McCallum High School - Knight Yearbook (Austin, TX)

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8 The noise, th au the ll un :rss ells ring, drums play, the . crowds start pouring into the gym. The band goes to their seats and the crowd quiets down. Oh, when the Knights, go marching in . . The football team enters, half limping on crutches. The crowd goes wild clapping and singing in time with the band. When the Knights go marching in . . . Players file in to their seats as confetti flies and banners wave. Go, Knights, beat'em, beat'em . . . Blue Brigaders, Brigadettes and the rest of the crowd cheer as the fight song ends, Ml-IR shouts obscenities while each class screams their motto. So began another pep rally. No matter how many games we lost, spirit seemed to stay up - if only in class competition. Even if the pep rally was dead, everyone would scream and yell for their class in competition They really raised spirit and were a lot of fun, commented twirler Terri Schaefer. Round Rock was the first rival for the fighting Knights. Spirits were high because it was the first game for an untested team. Roll over Round Rock was the theme and rock they did. lt was a great pep rally. Everyone had so much spirit. We were so sure we were going to win! exclaimed Maria Girling. The seniors won the spirit stick for the first game which boosted their enthusiasm. After the Knights won 20-19, spirit grew higher. The sophomores won the next spirit stick over- whelmingly. 'The football team had won once so we were sure we could do it again, said Jeannie Robert- son. They boys were supposed to Boil the Ricebirdsu but nothing was even warm for the Knights, 39-O. Shine on to victory pep rally- against arch-rivals the Anderson Trojans had students wearing sunglasses of all shapes and sizes, ' Anderson was one of the best pep I Continued on page 101 spirit ,J . i T I A 'Q l X, t .',. i z 1 A 3 a w- 2 f yt- , fig , if t ' Agia as . A'r'rEMP'1','ro ENCOURAGE A VICTORY, Blue Brigaders Stella Youngblood yells lrorn the stands at Burger Center. The enthusiasm fell short as the Knights lost their ninth straight game 19-18, and ended the season 1-9. E s N11 A it ,ti A7 M , - ' -.-Sk 'Y . f A Xl 'V fi f We 1 +L? v X S 1 K .f APPLAUSE from Christy Williams and other Blue Brigaders boost the football players at the Lanier pep rally. Pep rallies were held within a special activity or advisory period lor the first time. HATS WERE COMMON on seniors at the LBI pep rally. Iohn Briones and a filled gym rooted the Knights onto play with the Iaguars. To no avail LBI won 45-l 4.

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CONFETTl l'LYlllG around her. iunior Q gi 5 , Gina Hello supports her class at the LBI f ' pep rally. Confetti created u clean-up problem after each rally for the custodial stuff in the gym. L..- ' '- x - - ' .. .'- K l N -s TL noise, the au Clothes e g fu n Charged t t fConfinued1rom page 8, t rallies because everyone wanted beat them so badly, said I cheerleader Linda Ball. Everyone yelled louder than they did all the rest of the year . . . besides, the juniors won the spirit stick! Mac, however, got outshined in the closest McCallum-Anderson game ever with a 19-14 score. Bic Mads Overall Victory over to LBJ was next with overalls of every K r size and description worn by almost . everyone. Seniors won the spirit stick again so confidence was still high. After a 42-12 loss, not to mention numerous injuries, spirit was on a slow decline. 'Terry Lawrence was on the grass in front ot the Blue Brigade beating the ground with his fists. lt was painful to watch, remarked ' Lee Anne Barber. Rene Valdez and Alan Untermayer were also hurt in that game. Bur the Travis-McCallum bell was l up for grabs in the next game so ' fans Couldnlt let the bors downi K SPIRIT was hard io raise week after When Travis and MBC were blllll ln week but senior cheerleader Phyllis 1 953, the journalism departments Nunez yelled enough to get the crowd of the sister schools went in together 'ming again' Phyllis was one of 'wo d h cheerleaders serving their second year an purc ased an old train bell. They made an agreement that whoever won the football game or the varsity squad. between them would keep the bell for a year. McCallum had not had the bell for the last tive years and everyone, especially the seniors. 10 wanted it back home. We thought we deserved it - not having it since we arrived at Mac. We thought the team was good enough and that we had a chance, said lanet Ger- sbach. Travis has won it 13 times with Mac one behind. Naturally, the pep rally theme was Beat the Bell out ot Travis. V Bells were either worn on the wrist, around the neck or ankle or held in the hand. They ranged from huge ' cow bells to tiny sleigh bells. Sophomores won the spirit stick and victory was in the air. The victory, KCOHUTIUSCI' on page 122 spirit Hg sy,M h s xi T X el Q .V l a A C RX Q- I5 V3.8 'hw' L Q?55'Btr 5 Y 5 x . te.