Moon High School - Flame Yearbook (Coraopolis, PA)

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Basketball Moon High can Well be proud of the Way its basketball team performed during the 1936-1937 season. Coach Brooks was fortunate in having a veteran team consisting ot McLaughlin, Smith, Borden, Kissinger, Dragon Tesla, and Schnelzer, While Heinlein, George Tesla, and Poletti proved to be dependable substitutes who performed notably When the occasion permitted. The season was highly successful-Moon winning 12 games out of 19 and Hnishing in third place in Section XIII of the W. P. I. A. L. with a record of 6 victories and 4 defeats. Moon Will lose four valuable players by graduation. Kissinger, Borden, Schnelzer, and Heinlein will be hard to replace. The B squad under Coach Gendichis guidance didn't enjoy a similarly successful season, but since most of these boys were playing basketball for the first time, they are deserving of no little Commendation. WINNERS OF THE VARSITY M The following were awarded the Varsity MMU: Ernest Kissinger, Daniel Borden, Joseph Schnelzer, Harold Heinlein, Charles Smith, Dragon Tesla, Robert McLaughlin. As manager, Nick Shust was also awarded the Varsity M , 1936-1937 SEASON Moon 43 .. ................. East McKeesport Moon 32 . . . . ....... Coraopolis Moon 21 . . . .......... Neville Moon 25 . . . .... Coraopolis tMoon 37 ...... Bethel Moon 43 .. ...... Findlay 'FMoon 24 . . . ...... Robinson itMoon 31 .. ............. Clark itMoon 24 . .. ...... South Fayette Moon 48 . . . .... Oakdale Industrial itMoon 29 .. ......... Bridgeville icMoon 18 .. ........,.. Bethel tMoon 33 .. ........... Robinson Moon 27 . . . .. Oakdale Industrial 'tMoon 36 .. ........,.... Clark i'Moon 43 .... South Fayette Moon 41 ......... Findlay ftMoon 29 ........... .... B ridgeville Moon 27 ............. ...... N eville P. I. A. L. Games. This page is sponsored by PLEASANT VIEW INN Refreshments, Soft Drinks Gasoline, Oil Phone Cora. 9716-R-2 J. W. Stokes, Proprietor

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Football During the last week in August, a small band of footballers answered Coach Gendich's call to football practice. The squad, which numbered among its veterans such seniors as Baldessari, Borden, Schnelzer, and Kis- singer. showed decided improvement over last year's. The teams, although light and battling against much heavier opponents, displayed excellent team work and a well-directed offense as well as de- fense. The chief weakness of the team lay in the shortage of seasoned sub- stitutes to replace the first string men. However the subs have practiced faithfully and fall practices should prove that this liability has been erased. Although Moon High will retain such valuable plavers as Smith, D. Tesla, McLaughlin, Brunette, M. Baldessari, Poletti, and G. Tesla as a foun- dation for their '37 squad, the six men, Kissinger, Borden, Shust, N. Baldes- sari, Schnelzer, and O'Laughlin will be sorely missed. WINNERS OF THE VARSITY M The following are wearing the varsity M for their work on the grid- iron: Shust, Smith, McLaughlin, D. Tesla, Schnelzer, Poletti, Kissinger. N. Baldessari, Brunette, M. Baldessari, O'Laughlin, G. Tesla, Borden, and Mc- Master. 1936 SEASON Moon 6 . . ................ . . . Coraopolis 26 Moon ......... Pike 13 Moon ........ Findlay G Moon .... South Fayette 38 Moon ........ Neville 32 Moon . . .Robinson 6 This page is sponsored by THE COMMUNITY SERVICE STATION Brodhead Road W. C. Krochs, Prop.

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Cheerleaders No less in importance than those heroes of the gridiron and basketball court were the five girls who made up the cheerleading squad. At every basketball and football game Mary Alice Broscious, Olga Salaga, Helen Hissam, Verna Erickson, and Betty Gebhardt were present leading cheers. Also at pep meetings in assembly, this group could be depended upon to lead the student body in cheers that made the rafters ring. Unlike those of other years, this year's cheerleaders had definite prac- tice periods at which Miss Tomlinson acted as coach, and they wore special uniforms which carried out the school colors. Four of the girls wore red corduroy culottes and shirts displaying a big white M and the captain wore white corduroy with a red M , Much acclaim was showered upon this squad both at home and abroad, and when Miss Tomlinson presented to each one the letter she had earned, the applause of the student body was proof that their work had been appreciated. Assisting the senior cheerleaders at all preliminary games were the junior cheerleaders: Betty Conway, Geraldine Crago, Dorothy Wilkinson, Joan Tipker, Paul Riccio, and Ralph Thompson. Such good work did they do, that we have no fear of lacking a senior squad for the next few years at least. Golf Last year for the first time golf became an organized sport at Moon Township High School. With Mr. Brooks acting as coach, a team, composed of Joseph Butera, Woodrow Cole, Paul Vernocy, Charles Smith, and Harold Heinlein, participated in varsity competition. Not getting underway until late in the spring, the team played only three games. Playing at Sewickley, they were defeated by Sewickley High School 6-3. However they were able to trounce Etna High School in a home game to the tune of 1015-116, and in a return match Moon again triumphed over their opponents. Of last year's team only Smith and Heinlein are still in school, the others having been lost by graduation, but we expect the '37 season to fea- ture both new players and more victories. Golf is not as yet in the letter class, but if progress is made in the same proportion as last year's success, we may look for it to take its place beside basketball and football. Athletic Banquet Those boys who gave so willingly of their time and ability that Moon High might take its place in the athletic world were guests of honor at a banquet Friday, March 19, in the gymnasium. At this banquet, an annual affair, Mr. Russell, acting as toastmaster, introduced Mr. Allard, Mr. Brooks, and Mr. Gendich, who voiced their per- sonal opinions concerning the graduation of several players and the pos- sibilities for next season. As guest speakers Coach P. Miller of Indiana State Teachers College used for a subject All Americanismf' and assistant coach Paul Boyts dis- cussed entertainingly various phases of athletics.