Ottawa Township High School - Senior Yearbook (Ottawa, IL)

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Typlng Room Dec 4 1940 Dear Jlm I was golng to start out by g1x1ng you a pageful of excuses but that seems l1ke a vsaste of paper a crime 1n these tlmes I know you d be more lnterested 1n th1S year s football team I suppose youve heard about the first part of the season already Mary sald she had vyrltten you about your great love But lf I know her It turned out to be a report of who was w1th yy ho and what thev wore lnstead of a letter about football As a season our team showed an odorlfer ous record of one win two tles and four SIX polnt losses Because of 1nel1g1b1l1ty lack of 1nterest and draftlng of nearly all of last Vear s backiield stars the football squad to taled only fifteen varslty players when the l1ne Lamble Poulakl and Hank Skoflanc are starrlng 1n the Nayy now lnstead of ln our backfield Sam Creed probablv would have been on the Varslty thlg year he was darned good on the Jayy ee team last year but he Jolned the Navy too Seems as lf Im determlned to make ex cuses but our record sort of needs It Coach Hankenson had h1s worst season IH Ottawa but hlS Plrates never were defeated by more than a touchdown and they showed a great amount of fight ln playlng a tough schedule Jlm my bov I smcerely thought we would beat La Salle Peru after golng down deep 1nto L P terrltory unt1l that old Jlnx popped up agaln Th1s tlme an L P end mtercepted a partlally blocked pass and went 70 vards for the only score of the game' PPRRACUTI KAPAS HAAS PPACE SCHOTT GPRDIBG PARKINS STEVENSON PETERSON 0 ' Y S u I c L' u ll L' . . , .7 S ' V , . . y . L . , . . . V , v 7 V I I . . . 3 ' . Y I Y 7 ' v V Y . V ' L s I , K . ' 1 s ' . ' , , 3 . 1 ' Pirates appeared in the season's finale at Mo- . . 7 V . . 7 ...- , Y . . , . , . . . 9 y , 7 v 7 ' I- . . , . .. I V . 11

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g t A They ve started on the yealbook already Norma Gordon d1d a good 1ob of mak1ng ap polntments fo1 the semors to have the1r plc tu1es taken by Mr Ge1d1ng These photos hay e to be at the engray er s by December 15 so that s the reason for all the rush M1ss B1 adford last year s adylsor has been help 1ng MISS Keach the new sponsor get started Flfteen senlors were appomted to the staff th1s vyeek and I see by the last Buc that they chose Bob PIQFSOH for edltor Mary Belle Peck IS h1s asslstant and Janet F1sher IS busmess manager Ill send you a copv of the book when It s out The first dance of the year yy as October 1 As usual the CIVIC Councll sayy that everv one had a good t1me Frank1e Pvzner s or chestra furmshed the muslc and Katle Mltchell Margery Claggett and John Clegg sang The n W CIVIC COLl1lC1l members take turns selllng cokes taklng tlckets etc But I should tell you about the yy ork lt IS to put on a dance Mxlltary IS really somethlng th1s fall Ill tell you more about It late1 but the othe1 day 1X of the cadet officers and Mr Scott the new fa ulty sponsor V1S1t9d Camp Grant The OHS fellows haye dr1ll eyery Mondav and Tuesday then on Wednesdays the oflicers study and practlce the next yy eek s lesson so they can teach It to the boys The Pep Squad gaye an assemblv last yy eek It yyas pretty cute Kat1e sang The Pep Squad gaye beautlfully yyrapped g1fts to the team They turned out to be boxes of Pep' fPep Squad Pep COIHCX eh j Ey ery thlng got off to a good stalt thls yeal These new teachers are syy ell they re not nz uch older than yye are and yye haye loads of fun yy 1th them MISS N011lS IS l1ttler than Mary Gelger lf you can lmaglne Wfen you come home she d bettel run you ll plobably step rlght on hel yy1th those SIZE tyy ely es and not ey en not1ce lt' That remlnds me when do you get to come home ' We can barely yy alt to see you 1n all you1 glory NIISS Baldyy 1n st1ll expects you to be at least a senator she asks about you all the tlme Well here lt IS Monday agam I Just ney er can get to vyork on Mondays Knot 1ust Mon davs but Monday 15 worse or IS 1t Tuesday' or Wednesday' or Thursday' or Fr1day'J Ho hum study l'all IS oy 61 vy1th Chff Tholpe has moved up tyyo seats he always does that I guess he has ty o studles a day l and I must move on to typmg Dld you take ty plng So far I can type and I quote rfrf 1u1u The fur IS far from here 1uJu frfr late agam Wrlte soon Sllormg 1 1 , I V I - I n A W u A u Y ' V v . ' ' v I l .X ' v v . A I v 1 I I . 1 Aw v 7, . I , I I ,' , ,I 4 . v . . V I . gf ' s , , Y 9 f .V s K 1 . I 1 Y . 1 V. . 1 - - A v V 1 V . l . I I - I 1 I V 5 ig 1. , , L V . I A L I V K A T 7 ' I I I I V - . . . . 7 W , I . I I 1 1 - , 41 K . ' I 1 I ' 1 1 ' 1 . 6 v I , I I , I l I . 1 1 . 1 I 4 V. I . I . . . , , I A I I a Y . I 1 - 1 , . I 4 I Q I 'V . I ' '- I . - 9 , xc t' 4 , . , . . . - - ,, . . 1 - ' . 1 ' I - . . ' - 1 1 - - Phe guzzlmg gas station gang: Matt Koster, Karl Schott, Ken Edllcatlonilt S Wgndgrful, Im golng' t0 be Stan eland, John Wolslegel, Don Ober a, l Ham. Karl and . ' Ken seem to be dying of thirst. , 1 , 1 I . . . . L, . 1 . X . . - I I I 1 . 1 1 LI 1 1 ' 1 , . I I . - 1 ' 1' - , I I I , I I I , I , I . . . . Y I I I ' 1 , I I , I I I I , I, I ' 9 T u be V - 1 I I A' WY Y sv 4 I , I 7 L ' . . , u s ' I I , 7 7 I T. 13 I I I I , I , . Y V . .Y I . , . . . I . , , I I I . 0 I, . Y 9 . ,J . , 0 . . I, I , I . 7 l V 2 I 'I , . -. 7 , - 1 - I I I I .

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The next week lntroduced more rn alrv and our Bucs ayenged their L P defeat by defeatlng Streator 13 6 Steyenson scored both times once on a quarterback sneak and once on a beautiful pass from Cllff Thorpe I don t think any one went rlght home aftel the game not any Ottawans anyway At Sterllng we lost a 6 O dec1s1on to the Sterling WHFFIOTS Wlth our team dr1y1ng 1ns1de Sterllng s 20 yard l1ne twlce and fail mg to score Lots of the k1dS got tlme for leaylng school early to get to the game but they all thought it was worth It It w as a good game even 1f we didn t w1n The first half played aga1nst Hall was dis astrous Hall scored tW1C9 once on a 99 yard touchdow n run and once on a long touchdown pass play Startlng with the second half the Plrates charged back and w1th beautlful blocking by Ottawa s fine guards Kapas Ferracutl and Jerry Peace at center they broke Stevenson 1nto the open for 51 yards and a touchdown The Bucs came back Wlth Rexroat and Lenc1on1 pushlng It to the one yard line where Stevenson finally scored on another quarterback sneak Stevle played a really neat game that mght The next game at DIXOH the Plrates took It on the ch1n 7 0 from a scrappy D1xon team Our game w1th DeKalb was a hard fought one that saw DeKalb score first Then Pete Peterson made a spectacular pass catch for our first touchdown DeKalb scored tw1ce more by oy erpowering plays and we dldnt score aga1n until Bob H1lton made a nlce 15 yard run around left end to complete the sea sons scorlng maklng the final score read 21 12 At Moline the Bucs made a startling ad vance to the one yard line in the first minute of play but falled to push the plgskm across the coyeted goal l1ne The big Plowboys from Moline battered the Ottawa l1ne all mght and Just before the final gun sounded had ended up wlth the ball on the Plrates' s1x1nch l1ne There was no score in the game but both teams nearly knocked them sely es out trying to get across the goal The Plrate l1ne from Pete Peterson to Ev Parklns played good ball all year W1th Kapas and Ferracutl at the guards and vet eran Jerry Peace at center the forward wall of the Red and White was a hard nut to crack John Haas Dario Lenc1on1 and LOUIS Gerdmg stopped manv an off tackle play thlS season The only capable reserx es that Coach Hank could depend on all season were Bob Gerding Ed Ryan Carl Schott and Norman Richards Tom Walkel Cllff Thoipe Donald Rexroat Way ne Stey enson Harly Stellmg Bob Hllton and Da11o Lenc1on1 rounded out a backfield w 1th V612 l1ttle expeuence as was shown by our sco11ng weakness Knobs Rexroat w as Ottawa s only conslstent threat of running attack and his fine defenslye work was good all season Ferracutl just nosed out Geol ge Kapas as the most yaluable play er 1n the squad by h1s fine tackling and blocklng J R Lenc1on1 IS going to be captaln of next year s team I llsted the scores I remember how vou used to gloat oy er them Here they are VISITORS OH S Ottaw a Streator Sterhng Hal D1xon Mollne The Jayvees were a small scrappy team this year They d1d manage to hold thelr opponents on even terms the first half but du11ng the second half Cha1l1e AIIKOHISS proteges were swamped they lost all s1x games they had scheduled Here are the11 SCOFQS VISITORS OHS Jollet Ottawa La Salle Streator Streator Jollet La Salle Charlie Allkoms claims that eyen lf e boys didn t win they all got wonderful train ing Nobody spent all h1s time on the bench because Charlle would send IH the second team wheney er he could He thinks the tram 1ng they get IS more lmportant than whethei they wln but 1ts n1ce to w1n too I guess he s rlght Well I guess thats about all there IS to say about football This IS dex elopmg 1nto a pretty long letter but an awful lot has hap pened this month . Y t , , . . ., Y - - . - . . . I U . - 7 v . I I . I . 1 w v , I I I Q K ' ' v U v I v , . Y . N . 1 . 1 I . , 1 , T v v 7 v v v w v v ' ' V ' y ' 1 , v . Y - . . . 1. . . v , V v qv' 1 , LI A . . . , - . . . - V V 1. v . ' . . Y V , 7 .L Y. , . , . . V . . , . Q . ' I, T LI A . Y L .A ' L' L' 7 lf, . N VY . V .A . . . l l . . A 1 , ' 1 1 .II ' ' l V' ,Il . s n ' l y 1 A A n A , L L A lf A . 1 . . , , , . , . . . Y , I , I , y , L.-P. ......... 6- f ...... 0 ' ' .... . . 6- ...... 13 - h ' ...... . 6- ..,... 0 ' l . . . ...... . 12- ...... 12 , ' ........ 7- ...... 0 - DeKalb ....... 21- ...... 12 - , ' ........ 0- ...... 0 , - . I I I . . . . I . ' I I II , I I I . 4. A' ' . ' ' 'Y ' , , A - I I K V - ' Q ' K . Y' , , ' 1 7 1 ' ' 7 , . 1 I . - ' ......... 20- ' ...... 0 'I ' , ' . ...... 32- ...... 0 - , ...... 26- ...... 0 - - ...... 26- ...... 6 L - u , - - - . ........ 19- .... . . 7 , - - - ..... . . 19- ..... . 0 , I I I , ' . ' u y ,L as . . .S . K Y . . . T . , V. , Y r 7 . - . . ' ' v 1 ' v ' 9 K - . ' I I , 7 L' ' v Aw ' w K . -. . . . Y , Y , - . I , , I- . .L . 7 1 7 ' ' . . . , Y . 7. N Y 9 9 - . . , . . . , - - 1 y 9 ' 12 '