Perry High School - Treasure Chest Yearbook (Perry, OH)

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ATHLETICS Those first, crisp, fall days . . . football time . . . swooning on the side lines ot every touchdown . . . shouting through mustardy mouthfuls of hot dog . . . Fight, team, fight! . . . and did they! . . . frozen toes and chilling rain down our necks ... all for dear old Perry . . . and that battling, brawny bunch out there on the field . . . Comes the winter, and the crowd flocks to the gym . . . clean-cut, lithe-limbed youths in red-and-white make a flashing, ever-changing pattern under the bright lights . . . cheers echo and reecho around the high ceiling as we climb to triumph ... or fall before the foe and show that we can take it . . . Springtime, with birds, buds, and baseball . . . the smart crack as ball meets bat for a home run . . . yellow dust clouds rising as our heroes slide home . . . the shouts of players and spectators mingling on the spring air. . . Fall, winter, spring ... All year 'round, the Perry Pirates capture booty for our treasure chest of souvenirs.

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Gladys Hallie Ben Dutch Mike Apron-String Revolt Kent Just fun His lighter moments God's gift to women A girl in every port Bows Carol Lorimer Posed (in front) Waterboy Johnsons R. G twenty

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First Row: Lenin Torch, Woylond Warren, Jim Poulson, Stanley Gould, manager, George Bartlett, manager. Second Row: Vaughn Johnson, Edward Palmer, Joe Brown, John Oliver, Lowed Morrow, Jack Heil, Ben Johnson, Edward McFarland, Carl Torch, Coach Hawkins. Third Row: John Golding, Richard Cone, Jack Compton, Gail Fonkhauscr, Charles Heil, Bill Barrett, Charles Neu, Franklin Fovargue, Richard Palmer, Tom Brockway. Football Starting the 1938 season with practically a green team, Perry High's Pirates rapidly rounded into form, and they played fine ball until the last game of the season. Using the three full time regulars from the 1937 squad, John Oliver, center and captain, Lowell Morrow, tackle, and Chuck Heil, back, as the nucleus of his squad, Coach Hawkins built a formidable outfit from a group of small but scrappy candidates. In the season's opener Perry was held to a scoreless tie by the Fairport Reserves. The inexperienced Pirates, although not winning this one, learned a lot which proved valuable in later games. For the first league game the Red and White journeyed to Madison to meet their arch-rivals for the championship of eastern Lake County. Although definitely considered the underdogs before the game, the Pirates defeated the Blue Streaks, 6 to 0, in a hard fought battle. In a night game at Painesville a heavier team from Mentor took the Pirates, 12 to 0. Though losing, the Pirates' passes and trick stuff looked good. The next three games played were non-league ones. The Pirates took two of them. They defeated Ashtabula Reserves, 7 to 0, the Painesville Jay-Vee's, 12 to 0, and dropped the other to the Jay-Vee's, 13 to 6, in a game featured by the Red and White's constant fumbling. Next came Chardon. Perry walloped them, 43 to 0, in a tilt in which everything, especially the passes, worked for the Pirates. In the season's finale the Pirates did an about face . The boys were definitely off form as an average Wickliffe team tore holes in the hither-to fine Pirates'line and defeated the Red and White, 19 to 0. Lettermen for the season were: B. Johnson and Golding, ends; Morrow and J. Heil, tackles; McFarland, J. Brown, Compton, and R. Palmer, guards; Oliver, center; and C. Torch, C. Heil, Thompson, E. Palmer, L. Torch, F. Fovargue, and V. Johnson, backs. At the annual football banquet it was announced that the squad had chosen Ed McFarland as next year's captain and John Oliver as the most valuable player on this year's team. The Pirates ended the season in a tie for second place in the Lake-Geauga League for the second straight year. twenty-two