Oak Park High School - Revoir Yearbook (Oak Park, MI)

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Our Grunt and Groan AIIISIS Oak Oak Oa Oa Oak Oa Oak Oa Oak Oak Oak Oak Dan Tennenhouse struggles determmedly to gaxn an advantage Park Park Park Park Park Park Park Park Park Park Park Park 26 SCORES Lincoln Van Dyke Fordson Wlllow Run Trenton Allen Park Wxllow Run Thurston Fordson Dearborn Melvmdale Fltzgerald Allen Park Athough the wrestlmg team suffered mne defeats ln twelve matches Coach Rlchard Walte was pleased wlth thls season Outstandmg were the accompllshments of semor Dan Gussm who complled a record of nme wms and one draw and placed thlrd rn the regronals at Farmmgton The season contamed many good scraps but especlally satlsfymg was the fmal match agamst Allen Park whrch the Redskms pulled out 26 to 17 Coach Waxte terms h1s prospects for next year as excellent Although the team wrll lose senlors Dan Gussm Ph1l Adkms and Dan Tennenhouse the rest of the team w1ll be back next year wlth more expertence and a desnre to capture the Oakland B Trophy Front Row Mrchael Short Irwm Nemeth Dan Berch Sanford Math Leslie Brederman Second Row Coach Richard Wante Dan Gussm Cralg Smelsey Alan Cohen Marty Baum Rear Row Dan Tennenhouse Jam Damels Alan Gussm Phll Adkms Howard Slegrnst Phil Adkins Dan Tennenhouse Dan Gussm Co-captam 34 ' 18 k 25 ' k 18 31 k 8 ' 12 k 15 16 13 ' 8 . 7 9 3 7 , . 5 3 7

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Oak Oak Oak Oak Oak Oak Oak Oak Oak Oak Oak Oak Park Park Park Park Park Park Park Park Park Park Park Park Park Park Park Papoose Hoopsters Gain Winning Ways SCORES Troy Clawson Bloomfield Hllls Clawson L Anse Creuse Huron Troy G P U S Lamphere G P U S Bloomfield Hills Frtzgerald Clawson Lamphere LAnse Creuse 23 28 Barrie Bratt cuts off opponent as he moves 1nto scormg posltlon Thrs year the Oak Park Junror Varsnty comprled thelr best seasons record They won ten games whrle losmg only frve Coach James Beadle belleves the team s chlef strength was 1ts rebound mg ab111ty He was also pleased wlth the players accuracy rn outslde shootmg The most excltmg J V game of the season was played at L Anse Creuse Trallmg by twelve pomts m the second half the Redskms tred the score rn the fmal seconds of regulatron tame ln an electrrfymg three mmutes of overtime Oak Park proved too much for L Anse Creuse and edged out a vrctory Mr Beadle has enjoyed coaching the Jumor Varsrty team and ns antncr patmg another successful season next year even though many of hrs players wrll be elevated to the Varsrty squad Kneehng Ken Buccr fMgrJ Coach James Beadle Ray Kovachevlch tMgrJ Standmg Steve Dressler Stuart Ersenberg Daniel Yamshon Robert Brown Steve Carpman sets to shoot Davrd Stewart Larry Asher Steve Carpman Barrle Bratt Jerry Wemberg Ronald Cowan Stan Dorfman Fred Gluck Mrtchell Mallm oak zo 37 oak az 25 40 ' ' 38 48 37 57 r 55 63 40 36 49 55 .... as Oak 44 ' 34 45 . . . . 23 zz ' ' so 25 ' 36 as 33 47 37 ' . . . . . Y as A ,,.. '

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Slide, Kelly, Slide! .ug ... , ... . l Dan Barnard makes a valiant but futile effort and is out on an infield fly. The 1958 baseball campaign was hlghllghted by two flrsts ln Oak Park dlamond hlstory ThlS was the flrst year that games were played on our own field It was also the year that saw the flrst wln over Thurston High School Thls same Thurston game was the hlgh polnt of a 5 4 season and served as the flttlng cllmax of a successful year The 1958 squad was a well balanced experlenced outflt that played heads up baseball An lndlcatlon of thls was thc fact that three of thelr four losses were by one run ln extra lnnlngs The 1959 squad IS vlrtually the same outflt that produced a successful season last year Wlth a majority of four year veterans the Redsklns are antlclpatlng a very successful year An added lncentlve IS thelr partlclpatlon ln the Oakland B Conference a flrst for thls season Bud Joyce the Redskln dlamond mentor who IS ln hls thlrd year of coaching baseball at Oak Park echoes the sentiment that thls wlll be a blg year ln the short hlstory of Oak Park baseball . . . ,, . ,, . I , Lb ' 79 ' ' GL 97 , ' 4 ' alv, t E, Y we 9 lk l A menacing look from the outfield and Bill Bailey slides back to first. Marty Cicchelli hits safely and heads for flrst