Saunemin High School - Owl Yearbook (Saunemin, IL)

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WALTER JOHN LAN NON Q, Johnny LOWELL - Wally JOHNSON Denny R101-1 Kar St Paul Onarga Odell C ullom Gndley Shendan Kempton Plper C1ty Chatsworth Onarga GARDNER TOURNA MENT Plamfleld Coach Reddtck C ullom BILL VITLTHUM wi11ya US BASKETBALL THEY SCORES THEY V V TOURNAMENT Herscher Kempton Paper C1ty Forrest Chatsworth Dwxght Kempton Ptper C1ty Odell Flanagan Herscher Cullom Forrest SAATHOFF Nsanyll

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Grzdzron News ,4 nd Shats The fact that we lost four heavy players because of graduatron made some people predrct that the Saunemrn Eagles were gomg to have to admtt defeat from the start Not sol When able predlctrons were tn favor of Forrest thrs fall we won by one touchdown contrary to the Panta graph forecast that our opponent would w1n by tlurty pornts When the team frrushed the game at Onarga we had won w1th a score of 25 to 12 The frrst t1me srnce we semors had been 1n hlgh school had we accomphshed thrs w1th Onarga Some of our former graduates assure us that uch a vrctory goes back qmte far tn the hrstory of S T H S At the end of the season we Eagles captamed by our al'-le auer A1 R1ch flew through to second place rn the V V Conference Eagles lrke hr places so do we' Our scores for the year were as follows THEY September Herscher September Cullom September Forrest October Gardner October Plper Crty October Onarga October Chatsworth October Cullom Rough and readyl Wrth Pleasure -,, Just restrngl QED F Q 'r ' ct if l At Cullom Come on Eellasl ' 3 Coach

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'Wcufs 9mm ,4 mum! Clic' kim The Saunemrn Eagles although very small had an encouragmg outlook for the 52 53 season Startmg very strong and 1mpress1ve the mrghty Eagles won 10 out of therr frrst 11 games The holrday season seemed to prove our slump penod because we lost 4 out of 6 games rn two tourneys the Hollday and V V In the rest of the regular playmg season we had our up s and down s wlnnmg the maJor1ty of games The season s record pnor to el1m1nat1on toumeys was 17 9 One of the most excrtrng games we played was the battle at Herscher Our start 1n that game was very slow but we began to take advantage of breaks and went on to wm 66 50 lndrvtdual standouts were Captam Walt Brllrngton reboundmg Jr Saathoff and B111 V1tzthum on the boards John Lannon s floor game Lowell Johnson s umely baskets and the ever consrstent shooung of A1 Rlch who Coach Bassett clarmed to be the best basketball player 1n the area Our total pomts of the season were 1 482 w1th an average of 57 po1nts per game Our oppo nents total was 1 264 wrth an average of 48 5 pornts per game SHOTS FROM GA RIDNER TOURNAMENT TEAM .ao 3 0, ' U V4 Kneelrng Popp R Sancken R. Johnson R Brrggs R. Wenger D Coach Bassett Standrng Telford J Ross J Fraher I Fraher E Wunsch D Ransdall B Absent Immke F