Prescott High School - Hassayamper Yearbook (Prescott, AZ)

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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.

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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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Starting with entirely green material this year Coach Pratt developed one of the best teams Prescott has seen in recent seasons. With no returning lettermen, the team, with one exception, was com- posed entirely of juniors and sophomores. These boys had never before played together and were quite inexperienced; yet, before the season was over, they were rated as one of the best teams in the Northern conference. The season's scores are as follows: Seligman 23, Prescott 30; Payson 14, Prescott 17; Mesa 29, Prescott 22; Jerome 28, Prescott 13; Wickenburg 33, Prescott 22; Glendale 32, Prescott 20; Clarkdale 21, Prescott 27; Holbrook 44, Prescott 27; Winslow 28, Prescott 15; Clarkdale 27, Prescott 21; Flagstaff 21, Prescott 23; and Tempe 23, Prescott 24. Climax of the season came when the hoopmen traveled north to Flagstaff for the an- nual Northern conference tournament. The opening game was with the Winslow Bull- dogs, who were beaten by a score of 28-27 in a close, thrill-packed contest. In the second and third rounds, Prescott made short work of the opposition, winning from Flagstaff, 31-21, and Snowflake, 28-13, quite handily. These victories made the 1940-41 team the first in P. H. S.'s history to reach the finals in the tournament. The team played Holbrook for the championship, and the game was evenly contested throughout with neither team beaten until the final gun. It was a heart-breaking 29-27 defeat for Prescott, but the victory belonged to Holbrook. Donald Corbitt and Henry Morales, guards, were chosen as Prescott representatives on the all-conference team. Corbitt was chosen for the first team and Morales for the second. HKXKY MORALES Captain Under the Basket FIRST ROW: Morales, Kapp, Metzger, Payne, Martin. SECOND ROW: Krerichs, Allison, I). Pearsall, Nutter, Boom, Corbitt, Camacho, Nicks, Metzger, Windsor, Robbins. THIRD ROW: Stevens, Bragg, Crawford. Allan, McLain, Turley, Chapman, Duran, Harmon, Encinas, Groves, Mignella. Not in Picture: Murphy and Love. p„tSC0TT rfttSCOT