Paxton High School - Reflector Yearbook (Paxton, IL)

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BASKETBALL This year’s Paxton cagers continued a good habit of recent years— that of having a very successful season. The Blue and Gold hit the twenty mark in triumphs, while dropping only eight hardwood contests. A last-minute finish that swept many an opponent off its feet was one of the features of the play during the ’36-’37 season. Melvin and Gibson City, especially, suffered from our splendid recuperative powers. Cecil Reehl at center, Clyde Van Antwerp and Ray Burklund, forwards, and Charles Cornelison, Tommy Curran, and Ralph Flora, guards, did most of the playing for P. C. H. S. All but Burklund have made their last basket for our high school. Reehl was the scoring ace of the team which won three trophies in county, regional, and Wauseca League play. Paxton won its first game in the sectional tournament from Thawville but lost out to Champaign in its next tussle. Asst. Coach D. P. Wagner’s reserve squad also had a successful season, winning two more games than they lost in eighteen encounters. Max Sullivan, John Hill, Jack Erickson, Dick Klover, Phil Lindell, James Dun-nan, and Allan Lundahl saw the most action for this squad.

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FOOTBALL The first gridiron season under the tutelage of Coach Zimmerman resulted in two victories, three losses, and three ties. After a slow start in the first half of the schedule, in which the Blue and Gold squad iost one and tied three, the Paxton football team showed much improvement by winning half of the remaining contests. It was in the fifth game that the highlights of the season came when a Watseka eleven, that had won sixteen straight, bowed before an inspired Paxton team. Even in defeat the P. C. H. S. gridders were impressive, the poorest performances coming in the three tie games. Against the mammoth Westville and Hoop-eston teams the locals played a superb brand of ball. It was simply a matter of size that put these defeats in the Paxton account in the football ledger. After having been held to a 7-7 deadlock by our arch rivals, Drummer High, in the season opener, the Zimmerman-coached crew trampled the Gibson City club 13-0 in the final game of the year- The linemen who made letters this year were Jack Erickson, Bob Kirsche, Charles Hanson, Howard Stevenson, Cecil Reehl, Gorman Smith, Wayne Voorhees, John Prewitt, and Ferd Marshall. The last five mentioned boys are members of the class of 1937. The backfield consisted of lettermen Clyde Van Antwerp, Charles Cornelison, Ralph Flora, Jimmy Dunnan, Art Lee and Joe Ashley. Lee and Ashley traded off at the fullback and tackle posts. At the conclusion of the successful season, “Bud” Van Antwerp and ‘ Chuck” Cornelison were named honorary co-captains. SEASON RECORD Paxton, 7; Gibson City, 7. Paxton, 0; Rossville, 0. Paxton, 6; Westville, 14. Paxton, 0; Rantoul, 0. Paxton, 14; Watseka, 0. Paxton, 6; Onarga, is. Paxton, 6; Hoopeston, 7. Paxton, 13; Gibson City, 0

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TRACK The 1937 track season should turn out to be a very successful one for Coach Zimmerman's squad as the Paxton mentor has five lettermen back from last year s squad as well as an abundance of promising new material. The returning lettermen are Charles Cornelison. Harold Griswold, Donald Ryan, John Sederlund, and Ferd Marshall. Gorman Smith, dash man, earned his letter last spring in track at Ludlow. The squad didn’t fare so well in its first meet with Drummer and Melvin at Gibson City, but showed much improvement by the time the date of the Wauseca League meet rolled around, when Coach Zimmerman’s proteges came up with third place after a very creditable showing. Cecil Reehl, a newcomer to the track squad this year particularly stood out by winning the broad jump, placing second in the high jump, and being one of the members of the relay team that came in second. If the squad continues to improve at as rapid a rate as it did between the first and second meets this year, it will easily become one of the outstanding teams of its kind in P. C. H. S. history. THE SQUAD Dash men—Marshall, Smith, Sederlund. Distance men—Sederlund, Ryan, Griswold, Ostrander, North way. Hurdler—Cornelison. Weight men—E. Hanson, C. Hanson, Kirsche, Klover. High jump—Reehl, Stevenson, Burklund. Hroad Jump—Reehl, Stevenson Pole Vault—Dunnan, Lundahl. Javelin—Lundahl, Kirsche. Relay team—Cornelison, Reehl, Sederlund, Marshall.