Mattawan High School - Mirror Yearbook (Mattawan, MI)

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VARSITY FOOTBALL Starting the season with two heart breaking losses, Mattawan bowed to Paw Paw and Decatur by one point. The Mattawan Wildcats went on to an exciting season although they finished with a season record of one win, six losses and one tie After beating Richland, Mattawan went down to 4 straight losses, being beaten by Bangor, Vicksburg, Comstock and Galesburg In the final game of the season the Wildcats tied Kellogg who finished second in the league Stand?ng left to rightt Duane Simonds, Bill Francis, Ken Jordan, Bob Boyer, Terry Neubauer, Joel Lemmer Bob Tesmer, Earl Maxam, Mike Purcell, Coach Piggott and Coach Wheeler Seated left to right Bob Hiestand, Melvin Biagtas, David Boyer, Harry Otto, Elmer Cowley, Fred Bowman Lynden Barber, Francis Korteway, Bob Kirk and Richard Korteway

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RESERVE FOOTBALL The 1953 reserve football squad had a fairly successful season as they finished with a record of one win, three losses and one tie In the opening encounter of the season, the little Wildcats” lost a hard fought 21-12 decision to Paw Paw They played by far the best game of the campaign at Vicksburg as they swamped the Bulldogs” seconds 18-0 The next two games went to the opponents who were Bangor and Comstock by scores of 6-0 and 20-6 respectively The squad traveled to Galesburg for their final test of the season and ended up with a 7-7 tie in a hard fought battle Standing left to rights Coach Wheeler, Fred Brisky, David Williams, Tom Brown, Jim Russell, Roger Wagy, Ed Cleaver, David Cowley, Hayes Brown, Jay Brock and Coach Piggott Seated left to rights Duane Simonds, Jaok Simonds, Terry Glidden, Harry Blanchard, Mike Stone, Paul Aleksich, Philip Rolff, Garrett Korteway, and John McGrow