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

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FOOTBALL (concluded) Marine City’s first county game was witn laie on October 3. Neither team scored during the first quarter, but in the second, Flemming took the ball over on an end-run play for a touchdown. Lyons made the extra point with a placement kick. There was no scoring by either team in the third quarter. In the fourth Yale made 13 points, making their progress mainly by a series of end-run plays. With a score of 13-7, this was the only game the Wildcats lost in county competition. St. Clair, Marine City’s age-old rival, was the first to go down be- fore the Wildcats in a county game. With no score furing the first half, the Wildcats cooked up a touchdown by an over-the-goal -1 ine pass in the third and another by DeCou in the fourth. Score 12-0. For the first time in the lives of the Wildcats, they played under lights in a game with St. Stephens on October 15. This was a very close game, both teams about equally matched. Although handicapped by being unused to playing at night under lights, the Wildcats won with a score of 20-12. Marysville, on October 24, faced the same fate as St. Clair and St. Stephens. With the first quarter scoreless, Marysville in the second quarter received a punt and took the ball over for a touchdown. No score again in the third, but in the fourth Arnold received a punt and ran it over for a touchdown. Lyons made a good kick for the extra point. This put the Wildcats in the lead which they held until the end of the game. Final score 7-6. Algonac was the last game on October 31. As usual, whenever was had played a home game, it was a rainy day. This wetness, however, did not stop our DeCou When the score was tied at 6-6, and a fine rain was falling, he plunged desperately across Algonac’ s goal with the winning touchdown. The final score was 12-6. That was the game that made Marine City the new County Champions. Marine City received the trophy from St. Stephens, the school that won it last year. The Wildcats won four and lost one county game. Yale, the runner-up, won three, lost one, and tied one. DeCou, Flemming, Arnold, and Barber received special mention for being an excellent backfield, while players such as L u tz, Bassett, Beattie, Britz, Elder, and Lyons did an excellent job on the line. BASKETBALL (concluded) DeCou, with three returning letter winners - Jim Beattie, Clayton Flemming, and Don Browning - took the floor against Marysville to open the league race. The pressure of being County Champions proved too much for the boys in the early stages of the season because the Wildcats went down to defeat at the hands of Marysville, Algonac, Yale, and St. Clair losing four of their first six games, but winning over Richmond and St. Stephens • Injuries beset some of the regulars at this time, and it was necessary to advance Ralph Mocock to a regular guard position and shift Flemming to a forward. This proved to be the spark needed as the Wildcats went on to win over Holy Cross, Marysville, Algonac, Richmond, Yale, St. Stephens, St„ Clair and Memphis to finish the season as Co-County Champions. This gave them a column of ten victories and four defeats for the season’s play. The outstanding achievement of the year wa 3 the defeat handed St. Clair in the championship game by the score of 26 to 17. Jay DeCou was high scorer of the year. Clayton Flemming turned in some exceptional work at forward to stamp himself as one of the best players to wear the orange and black for Marine City High. Mocock and Arnold did a fine job on defense. Nichol and Browning held down the other forward position in grand style. Other letter winners who played their parts well are: Ed Van Zant, James McKay, Wilfred Cohrs and Jack Barber. With McKay, Booth Van Zant and Mocock back for another year, we have high hopes of a very haonv season in 1942-1943. 20