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

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Freshman Class Row X (left to right): John DeFries. Roberta Stewart, Eugene Hastings, Donna Hall, Paul Reynolds, Donna Sharp, Earl Beesley, Lillian Weakley. Row 2: Jewel Cox. Gene Cusator, Leslie Bork, Ruth Peters. Charles Carrington, Martha Burk, Jack Legan, Wanda Calow. Row 3: George Patterson, Robert Perkinson. Katherine Fulwider, James Link, Marie Wilt, Harry Bottorff, Ruby Hewitt. Jack Fugar. Row 4: William Palmer, Nellie Wilson, Charles Jean. Mary Ellen Garrison. Raymond Neal. In the fall of 1948, 29 bewildered students entered the doors of O. T. H. S. These were the “green” Freshmen. They elected as their class officers: Bill Palmer, President: Bob Perkinson, Vice-President; Bobbye Stewart, Secretary, and Nellie Wilson, Treasurer. Their sponsors were Mr. Tomlinson and Mrs. Landwer. After the Freshman initiation which wasn’t too bad was over, the freshmen settled down to the tasks that laid before them. One of the parties most enjoyed by the Freshmen, was the reception the Sophomores held for them. Later in the year an all school party was sponsored by the Freshman class. It was a skating party held at the Gilman roller rink. All these Freshmen are looking forward to giving next year’s “greenies” as rough a time as they had. 16

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Football Row 1 (left to right): Charles Bottorff. James Lewis, Russell Hockersmith, Irvin Jean, Marvin Fink, Ronald Schnurr, Dale Brantlf;-. Albert Harris. Row 2: Leslie Bork, Manager, Donald Archer, Mervin Hanner, Paul Warner, Dick Dannehl. Jerry Jones. Brad Perkinson, Robert Perkinson. Row 3: Charles Jean, Edward Bottorff, Paul Bailey, Terry Workman, William Cox. Robert Wulff, Leo Colebank, Coach Tomlinson. Row 4: Robert Talbert, Manager: Harry iBcttorfl. Paul Reynolds, Orville (DuFrain, Robert Green, Charles Eailey, John DeFries. William Palmer. Harold Lathrop, Jack Legan, Norman Bottorff. Manager. The record in football this year was not what you would call an impressive one. The whole story cannot be told in just the record though. The team was plagued with injuries from the beginning of the season. The year started off with a bang. The first game with Forrest was especially good. Onarga led most of the game. At the end of the third quarter the score stood 7 to 6. The Indians exploded with 14 more points and the game ended 21 to 6 in favor of Onarga. The next game we trampled Saunemin by a score of 47 to 0. It was in this game that we lost the services for the rest of the season of fullback Dick Dannehl. After tying Chatsworth 14 to 14, and trimming Milford 14 to 0, we traveled to Paxton to play the Mustangs. Again do to injuries we lost by cne shm touchdown in the last 30 seconds of the game after leading 7 to 6. The final score was 12 to 7 Paxton. After losing our chance for V. V. title by losing to Cullom 20 to 9, we sewed up 2nd place by downing Herscher by 12 to 8 on a 90 yard run by Archer. The last game of the season was with Gilman where the injured-rlddied Indians bowed before a strong Gilman eleven by a 31 to 0 score. Tne season ended with a record of 4 wins, 3 defeats and 1 tie. 20