Sheldon High School - Orab Yearbook (Sheldon, IA)

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Fursl' Row Edwun Brower Bob Heuluger LeRoy Van MeeTeren Bull De Krall John Teeslnk Rodger May field Bob PoTTer Second Row Muke Daule Bob Brady Jack Chase Jum Teeslunk KenneTh Wo bers Henry Kroese Davud Coles Thurd Row Lowell Roskam Jum PoHer Duck Tronnes Lynn Roskam George Hubbard John Kruger LesTer Cooper Tom BrughT VARSITY The Orabs opened The promusung 46 season SepT I3 wuTh a dusappounTung I8O deTeaT aT The hands oT a Speedy Rock Rapuds powerhouse Sheldon aIThough ouT weughed and Iackung un experuence showed a loT of spuruT spuruT ThaT was To blossom Tor'Th laTer and make Them The besT TooTbaIl squad seen here un a number oT years A surprusungly new beTTer Than ever Sheldon TooTball Team Traveled To Sanborn SepT 20 To brung back an un hoped Tor vucTory Coach Olsen shuTTed Blunk Van IvIeeTeren from has lune posuTuon To re enforce The lughT backTIeld and Blunk wasTed no Tume wuTh reconversuon He crossed To pay durT The second quarTer To sTarT The pounT parade rollung As uT rolled uT gaThered momenTum and when The TTnaI horn blew The score sTood 27 6 The SpuruT Lake Induans donned The'ur war paunT and headed Tor Sheldon The 27Th un hopes oT quellung The Orab Homecomung spuruT Sheldon on The oTher hand had TasTed sweeT vucTory and was deTermuned To TurTher Theur claum To Tame To sTrengThen Theur chances Bull De Krauu Truple ThreaT back Tueld man had recovered Trom hus leT unuury and was as good as new AIThough The score 7 6 was uncomTorTabIy close The Team deserved and won Theur fTrsT conference qame The Orabs Traveled To Cherokee OCT 4 To Tace The undeTeaTable Conference Champs The game was pla ed on loose TurT slowunq down boTh back TTelds and spou mg Sheldon s chances oT a successTul pass oT Tense In spuTe oT The score whuch read Cherokee I3 Sheldon O Sheldon Tans werenT Too downhearTed as Thus was The F OOTBALL The buggesT hearl' breaker of The season came OcT IB when The Orabs lourneyed easT To meeT Theur age old ruvals The Speencer Tugers Sheldon drew TursT blood when Tronnes sped around end on a decepTuv reverse To Travel unTouched To pay durT Spencer counTer aTTacked To score I3 pounTs and Thunks looked mughTy dark Tor Sheldon In The closung mmunuTes oT The game Coles sTellar end speared a Touchdown pass from DeKrauu To end The scorung Sheldon s eTTorT To converT was blocked and The Tugers won I3 To I2 AnoTher one pounT Thruller was wuTnesseed on The EsTher vulle gruduron a week laTer wuTh The opponenTs geTTung The shorT end oT The deal Thus Tume Sheldons local Touchdown Twuns Doc Blanchard DeKrauu and Glen Davus Van MeeTeren each reeled oTT a Touchdown and an exTra pounT The score anoTher Comte-rence vucTory Tor The locals was I4 I3 and uncudenTly our TrsT wun agaunsT EsThervulle un many a year The Orabs played Theur IasT non conference game wuTh a powerful Hawarden eleven Nov I The openung play oT The game senT Schwuesow TleeT Hawarden back 50 yards over open Tleld To score From Then on The vusuTors had Thungs much Theur own way and only a sTub born Sheldon defense kepT The score close A Hawarden Tumble un Theur own end zone neTTed us a saTeTy and The score I3 2 ArmusTuce day Tound The Orabs playung Theur ancuenT Toes The Subley Generals The TTeId was luTeraIly one kung suzed mud pud dle The whole game was an exchange of lowesT score The Induans were held To all season Orange CuTy played hosT To The Orabs OcT I4 receuvung a merculess drubbung Trom Theur Sheldon cousuns The Orabs vasTly superuor un The aur and on The ground sTarTed a scorung spree early un The TlrsT uarTer ThaT was somewhaT remunuscenT oT T e Sanborn game Olsen savung hus TirsT sTrung played every man on The bench The TTnal score read 25 O punTs beTween De Krauu and Boyd wuTh Bull geTTung The besT of The deal as usual Each Team saT back and wauTed Tor The breaks Subleys somehow dudnT show up whule Sheldon puT Theurs To good use The Tlnal score was someThung ThaT every Orab TooTball Team dreams of Sheldon 2l Subley 0 WalTer Olsen Coach TM I , - - a I , , s T 4 ' I, I I 1 rf 1 Q . . .. , - I I . .. ' . ' ' ' 5 ' u u I I if ,-5 n - ' u u n ' 1 u . u . u u u u u . . . , . . I - . u . I - . I . . . . . . I . Q u u -' . . , . . . . . T u I . u I I I . u - - uu - In - u - . . . - - . . . u - lu f nn Il . -' I' u u u ' . . ul u - u u ' u ' . I I . . I I . u ' ' 1 . . l . . . I I I I u . . . 0 ' 4 , Y! I I - .. . . . I I u I - - - r . u . I , . . . . , I I I I . . 64 I - u T . b . u ' . . . p CL - u ,' I

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36 -N ms Hr 'Wie Homecomung ueen and AHendan+s Mary Cuddy Collelrle Brady Donna Jean Bryson 5-MA Homecoming When :fs pnfch dark ou+ If adds fo fhe afmosphere of fhe snake dance and as we hurrled up fo fhe fronf of fhe school all we could see were faunf mysferuous fng ures movnng abouf Voices rang ouf and now and 'fhen a sfray nofe came forfh from one of fhe band msfrumenfs We arrrved lusl' ln fume and wnfh a hffle pushing and shovung we crowded Info fhe lsne lusf as nf lunged for ward The band led fhe snalce dance fo Nmfh Sfreef and down fo fhe four corners My fee? ached by fhns +rme and my arms were lump buf we found enough energy fo sung fhe Loyalfy Song and cheer for The 'ream before we sfarfed for fhe park Three cheers fo fhe freshmen for such a fTne bon fxre The blaze from fhe fire nearly reached fhe free fops and we sang and cheerd as fhe fTre dued None of fhe good old SHS school spnrnf dned wnfh If fhough for everyone enfered mfo fhe swing ar-d excrfe menf of Hobo Day A+ 2 30 everyone assembled for fhe grand parade whrch Included cosfumed sfudenfs class floafs and fhe band I+ was a bug success The G A A won fTrs+ prlze for an excepfuonally good floaf Jusl' before fhe game fhe frumpefs played fhe fan fare and The queen and her affendanfs were driven around fhe field and before fhe grandsfand rn a new blue converflble driven b Don Englrsh Each gvrl was presenledl wufh a corsage and Jim Wul son S Club presndenf crowned Colleffe Brady fhe I947 S H S Homecoming Queen The queen and her af 'rendanfs Donna Bryson and Mary Cuddy were fhen seafed rn +he fhrones before fhe curandsfand cl Q' 'sll ' ff l Q xy 2 l