Shelbyville High School - Okawwako Yearbook (Shelbyville, IL)

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CACERS TURN IN COOD RECORD FIRST ROW: Lawrence Bly, lohn McBride, Wayne I-lowse, Don Carmichael. SECOND ROW: Elmer Coffman, Dave lanes, Don Reid, Bill Richardson, lain Crane, Don Morehead. THIRD ROW: Bill Leach, Bob Westenhaver, Mr. Cm-isz. Nov. N ov. Dec. Dec. Dec. Dec. lan. lan. lan. lan. lan. Ian. lan. lan. Feb. Feb. Feb. Feb. Feb. Feb. Feb. ' Home Page 24 if w if BASKETBALL SCHEDULE 1943-44 Pana 'St. Elmo Taylorville Windsor Nokomis Pana Kansas Windsor Bethany Kansas Moweaqua Assumption Bethany St. Elmo Findlay Vandalia Altamont Findlay Moweaqua Altamont Charleston Games if 1- 1 Q 1- Shelby Shelby Shelby Shelby Shelby Shelby Shelby Shelby Shelby Shelby Shelby Shelby Shelby Shelby Shelby Shelby Shelby Shelby Shelby Shelby Shelby PANA HOLIDAY TOURNAMENT Dec. 27 Kincaid 66 Shelby 31 SHELBY COUNTY TOURNAMENT Ian. 26 Cowden 36 Shelby 45 Ian. 28 Windsor 29 Shelby 27 REGIONAL TOURNAMENT Mar. l Kincaid 60 Shelby 36 LETTERS WINNERS Carl Waqaoner senior center Don Carmichael senior guard Lawrence Bly senior guard Bill Leach junior forward Bill Richardson junior forward lain Crane junior guard lohnny McBride junior forward Wayne Howse sophomore quard

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AGAINST TCDUCI-I GPPCDSITICDN UR schedule this year was somewhat smaller and tougher because schools of our size are dropping football. Out of a squad of about 25 boys Coach Geisz cre- ated the 1943 Shelby Rams and gave them a schedule of seven games. The first two games were home games. The first was with Nokomis. We kept up fairly well till the halfg then we faltered. Charleston brought a fine team and rolled us under. We traveled to Assumption and Coach. Wayne. and Pano ready for action. Hep! 1-2-3-4. hike! Snag her. Coach. thought we had our first victory. We led all the way through but lost out in the final minutes. Bethany overran us in our Home- coming game, but we still hoped for victory. We went to Pana on a beautiful afternoon, got beat, but showed the lads some real passing. That Leach-Iones combination really clicked. We yielded a game with Taylorville for two games with their B team. The second string had a tough time beating us here, but we traveled up there to show them a thing or two. Outstanding in this last game was Beezo's 95 yard run to pay dirt on the opening kickoff. Our team had a tough schedule this year, and our fellows deserve a little space. Beezo, who won letters all three years in football, has shown great improvement in passing, kicking, and running. This year Coochey, who will be back next year, was every- where except leading yells on the field. He started as center, switched to end, and even hit the backfield. Lichtenwalter, Warren, Hezinas, Reid, and Westenhaver were the junior mernbers who carried on in the line for the Rams. Crane, McBride, and Howse filled in first team backfield positions. All of these boys are letter winners and will be back next year. There were only four sen- iors on the squad this year: Iones, Wag- goner, Carmichael, and Barricklow. Dutch, first team end for two years, turned in a great record for himself snagging those passes. Butch showed up in the line at all times and even switched to end. Don showed great stuff his fourth year in carrying the ball and plunging the line. G, W. played the Nokomis game in the line and remained out the rest of the year with an injury. These seniors will be greatly missed by their team mates. The grand total for the year was six de- feats and one victory. We close with a wish for better luck to the 1944 Rams. Page 23

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IN FAST HARD SCHEDULE U OW, tellers, get right down to work with basketball. Don't sound like Geisz, do 1? Anyway, here we go. We started our schedule at Pana and enjoyed a victory. Next came our first home game, St. Elmo. We tromped them. Taylorville - Moanl And then of all teams to lose toe- Windsor. We traveled to Nokomis and Beezo sank 17 points as we knocked 'em over. Overran Pana again, but were stop- ped at the Pana Holiday Tournament by Kincaid. We surely could have used Mac the rest of the season. Kansas beat us, and Beezo scored 18 points as we beat Windsor. Revenge surely was sweet! Started out swell at Bethany but lost out in the last half. Gave Kansas a tough fight with Beezo collecting 18 points again, but they won 48-89. Knock- ed over Moweaqua by the same score by which Kansas beat us. Ahl More revenge, Bethany-36, Shelby-51. Beezo tallied all year high with 24 points. County Tournament time. We were still hot. Beezo got 20 as we beat Cowden, but Windsor's six man team cooled us off. 500 per cent so far. Won 8, lost 8. St. Elmo mauled us down there, but everyone scored as we won at Findlay. Then we lost two, Vandalia and Altamont, and won two, Findlay and Moweaqua again. Beezo sprained his ankle at Mowea- qua and remained out of the line-up till Regional time. Gave Altamont a tough fight but they beat us. Then Charleston overran us. The Pana Regional and Kincaid-the same team and the same story. Put up a fight the first half, but the final score turned up 60-36. Now for the inside story on the squad. Beezo and Coochey led us all the way through with 258 and 215 points respective- ly. Beezo ended with a 12 point game av- erage. Butch, our center, tallied 141 points. Our guards, Don, scoring 86 points, and Wayne, 80, covered their men like blankets. Not to be excluded are Mac and Bly. Mac only played ll of the 25 games but tallied 74 points. Bly sank 41 points in 17 games. Coochey was the only varsity man back this year, but he will be joined by Beezo, Mac, and Wayne next year, along with McBride, Westenhaver and Reid. Managers this year were Don Morehead, iuniory and Elmer Coff- man, senior. ln a nutshell, here's the story. We won 11 and lost 14. We scored 915 points to op- ponents 1080. A11 in all, we consider this a fair season. Good luck next year, Rams! Coochey. Carl. Lawrence. Loren, Don. Wayne, and Iohnny warming up in the gym. Pa 'le 25