Moline High School - M Yearbook (Moline, IL)

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Ba EasT Moline GeTTing baclc on The road To vicTory. The Moline Maroons edged ouT The EasT Moline PanThers 42 To 38 in a wild conTesT, as The Two Teams commiTTed a ToTaI of 48 Touls. Gale HarTer was again high poinT man wiTh II Tallies, and iT was LaVerne Trevorrow who came in during The TourTh quarTer and puT The game on The winning side of The ledger. Orion 46 To 35. ThaT's The sTory oT The Moline-Orion game wiTh The Moliners coming ouT The vicTors, To give Them a 5 To 4 win and IosT record so Tar in The season. IT was anoTher easy win Tor The Moliners wiTh The Orion lads pulling Their only punch in The Third quarTer. Galesburg Back To The NorThwesT Conference race again: The Moliners upseT anoTher STrong Team according To preseason experTs. IT was Galesburg who Took The nasTy spill by a 44 To 38 counT in The WharTon Fieldhouse before 4000 Tans. IT wasn'T unTiI The IasT quarTer ThaT The Moliners Took The lead on Ed Jawoisz's Tour sTraighT bucIreTs and Gene Larson's Three graTis shoTs and a basIceT. This vi-:Tory gave The Moliners The Top berTh securiTy oT Tour wins againsT no losses in The conference loop play wiTh MonmouTh scheduled as Their nexT Toe. MonmouTh AIThough ahead ThroughouT The enTire game The Moliners had a Tough Time convincing a sTubborn MonmouTh quinTeT ThaT Moline was The beTTer Team by a 45 To 43 margin in a TasT game played on The Moline hardwood before 4000 applauding Tans. Marion Knox aImosT upseT The apple carT wiTh his ToTaI of 23 Tallies Tor The visiTing quinTeT. HarTer and Larson were Tied wiTh I3 Tallies apiece. Elgin Foreign courTs and Top ranking Teams played havoc wiTh The Moline record during The nexT Three games, as They sTarTed ouT againsT a Tough Elgin quinTeT which had The advanTage of reTaining 4 veTerans Trom lasT year's TournamenT Team. The Maroons oT Elgin sTopped The Maroon and WhiTe cagers Trom The Plow CiTy 33 To 37 aTTer leading ThroughouT The second haIT. The Moliners held a I6 To I4 lead aT The half buT Tell behind in The Third quarTer, Kewanee o WiTh sTrange courTs sTiIl arniss and Tough Teams providing The opposiTion. The Kewanee Boilermalcers gained revenge Tor Their earlier deTeaT aT The hands of The Maroons. They sTopped The NorThwesT Conference TirsT place holders 49 To 35. The Kewanee lads held The Maroons scoreless in The Tinal Trame To accom- plish Their vicTory, while They were making 8 markers. IT was The TirsT ConTerence loss Tor The Maroons buT They sTilI reTained Their Top spoT raTing. Paris AnoTher game on a Toreign courT provided The Third sTraighT loss Tor The Ma- roons, as They dropped a 26 To 3I baTTIe To The Paris Tigers. The Maroons held The Tigers To a single Tield goal in The TirsT quarTer, buT The hosTs popped back To Take a I4 To I3 lead aT The end oT The half, and Then wenT on To win. The sTarTing Paris quinTeT played The enTire game. DONALD GREER LAVERNE TREVERROW DAVID McADAMS

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EDWARD JAWOISZ GALE HARTER EUGENE LARSON E Savanna The Moline Maroons, I945-46 ediTion of The baskeTball Team sTarTed ouT Their season wiTh an easy 47 To 2I win over The Savanna cagers on The Whar- Ton Fieldhouse Tloor, before an opening game crowd oT 3500 Tans. The Moliners lacked skill only in The Tree Throw deparTmenT as They missed I6 ouT of Their 27 aTTempTs. IT was Coach Sam Drake's debuT as The menTor of The Team. Kewanee UpseTTing The Pre-Season NorThwesT Conference Champions The Moliners rolled To Their second win wiTh a 37 To 3I upseT over The Kewanee Boilermakers on The Moline hardwood, before 4000 exciTed onlookers. The Moliners were noT To be sTopped in The TirsT half of Their game as They clicked off 502, of Their shoTs during ThaT period. AssisTanT Coach Jack Foley Took hold of The reins in Dreke's absence due To Uncle Sam's procedure. Rock Island Filling The Rock Island gymnasium To The raTTers, The Moline Tens received a real TreaT as They saw Their home Team win over The Islander Crimson 30 To 28 in an overTime baTTle. IT was 27 apiece aT The end oT The regulaTion baTTle and Ed Jawoisz and Don Greer did The Tidy liTTle biT QT scoring Tor The Moliners during The exTra Three minuTes of play To puT Them on Top oT boTh The NorTh- wesT Conference and Quad-CiTy sTandings. Again Foley was calling The signals. Waukegan InauguraTing a Tour game losing sTreak alThough They weren'T aware of iT aT The Time, The Moliners Tell before The solid blows oT The Waukegan Bulldogs by a 4I To 25 counT. This was in The Tinal game of a doubleheader special held in The WharTon Fieldhouse wiTh EasT Moline and MorTon of Cicero providing The Tans wiTh The TirsT baTTle: EasT Moline was The vicTor. IT wasn'T unTil The second half ThaT The Maroons Tell behind The Bulldogs. MorTon of Cicero Trading opponenfs The EasT Moliners and Maroons held The second double- header in The Tieldhouse The nexT nighT, wiTh boTh of The local Teams losing. Moline dropped a 38 To 3l decision To The Cicero lads Tor Their second sTraighT loss aTTer sTarTing The season wiTh Three wins. Coach Drake had reTurned and was now officially discharged from The Army. CanTon WiTh a revamped lineup sTarTing The game. The Moliners sTilI could noT hiT The road To vicTory as They were downed 45 To 44 by The CanTon quinTeT. Ed Jawoisz was The only one oT The regular sTarTing Tive To play in The game wiTh Tour new Taces appearing in The oTher posTs. The Maroons were behind Through- ouT The whole game and came only as close as They were in The TirsT Tew minu'l'es. DavenporT The second Quad-CiTy baTTle puT The Maroons ouT of Their Top berTh spoT in The sfandings as The Iowan rivals from Davenporf pushed Them back wiTh a 33 To 37 Tray. which held The inTeresT of over 2700 fans packed inTo The Blue Devils' gym. No Team held more Than an eighT poinT lead in The game and Moline was leading ThroughouT The TirsT half. Gale HarTer, back in The lineup again, was high poinT man wiTh I0 poinTs.

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ROBERT HONDLEY FRANK MAI-IAR ALBERT STEVENS The reTurn engagemenT wiTh The Roclr Island lads proved iusT as exciTing as Roclc Island The TirsT: The Moliners were again pushed inTo an overTime beTore They could beaT The Crimson 3l To 30. Gale I-TarTer played havoc wiTh The Islander oTTense machine in The Tinal quarTer To Tie up The game, only To have Vern Sfaelens puT The Crimson back in The lead. T-IarTer came righT back, however, and senT The game inTo The overTime period. The counT was 29 all aT The end oT The regulaTion game, and iT was Al STevens' buckeT which cinched The game Tor The Moline quinTeT. I-IarTer was high poinT man wiTh IO marlcers. EasT Moline Before a capaciTy crowd oT over 5000 Tans The Moline Maroons sTilI hopefully clung To Their Quad-CiTy chances oT championships as They again Tripped The EasT Moline enTries in The local conTerences by a 30 To 26 counT, The Moliners held The lead ThroughouT The TirsT half, buT The PanThers Tound The going a liTTIe easier in The Third Trame as They Tool: a 2l To 22 lead. The Tinal quarTer Tound The Maroons coming Through and on To Their TourTh Quad-CiTy vicTory againsT one loss. Orion The Orion Tive came close To pulling an upseT on The Maroons in Their second meeTing oT The season as They pushed The Plow CiTy boys To a 25 To 24 counT wiTh LaVerne Trevorrow dropping Through The game-winning chariTy Toss wiTh one half a minuTe IeTT in The Tray. Galesburg The NorThwesT ConTerence crown was handed To The Moliners on The nighT They meT The Galesburg quinTeT despiTe The 53 To 39 Iiclcing The Red I-IoT STreaI:s handed To The local cagers. The MonmouTh quinTeT sTopped The Kewanee Boiler- malcers, Thus assuring The Moliners The TirsT place berTh in The NorThwesT Con- Terence. The Galesburg lads could noT be sTopped as They hiT on an amazing percenTage of 4I on Their shoTs while The Moliners lagged wiTh 3070. MonmouTh The Maroons Tound iT hard To geT Tough wiTh The Monmouth cagers aTTer They had so handily handed Them The NorThwesT ConTerence crown, buT The Moliners neverfheless came Through wiTh a 48 To 43 vicTory over The Zippers To give Them a Tinal 8 wins and Two loss sTanding in The NorThwesT ConTerence. CapTain Ed Jawoisz was high poinT man Tor The Moliners wiTh I6 poinTs wiTh Gene Larson Tollowing wiTh I3. DavenporT The Third capaciTy crowd of The season filled The WharTon Fieldhouse To wiTness The championship game beTween The DavenporT Blue Devils and The Moline Maroons in The Quad-CiTy race. The Moliners, leading ThroughouT The game, 'Finally came Through wiTh The Trophy by a 35 To 28 counT, aTTer 32 minuTes of arduous play, which lrepT The Tans on The edge oT Their seaTs ThroughouT The baTTIe. The lead was never over 5 poinTs during The game, unTiI The Tinal Two minuTes of play when The Maroon cenTer, Gene Larson, dropped in The Tinal bucIceT of The game, and The Maroons sTaclred up anoTher Trophy in Their now crowded case. IT was The second sTraighT year ThaT The Moliners Topped The Quad-CiTy Conference.