Monroe High School - M Book Yearbook (Monroe, WI)

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Vets Prove Strengths Varsity Football: FIRST ROW: B. Skattum, manager; JJ; DB; DH; BR; SE; TE; FK; J. Van Waganen, manager. SECOND ROW EC; RS; DH; TD; PM; JM; BS; AM; J. Hinkleman. coaches: Mike Setzer and John Brodie. THIRD ROW: R. Bechtolt, RS; M. Huber, C. Carpenter, D. Brandenburg, SS; JG; S. Schwager, B. Hauri, B. Huffman. FOURTH ROW: J. Brodie, D. Brennan, B. Zimmerman, J. Ripp, R. Rufenacht, B. Robertson, S. Neises, L. Carpenter, J. Stormont, E. Studer, M. Ethridge. RIGHT: Joe Motz and Doug Bahler are planning it out. It takes brains to be an efficient defensive man? For those of you who like facts: the 1973 Varsity Football team of the MHS has compiled many outstanding accomplishments: they scored 136 points and only allowed 62; they set a school record of 23 interceptions by eight different men; they had two monster linebackers totaling 286 tackles; and 19 underclassmen as returning letter winners for the next season in addition to the 18 seniors who have played their last game for MHS. To point out the outstanding material playing for Monroe, we list those men placed upon the All-Conference Team: Bob Silvis, Steve Sutter, Tom Elmer, Tim Dearth, Eric Cerbins, Bob Stormont, Paul Marty, Alex McKeown, Dick Halvorson, Joe Motz, Dennis Holyoke, Bob Stormont, Bill Rufenacht, Steve Erickson, Doug Bahler. And for the rest of you the story goes like this: A good arm of Sutter to the good hands of Dearth, the other backs, and the offensive ends, combined with quick feet, lots of desire and hard-line blocking resulted in a team of superior quality. Now mix in four (?) determined coaches, a little bad luck, a huge unit of inclement weather, a few loud mouth fans, a spirited cheerleading section, and darkness, and what do you get? A vicious team that enjoyed Friday nights playing smear the queer. You meet some awfully weird people on a football field and in the stands surrounding it. But then, what else are extra-curricular activities for? Assumption and Monroe at the line. What goes through a man’s mind while waiting for the signal to charge over that fellow on the other side of the narrow white line? Ask this defense, no, better still, see what they’ve done.

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As I was saying, the above picture was another of those kind of things that we call a retake. (I forget which retake, twenty-first or twenty-second no doubt.) BELOW: Chuck demonstrates the cheer called “Countdown.” You remember the one, like this: 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, and then some fool would scream all by himself: ONE! while everyone else held up a finger. LOWEST RIGHT: TOP: Laurie Studer. MIDDLE: Donna Kleckner, Terri Miller, Joanne Rufener. In front outfitted in a basketball uniform is Pam Sandley. V” is for VICTORY which is what we all yelled, no matter what our sport might have been. RIGHT: Are there enough different displays of emotion? or perhaps they are all the same emotion: Hope and cheer, but determined that our guys will end on the tip-top. This was our Conference Tournament, where a large amount of mixed emotion found its way into everyone. MIDDLE RIGHT: I bet you never thought it was possible to catch them all with open-mouths in one picture. Here's evidence (don't forget to tilt your book fly-high) that it can be done. But don’t forget that this is also evidence that they were doing their job — and well. MIDDLE LEFT: The Varsity Basketball Cheerleaders: Hands Across the Sea. ON TOPIS: Kandy Holcomb. STANDING: Julie Kundert. MIDDLE: Charlotte Blum and Laurie Ganshert. FRONT: Jan Springer, Bonnie Gyure.

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ABOVE: Senior Football: On crutches: B. Rufenacht. Leaning A. McKeown. TOP: F. Kundert, R. Schilt, D. Halvorson, B. Silvis. MIDDLE LAYER: J. Jones, E. Cerbins, J. Gempler, S. Sutter. T. Dearth. B. Stormont. BOTTOM OF THE HEAP: D. Bahler, T. Elmer, J. Schmitz, D. Holyoke, F. Marty, J. Motz, S. Erickson. MIDDLE PHOTO: Here we see the four coaches in a typical position. One won’t speak, one doesn’t need to speak, one can’t speak, and one walks awav! BOTTOM RIGHT: Have you ever gone to a football practice? If not, you don’t know what you are missing. Now we know why there was a Mr. Pretty Legs for Homecoming. BOTTOM LEFT: The silent word of a lonely sign when the game was done. THE MONROE SCOREBOARD us THEM WISCONSIN RAPIDS ASSUMPTION 07 14 PLATTEVILLE 26 02 EDGERTON 32 00 SUN PRAIRIE 00 07 MIDDLETON 06 06 FORT ATKINSON 27 09 JEFFERSON 26 03 MONONA GROVE 06 21 STOUGHTON 06 00 SEASON: 5-3-1 BADGER CONFERENCE: 4-2-1