Prescott High School - Hassayamper Yearbook (Prescott, AZ)

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On the Gridiron During the cool, crisp nights of October, 1940, Prescott fans witnessed some of the best football P. H. S. teams have presented in several seasons. Hitting their stride with a 7-6 win over Peoria, the next week the Badgers held an aroused Glen- dale team in the closing seconds of the final quarter for a second 7-6 victory. The following week the squad traveled to Jer- ome where the game was played in a sea of mud, Jerome coming out on top 13-0. The Flagstaff game was won easily with a 21-6 score. P. H. S. rolled up the highest score of the season against Winslow, 39-18. The game with Clarkdale was a see-saw affair, the final score being 6-6. The Kingman battle was perhaps the best of the eight. Prescott led 2-0 until the last thirty seconds when the King- man team executed a beautiful fifty-yard field goal, winning 3-2. In the final game of the season the entire Badger squad traveled to Tempe where the Buffaloes slammed out a 51-0 win. Letters this year were presented to Akin, captain, Corbitt, Cheek, Lawrence, Walters, R. Pearsall, D. Pearsall, Frerichs, J. Metzger, Groves, Boom, Stringfield, Morales, Alexander, Robertson, Nicks, and Hall. Individual honors were taken by Corbitt, center; Nicks, fullback; and R. Pearsall, who made the All-Northern conference team. Corbitt and Nicks made the first string, and Pearsall, the second. FIRST ROW: Allan, B. Metzger, D. Pearsall, Stevens, W. Frerichs, Crawford, Nutter, Murphy, Groves, Portis. SECOND ROW: Morales, Overstreet, Nicks, J. Metzger, Alexander, Akin. Corbitt, R. Pearsall, Walters, Hall, McLain. THIRD ROW: Clark. J. Frerichs, Cheek, Stringfield, Turley, Coach Pratt, Lawrence, Boom, Jenney, Warren.

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Sport Highlights One of the most entertaining extra-curricular activities, for spectator and participant alike, is sports. Every school year the resounding smack of bodies, the sound of pounding feet, the quick chill of air against the face, (he pleasant solid sound of gut meeting ball, the soft spit of feet in cinders, the roar of the crowd, attract many enthusiastic followers from the student body. Sports stimulate and incite the energies and mind of the students; they make for better physical development and co- ordination; they give the student something to look forward to after long and tedious hours in the classroom. Here in P. H. S. we have a well-rounded athletic program. The physical education classes go into practically every sport during the school year. MR. PRATT MISS CARY MR. LON« MR. LAWRENCE

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Lettermen Martin Alexander, hard climax runner for two years, will be back for one more sea- son of line smashing. Billy Cheek, big, tough tackle, will be back for two more years of duty. Donald Corbitt, the team’s diagnostician, served his first year on the squad. Rex Groves, hard-hitting man at end, played his first year. Bill Lawrence is an up-and-coming pros- pect with two years ahead of him. Jimmy Metzger was the team’s offense blocker and has another year to serve. Bill Nicks, hard-hitting fullback, leaves this year after three campaigns in the num- ber four spot. Henry Morales, glue-fingered end, will be back another year for more excellent pass receiving. Donald Pearsall, backfield performer, al- so has two years left to play. Ronald Pearsall, an all-round lineman with two years of campaigning behind him, has two years still to play. Ralph Stringfield graduates this June after filling the tackle spot for a year. Donald Walters, a good all-round line- man, will be back for one more season. Herbert Boom scrapped and tore through his first year. John Frerichs, “fightingest” player for size, filled guard position for one season and will graduate this spring. Bill Hall, big and rugged tackle, played his first year on the squad and has one season left. Charles Akin played his last year after serving three seasons as leader and a spark of the team. Lloyd Robertson, steady on both offense and defense, played his last year. BELOW: Fast action in the Badger- Wolves game at Clarkdale last fall.