Shaler High School - Shaleresque Yearbook (Pittsburgh, PA)

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THEY WGRKED HARD TOO . Burzio, Coach Martin, Broge Sisca caught the pass for the point. The Oakmonters came up to expectations by winning a close victory over Shaler, 6-0. Coach Benny Martin remarked that our boys played their best all-around game of the season against this team. Protecting their undefeated record, the Millvale Indians trounced the Huskies, 18-0, despite stubborn resistance. The invaders owed their scores to fast breaks into the clear, and hard bucking into the line. Our boys rode to their second win, with West View, 7-0, with Guth, a junior catching a screen pass. Bill Schwartz much to the amazement of himself and the spectators, kicked the extra point. The final game saw Perry High swim to a muddy 7-0 victory, 'as seniors Bujak, Huber, Schwartz, Bob VVagner closed their football careers. Chapin, also a senior, was on the injured list most of the season. Coach Martin predicts a very successful season for 1942, as Ruff, Sisca, Ott, Guth, Skundrich, Matt Dischner, Damico, Ahlborn, and Karcher have had experience this season. Gerry VVagner and Ed Freeauf also toted the ball this year. Coach Martin left us for the good old U. S. A. in the middle of the year. He's connected with the physical fitness program, being stationed at first at Maxwell Field, Alabama. XVe hope he makes all the boys get his idea of, Let's go, boys. VARSITY S CLUB Lettermen, under Mr. Martin, have organ- ized a Varsity Club, the aim of which is to raise funds to provide insurance for players. For a good start, they sold football emblems, and held a much-postponed dance, Friday, March 13. The date, however, didn't stop the crowd. Alumni lettermen, with Shaler girls or alumnae, also attendedl The boys worked hard and deserve a good bit of credit. Their aim is a worthy one. Officers Dave Huber, Bill Ahlborn, Cy Gunst, and all the members of this honorary group have started the ball rolling in the right direction.

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,,,,,., 'V , ,I+ ,,,,T,,,-1, , Front Row, Left ia Rzfghl-mStrutz, Dankmyer, Ruff, Guth, Huber, Skundrich, Berneberg, G. Wagner, Ferrar. ' f Second Row4R. Wagner, Schwartz, Damico, M. Dischner, Ahlborn, Freeauf, Bujak. Third Row-Coach Martin, H. Schwartz, Winkler, Bett, Byerl, Mikulski, S. Wagner, E. Bernesser, L. Bernesser, Rasp, Coach Burzio, Coach Broge. Fourth Row-Ott, Herchenroether, Klingenburg, Dietz, Vranesa, Kuzma, E. Dischner, Kmeciak, Stobbe. TO THE SHALER HUSKIES A stadium with lights at last has become a reality. Last spring, the field was landscaped, fenced, and equipped with bleachers, and early in September the installation of lights was completed. Now we boast one of the finest playing fields in the state. Thisxyear, however, Coach C. VV. Martin, with his assistants Bernard Burzio and Arthur Broge, began the season with some young and inexperienced Huskies. Most of them hadn't seen action on a team. In the first game of the season, a powerful East Deer aggregation gave the Huskies a 13-0 whipping. The in- vading Venisons owed their victory to two successful aerial thrusts. Again, the Shaler Boys fell before a fast reversing Aspinwall team by a score of 26-7, the first game under the lights. The Huskies, 'Bernard Bujak and Robert VVagner, right and left ends, successfully blocked and reversed an Aspinwall punt to make the lone score. Dick Chapin, fullback, kicked the extra point. -The Shaler eleven improved but fell before Etna's powerful gridders, 18-7, in the second game under the lights. Anthony Sisca caught a screen pass for the touchdown, and likewise caught another for the extra point. lVagner, the mayor, in the confusion of his speed, caught a punt by Skundrich, not to mention the fact that the Huskies were penalized fifteen yards. The first victory came when Benny Martin's rampaging team downed Brentwood, 14-6. Again, Sisca caught a screen pass for the extra point. Ruff, breaking into the clear, ran sixty-five yards for the second score, and I

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THE BAND ENTERTAINED YOU. f -f' va- I i'1bm'e-f-View of the band, with drum major, twirlers. and Mr. Smink Twenty-eight played at the band's First public appearance, and fifty-four ended the season -lVlr. Smink can recruit them, canlt he? ln line with the new set-up for music in the schools, Mr. G. T. Smink has charge of instrumental music, while Mr. G. Raymond Bell is teaching all the vocal groups in the township. Besides strutting and putting on a special demonstration at each home football game, and several abroad, the band took part in the Armistice Day parade downtown at the request of the American Legion, Cirowell Post, and in a Hallowe'en parade under the Citizens' League of Glenshaw. Both of these were paid performances. lfive new instruments are in the band this year, with their players, of course. The sousa- phone, a baritone horn, two melaphones, and a big drum add to the noise. Mr. Smink recalled in his own special style, that John had to buy a new pair of pants, too. The Better Booster flub has an idea to canvas the community to buy new uniforms. J ,,.s ff TWO HUSKIE MASCOTS Decorated with special blue and white blankets bearing the S, two beautiful Huskies, escorted the drum major, james Gardner. Robert litzel and Gerald Kraus take care of the huskies. lt was at the suggestion of the boys themselves that these two mascots appeared with the band this year. And everyone was pleased, too. Etzel, Gardner, Kraus l J i 9 V -A