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

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Ed Palmer HALFBACK Lenny Torch QUARTERBACK Pete Thompson FULLBACK Chuck Heil HALFBACK Frank Fovargue HALFBACK Lefty Oliver CENTER Hallie Compton GUARD Ben Johnson END Jack Heil TACKLE Dick Palmer GUARD Johnny Golding END Carl Torch QUARTERBACK Diz Morrow TACKLE 'Dutch Johnson halfback Joe Brown GUARD Ed McFarland GUARD twenty-three

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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

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VARSITY First Row: Edward Polmcr Carl Torch Vaughn Johnson Royslcr Whiting Ccn Johnson Zc ond Row: Coach Hawkins Maynard Whiting Richard Cone Lowell Morrow Cdmon Taft Jack Compton, manager Basketball This year, for the first time in several years, Perry High School was represented by a winning basketball team. The players, although lacking in height, played an aggressive , type of ball which won them many games. The Pirates were led by the inspiring type of play exhibited by Vaughn Johnson, captain, who played guard. At the other guard position was stationed Ed Palmer, who was a steadying influence on the team throughout the season. At the forward positions were sharp shooting Carl Torch, and Royster Whiting, the spear-head of the Pirates' fine passing attack. Coach Hawkins was indeed fortunate in having two very capable centers, Lowell Morrow and Ben Johnson. Morrow, whose specialty was under-the-basket shots, led the team in scoring while Johnson, a wizard on pivot shots with either hand, excelled on defense. RESERVES Cheerleaders Arlene Hietanen Warren Chapman Fannie Lou Thomas First Row Charles Poulson Clyde Laphom Edward McForland Lenin Torch Sterling Averill Second Row Coach Hawkins Richard Palmer Harold Fairchild James Poulson Charles Hull Jack Compton, manager twenty-four