekked to St. Clair to play a crucial game. It was a crucial game because they would play the Saints from Port Huron for the championship, providing they eliminated St. Clair. Well, they did it, but not until Liebaert plowed over, following a blocked punt in the last quarter. The final score was 6-0. Now for the championship 1 A brisk wind swept over Y ard-Cottrell Park on Thursday, October 31 — the day of the St. Clair County championship battle with St. Stephens High. Classes were dismissed early, students paraded en masse to the field, merchants closed for the afternoon, and the band played, but our boys went down in defeat by the score of 13-0. It was a great game; full of real, hard, clean football. The final game was played in New Haven, the Mariners losing, 14-13. A short time later the gridders were honored at a banquet with Ronald Finch as main speaker, and curtains fell on football for 1940. Eddy Hu8tman, a smart quarterback, who led the boys n all the way , and Maurice Liebaert, our plunging fu llback, were chosen by their team-mates as co- captains. Shackett was high scorer, with DeCou right behind him. The rangy ends — Cooper and Baker — played well consistently. Beattie, Springbom, Tennant and Lyons, all big boys, charged from the tackle positions. Schutt, Lutz and Arnold, speedy, hard-hitting guards, were in the thick of the battle game after game. LaBuhn, with Smith, handled the tough center position in top form, while Jack Barber and a flock of other subs were there ready for any emergency. Yes, a swell bunch, with lots of fight and football ability out there in 40. James Corden BASKETBALL (concluded) The players consisting of Hustraan, Cooper, Flemming, and Beattie at guards; Vallier, Baker, Rood and McKellar at forwards; DeCou and Browning at center; took advantage of their height which paved the way to the championship. Each player was outstanding by himself. Bill Vallier was high point man and broke the record for points scored in receiving one hundred and fifty-one points, four points above the old record. The second squad followed the example of the first by going the whole season without a defeat. The season opened with a f.lylng start, when Marine City nosed out a highly rated Clawson team by a 23-20 score. Next came Lake Shore, another tough non- county team. The Mariners defeated the Shore boys and it looked as though they were In for a brilliant season. The following week they toppled St. Stephens in the first County game, with Bill Vallier scoring twenty-six points. This snappy team, averaging over six feet in height, went on and brushed aside six more opponents to hold a nine game winning streak. Then the blow came. The Mariners, In a mid- season slump, ran up against an aggressive Marysville team that was out to avenge an earlier defeat. They did exactly that in a thrilling game, nosing out M.C. by a 30-25 score in the last three minutes of play. This defeat proved to be the only defeat of the year, for the Mariners decisively defeated Algonac, Clawson, St. Stephens, and Yale in the next four games. Despite the Marysville defeat, the boys won the County Championship, and really showed Marine City the best basketball team of many years. The starting line-up for each game was Hustman and Cooper at guards; Vallier and Baker at forwards; and DeCou at center. These players cooperated one hundred percent all the way, and left many basketball memories.

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BASKETBALL Front Row: Beattie, Hustman, DeCou, Vallier, Cooper, Browning, Baker, Rood, McKellar, Flemming Second Row: Westrick, Tennant, M. , Arnold, McKay, Britz, Coach Pfingst, Tennant, R. , Nichols, Boullier, Cohrs, Shackett, Newell Third Row: Shaw, Bassett, D. , Cainstraight , Bassett, G. , Barber, Anderson, Booth, Mocock, Van Zandt SCHEDULE 1940-1941 M.C. OPP M.C. — Clawson 23 20 ■i M.C. -- Lake Shore 21 17 M.C. — St. Stephens 33 21 ■a M.C. -- St. Clair 14 12 M.C. — Marysville 24 22 M.C. -- Richmond 17 8 • M.C. — Algonac 68 21 • M.C. -- Yale 61 14 M.C. — St. Clair 29 24 M.C. — Marysville 25 30 M.C. — Algonac 32 21 M.C. -- Clawson 41 30 • M.C. — St. Stephens 35 21 M.C. — Yale 39 12 Home Games Marine City 1 s basketball squad did exceedingly well this season, capturing thirteen games and losing one They won nine straight games before losing to Marysville, a well pepped team, while our, squad was suffering from a mid- season slump. This string of victories won them the County Championship, the first in the history of the school. (Continued on page 22) 21

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TRACK Front Row: Bogdonovic, Nichols, VanZandt, DeCou, Liebaert, Cooper, Meyer, Valla, Bean, Flemming, Mocock, Arnold, Sayers Second Row Newell, J. Arnold, Barber, Jenkins, Elder, Kruschwitz, Shaw, Boullier, Barringer, Parke r, Fritz, Coach Pfingst The Marine City High School Track Team has won 14 and lost 2 duel track meets over a period of three years. Coach Pfingst has done an excellent job of leading his boys to the top. The 1941 track team has come through a very difficult season with four wins and one defeat in duel competition. The lone defeat came at the hands of Romeo on a day when some of the star Mariners were on the ailing list. Marine City placed 8th at an indoor meet at Ann Arbor, 5th at the Central State Relays, and won the County Meet for the first time in 17 years. They piled up the huge score of 72 points to Algonac s 44 points, their nearest rival. Jay DeCou was high point man in the County Meet with 18 points, followed by Flemming with 10 points and Arnold with 8. Other boys who stood out as point winners in the meet were: Leibaert, Cooper, Bogdonovic, Valla, Bean, Nichol, Barber, Mocock, Boullier, Sayers, and Cainstraight. The 1941 schedule: Romeo 66 — M.C. 43; Algonac 42 — M.C. 62; Croswell 43 — M.C. 56; East Detroit 19 -- Roseville 50 M.C. 58; Central State Relays 5th place; County Meet 1st place; Regional Meet at Femdale and State Meet at Lansing Some of the outstanding performers for Marine City of the past two years and their records are: Jay DeCou Higji Hurdles 16.3; Low Hurdles 23.9 State Record in pole vault - 11 ft. 6 in Maurice Liebaert -Shot Put 46 ft. 10 - in. Robert Bean Mile Run 4:48.2 Jack Boullier 8 80 yd. Run 2:15 Blaine Cooper High Jump 5 ft. 8 in. Mike Bogdonavic Pole Vault 10 ft. 6 in. Ray Shackett, C. Flemming, B. Arnold, J. Valla, and R. Mocock stood out in the short dashes. 23