Saunemin High School - Owl Yearbook (Saunemin, IL)

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Crack I D Standmg Ransdell B Manager B1ll1ngton W Brlggs R Popp R Coach Bassett Sancken R Fraher J Prrtchard J Manager Absent Immke F Freeland H Johnson Last year our track team had another succesful year the V V Meet was a real battle all the way w1th Saunemrn comrng up rn th1rd place Our captaln Walter Brllmgton came through wrth frrst place ln the Broad Jump and the Half mxle Jr Saathoff placed second rn the half m11e Roger Schnoor thrrd place w1th the Drscus and Brllmgton agam wxth thud place rn the 440 A1 Rrch crossed the l1ne rn fourth place rn the 220 The above paragraph names Just a few ofthe mam events We are gomg to mrss the semors but we have a lot of power left and we re hoprng for a better year rn 53 under th1s year s Cap tam Jumor Saathoff K5 P xt ,ap J ia 5 g A V E lk xy 1' r ' X A ,JIU ' S Kneeling: Rich, A., Saathoff, Jr., Captain, Vitzthum, B., Johnson, R.,Lannon. I.. Briggs, L. I 'K f X 'U' G!

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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

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5111.9 Athletic 61116 First row Asper P Schul.4 D Metroz P Treasurer Telford S Vice President Sancken A M President Rich B Secretary Miss Chesebro Second row Sancken I Hoskins N Vitathum V Bane J Baehler C Patterson Ilene Sutton M Billington C Third row Ros! Scott B Eggenberger E Friant L Metrozj Patten L Patterson Irene Ross S FOUrIh IOW Wince M L Lithgow D McCloud C Lannon P Wrey D Farrell L Thorndyke W Kindelberger B Absent Detrick N Dehm S f ll P' A wr First row:Metroz P Baehler C Vitzthum V Hoskins N Second row: Wunsch D Rich A Eggenberger E Ransdell B Wenger D Third row:Sancken R Briggs R Coach Bas- sett Briggs D Popp R Fourth row:Billington W Pritchard I Vitzthum B Johnson R Saathoff J Lannon I Absent: Immke F Johnson L