Princeton High School - Tiger Yearbook (Princeton, IL)

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1 Dave Darling - Co Captam most valuable runner Doug Darling Award 2 Bob Storm — Co-Captain Doug Darling Award Tom Arch. John Timberlahe. Pat Hodge Alvin Taylor. Tom Diller. Keith Scherer | This year's edition of the Tiger Cross Country team proved to be the most successful team in PHS history. In dual meets this year they finished a perfect 10-0 including maior wins over Ottawa Dixon, and LaSalle-Peru In invitationals they did very well also, with firsts in the tough Ottawa In- vitational the Princeton Invitational, and the Kewanee Invitational, and a second in the Geneseo Invitational The highlight of the season came af- ter disappointing placmgs in the NCIC and district meets of 3rd and 4th. respectively, with an incredible defeat of state rated DeKalb for third place in the Sectional meet For the first time in PHS history, they ran in the state meet Dedication and hard work marked the Tigers this season from the beginning of summer to the end of the season Dave Darling and Eric Scott each ran over 1000 miles. Al Taylor and Pat Hodge, over 700 miles. Bob Storm. Tom Arch, and John Timberlake over 600 miles and Tom Diller and Keith Scherer each over 500 miles These nine were the varsity, with Eric Scott seeing limited running during the season, due to an injury j The entire season Mr Coates drove the team hard but succeeded in gaming respect and confidence from the Tigers, unequal to any other coach Next year looks bright for the Tigers, because of Mr Coates's coaching and the entire team s return except for Storm Diller. and Scherer The frosh-soph team who finished with a 5-5 record, will help the team along with Eric Scott and Tim Swan 24

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Varsity Team, Row 11 to fc E Reynolds. E. Eckhoff. J. Durbin. D Lowdermilk. D. Darling. T. Oilier Row 2: R Sapp. P. Johnson. D. Easier. B. Taylor. K Scherer. Coach Holler Insert: (absent when picture was taken C Swanson.) PHS Basketball Team Kept Trying For the 1973-74 Tiger basketball team nothing would go right. In fact, one could call it just plain UNLUCKY. Injuries and illness and bad breaks contributed to the Tigers losing 7 games by a total of only 24 points. Possibly the 5 best games of the season were against Hall (Hall was favored with a 7-1 record and the Tigers beat them 59-47). Winnebago (The Tigers were down 19 points at half time but fought back to within one before losing in the final minute. Tom Diller had 31 points). Rock Falls, (The state-rated Rockets were behind almost the entire first half before their depth finally overwhelmed the PHS cagers.), Strea- tor (The last win for the Tigers, 74-69, produced a fine team effort. Dave Lasier netted 26 points.), and St. Bede (At one point the score was 32-9 in St. Bede’s favor, but the Tigers put on a tremendous onslaught of desire and hustle. The effort fell short again but not until an excit- ing game was completed.) Other members of the team included Rick Sapp, the high scorer whose high game was 26 against Morris. Brad Taylor and Dave Darling each scored 15 against Limestone and Putnam County respectively. Both provided outstanding defensive play. Dave Lowdermilk. a sophomore, was the team's 6th man with a 19 point performance against Geneseo. Cliff Swanson and Paul Johnson also aided in the back-up roles. Joe Durbin, Keith Scherer, Ed Eckhoff, and Ed Reynolds rounded out the squad. If one thing could be said about this team it would have to be that they never quit and gave up. It seemed they played just good enough to lose.