Newman Township High School - Talisman Yearbook (Newman, IL)

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TALI .sm- FOO'l BAI L-CContlnuedJ The season as a whole is to be consideied Xen successful and Coach Millsom the squad the school and the town boosteis are to be congiatu lated on this w ondeiful team of 1926 VILLA GROVE SFPTEMBER 25 Newman opened the scason on Septembci the tw entx fifth by mvad ing thc Gioxe and thcy brought home the bacon to the tune of 14 to 7 The fiist quaitei ended with the scoie 1 to 0 in Villa Gioxe s fax oi but the Newmanites now mustered up the couiage twhich was known to be D1 esentb and w hen Villa Gioxe was foiced to punt fiom behind then own goal lme a bad pass was madc Bill Solleis tickled the Villa Gioxe man bchlnd theii own goal line which made a safety foi Newman The scoie now stood 7 to 2 Lefoie the half ended Newman scoied a touchdown bx Wiese caiu ing the ball oi tackle fiom the 20 xai d line aftei a steady adx ance made bv Hance Wax and G1 iffith Newman s next scoie was made m the fourth made after touchdowns The scoie ended 14 to 7 but as was shown later 1n the season the Newman lads must have been keeping the cat in the sack OAKLAND OCTOBER 9 The recoid game of the season was played on the home field wheie the Newman team walloped the stiong Oakland team which was out foi dow nstate honors The filst half ended with the scoie 0 to 0 and Oak land had received all the bleaks but Newman outplayed them and the Oakland playeis were badly in need of lest All thiough the third quaitei Newman plax ed in Oakland s teriitoiv but w ere unable to scoie Just befoie the thud quartei ended Oakland made a successful pass which netted a touchdown foi Oakland who failed to kick goal The fouith quaitei started with a bang and the batteimg backs of the Newman eleven behind a giant line staited a mai ch to the goal lme which 31119137 could not haxe been excelled bs Sheiman s maich to the sea In this qua1tei Newman made two touchdowns one by Sutton and one by Wiese Hance and Wiese took tuin about at kicking the goals and the game closed with the scoie 14 to 6 and was said to be one of the best ex ei witnessed on a New man gl1d1l0l1 ARCOLA OCTOBER 10 The game was play ed at Arcola on an excellent dav foi a football game and w as witnessed by a lai ge numbei of New man spectatois The New man eleven kept then slate clean 1cl'f Ll H IF W s' -J 'ul v x ' ' 1 1 1 1 , D L , L , Li , V L 'L ' 4 ' , A A A 1 ' ' I '- v ' - ' X as , , nv A I i , Q . in 1 1 v- - 1 7-V - l a v , 1 4 v v . L . , 1 ' A 1 R 1 ' w Av Y 1 K , ' 7' 1 7 H S 1 1 ' ' . y . I I L K Tl A1 I ' ilu 2 4 ' uw v , ' ' 1 v ' , ' , 1. y . 1 , A -. 1 , . V . L , . w . A , . V . ' . . ,- ' I 1 -ly 1 ' , 1 A v , , . . quarter by Griffith going off tackle from the 5-yard line. No points were . L ' , L' L Y I . ' 7 ' L c , Y ' y 1 y ' n S 1 7 . ' Y. L 1 , ' . 1 Y 7 'L 7 7 ' ' L . 1 l ' Q y 1 7 ' f 7 1' 1 7 . 1 1 1 kk S, v ' I 1 y . . . . . . 1 Q . , f ' . ' ' ' f 1 f ' ' 'Q ' ' . ' 1 1 y y y v f y' 1 1 ' ' 4 Y. Z 7 '. .h . , 7 1' A . . 1 v 'K' Y . . x a Pa 'e 'i ty-two if 7 7 - A ---W--A--1, -ANAQ---sl

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X TALISMAN Sent c c c c Oc Nox Nov Vox Nos Football Newman Newman Newman Newman Newman Newman New man Newman Newman Newman Vrlla Groxe Oakland 6 Arcola 0 Hrndsboro 0 Atwood 0 Arthur 0 V G Academy 0 Charleston T C 0 Tuscola 13 Srdell 6 fl-he Usual Lrne up Icft Fnd Roscoc Buckler Right End Iowcll Hrnds lcft Tackle Ray mond boilers Rrght Tlcklc Wm Sollcr left Guard Vernon Myers lirght C uard Geo Vermrllron Center W alter Sutton Icft Halfback Paul Xhese Rrght Hrlfback Carl Hance Full Back Ervrn W'ax Qufrrtcr Back Lloyd Grrffrth N September the first there appeared out for practrce one of the largest squads rn the hrstory of the school rangrng rn srze from Boyd Bell on up to our lengthy center Left over from last vear were erght letter men and wrth these and perhaps the other twenty of the squad We had excellent materral for a team The members of the squad should be congratulated on the w ay they stay ed out for practrce especrally later rn the season when some of them knew that therr chances for a place on the team were hope less the ma1o1rty of the places berng crnched At the close of the season after Newman s haxrng made the excellent record of wrnnrng erght games tyrng one and losrng one the squad was grven two gorgeous chrcken drnners one bv the parents of two members on the team Brll and Slrm and another bv the busrness men The ban quets were surely apprecrated by the members of the squad and the speak ers ot the occasron turnrshed many xaluable pornters to the plavers The plavers and rttendants of the banquet were gn en strrkrng addresses bw assrstant coach Rokusek of the Unrx ersrtw of Illrnors and two players on the Unrxersrtx of Illrnors xarsrtx one of these berng Brll NIcClure a pro duct of Nlewman Townshrp Hrgh School I' 4 rt. I T '21 K K I- ss M 5 A f ,....,c1, A-A-499,--111, I II I II I I I ,.-1 I .25 ............ ' 14, ' ' ' 7 I O 1. 9 .....,...... I 14, O 1. 15 lll,........ 19, ,I O't. 19 ............ 25, ' , I O t. 23 ....l,,..... . 19, r IK t. 29 .....,...... f 14, ' ,I 1. '. 6 .,,......... ' 1 32, . . ' I . 11 .........,.. ' 58, - . . , I 1 '. 19 ....,...,... I 0, . 'I '. 25 ..,......... ' 6, ' IQI I YI 1, III I It ' - EI , . , I. . II. Ir ,Y 1 ., ' K. A, y. yn 1 K- . .. , . - - I I II 1 K Q . Q K . .K , - .- fi - ' IIQ I I M :, K ! K K- KK' . K. 1 . . KKK 7 . - - ,-! v ,' 'Il . . . ' ' .' . I I 1 Ka, , , 1 7 - f ' - . - I 7 K Y W I K . K. . , , ,K K K. - Kar .KK-'K. . . K K K '. . ' KY ' 'KK v v - ' v uk ' -v ' 'K' v 1 ' wr: l I A 1 , - Page 'ifty-one - TCU Ip k..:-s.-www- 5- 9 1-9 9, -W A A --+ 'V T II- A, - A4 W K - ,vm --- wav- -5- f - --5 -5-ff-A-' - 'TAL

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TAL I SMA! FOOTB XI L CLontrnuedD Newman recery ed the krck off and rmmedrately took the ball to Arco las 30 yard lrne where Grrffrth on a cut back play scampered oyer the goal lrne Thrs play was that famous old 16 as all on the team would remember rt The goal krck was missed and the score was 6 to 0 The half ended wrth this score In the thrrd quarter by lrne plunges of Hance Wax and Wrese Newman agarn worked the ball to Arcola s 30 yard lrne where Gr rffrth took the ball for another cut back for a touchdown Hance kicked the goal In the fourth quarter after an exchange of punts Hance took the ball over for another counter from the three yard lrne The krck for pornt was mrssed The game ended wrth Buckler rn possession of the ball on Arcola s 1 yard lrne after receryrng a 40 yard pass and berng forced out of bounds The final score was Newman 19 Arcola 0 The Arcola team outweighed Newman but could not compare wrth made 298 yards from the lrne of scrimmage while Arcola made only 20 HINDSBORO OCTOBER 19 The Newman Hrndsboro game was postponed on account of rarn untrl the next week but when the next week arrived rt was as muddv and rarny as ever so they lust played anyhow The game was slow on account of the rarn and mud and the first half ended wrth the score 6 to 0 rn favor of Newman Hance makrng the touch down on returnrng a poor punt from the '50 yard lrne In the last half the Newman eleven got the hang of thrs Water Polo Football game and every backfield man got the opportunity of makrng a touchdown before the game was oyer Only one goal for pornt was kicked during the game due to moisture on the ball so the game ended wrth the score 20 to 0 rn Newman s fay or ATWOOD OCTOBER 23 New man defeated the Atwood team 19 to 0 at Atwood rn a game which was rather slow due to the fact that Newman had a sllght attack of that contagious drsease called over confidence Doc Wax took the ball over for the first touchdown rn the first quarter and before the half closed Hance went over for another from the 5 yard lrne after a serres of lrne nrashes and end runs by Wax Wlese and Grlffrth The last touchdown was made rn the fourth quarter on a long pass to Buckler over the goal lrne Only one of the three tries for points after touchdowns was counted due to Newman s being offsrde There was a Pg Ffty h l ll 'if Q f g lr ...- - A A All 7 '- v . ' , .' ' , - , Y 4 ' Y . 1 ' ' v - as as , . L , V I ' v 'sw v v . y . . , L l ' , . , - , ,Y - . K - v H . , . , . the swift Newman aggregation either' on offense or defense. Newman 7 Y v L . .1 ' 1 ', nl ,l sv v . r I I ' 1 7 1' . V K A ' , Q , . y - . 7 , Y 7 L y . ' ' KK - Y! K I 7 ! . . . - y . S , ' , . ' . V v 5 y . . V v ' ' ae i -I ve 1, I I 1 ---f -A H r