Redford High School - Redford Yearbook (Detroit, MI)

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Ill E On Pearl Harbor Day the Board of Education officially passed a ruling dividing the city league intomfour leaguesof-,five teams eacliito facilitate transportation between schools, and began a new physical fitness program designed to condition high-school students to take their place in the nationis war effort. Many seniors with vacant periods at some time during the day were assigned gym or swimming classes immediately and next semester every boy in the school will have one hour a day of physical training. 2 FOOTBALL Members of Coach Hermanson's third hour Row 7: Bob Starr, Allen Jackson, Bill Seibert, Stuart Ramkin, Bob Stough, Bob Walls, Bob Collins, Don Bunn, .lim Ridley. Row 6: Paul Rankin, Bill Vallett, Tom Clark, Jack Layers, Tom Nickelson, Albert Doherty, Bob Whinham, Paul Wilson, Edward Linck, Vern Schrader. Row 5: Mr. Franson, Melvin Sims, Bill O'Reilly, James Aliber, Jack Cole, Tom Stevens, Richard Brown, Paul Kiesel, John Wilcox, Tom Cramer, Mr. Weaver. Row 4: Edward Williams, Robert Kuhn, Mike loss, Vaughn Lowther, Lee DeClercq, Elias Manolakas, Frank Piette, Bob Loomis, William Wonnocott, Dick Dalley, Bob Seger. Row 3: Don Brock, Dale Williams, Bill Matz, Bob Johnson, Jim Lynn, Bill Clapp, Walter Green, Brownie Hebert, Alex Tait. Row 2: Keith Myers, Lyold Thompson, Roy Lord, Richard Hare, Joe Collins, Harper Cunningham, John Haas, Bill Freshney, Bud Cruschow, Tom Templin. Row 1: Don Rogers, Marvin Sims, Paul Marihugh, Tom Blackford, Robert Wlyman, Marcel Charette fffaptainl, Fred Dawson, Fred Iuergens, .lim Gullin, Don Liddicoat, Richard Youngdale. health class pictured at left above are going through their daily dozen in the gym as part of the new health program which is intended to get every student in the best physical con- dition possible. These boys and many others are being taught various commando tactics, such as climbing an 18-foot rope and running over an obstacle course, in addition to boxing, wrestling, and group games. In the swimming classes, boys are practic- ing distance swimming for endurance, such stunts as disrobing in water, and the tech- nique of escaping burning oil on the water.

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Completing the last varsity season for the duration of the war, Coach Hojnacki,s gridders played two victories, one tie, and four losses. In their pre-season opener the Huskies beat a heavier Northeastern team, 12-7, but from then on the boys lost the speed and deception which they showed against the Falcons, bowing on successive week-ends to Mackenzie 19-6, Northwestern 19-0, and U. of D. High, 13-0. Then, after a 39-20 win over the Wilbur Wright Pilots, they seemed to be on the comeback trail. This was verified on the following Friday when Redford and Cooley met at U. of D. Stadium. The Huskies played their best game of the year, coming back strong in the second half after the Cards had taken a 13-0 lead at half time. Jim Aliber's pass to Jack Cole on the third play of the third period Gene Simescu, Cooley left-half, tripped up at the line in the Red- ford-Cooley game. brought the Huskies down to the Cooley 6-yard line, and Jim Aliber carried it over from there in four plays. No less than three more scoring opportunities came the Huskies' way in the last twenty minutes of play, but they could not capitalize on them and the game ended with the Cards still out in front 13-7. After this thriller the seasonis finale with the Central Trailblazers came as an anticlimax and the boys had to be satisfied with a 6-6 tie. A brighter note was heard after the pigskins were laid away and the press began to publish their All- City teams. The News and Free Press both named Jim Aliber at the fullback spot, while the Times placed Captain Marcel Charette in the first-string guard position. 26 EAMES

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GOLF AND CROSS COUNTRY Row 3: Don Cullen, Virgil Manis, Homer Dudley, Bob W'erner, Joe Metz. Row 2: Wil- liam Danos, George Olsen, Fred Stnlickcr, Leo Poirier, Charles Sutherland. Row 1: Don Cameron, Ezra McElmurry, Mr. Her- manson, Frank Green, Douglas Wilson, GULF IIHAMPIIII SHIP For the twentieth time in the history of the school, Coach Hermanson's golfers won the annual Golf Tournament, on September 30 at the North Hills Golf Course. The Huskies' team score of 332 far outdistanced that of their nearest competitors, the Mackenzie Stags, who had a card of 370. Frank Green, Ezra McElmurry, Doug Wilson, and Jacques Cane, made up this fall's team, and Green's SWIMMING BRUCE POLKINGHORNE, Captain Row 3: Mr. Stuckey, Richard Brown, Kenneth Taylor, Harold Krause, Tom Haworth. How 2: Robert Vreeland, Clavio Chris- topher, Sam Smith, Bob McGrath, Emil Tetreault. Row 1: Fred Blackwood, Bob Mayo, Bruce Polkinghorne, Douglas Wilson, Nel- son Theraese. GIRLS' SPORTS SHIRLEY sPoRK, golf captain, MARGARET CUSICK, hockey captaing PHYLLIS LA VOIE, goalie. Row 3: Dorothy Reidel, Bonnie Wright, Alva Henning, Kath- erine McKinnon, Bunny La Voie, Margaret Cusick, ,lean Williams, Margaret Blanchard, Miss Beaumont. Row 2: Nancy Nvilliams, Nancy Rogers, Nellie Wesson, Margaret Smedley, Shirley Spork, Betsy Beddow, Elaine Hosking, Shirley Truber. Row 1: Lois McGinnis, Dora Mae Kiefer, Luis Anderson, Janet Carpenter, Mary Lou Carroll, Betty Jane Wills, Pat McGrath. ff ff f A 28 ., '- 64 4. 4.-Lf score of 79 took the individual honors for the da . lGreen's victory made Redford the indi- vidual city champion in both boys' and girls' golf, because Shirley Spork came through again this year to take the girls' title at the Palmer Park course with a nine-hole score of 50. This was a fitting way to end for the dura- tion a sport in which Redford has always been at or near the top.