Moline High School - M Yearbook (Moline, IL)

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7 pe, The Moliners enTered The EasT Moline Regional Tourney wiTh Their hopes OT making The rnerry IaunT To The UniyersiTy CiTy wiTh all The Thrills, chills, and sororiTy girls la cornbinaTion oT The TirsT Twol baclced up by The NorThwesT Con- Terenco and Quad-CiTy Trophies. Erie was The TirsT Team To maTch Their skill againsT ThaT oT The Moliners as The baTTle opened up The Tourney. The Maroons had liTTle Trouble in disposing oT The opponenTs as They eased Them ouT oT The running by a 58 To 21 counT wiTh all Ten oT Moline's TournamenT squad geTTing info The baTTle. EasT Moline had been placed in The upper brac:lceT wiTh The Moliners again This year as They have in The lasT Three regional Tourneys and Moline was sTill expecTed To go Through wiThouT Too rnuch Trouble. The Moliners had sTopped The I-IiIlToppers Twice beTore by 4 poinT margins and The T-IillToppers had noT won a single Quad-CiTy baTTle. The Maroons held True To Torrn in The TirsT' halT, piling up a I9 To I3 lead aT The inTerrnission. BuT in The Third Trarne The T-lillToppers came baclr wiTh I7 Tallies againsT The Maroonls ToTal OT I3 To whiTTle The lead down To 2 poinTs as The Tinal sTanza goT under way. The lasT guarTor sfopped The Maroons however, as They were again ouTscored, This Time I7 To II and This a 47 To 43 deTeaT. The l-IillToppers wenT on To sTop Rock Island and enTer The Moline SecTional where They Tripped up The Morrison MalleTs, buT were Tinally sTopped by Ke- wanee in The Tinals. Kewanee was deTeaTed in iTs TirsT game in Champaign by a sTrong CenTralia crew. PicTures The courTesy oT The DispaTch GLENN HUFFORD

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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.

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0 Sam Drake: Coming back To Moline aTTer serving in The capaciTy oT an Army CapTain in The European TheaTre, Coach Sam Drake arrived on The scene iusT one week beTore The Ti rsT TooTball game oT The season. He meT The boys and goT acquainTed wiTh Them in a hurry and Took almosT Tull charge in The TirsT game. Then Coach Drake Tinally secured his dis- charge and was able To keep on coaching Tor M.H.S. He coached Moline baskeTball wiTh Jack Foley's assisTance and held spring TooTball drills as long as iT was possible. This compleTes his TirsT year as Moline High School varsiTy coach. Good Luck, and may he have many more. Jack Foley: Jack's second year aT Moline High proved more evenTTul Than The TirsT as he coached a winning soph TooT- ball Team and was assisTanT baskeTball coach. During his service in The baskeTball line he Took over The squad in Tull Tor Two weeks while Coach Drake was geTTing his discharge and won Two rough games Tor The boys and The school. Teaching TirsT aid and cal along wiTh Drake and aiding CliTT Hyink wiTh baseball keeps This handsome young lad's Time Tully occupied. C. W. Holmgren: STill The Moline High magician as Tar as we are concerned, Winnie Holmgren has more duTies and geTs Them done TasTer and more accuraTely Than any person we know. Taking charge OT The Tield house and purchasing aThleTic equipmenT plus Taking care oT The oTher Tinancial maTTers Tor every baskeTball and TooTball game, along wiTh coaching The Tennis Team and drawing up The Moline sporT schedules. keeps This Physics Teacher busy buT never Ton busy To divulge a IiTTle oTThand inTormaTion To The press. His cool quieT manner baTTles many buT To us iT is a masTer piece. CongraTulaTions, Winnie and may you aid Mo- line High many more years. Clif-T Hyink: CliTT received his TirsT Moline High Tull Time head coaching iob lasT spring as he broughT The sporT oT base- ball To The Moline Tans, and alThough They did noT have a very good season The boys received many valuable Tips and The experience will puT Them ThaT much TarTher ahead This year. IT is always Tough To sTarT a new sporT and especially one in which There is no deep local inTeresT before hand, buT Mr. Hyink carried The program Through The summer and inTo The lower grades Thus esTablishing The sporT in The Moline area. Plus all This he acTed as head TooTball coach unTil Sam Drake arrived and in Drake's absence he won and losT one game. Rod PoTTer: Coming back To The plow ciTy one week beTore The sTarT oT The sTaTe eliminaTion process, Rod didn'T have The chance To give a greaT display of his baskeTball coaching This year buT he will be counTed on nexT winTer To bring his winning ways To Moline High and keep The Maroon and WhiTe colors where They are now in The annals oT baskeTball. AT The presenT he is in charge oT The war veTerans in Moline High and working wiTh boys agrees wiTh him as you can readily see by his Two up and coming youngsTers. Lloyd Clair, Sherman Paul, Jack Foley, Sam Drake, CliTT Hyink, l.amonT HulTgren. George SenneTT: AlThough he no longer has any head coaching duTies This genTleman could surely noT be omiTTed Trom This lisT. IT The Team, regardless oT The sporT is going on a Trip or iusT beTore a game and need a liTTle cheering up Sen- neTT is The boy who can give iT To Them. There is never a dull momenT when he is around and now wiTh his aThleTic direcTor duTies he is kepT busy buT noT Too busy To sTop and waTch The boys pracTice. Bill Bean: Coaching Track is diTTiculT and maybe Tiresome buT The well known maTh Teacher around Moline High seems To enioy iT and raTe Times disTance Takes on a diTTerenT meaning To him on The cinder paTh. Receiving a Tull page TribuTe in The HarvesTer shop magazine This summer, made This Moline Teacher blush, buT To all who know him iT was a TribuTe well deserved and way pasT due. Carl Ekblad: AnoTher new name on The Moline coaching lisT as oT lasT Tall, Ekblad has Taken over The golT Team and conTinued Thern on Their winning ways by sTarTing ouT The season wiTh a Quad-CiTy maTch To Their Tavor. This ChemisTry Teacher has The besT chances OT winning The sTaTe golT championship Tor Moline High oT any oT his predecessors, and This year may see The Moline lads walk oTT wiTh iT.