Oak Park and River Forest High School - Tabula Yearbook (Oak Park, IL)

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The boys responsible Tor sysTemaTiz- ing and synchronizing ThaT all imporTanT sTands-spiriT, consTiTuTe The energeTic. yell-a-minuTe cheerleading sTaTT. The group This year, all seniors, was composed oT Bruce Larson, Dick Sword, Dan I-Iawley, Gene Golub, and was led by Chuck Jen- isTa Cheerleading Charlie, The Noise From Every Game. Real progress was made in announcing The cheers, by making use oT The sTanol's public address sysTem, Thereby reaching even The remoTesT ears and reducing The use oT The TradiTional megaphone To a minimum. IT Takes innovaTions To keep The crowds conTenTed wiTh The limiTeoI number oT cheers, and To keep aT a low ebb The un- IimiTed number oT ieers. NovelTy highlighTs came in The Torm oT appropriaTe iingles in- Troolucing The cheers, and a new muscle- musser special, dubbed The Ioco-Iocomo- Tive, which The Tans Tinally TaThomed 'be- Tore many weeks had passed. IT Takes more Than whiTe slacks and double ioinTs To make a cheerleader. I-Iours oT pracTice, weeks oT experimenT and iars oT linimenT are all parT oT The recipe. JAMES THON VarsiTy WILLIAM DEBUTTS BERTRAM LEVEY VarSiTy Fresh-Soph ur Aarolworlfing CAQQPLHJQPJ FRED I-IENDERSI-TOT LighTweighT WILLIAM LEWIS EDWARD NOKES J,V, J,V.

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joofgaf ana! SCCQP afar! fire ayaorffs demon , . . . And sTudenT blood begins To beaT To The Tempo oT The TooTball and soccer spiriT. Oak Park noT only has a perennially Tough TooTball schedule, buT Theirs is always The big game Tor which our opponenTs Train and sTrain. This season Those opponenTs Trained and sTrained a Tew sTrokes beTTer Than par, and The Suburban League Cham- pionship wenT To EvansTon and Proviso, leaving The locals sole possessors oT second place. The Twin WaTerloos oT EvansTon and Waukegan were The games ThaT pricked The I94O Championship bubble Tor The boys-oT-The-orange-and-blue. The season, however, wasn'T wiThouT iTs compensaTions. CompensaTion oT The TirsT order was The upseT-Triumph over Proviso ThaT broughT chills and cheers unknown in many a previous SaTurday Saga-a TiTTing climax To The mosT unpredicTable season since The pre-monopoly days oT '34-'35. The Suburban FooTball League has once more become, like The NaTional League in The baseball world, a circuiT oT sTiTT compeTiTion and surprise endings. AlThough gold TooTballs have noT appeared in The possession oT The I-lolmesmen, oT '40, The shining soccer spheres dangling Trom The local key chains have .proclaimed The Woodsmen Sub- urban League Champions. IT was only The TaTeTul Crane Game ThaT kepT The locals Trom The Cook CounTy Championship and The chance To win greaTer glory in The STaTe Games. BeTore The 3-O Trouncing They received Trom The presenT STaTe Champions, our soccer boys had suc- ceeded in holding Their I9 opponenTs To a final sum oT I poinT while They Themselves piled up The Tremendous ToTal oT TorTy-Three. Boy, iT was murder TickeTs, pliz We're loyal To you Oak Park I-Iigh Up Tor grabs I-Iuskies in a hurry I-Iear ye, hear ye PeanuTs, popcorn, candy bars- A Woodman aT woi

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lzjamify joofgaf Now if he'd only moved over lhis way a lillle- Varsily Foollaall al O. P.-R. F. has ever mainlained a repula- lion lor lbrillianl plays and equally lorillianl players. The l94O season, in lhal respecl, was on a par wilh lhe laesl. Oulslanding were Jim Dewar, husky hallback, whose speclacular ball carrying, passing, and punling, class him in lhe sacred ranks ol liiple lhreal slars, and have earned him all-slale honors, lo bool: Li Bock, whose express lrain plunges and precision place-kicking place him on lhe roll ol honor, and whose live-o'clock-linal lield goal wilh an injured lool won lor him lhe lille ol movie-hero g Blake Walker, who direcled a greal majorily ol lhe 60 minules ol each game wilh coolness and sagacilyq Co-caplain Jim Thon, whose work in lhe line was ol major imporlance, Co-caplain Bill DeBulls, exponenl ol lhe perlecl block, whose on-lhe-spol in- lerlerence wenl unexcelled lhroughoul lhe seasong and l-larry Oberhelman, Caplain-Elecl ol lhe Varsily ol '4I whose mulilaling plunging power successlully look The place ol lhe injured Bock. Through lhe diligenl ellorls ol Coach l-lolmes and his assislanls, lvlr. Woodrull, and Mr. Gocker, lhe Varsily ol l94O succeeded in scoring a sum lolal ol one hundred and lwenly-- seven poinls, while holding ils eighl opponenls lo lhirly-lhree credils, resulling in ils caplur- ing second place honors in lhe linal Suburban League slandings. Bl l D 'l' 'lhon leads oll De U isjgng waiver O goal .. Block lhal kick l-lold on lo il, Mac Benchwarmers Dewar loles il .26.