Our Lady of Lourdes High School - Knight Yearbook (Marinette, WI)

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Q .xiflrj relllllle ...... -. ,u l 155 Nil 0 lg c 5.51 O pf! if L- 5 fi C E LaPINSKE GUAY f' t efficiency that classed the team's per- formance. The other veteran who has starred at center and guard was Bruce Poquette, popular because of his gentlemanly ways and clean, hard- iighting sportsmanship. Among the new men who played with the Irish in the past year was Ed. Guay, a hap- py-go-lucky man who could always be counted upon to produce another point or to stop that mann. The pivot position was generally occupied by Clement Yuenger, the handsomest man in school, whose performance has always been marked by steady en- deavor. Aylward Powers has held a variety of positions and functioned perfectly in all of them. We have now assembled the galaxy of stars that represented the Alma Mater, and are now ready to review a few of the games. First, it must be said, and can be said without try- ing to alibi, in all justice to the team that their defeats were due more to the lack of favorable omens than poor playing. Many of the games were lost by one point and all by small margins, which the opponents usually piled up in a thirty-second concluding rally. No chronicle of the team of ,ZQ would be complete without adding that this team was the longest-shooting quintette performing this year. Thev hold the Hoor rec- ords in most of the gyms in which they played. oftentimes sinking them over three-quarters of the Hoof. On November RO the Irish opened their season by journeying to Crivitz and being outscored in the last ten seconds of play, being forced to return defeated. 20-2l. The following Tuesday, December C no o C L- N41 9L....J O L,,.,,.-,j fl 4314, 0 C- C l J, cl l r l , 1 -f . C 1 .,J Q V Cf l L1 0 , v s.: s C G -lEigIzfy-nine? -I

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fd x, w T ir: C Qi.: Cv - il ei 2:-'27 O 5 1, -ai 'E , ., f to ., . A. The season of '28 and '29 has been an eventful one in the history of basketball at Lourdes. We relin- quished our position in the Little Seven Conference, with whom we had been affiliated the past few years, and signed a Catholic High Schedule. It is not surprising then that with the amplification of our schedule our vic- tories should be fewer than those of other Orange aggregations in the past who have met much smaller teams. In thirteen starts we scored but four twins, nevertheless, during the season we have made seven bas- kets to our opponents' six. Beginning practice in November with but three men back, athletic di- rector, Father Salm, and head coach, Mr. James fPepJ Bresnahan, had anything but a cheerful outlook be- fore them. These great men refused to be daunted by the lack of expe- rienced men and had their efforts well rewarded when the call of the game sent about twenty-five likely-looking prospects into action. The team was built around George Hunce Rockett, the veteran of the squad, having held a position on the first team for three years, 'who cap- tained his team through many a tense situation. Another member of the famous Rockett duo is Raymond, gen- erally designated as UStickey . One of the most versatile men that wore the Orange and Black was Joseph LaPinske, a two-year man. Joe played almost every position on the team and played each with the same amount of ROCKETNT O 50l'f 9 Q g1 '1-'55 -lEighty-eight 1-

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3 i 'fix lul uma- ,rs 1153. 'fy , lil ll-k-TTT' . 'T if if T V' Q Q ---e '--A 2 O .ill fl-jill., D. ' Ka 0 --Sf O -1-2 J 'l 1 0 1 l Q l l 4 0 of xl 9 ll I n. 3 'T 1 l 4 , sl O 'T L1 l ll 0 l l l an 0 ll O 'T 1 J 4, we opened the home season with the Alumni. 'The Alumni, with an imposing array of stars, 'had the game in hand until the last quarter, when the students crept up and tied the score as the final whistle blew. In the overtime period Lourdes won, 20-19. In the third game we met Menom- inee High in their own back-yard and were sent home on the short end of a 25-7 score by a squad of giants. The next game proved still more disas- trous to the Orange. They met Mar- inette High on December 14. Mari- nette was in a winning mood and anxious to show some scoring ability. They sifted through our defense to pile up 28 points to our 9. ln the fifth game, with St. Mary's at Oshkosh, we looked good and seemed favored to put over a win, but we were doomed to disappointment, fortune deciding the game 27-23 in St. Mary's favor. We came north again and took Stephenson High into camp during the holiday vacation on our own floor by 25-16. On Thursday, january 10, St. Peter's of Oshkosh came north and met the locals in a close game 'which was spiced with many thrills. The game was undecided, both sides playing hard ball, although Lourdes led, until the closing seconds when Coach Jensen's iquintette emerged the YUENGER fwinners-the .score being I6-13. POQUETTE On January 30, we were outscored by the tall St. Norbert's squad, who piled up seventeen points to our five. - 0 '1----- 3 4-----1 OL-w.m-J192 91 J OL 1 Q L 5 5 L --1-, -lNiuefylf