Mitchell High School - Warbler Yearbook (Mitchell, SD)

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Huddlers Madison was invited to the Kernel Homecoming Octcber 17, so the underdogs met, with Madison still searching lor its first conference win and the Kernels determining this to be theirs. This alone would have predicated a violent contest, but sidewalks and highways splashed with huge Beat the Bulldogs, tive hundred students in a wreath- ing snake dance, a burning inferno of card- board, a stadium jammed to capacity, and tor the tirst time in Mitchell l-ligh's history a Homecoming Oueen, inspired the Kernels to rise to the occasion and answer with victory. Shearer's 72Ayard run, Lochridges educated toe, Purdy's 45fyard counter netted the 14 to l2 Kernel triumph. Huron gave the Kernels a warm recep- tion October 24 at the Tiger Homecoming but power again overwhelmed spirit and the l9 to 6 score again put the Kernels in the loser's column. With the tinal game ot the '4l Kernel grid schedule, October 27, also passed the Little Brown lug, a symbol oi ageeold rivalry between Yanlcton and Mitchell, in a 7 to 6 clash. Pictures taken at afternoon scrimmages with teams from Parkston and Wessington Springs. I it

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E-bill V ...Q S October lO sdw another long time en- emy in the Kernel cdinp. The ledn dnd hungry Mitchellinen seeking their first con- ference victory nidde lite miserdble for the Aberdeen Edqles tor three qudrters, then literdlly succumbed by numbers. A leteup spelled d decisive and findl victory ot 20 to 6 for the Edqles, 5 Q 5 Official emblem of the Kernels designed by George Freeland. UPPER PICTURE Backfeld: Les Graff, Bob Johnston, Frank Lochridge. Ralph Purdy. Line: Paul Gilbert, John Maxwell, Bob Aalseth, Richard Shearer, Delaine Dickinson, Douglas Robinson, Don Faber. LOWER PICTURE Backfieldz Jack Shearer, Bob Johnston, Jack Russell, Don Davis. Line: Norman Mooney, Bob Morgan, Dean Buehler, Paul Douglas, Lynn Buehlcr, Don Roller, Earl Hilton. 5 1 li S

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Baby Gridsfers Like the first rdys of down flickering dcross the horizon, the l94l Little Kernel gridders qdve hopes of better ddys to come. Though these snidll, but fost conquestors, ron unvictoriously through or tough threef goime sedson, where conflicts ron from one point to ci wide l8fpoint rndrgin, their spirit remdined undounted ond edch gdme sow them grind only hdrder. Personnel of the Little Kernels this yedr included not only d new codch, Ansil Thomp- son, former MHS student ond stdr othlete, but ci group of freshmen ond sophomores new to the gdme. Qi the 30 boys who stdrted the seoson, the l9 finishing mode mdteridl from which next yeotr's Kernels will be tdken. So it is with dssurcincy thdt some of the ndmes of the following will be liedrd ogdin: Bill Bergeson, Mike Chdnce, Vernon Corrington, Don Culhdne, Cdlvin Hdrdmotn, Don Hdr- rison, Edrl Hilton, Weslesy l'lOlfIIlCII1, Eugene lohnson, Stdnley lohnson, Floyd Kopsch Gerold Kusler, Robert Kvick, Stonley MGGK9- stdd, lohn Powell, Lloyd Rowley, Fred Rush Ruben Schulz, ond Ted Swonberg. A bit of action recorded as the Little Kernels tear up the turf. Waiting their turn to play against Wessington Springs.