Marysville High School - Bulldog Yearbook (Marysville, KS)

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Hanson-men Gain Experience . ,. 1 1 N 0 ' EES, lr If B 3 H e Q , ' 1 e ' 22 lil L ll Back Row: Jim Athon, Merlin Bigham, Bob Gleue. Don Schotte, Bob Sextro Front Row: Coach Homer Hanson. Don Butler, GarY Sidffsv Ffamiei Krotzinger, Tom Malotte, Student Manager George Peterson The MHS B team, under the guidance of Coach , , , , Homer Hanson, finished the current season with FINAL TNCKL STANDING 8 victories against 7 defeats. The team, composed M v FH Won Logt of sophomores and juniors, gained valuable exper- A ar5SH.e 1? 2 ience which will be helpful to future MHS teams. Sffnmrdla. J 3 . inneapolis 8 4 - 7 Belleville 7 5 V ' Beloit 5 7 , Lincoln 2 10 , 'I I A Smith Center 1 11 December 2 MHS 56 Fairbury December 6 MHS 51 Beatrice h December 13 MHS 48 Smith Center J 15 December 16 MHS 42 Lincoln January 6 MHS 80 Belleville January 17 MHS 57 Beloit January 20 MHS 68 Minneapolis January 24 MHS 62 Concordia January 27 MHS 52 Smith Center January 31 MHS 54 VVamego February 3 MHS 42 Lincoln February 7 MHS 57 Belleville February 17 MHS 62 Beloit February 21 MHS 83 Minneaoolis February 27 MHS 50 Concordia DISTRICT TOURNAMENT March 1 MHS 46 Effingham March 2 MHS 41 Hiawatha REGIONAL TOURNANIENT March R MHS 57 Haskell March 9 MHS 53 DeSoto FRESHMEN Top Row: Ronald Busch. Gene Durham, Ronald Jacques, Richard Goepfert, Gerald Rickert, Tony Kissinger. Bottom Row: Jerry Clowe, Lynn Griswold, Larry Sherrill, Lynn Bergen, Duane Roudybush, Ronald Schcller. W. Pct. .833 .750 .666 .593 .-116 .163 .083 53 60 36 35 62 50 63 48 36 61 41 68 58 73 54 41 56 64 52 The boys get their heads together Away on another trip I' 44 :NI f

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.F4,2 Bulldogs Are NCKL Champs ?1' KI Back Row: Alan Twidwell, Bob Scheele, Jerry Manley, Charles VVetzler, Captain Bill Blackburn, Jim Maendele Front Row: Jim Madden, V-erl Moser, Coach Bob Johnson, Harold Tebbutt, Don Ungerer - The 1955-56 roundball season saw the Bulldogs turn in one of the best cage performances in many years. This included the first NCKL crown won by a MHS team in 14 years, second place trophy at the district tournament at Sabetha. and a third place trophy in the regional at Effingham. - The Bulldogs started the season off right on the home court with -a 56-53 win over Fairbury in a game which still showed the signs of a little football roughness. The first road trip of the season proved fatal as the Beatrice Orangemen sent the Bulldogs home with a 60-51 loss. b Smith Center was ushered into the NCKL by the MHS quintet which showed sufficient spark, though not consistent, to down the R'-dmen. 48-36 at Sinith Center, Lincoln threatened to stop the Bulldogs on the MHS court, but the Red and Black came back in the fourth quarter to finish ahead of the Leopards, 42-35. A fast and furious fourth quarter by the Bulldogs again proved too much for Belleville, as the Bulldogs ran up 21180-62 score before the gun sounded in the Buffs gym, The Bulldogs were again threatened on their home court :vnen-Belfort invaded, but again it was the Bulldogs steadiness under pressure in the closing minutes which pulled them O 3 Ji-.7 XVIII. Minneapolis provided the biggest hurdle in the first half of league play, leading the Bulldogs all the way on their home court. Not until the final period could the Bulldogs pull ahead with a tremendous team effort to win. 69-63. Arch-rival Concordia fell by the wayside as the crusading Bulldogs wallopr-d them 62--lil on the home court In 3 SUJW- Fftililvfi game in the MHS gym, the Bulldogs s'-alped the Smith Center Redmen, 52-36. .The Bulldogs next piayed host to VVamego in a non-league contest but were unable to cope with the sharp SIIOOUYIFJ of U19 RPG R21fd0I'S Gnd Suffi-red their seeind defeat of the season, 61-5-1, Back in league play at Lincoln 3g91f3l1IICIf1f.Ii trailed all the way by a narrow margin and were forced to makf 5 points in the final -15 seconds to win, The first defeat in league play was suffered when sharp shooting Belleville upset the slipping Bulldogs on the home court, GS-57. After ci ten day layoff, the Bulldogs came back strong to defeat an ever threatening Beloit team at Beloit by a score of 62-53. The league championship came with the win over Minneapolis, desperate in their fight for a league title tie with the Bulldogs, in the MHS gym with the final st-.ire posted, S3-T3. XVit.h the league title cinched. the Bulldogs invaded Concordia only to be set back by the Panthers, 5-I-50. in a fast and furious game. MHS was granted a bye in the district tournament at Sabetha on the strength of their II-4 record. Effingham WFS PHPOUNYPFPG NPN! find SOI 521014 bf-' a score of 46-41 in a comparatively slow game forthe fa-t breaking Bulldogs. The Bulldogs next met Hiawatha in the championship game, but could not cope with the extra tall Indian team and WU' d'ifPmf'fi- 5541- In U10 f'9!i.mal tournament at Effingham, the Bulldogs met and put up a desperate fight with the Haskell Indians but were unable to stop the faster Indians who defeated them 64-57 and went on to finish second in the state tournament. In the final game of the season, DeSoto was edged rut 53-52 iby the Bulldogs in a final surge of power.

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Trackmen Compete In Many Meets , ii'J-f-We o ' Y , v ' '1 .' ' .I ' -- - .l . -g all VE' ' 'm-'cwffw-tie ' i .' f . . fy i - - - gt' Qi gy 1. W iff ' 5532.5-,.n.. 12.2 get ' .p 45 1 Q5-'I ' ,df 'fit 'D 1 Q' 'B ' if lx if 1 9: . it 'f R i ' 's...,v'f t 1 1 .f4 , .4 Wg Fifth Row: John Borgerding, Ronald Busch. Jerry Clowe. Gene Durham, Lynn Griswold, Larry Sherrill, Igo'n-Sid Jacques, Larry Zarybnicky, Tony Kissinger, Virgil Koeneke, Larry Klein, Gerald Rickert, Duane .ou ybush Fourth Row: Warren Livingston, Tom Malotte, Frank Naaf, Gilbert Schmitz, Don Schotte, Bill Schramni, Harvey Sides, Everett Sipple, Bob Thomas, Larry Throm, Lynn Bergen, Doyle Binggeli Third Row: Gary Sides, Don Ungerer, Harry Wullschleger, George Peterson, Merlin Bigham. Norman Bu:-kheari, Benny Bussmami. Don Butler, Richard Cannon, Floyd Drinnen, Fred Ellenbecker. Herb Hohn Second Row: Charles Wetzler, Bob Wanamaker, Dan Athon, L-eo Busch, Merlin Frerking, Dave Hartig, Gordon Haxton, Francis Krotzinger, David Messick, Larry Reinhardt, Bob Sextro Front Row: Wayne Backman, Larry Christener, Ray Gleue, Bill Gleue, Dick Grauer, Darrell Hanson, Jim Madden, Jim Maendele, Fred Miller, Bill Miller, Vcrl Moser, Oliver Schmutz Under the direction of Coaches Steh-ley and Hanson, the ' ' MHS track squad started early to g-et into shape for the f fhf3,: . W 0' season's meets. The 'first meet was the Indoor Meet at af . ,f Manhattan on March 24. with MHS failing to grab any points. ' , ' .. 5. . , Four records fell in the next week, the County Invit-ational, ri . : '5'., 4 won by MHS on the MHS cinders. Three of the new meet v ' , .k 3 Pt records were turned in by Marysville: the mile relay team H lg -1 fd tWetzler, R. Gleue, Maendele, Petersonl went the distance in 3:-18.4, and Tebbutt high jumped 5'9 and ran the open half in 2:O7.7. Watervil1e's Hedke threw the javelin 164'5 for the fourth record. The following week the team won six firsts to finish second in the Concordia Triangular Meet with Concordia and Smith Center. Wanamaker won the shot put and discus, Sides took the javelin and pole vault, Tebbutt again won the half mile 5 1 and the mile relay team was victorious for MHS. , gt In the next meet, the Atchison Relays, the Bulldogs met ' - strong A and AA competition and gathered only 1 2X5 points. ' 'S The NCKL meet at Beloit was held on May 6 although cold ,eq S U Q - ,V 5. A-' ' winds hampered the entrants. MHS pulled through to finish A A ,7,....H-T K... 1 f 'f 1-. . a third with Tebbutt's half mile and Bigham's tie for the pole 'fr'--' '- F - - -i . . vault, the only firsts for MHS. Grauer, Maendele, R. Gleue, and Wctzler warm up The next meet was the .Regional at Manhattan. with MHS grabbing 18 points to finish fifth. Tebbutt again won the open half and Sides soanid 11 feet to win the pole vault, again the only firsts for the Bulldogs. -vu - Top Row: . M , D Athon, Ray Gleue, David Messick r Tebbutt set for practice run of 880 F5-ifrnozfl Jim Maendele, Gary Sides' George Peterson, B111 Gleue Gordon Haxton, Harold Tebbutt, Dick Grauer