Merrillville High School - Merrillvue Yearbook (Merrillville, IN)

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TOP ROW — Mgr. Brian Lunsford, George Gilrowski, Marvin Martinez, Terry Massey, Pete Uremovich, Mark Johnston, Tom Steiner, Ken Luedtke, Dale Lollis, A1 Schmidt, Bill Jacobs, John Keaveney; SECOND ROW — Wayne Monroe, Dave Rosenbalm, Jerry Zeha, Ron Clark, Bill Frank, Fred Maihofer, Dave Hollingsworth, Roger Johnson, Mike Bikoff, Howard Gearhart, Dave Chumbler, Roger Fieser; FIRST ROW — Bruce Reibly, Jerry Knaga, Bill Rimer, Tom Nichols, Jim Vargo, Denny Eaton, Marty Traber, A1 Hoffman, John Shipley, John Holloman, A1 Day. Pirates Take Seven . . . Drop Three The football fans of the Merrillville area were given all that they could possibly ask for with the fine performance of the Merrillville Pirates. The hard work of the team, the advice of Coaches Demaree, Patz, and Armontrout; and the solid backing by the Merrillville fans put the pirates into a two-way tie for second place in the Calumet conference. A 12 to 6 victory over the Calumet Warriors was the first of the Pirates’ 7 wins. In the second game on the schedule the Pirates received their first of two conference defeats of the season. With the next game, against Lowell, the Pirates started a string of Calumet Conference victories that continued to the last game of the season. After Wirt and Dyer were defeated, the Buccs went on to show not only a sound offense, but also a powerful defen- sive unit by rolling over the East Gary Eagles 33 — 0. The Highland Trojans were flooded twice on the night of the Homecoming game — once by the rain and once by the Pirates. Merrillville took this one, 13 — 0, to put Highland out of contention for the Calumet Conference Championship. The Pirates played to their second loss of the sea- son against rival Andrean. In the final game of the year the Buccs were defeated by Griffith. This dropped the Pirates to second place in the confer- ence — behind the Portage Indians. SCOREBOARD MHS Opp Calumet 12 6 Portage 12 21 Lowell 19 13 Crown Point 27 6 Wirt 19 6 Dyer 13 6 East Gars ' 33 0 Highland 13 0 Andrean 7 27 Griffith 7 14 Calumet Conference Games 24

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The football field and track proposed last year, and begun this year, prom- ise to make Merrillville’s new sports field one of the most beautiful in the Calu- met region. The sports pro- gram was revised to accom- odate the loss of freshman athletes. 1.U U ' a O-Y y (jriHCUy ) . a fj Q C cK W JcU (j-cCf clCiyF’X l i Athletic Facilities Improving

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Pirates Tie for Second in Calumet Conference . . . Defeat Rival Bulldogs Head Coach: Richard Demaree, Assistant Coaches: Lafey Mark Johnston receives midgame coaching Armontrout and Don Patz. from Mr. Armontrout.