Richmond High School - Shield Yearbook (Richmond, CA)

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Captain John Ivancich, S. Cortese, Cecchi, Casey, Tandy, Millovich, Coach Frank Ribbel Johansen, Kosich, Ball, Brombacher, Muller Hahn, Moore, Milicevich, McTaggart, Lewis, Bignall, Pontious, Blank O'Malley, Weeks, Ostrander, Vermette, Le Febvre, Abernethy, Swan, McLaughlin J. Wilson, E. Edwards, Blair, Brockway, Neckel, Whalen, Lowrie VARSITY FOOTBALL AT LEAST ONE FOOTBALL YEAR out of every three is a build-up for the next two years. In that season the team is comprised mostly of sophomores and juniors with a few seasoned men to form the backbone of the team. Usually, these few veterans are not enough to carry the rest of the inexperiencd squad through a successful season from the standpoint of games won. In the course of this cycle, the recently finished football season was that third year. Though there were several seniors on the first two teams, they, like the sophomores, were comparatively inexperienced. Senior members of the first team who played their first football last year were Bob Moore, end; Jack Casey, halfback; and Howard Brockway, tackle. Bob Vermette’s only previous football experience was with the Berkeley Goofs. The first game of the season, that with Mt. Diablo, was taken unexpectedly from Richmond’s victory column by Barlow’s 50-yard pass to Benny Newman. The score at the end of the game stood 19-18 in favor of the Red Devils. Crockett was tackled by the Richmond second team, which proved itself entirely capable of the task by coming home with a 6-0 victory. In the game with San Rafael, Richmond functioned perfectly to down a much heavier team, 21-0. Alameda, a comparatively weak team, gave Richmond a scare, but the Blue and Red barely nosed out a victory, 12-7. The Hornets led at the half. A third quarter drive following a successful exchange of punts gave Richmond a second touchdown. Piedmont, beyond question this region’s strongest team, was the varsity’s next opponent. Richmond played its best ball of the year to hold the Highlanders to a 12-0 win. Don Bignall came within ten yards of scoring when he ran back a Piedmont

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GIRLS’ SPORTS Girts’ ATHLETICS play an important role in the pageant of school life. Seven years ago, through the efforts of Miss Clara McLaurin, the Girls’ Athletic Association made its debut into the Richmond Union High School. More than 150 girls gather in the eirls’ gym every Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday afternoon for the purpose of creating good fellowship and playing games that they enjoy. Advisers of girls’ ath- letics do not recommend school competition, but the girls get some competition from interclass games. There are six teams that play against each other: Low Sophs, High Sophs, Low Juniors, High Juniors, Low Seniors, and High Seniors. G. A. A. SEASONS Any girl can be pleased in athletics. Hockey, which is the most popular sport, is played at the beginning of the fall semester. The mid-term game is volley-ball for those who like a less active sport. In the spring basketball fiends can shoot buckets, pivot, juggle, and play basketball to their hearts’ content. In the middle of the term ithe sport changes from basketball to baseball. For those who especially like swim- ming or tennis, lessons are given by the gym instructors. Miss McLaurin teaches tennis on Thursday mornings on the courts across from the City Hall. Miss Bagley conducts swimming classes on Tuesday evenings at the Natatorium. NUMERALS AND HOCKEY This term’s hockey teams no doubt have caused our gym instructors more anxiety than any teams before it. The Low Juniors, High Juniors, and Low Seniors played off the semi-finals with exactly the same amount of games won and lost, and, stranger still, with exactly the same total of goals. The first game of the finals eliminated the High Juniors from the tournament. The Low Seniors and Low Juniors played off three games, all of which ended in ties. It was because of this that hockey season had to be extended three weeks. After they had played two tie games, Miss McLaurin asked the girls if they would rather have the next night’s game end the tournament or if they would rather play three more games. Each team, afraid of the other’s strength, came back with a decision in favor of three more games. The first two games were ties. The Juniors won the last game by a score of 2-1. By winning this game the Low Juniors also won their numerals. If another tie game had been played, both teams would have received numerals. G. A. A. AWARDS Besides striving for friendship and fun, every G. A. A. member strives for her awards. The highest award is the gold pin. Not only does this pin mean that the girl has earned 600 points, but also that she knows the fundamentals of swimming and tennis. Alice Olson, commissioner of Girls’ Athletics, was the only one to receive her eold pin this semester. Five hundred points is the goal for the Winged R, the next highest award. Bearers of the Winged R are: Catherine Bastin, Matilda Dudziak, Alta Nelson and Amelia Rosales. The Circle R is the 400 point award. Circle R’s were given to Pearl Anderson, Loretta Andrade, Mary Baldwin, Frances Christ, Opal Gillman, Zola Hardisty, [la Drouin, June Hopper, Marie Markus, Winifred Renfree, Miriam Walsh, and Edelene Winters. The three lowest awards are: Star, 300 points: Second Chevron, 200 points; First Chevron, 100 points. These latter three awards are given out at the mid-term and end-term banquets. At the end of each game season a banquet is held.

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punt 75 yards. Marshall Ede, unanimous choice for All-Eastbay fullback, and Fran- cisco, diminutive but shifty halfback, each broke away for long runs © hich resulted in the two Purple scores. Richmond was entirely unable to get going in the Hayward contest which the Farmers took. 19-6. A sandy field stopped the Blue and Red offense, and the defense was decidedly off form. Vallejo, possessing one of the strongest teams that the school has ever known, proved too much for the Richmondites. The score was 21-7; The squad closed its season losing to Alhambra, winners over Vallejo, in a game featuring Richmond throughout. The contest was a hard one to lose, for the Oilers out-gained, out-punted and out-passed their opponents completely. However, the scoring punch was lacking as it was on several other occasions. Coach Ribbel’s boys hung up their cleats with three wins and five defeats. Bob Moore and Bill McLaughlin leave a splendid record behind them. Bill shone on end-around plays and pass-catching. while Bob was a tower of streneth on defense. “Red” Le Febvre. who alternated with these men at end, always played good ball. Big Jim Wilson with his fine place-kicking, and Howard Brockway, adept at opening holes on offense, caused the opposition plenty of trouble at the tackles. Frank Kosich, euard, though small, was a constant thorn in the flesh to the opposing team. Frank illuminated himself in the Alameda game. Bob Vermette, an unknown quality at the first of the season, proved himself well worthy of his position, being outstanding in every game on both offense and defense. Bob Abernethy at guard made up for his lack of height with ability. Wilbur Neckel. center, not only held down the toughest line position, but also was in the center of every play and at the bottom of every pile. Melo Milicevich, also a letter man, will be one of the principals of next year’s team at center. Fred Ball. half. who can be considered the most valuable man in the backfield because of his passing and kicking duties, pulled the team out of many a dangerous position with his fine punts. Jack Casey, Tom Martinez, and Adolph Anderegg all saw plenty of action as Fred’s running mate, and provided lots of excitement for their opponents. Don Bignall, at quarter, besides always calling a good signal game, brought the stands to their feet time after time on flashy punt returns or sweeping end runs. Elton Brombacher, who substituted for Bignall, used his speed to good advantage on many occasions. Coach Ribbel has high hopes for the coming season with the following prominent members of the varsity and junior varsity returning as linemen: Pontious, Kosich, Wilson. Blair. Milicevich, Lewis, Ostrander, McTaggart, Johansen, Swan, Muller, Millovich, Cortese and Tandy. He also has good material for the backfield in Ball, Whalen, Anderege, Brombacher, Hahn, Rocha, Edwards, and Weeks. JUNIOR VARSITY FOOTBALL “THIS HAS BEEN ONE of the most successful seasons a Junior varsity team has ever had, in that most of the team was composed of sophomores who will be back to play on the varsity for the next two years.” So Coach Ribbel characterized the Jayvee foot- ball season. The Jayvees won three games and lost two games to teams from Berkeley High. In the first game of the season the Jayvees encountered the strong Berkeley B’s, who have remained undefeated for eleven years. Two blocked kicks resulted in a 13-0 score for the winners. Richmond had two scoring opportunities, but was unable to punch the ball over.