Mount Carmel Township High School - Kismet Yearbook (Locust Gap, PA)

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1937 Captains, Trainers, Coach and Cheerleaders Frackville A A A A A A A Mahanoy Township Old Forge ......,. Mount Carmel .... Ashland .....,,.. Alumni A A A A A Danville ,.,,..... Mahanoy Township Shamokin A ..,. A Frackville A A A A A A A Kulpmont AA AA Mount Carmel A AA Danville AA A A . . . Coal Township A A A Kulpmont A A A A . Old Forge ..,., Coal Township A A Forfyfeighf BOYS' BASKETBALL GIRLS' BASKETBALL TWP, opp. TWP. opp. 27 29 19 18 Alumni .,....,..,,..,.....,. A A A A 40 10 Frackville .,.. 18 27 A A 29 32 Girardville A A A 21 21 . A A 63 29 Frackville .A..,. 22 22 A A 41 26 Ashland ....,.... 22 13 A A 45 16 Mount Carmel .... 16 13 . A A 64 22 Mount Carmel A 42 7 A A A 42 24 Girardville A A 11 30 A A 25 30 Natalie A A A A 50 20 A A A 38 40 Natalie A A A 32 6 ' ' ' TOTAL ...A 253 177 A A A 35 18 A A A 34 60 A A 27 29 A A A 42 21 Ashland AAAA 42 13 A A 23 36 Shamokin A A A 40 35 THE IYISMET

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1937 Football The Golden Bears under the tutorship of Coach Al Masciantonio finished the most successful season of football in the history of the school. Determina- tion, grit and cooperation were the outstanding qualities shown by the Bruins. The Mount Carmel Township Bruins made their Eastern Conference de- but a success by sidetracking their traditional rivals, Mount Carmel. The team outplayed its opponents by a wide margin according to statistics of the game. The Bears racked up 15 first-downs to 10. Trailing from the opening quarter, when Captain Leonard Eshmont plunged over the -goal line to climax a sus- tained drive of 65 yards, Mount Carmel found it impossible to combat its op- ponents on even terms and finally suffered defeat at the hands of a superior team. The game ended 6-0 and was played before 5,000 fans. The team took - or a strong Frackville Eleven. The game played in Frackville's new 550,000 stadium was witnessed by a crowd of 6,000 fans and again Mount Carmel Township was victorious. After this hard-fought victory Mount Carmel Township found itself for the first time in history in first place in the Eastern Conference League. Next, the Bears journeyed to Danville where Co-Captain Eshmont thrilled the crowds by making five touchdowns, one being on a 90-yard runback of the opening kickoff. The final score was 31-15. The schedule seemed to get tougher as we went along, for we met our other traditional rival, Kulpmont, and battled to a 14-0 victory. ln this game our little center, 'AStan Katchick broke up play after play. The boys sported new togs for our next game. Luzerne came down to furnish a tough battle but Township again came out on top, 15-0. Mike Mat- sko, a sophomore guard, played a Bang-up game and was in the Luzerne backfield more than their own backfield men. The only defeat our team suffered was at the expense of a strong Ashland team. Disappointed but not dismayed by this loss the Bears began the home stretch with Selinsgrove, Freeland and Girardville. Winning these three games we found ourselves when the season ended among the first ten in the final East- ern Conference standing. Co-Captain Eshmont, the Green Ghost of the gridiron, will be lost by graduationg also will Co-Captain Menapace, who was an aggressive lineman: joe Greco and Mighty Mite : Walter l-lomiak and Ralph Colross, giant tack- lersg Peter Masciantonio, heady signal barker and Vincent Kwiatkowski, a re- serve lineman. Our next year's team will be centered around our two remaining Lettermen, Thomas Washko and Michael Matsko who played so well in the best season ever witnessed by the school. WILLIANI KLINGER LEONARD ESHMONT Forty-seven ffifigf Tif 43317 aifff 1 5 5

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1931 oy,s Basketball Beginning the '36 season with a veteran team the Mount Carmel Township basketball team played an independent schedule that kept the ball rolling. ln eighty-one days we met twenty opponents and totaled up a score of 685 against 508. While high scores were run up against Mount Carmel, Danville and Mahanoy Township it was noted that no opponent victory was a one-sided affair. Exciting games with Coal Town- ship and Shamokin were closely fought, and a victory and a loss marked the two encounters with Kulpmont, our traditional rival. In the opening contest the Golden Bears dropped the first inter-scholastic game to a veteran Frackville squad of lanky lads. Against the Mahanoy Township team our players gathered more field goals than the opposition but our players failed to take advantage of them. Motoring to Old Forge on Friday of December l8, we were set for a tough game and we were not disappointed. Although Ioe Langton proved to be the chief point-getter, the entire squad played heady ball and showed splendid cooperation. Starting with the Mount Carmel dribblers just before Christmas, the Township basket- teers opened up a winning streak that was broken only by Shamokin and Frackville. The trays with Coal Township in February were excellent displays of power, speed and accuracy but the scores piled up against us. Snapping this four-game losing streak, the Bruin dribblers crushed a good Shamokin team and scalped the Ashland crew in the last fray at home. The termination of the 1936-1937 basketball season brought to a close the high school sport's careers of Leonard Eshmont, Toe Greco, Ioe Sebastian, Toe Langton, Harold Yentsch and Paul McGee. Ioe Biros as next year's captain, Paul B iksi and Walter Matsko remain as a basis for Coach KarloVich's team. Iosami GRECO Forty-nine