Northwestern High School - Norwester Yearbook (Detroit, MI)

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Football Northwestern has become a synonym for success. Success means an untiring tight against odds. With only live veterans on her football team Northwestern came through the 1923 football season with a percentage of .500. From Clark, VVeigelt, Lester, Risdon, and Captain lleisel, Coach Conrad formed the nucleus for his 1923 team. There was a hearty response to his call for material and soon the boys were cavorting about the gridiron, iight- ing for the honor of representing their school. In the iirst test of the so-called green team, the Northwestern pigskin toters draped the Red and Gray colors over the bodies of the Southeastern team to the tune of 20-0. ln the next game XN'estern fell, Z8-7. ln a stiff contest with Saginaw Eastern lligh the Colts beat the Zebras to thc finish, 7-6. Our men showed a wonderful brand of light in defeating the heavier and more experienced team. .Xt Codd Field the toes of the Eastern men seemed too much for the Red and Crray. Eastern won 18-6 by the route of four held goals and one touchdown. Hard luck seemed to settle down on the team and they dropped another to Northeastern 20-l-l, ln the waning moments of the fray Captain Hob Heisel intercepted a pass, only to have it torn from his hands by a Northeastern man, who raced over the goal line. turning the tide from a 1-l-15 victory to a 20-1-l defeat, The next week Central, outplaying themselves, and simultaneously the Colts, romped away at the heavy end of a 20-7 score. To yank his boys out of their Slough of Despondf' Coach Conrad took them on a trip to Cleveland. There North- western maintained the school tradition by giving the Cleveland East High its annual defeat. Being the better at swimming, the Colts splashed through a watery held with the fat score of 34-0. The 'trip and the victory seemed to instill new courage in our warriors. VVith all tlhe strategy known to Coach Conrad, our boys attacked the Northern jinx and laid it low 14-0. The fea- ture of this game was an 80-yard run for a touchdown on the initial kickoff. G'Snitz Ross, brother of the famous lietch. and our one-hundred and twenty pound phenomenal quarterback, dodged, twisted, and straight-armed his way down the gridiron in one of the best bits of open held running ever seen at Codd Field. Late in the game Schlegelmilch intercepted a pass and ran 30 yards for another set of counters. This victory over Northern was the most desired of all our games and the jinx was broken. The closing of the season saw Captain Heisel placed on the All-City team. Other men receiving honorable mention were Clark ru ! don, and Ross. Heisel was the main cog in the attack and work in the city by scoring 43 points. The following men Barstow, Carlson, Carter, Clark, Creedon, Glass, Captain McCoy, Ross, Schlegelmilch, Simmons, Sowersby, Stecker VVeigelt, Cree- led in offensive received L'N,s : Heisel, Lester, VVeigelt, VVid- man, and Captain-elect Dick Risdon. Cf the seventeen letter men of 1923, six veterans will return for the 1924 season, Carlson, McCoy, Ross, Sowersby, Widmari, and Captain Risdon will form the foundation for another of Northwestern's championship teams. Northwestern has every reason to be proud of her green team, her new coach, Martin Conrad, and her 1923 football record. DAVE P13Rsnxs. 113

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