Northwestern College - De Klompen Yearbook (Orange City, IA)

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Ted Sagami right half ' Emmet Walker Francis Riney full back left half Willy Wolfswinkel qua rterback IN THEIR BEST PERFORMANCE OF THE YEAR, NORTHwESTERN'S RED RAIDERS THREw A TERRIFIC SCARE INTO THE POWER' FUL ESTHERVILLE SQUAD, WHICH HADNIT LOST A JUNIOR COLLEGE FOOTBALL GAME FOR 2 YEARS. THE INSPIRED NORTH- WESTERN TEAM HELD ESTHERVILLE TO A O-O TIE DURING THE FIRST HALF BEFORE ESTHERVILLE CAPITOLIZED ON THREE NORTHWESTERN MISTAKES TO GRlND DUT THREE TOUCHDOWNS AND coP A I9-O vIcToRY. THE DEFENSIVE PLAY OF THE NoRTHwEsTERN TEAM, PARTICULARLY THE BONE JARRING TACKLES OF JAY HooGEvEEN AND TED SAGAMI, sTooD oUT IN THE DEFEAT. LETTERMEN FOR THE I9u9 SEASON NORMAN BASTEMEYER FRANCIS RINEY HOWIE BRINKHUIS TED SAGAMI DwAYNE BUTTENOB DAvE VAN CITTERS JAKE DE JONG RUDY VAN DRIE GENE DE WIT HARRIS VAN OORT ALVIN DYKSTRA STAN VANDER AARDE GEORGE DYKSTRA PAUL VANDER WOUDE BERNIE HEITBRINK EMMETT WALKER JAY HOOGEVEEN WILLY WOLFSWINKEL EDDIE MATSUI 1949 SEASONS' RECORD Northwestern 0 Morningside frosh 47 Northwestern 7 Britt 12 fpractice game, Northwestern 0 Emmetsburg 32 Northwestern 7 Eagle Grove 31 Northwestern 0 Estherville 19 Northwestern 13 Buena Vista 39 51

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IIII 1949 IIIIIIIIIII swnu B Norm Ba Stemeyer center Dave Van C1tters B H t ernle C1 brmk left end r1ght end George Dykstra mght tackle Bombo Dykstra left tackle Jay Hoogeveen rlght guard Harms Van Oort left guard PLAGUED BY CONSTANT INJURIES AND STRUGGLING AGAINST THE STRONG ODDS CREATED BY INExPERIENCE, THE l9N9 EDITION OF NORTHWESTERN'S FOOTBALL TEAM WENT DOWN TO 5 STRAIGHT DEFEATS, ONE OF WHICH WAS A PRACTICE LOSS TO THE POWERFUL MORNINGSIDE FRESHMEN. THE IST GAME OF THE SEASON FOUND THE RED RAIDERS JOURNEYING TO SIOUX CITY FOR A SCRIMMAGE GAME WITH THE POWERFUL MORNINGSIDE COLLEGE FRESHMEN. THE INEXPERIENCED NORTHWESTERN SQUAD MADE COUNTLESS BLUNDERS THAT COUPLED WITH THE BRUISING ATTACK OF THE POWERFUL MORNINGSIDE FROSH RESULTED IN A THUMPING NT-O VICTORY FOR MORNINGSIDE. AN IMPOTENT OFFENSE FORCED NORTHWESTERN ON THE DEFENSE MOST OF THE AFTERNOON WITH JAKE DE JONG AT TACKLE AND DWAYNE BUTTENOB, A DEFENSIVE BACK STARRING FOR THE RED RAIDERS. NORTHWESTERN JOURNEYED TO EAGLE GROVE FOR THEIR NEXT GAME AND MET DEFEAT 3l-Y. FRANCIS RINEY, NORTHWES- TERN'S HAWAIIAN STAR INTERCEPTED A PASS AND GALLOPED TO YARDS TO PAY DIRT FOR THE RAIDERS ONLY TOUCHDOWN VAN CITTERS CONVERTED. THE DEFENSIVE PLAY OF TED SAGAMI, HAWAIIAN RIGHT HALFBACK, STOOD OUT FOR NORTHWES- TERN. EMMET WALKER, NORTHWESTERN'S INDIAN FULLBACK, AND DWAYNE BUTTENOB, DEFENSIVE HALFBACK RECEIVED BRAIN CONCUSSIONS IN THIS GAME THAT WERE A START ON THE LONG LIST OF FOOTBALL INJURIES THAT PLAGUED NORTHWESTERN ALL YEAR. THE FOLLOWING WEEK THE RED RAIDERS JOURNEYEO TO STORM LAKE FOR AN ENGAGEMENT WITH THE STRONG BEUNA VISTA COLLEGE HBH SQUAD. AFTER A LISTLESS FIRST HALF, NORTHWESTERN PLAYED AN INSPIRED BRAND OF FOOTBALL DURING THE SECOND HALF T0 OUTSCORE BEUNA VISTA 2 TOUCHDOWNS TO I DURING THAT PERIOD. A PASS FROM RINEY TO VAN CITTERS WAS GOOD FOR ONE TOUCHOOWN AND TED SAGAMI PLUNGED OVER FOR THE OTHER MARKER. NORTHWESTERN CLIMAXED AN OTHERWISE FINE HOMECOMING CELEBRATION THE FOLLOWING WEEK WITH A HEARTBREAKING LOSS TO BRITT JR. COLLEGE I2-Y. THE RED RAIDERS WERE WITHIN SCORING DISTANCE MANY TIMES BUT WERE ABLE TC PUNCH OUT A SCORE ONLY WHEN WILLY WOLFSVINKEL SCOOPED UP A BRITT FUNBLE BEFORE IT TOUCHED THE GROUND AND RACED 50 YARDS TO SCORE. BRITT CAPITOLIZED ON THEIR 2 SCORING CHANCES T0 SCORE AND DEAL NORTHWESTERN ITL FIRST HOMECOMING LOSS IN HISTORY. NORTHWESTERN THEN JOURNEYED TO EMMETSBURG WHERE THEY MET DEFEAT BEFORE THE EMMETSBURG TEAM 32-O. NUMER- OUS NORTHWESTERN SCORING THRUSTS WERE STOPPED BY EMMETSBURG BEFORE THE RED RAIDERS COULD SCORE. 50

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Jay Hoogeveen guard Lester 7 fix. R w FE A, . N., --,V rg l -A ,ti at , I , at 'Tv . I .i 93 , il 4 - vm f Howie Brinkhuis guard Alton George Dykstra tackle Orange City Not photographed .Take De .Tong tackle Newkirk Q , ,Tc r I Norm Ba stemeyer center Orange City Rudy Van Drie center Ocheydan Paul Vande Woude end Woodstock, Minn. 1 r -O 'il t r n1 Harris Van Oort guard Orange City Stan Vande Aarde guard Orange City Bombo Dykstra tackle Marion, S. D.