Merrillville High School - Merrillvue Yearbook (Merrillville, IN)

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Touchdown in the making. Reserve Scoreboard Opp. Portage 19 Lowell 26 Calumet 7 Wirt 20 Dyer 15 East Gary 21 Chesteron 12 Griffith 6 Reserves Have Losing Season M.H.S. 0 2 6 24 14 20 6 6 The Merrillville reserves under a new head coach, Don Patz, had a very unsuccessful season with a 1 — 6 — 1 record. The team with a lot of sophomore material moved up to the varsity, leaving the little Pi- rates with last years freshmen second-string team. The importance of a well-trained reserve team is obvious. These boys will be trained to take over the varsity along with the help of the veteran varsity boys from the previous season. The strength of the future varsity depends not on whether or not the reserves won or lost, but how they were coached. Don Patz, the head coach of the re- serves this year, has worked with Mr. Demaree in the training of the varsity. He knows exactly what to train them for and how to overcome weaknesses in the varsity team. 27

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Offensive Line-up, from left to right: Dave Hollings- Stiener, Pete Uremovich, George Gilrowski, Mark Johnston, worth, Howard Gearhart, Alan Day, Roger Fieser, Tom Bill Frank, Dave Rosenbalm, Ken Leudtke. Pirate Co-captains: Pete Uremovich, the first Mer- rillville football player to ever be chosen to the first string All-State team, and Roger Fieser. “What do we do now, Coach,” asks George Gilrowski to Coach Demaree. Defensive Line-up, from left to right: John Whetsel, Pete Uremovich, Tom Stiener, Fred Malhoffer, Bill Bruce Reibly, Dale Lollis, John Holloman, Roger Fieser, Frank, Jerry Zeha, Jerry Knaga.

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Cross Country Team, TOP ROW (1. to r.) K. Castald, M. Ackerman, B. Lavery, J. Waters, R. Levy. FRONT M. Kelly, D. Stockier, R. Harter, B. Sobat, J. Metcalf, J. ROW — G. Luttinen, C. Ekaitis, J. Aeschliman, D. Engel- Coster. MIDDLE ROW — J. Rudd, R. Zellers, B. Kiburz, hart, J. Nichols, D. Brush. Pirate Harriers Improve This year’s cross country team, under the able coach- ing of Lloyd Ahlbrand, improved greatly over last year’s team. They lost no lettermen through graduation, but 1961 record setter, Russ Clark, moved to Minnesota. The Pirates finished in the same place in the Calu- met Conference this year that they did last year, in sixth place out of twelve teams; but they finished 13 places ahead of last year’s mark by racking up an eighth place position in the sectionals, where 24 teams partici- pated. Jim Aeschliman set a new school record for the 2- mile course in the triangular meet with Portage and Dyer by crossing th e finish line after 10 minutes, 10 sec- onds of running. He chopped 9 seconds off Russ Clark’s old record of 10 minutes, 19 seconds. The harriers opened the season slowly, but gradual- ly gained speed as the weeks went on. They lost their first meet to Hobart and Griffith, but picked up fast as they whipped the Red Devils of Lowell by a 23 — 32 score in their next match. By the end of the season the Pirates had beaten eight teams and had lost to seven, not including the invi- tational. One of the outstanding harriers for the team was sophomore Roger Levy, who placed first for the Pirates in both the Calumet Conference meet and the Gary area sectional meet. 28 Scoreboard Sept. 13 Hobart 19, Griffith 63, Merrill- ville 65 14 Merrillville 23, Lowell 32 18 Crown Point 15, Merrillville 53, Wirt 67 24 Merrillville 23, Andrean 40 27 Portage 25, Merrillville 36, Dyer 62 Oct. 2 Calumet 21, Chesterton 34, Mer- rillville 84, Lowell 106 3 River Forest 21, Merrillville 34 9 Merrillville 29, Edison 30, East Gary 70 1 1 Merrillville 29, Highland 32 Hobart Invitational — Merrillville placed 15th out of 24 South Bend Invitational — Merrillville placed 7th out of 18.