Principia School - Blade Yearbook (St Louis, MO)

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Hfllllllllll Last Fall, on the afternoon of September 16, fifteen green, unconditioned young Principians of B Classification, gathered on the practice field tc start the 1940 football season. Ivlr. DeWindt, assigned to coach this bunch of Beezers , had played outstanding football at Elsah but had never coached a team before. His very efficient aid was Mr. Craig, After hard weeks of drilling on everyones part the 'lBeezers were ready for their first game, Burroughs. Next the B team met Country Day, defeating them both 15-14, 20-B. Defeat first came at the hands of Western, as they outplayed Principia 6 U The second half of the season opened with the Beezers beating Codasco for the second time E5 U and then Burroughs lo 6 Hopes for the Championship passed the Beezers by in the last game of the season on Westerns home field when they beat the Principians 12 U Thus the season ended with a record of four out of six games won lt was a grand season and you may be sure it was a quite different bunch of foot ball players that turned h r uniforms in at the end of the season than who first reported a month and a half earlier Q Ci Henk VN 6461 QP1 'REQ iL,M4lj41Zu A'Jw'mM 4-A4444 .u,QM -Lu. ack Ro lol to ngh! 'vt occ P I Doxs M DeW of: hf F ont Ho le!! to right Co V E W 11 51 '9c UM

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Standing left to nght Mr Andrews CCoachJ EY1CkSOHfMGHGQETl Martm Bertelsmeyer G Sabre Pastel Gllman Marshall Teetor Alt Rader Bacon Blanks Zlebarth Bucquet Ferguson Paden McCandless S MClHl1f9 Vorhauer Mr Conklm lCoachJ Kneeling left to right Freund Beckett Hartman Van Velzer Srlva Blevtns Abbott I-lermer IManagerJ The 1940 football season opened Wrth elght lettermen returntng grvtng the A team htgh hopes and lots of sprnt Thrs was emphaslzed by the frrst contest of the year w1th Unlverstty Crty I V s The Gold and Blue easrly tr1umphed l9 U but th1s Was the only vrctory of the season Worklng to perfect slall Coaches Conkhn and Andrews next matched the1r eleven agarnst Clayton and Country Day losrng 19 6 ES U Agamst Burroughs and Rrtenour Prrn expenenced the toughest competr t1on of the year The turn rn the team s moral came Wlth the Western game More than anythmg else the Prrr' boys Wanted to beat Western Through forty erght mlnutes of w1nd and ram both teams playea excelent football The frnal score was 6 6 Pun scorrng rn the thrrd quarter and Western rn the last mrnute of play The A team thls year Was the ftrst football team rn two years to make the tr1p to Kansas Ctty to play Pembroke Country Day Prrnclpra was re CS1V9d very cordlally by thelr opponents who later ended our l94U football season by wrnnmg a well played game 7 U C T 50 g H Hlllllllll

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,mf Cf The 1940 C team of PIIDCIIDICI flmsied at the bottom at the1r d1v1s1or1 m the A B C League but m team sp lt they were on top It was a scrappy httle team even so the competrttoft was too great tor them No matter how great the scar the comeback m the second half was an hab1tua affaw sf! QS Back Row left to right M French tCoachJ D Bond P11'e Cartn He Ilem Harrtson Brust Truesdcle Falrgxeve H Clcrl Front Row left io ugh! MCC-ee Qltt T Ho e McNabb Fates He er Beeson Demson E Mayer CManagerJ As the boys played agauast larger team the C team record was rather alsappomtmg from the standpomt of games won and lost Nelther SIZE nor dlsappomtment stopped the team from makmg great progress R 52 , , , CW 1 IV' P K N 5.N.e A-, A-KR' 'K -D. D., . F.