Ottawa Hills High School - Mesasa Yearbook (Ottawa Hills, OH)

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as' First Team The first team reading clockwise are Top: R. Millar, manager, R. Jamo, B. Schelling. K. Shireling. C. Hendrickson. R. Ernst. R. McKeough, .l. Montgomery, B. Nord, .l. Steketee, D. Veldman, H. Palmer, N. Huizinga, and Coach Henry Ludwick in the center. Basketball in the Sportslight Did you know that when your basketball team played in the regionals. it played its three best games of the season? First it beat Central by a l0-point margin and the next night whipped a fast South aggre- gation hy a 25-23 count. The following evening the 'sOttawa Cage-rs lost the District Class NAv title by one point to a tall Union quintet by a Sl-30 score. The Tribe lied with Central for sixth place in the City Conference and made a total of 372 points to their opponents' -1033. Their record for the season was 5 wins and 9 losses. Ottawa Season S1 fillllllllll' 33 'UFPS Ottawa Ilatholic 30 Ottawa , Christian 27 Ottawa lihristian 28 Ottawa Tr-4'h H Ottawa Tech Ill Ottawz , ik-ntral 125 Ottawa Central 34 Ottawa . Union 129 Ottawa Union 5-1 Ottawa Ottawa , Lreston 2.2 South 22 Ottawa Ottawa Second Tea m Creston 26 South 38 Tnp Roux' fioach If. Kos-ts, T. lleins. R. Millar. R Applelu-4-, Sl'1'HIlll Roux' lf. Holden. .l. lfatldy. O, Haan s, N. lde. ll. llilarielvs. R, Shuster. l.. Rhodes. l frx1 Noir: W. Yoss, O. lfrnst, ll. liarton, R. Bloxsom li Yimlniwaitlt ll Kullt on ll. llaa . 1 ' ', . rl 't'l'5 . IU ll Ottawa's second team this year finished with a fine record of 9 wins and 5 losses. In these 14- games it scored 368 points to a total of 303 for its opponents. The reserves proved to be a scrappy outfit, for their record shows that each of their losses was very close. The high point honors go to Eaddy with 76 and Haan, who had 56. Other fine players on the second team, and who showed fine playing ability, were Holden, Ernst. and Bloxsom. The second team is coached by Mr. '4Cornie'7 Koets and is managed by Bob Millar.

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First Team Football Top Row: Alexander Grant, Hugh Lilly, Steward Cole, Carl Zillner, Faye Knapp, W. R. Hill. Third Row: Mgr. Bob Cary, Coach Palmer, Bob Breen, Ed Potter, Bill Clark, Bill Edi- son, ,lack Leopold, ,lim Tay- lor, Mgr. Wzxyne Rowerdink, Mr. Carl Holman. Second Row: Duane Ziegler, Jim VanderKelen, John Cary, Tom Fudge, Bill Hill, Don Veldman, John Steketee. Bottom Row: Gordon Van Hoeven, Don Graham, Maurie VanderVeen, Louis Harvey, Lee Wheeler, Bob Jamo, .lim Mitts. Ottawa Excells Considering that we won only two games with a squad that had the least experience of any Ottawa team, Ottawa's sportsmanship was excellent. The team kept on fighting and improving through the year, and the students kept coming in large numbers to cheer the team on to greater efforts. In the first game, East won with a score of 13-0. The team tried hard in the game against Catholic Central, but because we were inexperienced and made some misplays, they won 31-0. Central,s superior speed brought them a win with a score of 27-0. The members of our team really fought as hard as they could, but it was just a green team. In the Creston in Sportsmanship game we showed what practice could do and held them to a score of 12-0. Improving still more, we won from Tech with a score of 6-0. In the fifth game, South sent a fresh team against us in the second quar- ter, and won 27-0. Union took the last game 12-0. The second team also deserves credit for continuing to fight even though its winnings were so few. Beating East in the first game with a score of 13-0 was a good start, but when Catholic Central took the next game 19-0, and when Ottawa got only 7 points to Centralis 21 in the third game, and when Creston took the next game 19-0, the season was enough to discourage many teams. In the fifth game, Ottawa, however, scalped the Tech team 17 with the score of 13-0. In the last games, South and Union met stiff opposition, but won 24-0 and 12-6. Second Team Top Row: Harold Kregel, Lee Free- man, Carl Rozema, George Cole, Dave Grant, .lack Ionkhof, Roscoe Bennett, Mr. Koets. Second Row: Harry Schaub, Bill Kirchgessner, Harold Bart, .lack Milligan, Larry Klukowski, Bill DeHaan, Henry Van- derLaan. Bottom Row: Norman Ide, Roger Vanderweide, Albert Coates, Walter Hein, Bill Grant. Absent Members: Paul Gezon, George Hood- hood, Ray Poelstra, George Razoog.

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Back Row: R. Poelstra, Mgr., J Jonkhof. V. Hendricksen. C. Ra- zoog. R. Tilma. R. Vanderweide, J Karol. Third Row: Coach C. Koets, J. Breen, J. DeFouw, J. Kosten Mgr., J. Eaddy, L. Harvey, J. Steke tee, J. Vercoe, J. Sayre. Second Row: B. Nord, H. Schaub, H. Bart, J. Montgomery, E. Holden, J. Leo- pold, C. Rahill, C. Huizenga, W. Kirchgessner. First Row: A. Coates, S. Smith, E. VerMerris, R. Breen, R. Zaremha. Batter Up 1 Ottawa's baseball season got off to a good start this year, when Coach Cornie Koets called the squad to active practice on March 20. The large number of boys who turned out for baseball included about seven veterans from last season. From this material, C o a c h Koets formed a team, which practiced on the diamond at Franklin Park every night after school, except when the weather was bad. Then the pitchers and catchers worked out in the boys, gym. The lineup this year was as follows: Bob Breen and Benjamin Nord, pitchers, Eugene VerlV1erris and Albert Coates, catchers, Clarence Rahill, Jim Vercoe, and Eugene Holden, first base, Stanley Smith, Harold Bart, and Roger Vanderweide, second base, Bob Zaremba and Jim Montgomery, third base, Jack Leo- pold, shortstop, Neal Huizenga and Vernon Hendrick- sen, left field, Joe Breen and Bill Kirchgessner, center field, Harry Schaub, right field, John Steketee, Jack Karol, and .lim Eaddy, outiield. South, Catholic, Creston, Catholic, Union, South, Central, Opponent Christian, Christian, Davis Tech, 1943 Scores Opponent Date We Central April 13 ,.,.......... ,......,. 5 Creston April 16 ............, ......,.. 1 Catholic Central April 23 ............. ......... 0 Christian April 28 ....,........ ......... 5 Davis Tech May 3 ........... ......... 1 South May 4 ,.......... ......... 5 Central May 7 ........... ,........ 6 Creston May 11 .........., ......... 3 Union May 13 ........... ......,.. 2 Christian May 14 ........... ......... 4 South May 27 ....,,..... ......... 6 Davis Tech May 28 .......,... ......... 1 Union June 1 ........... ......,.. 0 This Year's Schedule Date Place We April 13 -Garfield .....,.,... .......... 4 April 18 -Franklin ........... ........... 7 April 20 - Garfield .......,. . ...... 3 April 27 -Briggs ........... ........... 3 May 2 - Franklin ........... ........... 2 May 4 - John Ball ............. ........... 3 May 11 -Franklin ........... ..... . .. May 16 - Franklin ........,, May 18 - Franklin .......... May 25-M. Waters ........., ..... ............... . , ., Ben Nord, pitcher, and Al Coates, c 19 They 11 7 2 0 6 4 3 7 13 4 0 5 1 They 9 2 4 5 3 9 archer, discuss Ottawa's chances.