Paxton High School - Reflector Yearbook (Paxton, IL)

Page 24 text:

FOOTBALL The football season started with a bang! The whole school was an array of shining faces after Drummer took a “drumming,” the score at the end of the game being 14-6. No victory so encourages Paxton sports fans as does administering a defeat to Gibson City. The second encounter of the season was with Rossville. The outstanding features of the game were long runs—one of forty-eight yards by John Reep and another of thirty yards by Delmar Lundy. Both runs scored. For honors as brilliant ball carriers, John Reep and Harold Barr were outstanding. The final score was 25-7, thus making the second game of the season the second victory. As the season progressed the maxim of “practice makes perfect” seemed quite applicable. The third gridiron battle was with Gilman and was a brilliant victory for the local club, the score being 39-0. During this game Kenneth Jones made three touchdowns, one of which was the result of a twenty-three yard run. John Reep added three points by sending the ball three times across the uprights as the result of place-kicks. Another brilliant feature of the game was Charles Cornelison’s run of eighty-three yards. Although Cornelison failed to score, the brilliancy of such a feat was not dimmed. The last touchdown scored by the Paxton eleven was the result of a long pass from Van Antwerp to Lundy. For their fourth struggle, Paxton met Rantoul at Rantoul and here reached the climax of the season, downing the Rantoul gridders by a score of 48-0. Of this forty-eight point score, Harold Barr came through with thirty points of it. Barr wras playing a great game and five times invaded enemy territory to net another score for Paxton. John Reep sent the pigskin across the uprights three times as the result of place-kicks. Kenneth Jones and Reep w'ere outstanding, not for individual performance, but for team w'ork. After having suffered serious defeats at Rantoul’s hands, the revenge gained by this victory was sweet. As you all know, after the climax comes a lull. This game of football is no exception. The Watseka-Paxton struggle was a true gridiron battle and one against terrific odds. The statement was made that every Watseka man outweighed the Paxton squad twelve pounds to the man. Yet knowing what they were up against, this fighting bunch of boys went to Watseka and FOUGHT. Although the score w-as in Watseka’s favor, the fans were consoled by the fact that the team had done their best. Next came Hoopeston, w’hich was also a lull period meet. The only touchdown of the encounter for the local club wras made by Jones. Onarga wras the seventh encounter of the football year, and it, too, was a defeat, the score being 12-0. The Armistice Day tilt at Gibson City was played in a down-pour of rain. Enthusiastic crow'ds and backers of both teams stood in the steady drizzle and shouted themselves hoarse. The field was a veritable pond, but even this couldn’t stop the team. Long runs wrere again in evidence: John

Page 23 text:

ATHLETICS . . . The whole athletic year has been characterized by two prominent factors: clean playing and sportsmanlike spectators. Coach Hankenson has turned out a group of teams of which the school can be justly proud. Surely the fans who really appreciate good athletic contests and who follow the teams can say this year that we have had a good season. Even our severest critics must break down and give a few words of commendation for the boys who participated in athletic events and to the coach who trained these boys. The football season was characterized by the fighting, square-shooting team the fire of which no defeat could quite quench. The basketball season was one about which true P. C. H. S. fans will talk for years to come. Making a record of three losses, counterbalanced by twenty-six wins, this team set forth a future high goal for all P. C. H. S. cagers. Baseball, which functions under the tutelage of Coach Swinney, was reorganized several years ago and is coming into its place as a major sport instead of a minor sport at Paxton High. The track squad gives every promise of upholding the success of the 1936 athletic year. THE CHEERLEADERS WALTER AMERMAN DOROTHY STINE

Page 25 text:

Back Row—John Nielsen, Arthur Lee, Wayne Voorhees, Donald Flannery, Leon Henry, John Swanson, Gail Hedrick, John Sederlund, Willard Walker. Third Row—Coach Hankenson, Delbert Karr, Jack Erickson, Charles Cornelison, Joseph Ashley, Harold Barr. Second Row—Robert Kirsche, Howard Stevenson, Kenneth Jones, Ralph Flora, John Reep, Clyde Van Antwerp, Everett Tieman, Marion Northway. First Row—James Purtill, Jack O'Donnell, Ralph Thompson, William Chartier, James Dunnan, George Houston, Cecil Anderson, Jack Custer, John Cornelison. George Frump. Keep making; a twenty-eight yard run and scoring, and Harold Barr outdoing him by two yards to cross Drummer’s goal to a touchdown. Kenneth Jones place-kicked, making the score 13-2. Of the offense Barr and Reep were outstanding, and in the line the aggressiveness of Charles Cornelison and John Swanson was quite impressive. While seemingly the line of the team has been ignored, such is not the case. All football fans realize that without a strong wall of defense, the backfield could not function as it did this year. This line, composed of our “big” men, was made up of: Delmar Lundy and Wayne Voorhees, ends; Gail Hedrick and Leon Henry, tackles; Joe Ashley and Charles Cornelison, guards; and John Swanson, center. Although Paxton failed to gain the championship of the Wauseca League, the season ended with a five won, three lost percentage, almost the reversal of the percentage two years ago, which was two won and five lost. Team Played Paxton Opponents Gibson City 14 6 Rossville 25 7 Gilman 39 0 Ran tou 1 48 0 Watseka 0 31 Onarga 0 13 Hoopeston 6 12 Gibson City 13 2