Metuchen High School - Blue Letter Yearbook (Metuchen, NJ)

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Hlllllllll ....... In the opening encounter with Sayreville, Me' tuchen suffered its first defeat of the 1941 foot' ball season. Undismayed by the 19f6 defeat, the Bulldogs came back the following week with their teeth firmly sunken into a 7f6 victory over Thomas Edison. The first away game was with Rumson, which resulted in the Mets second loss of the season. The Bulldogs again became the underdogs by being on the wrong end of a 19fO score in the game at Leonardo. Even though the outcome of the Scotch Plains encounter was a thrilling OfO deadlock, it was chalked up as a win in the minds of those who witnessed this exciting spectacle, for Metuchen never gave the badly outfplayed Plainsmen a ghost of a chance to score. Due to bad weather conditions and no other possible open date, the Flemington game was finally cancelled. A rough and tumble scuffle in the disguise of a football game resulted in Highland Park def feating Metuchen, 1210. The following week produced the last and most thrilling game of Metuchen's football sea' son. Not only did the Bulldogs trounce Dunellen 15-7, but it was the finest game the Metuchen squad played all season. It was a fitting way for the team to end its season. Perhaps it was the team's way of expressing their appreciation of Mr. Killian's and Mr. George Muha's fine coaching. The captaining of the team was shared by Joseph Kohn and Bart Trokovich, both of whom did admirably well throughout the entire season. There was no captain named for the 1942 squad, for when the fall season rolls around again, each week will see a new captain for that particular game. Graduation this year will deal a crushing blow to Metuchen's football squad. The senior class saw eight of its members receive varsity letters, while the junior class contributed ten lettermen. Whether this will have any effect on the next year's team remains to be seen. At any rate Metuchen can always count on a good number of rooters no matter what the team may turn out to be.

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CHEERLEADERS The school spirit in evidence on the foothall field and at the haskethall games should he credited to the cheerleaders, who have tried their hest to promote more school spirit, When our team was losing, they helped the hoys to finish the game, still fighting hard. Vwfhen our team won, they, with the players, conducted the vie' tory rallies. Before we played the games, they conducted pep rallies in the auditorium which the junior high, as well as the senior high school pupils attended. The Senior Varsity squad consisted of four cheerleaders: Esther Nielsen, Florence Roxhury, Agnes Smith, and Shirley White. The Junior Varsity Squad consisted of eight cheerleaders with Doris Reminsnyder, Captain, Betty Bedell, Ann Baumann, Betty Hickman, Dorothy Hollenf der, Louise Risler, Margaret Terhune, and Muriel Vafeinherger. JUNIOR VARSITY FOOTBALL The Junior Varsity foothall team this year consisted of a group of hoys who played hard and refused to he defeated hy any team unless it was hetter than their own, Every game they played was hard fought and exciting. We think their performance has heen quite good for hoys who are playing their first year of organi:ed foothall. They won one game, lost one, and tied three. The team lost to the Sayreville invasion by a score of 1443, The next three consecutive games were W0 ties, giving proof to the fact that the team was almost impenetrable, It is gratifying to recall that they defeated their rival, Highland Park, in the last game of the season. Mr. George Harrison and Mr, John Almond coached, and Bruce Drysdale captained the fel' lows, among whom will he some promising ma' terial for varsity teams in the future.