Onarga Township High School - Onarquois Yearbook (Onarga, IL)

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Right-Top-Ficklin trying an end run against Gilman. Right-Bottom-Harris going around end un- molcsted lagainst Herscherj. Left-Top - Lee and Brantley stopping a Gilman player. Summary of Football Season Ficklin ran up two more and scored one extra point. Dannehl and Archer each made a tally, with Archer racking up one extra point and Dan- nehl two. Although not playing their best ball, the Indians fought to a 7-7 deadlock with the tough Paxton Mustangs, in a home game. Late in the second quarter the visiting Mustangs scored off tackle and then plunged the extra point. Shortly after the second half opened Archer scooted around right end to give his team a touchdown and Dannehl added the extra point. The following Friday the Indians played Cullom at the Onarga field and showed that they could score almost at will, by winning 47-0. Touch- downs were made by Legan, Bottorff, Ficklin, Harris, Archer, and Dan- nehl, who scored twice. On the following Friday the Indians journeyed to Herscher and re- turned with the V.V.C. Championship by defeating Herscher 36 to 6. Ar- cher and Dannehl each scored twice, while Harris and Ficklin scored once apiece. The Herscher score was the result of a pass, late in the fourth quarter. The season's climax came with the annual battle with the Gilman Owls on the Onarga field. Orr was first to score on an intercepted pass. Harris added the second score, and both tries for extra points were suc- cessful. Gilman scored a consilation touchdown late in the game, to make the final score 14-6. 29

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Left-Top - Gilman trying an off-tackle play, but Dannehl filling up. Left-Bottom - Another attempt by Gilman being stopped by Krause and Bottorff. Right-Top - Herscher trying an end run - being stopped by Onarga players. Summary of Football Season With the climax of the 1947 football season the Onarga Indians closed their most successful campaign in four years. The slight but speedy team, with seven victories and one tie were V.V.C. Champions and the leading team in the county stan.dings. The first game of the season was played against the large and pow- erful Forrest Eskimos. The Forrest team was the first to score, on a four yard plunge. The extra point, a pass, was good. In the second period full- back Dannehl scored, but failed to convert. With but four minutes re- maining in the game Dannehl swept around right end to score again. Once again the conversion was no good, but the Indians won, 12-7. The next game was played at Saunemin, where Coach Tomlinson's boys scored all of their 20 points in the first half. Touchdowns were made by Roy Ficklin, Donald Archer, and Boyd Harris. Dannehl and Ficklin made the extra points on line plunges. The Saunemin boys kept on the defensive most of the game and failed to score. Final score: 20-0. The first home game of the season was played with Chatsworth. The Chatsworth winning streak of 17 games was broken when Dannehl and Ficklin both racked up touchdowns and added extra points while Chatsworth was held to one, early in the game. Final score: 14-7. Milford was next on the list of Onarga conquests for the year as the Indians rolled up a score of 47-0 on the Milford field. Boyd Harris accounted for three of his team's seven touchdowns and one extra point. 28

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BASKETB LL Front Roy tleft to rightl: Roy Ficklin. Charles Krause, Dick Dannehl, Kenneth Palmer, Mervin Han ner James Lewis. Chancey McFadden. Charles Bottorff. Kenneth Legan. Tom Brim. Back Row William Cox, Bob Magnussen, Mrgs., Ronald Schnurr. Edward Rueck, Edward Bottorff. Robert Green Paul Bailey, Irvin Jeans, Paul Warner, Norman Bottorff, Jerry Jones. Coach Tomlinson In compiling our 11 won and 15 lost record the '47-'48 basketball season of the Indians was far more successful than it appears on paper. Often this quintet was forced to play without the aid of several of the regulars. Chuck Bottorff, first string center, was out for several weeks bei- cause of illness, as were several others, which was always a set-back to hopes of a victorious season. As the season began to draw to a close the team gradually began to pick up steam and show their real power. For the Regional Tournament the boys went all out and played some of the most thrilling games in the tourney. The first game saw the boys giving all they had and defeating the highly favored Gibson City five. This entered them in the semi-finals and saw them playing the high scoring Saybrook quintet. Onarga, who had been drifting behind for the whole game, surged to life in the last quarter and led by the unstopable Dannehl were within two points of going ahead in scoring as time ran out. It was in this game that Dannehl set an all time tournament high of 34 points. Although the last game saw Krause, Legan and McFadden, along with Ficklin and Palmer, play their last time for Onarga, the future is still not dim. The high scoring Dannehl and Bottorff remain from the first five to be aided by other members of the squad who have all seen plenty of action. 30