Moline High School - M Yearbook (Moline, IL)

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ii DAVID MQADAMS KENNETH CARLSON MOLINE 7 EAST MOLINE 6 IT was a ioyous nighT Tor The Moliners when They chalked up Their TirsT win oT The sea- son over Their neighbors Trom The EasT by a 7 To 6 counT beTore 4500 Trozen Tans in The Browning Tield sTands. This vicTory snapped a losing sTreak oT nine games which sTarTed aTTer The lvloliners beaT The Kewanee Boilermakers in The Third game oT last season's schedule. The winning oT This game broughT along wiTh iT The R. H. Blackman Trophy presenTed by The Daily DispaTch which is kepT in The possession oT The winning school, unTil They are deTeaTed in The annual inTer-CiTy baTTle. MOLINE I2 EAST AURORA 0 Once The lvloliners goT The winning Tever iT was hard To give up so They came Through wiTh a I2 To O vicTory over The EasT Aurora TomcaTs The nexT week, in a baTTle ThaT made The Moliners look like a veTeran ball club, which could have moved anyThing wesT oT The Mississippi. The Moline passing honors oT The evening wenT To AlberT STevens. ALBERT STEVENS GEORGE DELLOS F O O T T i B A L L

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,. sc-,ani ,H A -AAAA i NORMAN CLAYTON FRED SAMUELSON DAVENPORT I8 MOLINE 0 ln The TirsT Quad-CiTy baTTle oT The season The Moliners looked helpless againsT The DavenporT Blube Devils, as They Tell beTore Their crushing aerial oTTense which ac- counTed Tor Two oT The Three lmp Touchdowns. The lvlaroons were wiThouT The aid OT Dick Larson regular quarTer back and John YolTon lineman. lT was Bob Paulsen who caused all The Trouble Tor The lvlaroons as he Tallied all Three Touchdowns. Giving ouT wiTh The crediT Tor The Moline side oT The game, Gene Larson very capably Tilled The Signal calling sloT alThough he had never played iT beTore in his liTe. GALESBURG I4 MOLINE 6 The Galesburg Silver STreaks scored The TirsT conversions on The lvlaroons during The season as They romped To a I4 To 6 vicTory over The Moline griders, alThough like The TirsT game oT The season, The damage was done in TirsT halT. ATTer ThaT The STreaks could go nowhere and iT was The Moline eleven who held The upper hand and could have Tied The game excepT Tor The TacT ThaT The game ended when The Moliners were on The 5 yard line, aTTer being hauled back 5 yards because oT a penalTy. EUGENE LARSON LAVERNE TREVARROW F O O T B A L K L

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ROBERT STRONG EDWARD NETHERTON ROCK ISLAND 7 MOLINE 0 ThaT was a hard one To swallow, buT The Ivloliners puT up a beTTer baTTIe Than mosT Tans had expecTed Trom Them, as They held The Islanders To one Touchdown and Threaf- ened To score Themselves, excepT Tor a penaITy Tossed in here and There by The oTTiciaIs To bring Them back ouT oT range. IT was Vern STalens who wenT over Tor The single, ThaT all imporTanT Tally on an end run, ThaT slipped away Trom The Moliners. CIiTT I-Iyink had charge of The Ivlaroons Tor ThaT evening as well as Tor The EasT Aurora baTTIe, while Sam Drake was back aT The Army Camp Trying To geT his discharge. MOLINE I4 WEST ROCKFORD 6 AIThough DeKalb was on The schedule, The Ivloliners meT The Rabs in a delayed baTTle ThaT should have been The second game oT The season. Due To a Polio epidemic in ThaT region The schools were IaTe in opening, and iT was The RockTord boys TirsT game oT The season, while The Ivloliners were making Their exiT. Experience proved a greaT TacTor in The Tinal score as The Ivloliners spanked The Rabs I4 To 6, wiTh STevens and Wil- liam McAdams doing The scoring honors. ROBERT REEVES RICHARD LARSON F is 1? O O T B A I. L i. I 1 If Ml '25