Rockford High School - RHS Yearbook (Rockford, IL)

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Heavyweight Reserves jones. Huttiiner, Atwood Stnnlirerpl. Nordstrom, Keller, liager Heavyweight Letter Men Gully llowland. center and captain, was an inspiration to lns team. Max llauenhaugh, guard, the righting Dutch- man, handled bigger men than he was with seeming ease. lle is to he next year's captain. Sammy llehr, quarterhack, is the name on every tongue, hecause he was an all-state and all-conference player. john Parker was end and halihack. John, who played end, showed his ability as a player hy taking a halfhack position when a vacancy occurred in the hackfield. lzzy Ruhin, although a small man, showed his stutl' at the center position when Q ul- ly was taken out. llarry Palmer produced many a chill in an opponent's hackhone. He was all-con- ference tackle. .Xrnnn Uchsner held a guard position when Max was out ot the game. lJick Summers played his half under the lllosl painful circumstances ofany one on the team and played it well. Tony Cassioppi played halfhack and showed that haskcthall wasn't the only sport he excelled in. 17 'l'oodles Llallihan derived his name from a certain likeness in a movie. llowever, he took care of his tackle position better than the movie player. Ben l'foutz could take care of either end with equal ease when needed for that position. Red Marston was the shining lieht of the line. Ile played guard and could al- ways he identified hy his flaming hair. Rags lfrickson, another of our ends, will he picking passes out of the air next year for us as he did this year. john Atwood, a mainhcog of the heavy- weight team, played tullhack. likstrom could till any position in the line. He was always ready to step into any vacancy. Lenny Pink played tackle and was a ter- ror to his opponents. Boh Shaw, who came over from the light- weights, showed his worth by making all conference end. Ray Tranihlie will he with us two more years to show us what he can do. '7 l l l E Q i 1 l 5 4 ll l ti I . i 3. x 4 t l i t 4 1 l l i l ..

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Lightweight Reserves liirst ruwfKin4lstranil. Raskoyitclt, Rnnte. .Xlex Jtvlinsun. Lnndahl, lluttimer Second row-Sltuenlnmltz, Uittu, Reams, -lullnsoli. Hargren, Dennis, Meade, Bertrand. 'llhirtl row-fatnpisi. Lydtlon. l'etersun. Saunders, Minert, liriherg. Ilahruski, ,Xnilrews Bnttoln row-Ruhinsnn, llrihal, Kwve, Manstield, Zuck. Lightweight Letter Men 'l'hirty-tive Ruckfurd lligh Schtmul athletes were rewarded with the R fur their services un the fuuthall teams this year. liighteen members of the heavyweight squad and fifteen of the liglitweight were winners ut' the ctweted letter. lfullnwing are the hoys who received the letters which were pre- sented in Assembly, llecemher 22. Ray Zuck, tackle, was a tiglitingzg captain whu kept lns team's confidence till the hnal whistle. Stuh X'Yehh, our all conference center. lett his mark un all opposing centers. Stub is 1027 captain-elect Herman Schultz received a guard pu- sition on the all cnnterence team. He's especially fund ut clam chowder. XYally :Xng was rated as the hardest hlueker on the team. He plays guard and will he doing his stnhc on the heavies next year. Sam Ruttilu played tackle. Sam, whu was une ut' the hardest tacklers tm the team, has another seasun left. NYard llartman nut unly held down the end pusitiun hut also led the punting fur the team as well. Morgan Savage is the tall fellow we saw 16 plncking passes nut uf the air on right end this year. Savage graduates tlns year. Art Urushy, um' heavy quarterback, will he general til the lights ter ns again next year. Clit? liiell played halthack on the team. Clitt was injured in the middle ot the sea- snn so he had tu sit the last three games out. Huh Taylor was the fastest man uf the team. He was picked as an all cnnterence halt hack. Bill Carter was the bulldog of the team. lle ran interference for Taylor and Kjell and traded off carrying the ball at fullback. tieurge xltlfilllll, the Fighting Irishman, tilled XVally .'Xng's pusititmn very well when XYally was un the sick list. Las Olson hlled the half pusitiun tit either halt. l.ns himself was injured sw hadly he had tu leave the squad for the last game. ,live Rtmiamm was anuther une tif unr star halves. -Iue will pruve his wurth to the track team this spring. llarry Snclergren played either half or quarterback when the positions were open, clue to injuries.

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