South Eugene High School - Eugenean Yearbook (Eugene, OR)

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in the fourth quarter, Hazlitt reeled off a 49-yard run to smash North Bend's hopes for any further scoring. The last game of the season was with our cross-river rival Springfield, more commonly referred to as SPRINGTOWN. The Axemen surprised the Millers by scoring in the first five minutes of the first quar- ter. It was Carter who led the way by going 38 yards of the needed 40 yards for the score. It was he who shot over from the live to break the scoring ice. Jim Muhr slipped around right end to add the extra point. Indignant Miller, Roger Batson, gathered in the ensuing kick-OH and went 80 yards to even up the score at seven-all after the Millers, extra point try was successful. The Millers then pulled ahead on a 53-yard pass play ending in the Axemen's end zone. Not to be denied revenge, the Axemen drove 51 yards to move out in front. Jim Stocks returned an intercepted pass 44 yards to set up the score. Carter again did most of the work to move the ball to the Springfield 26. Then on third down, Muhr looped a pass to Dave Wetzell who leaped high in the end zone to take the ball away from two Springfield de- fenders. Carter waltzed up the middle for the extra point. Acting against our wishes, Springfield scored another touchdown to swing the final decision to them. This yearis football season should be called a suc- cess. Not in the form of a win-loss record, but in the sense of developing a sound unit for a promising '59-60 season. Many juniors and sophomores were given the opportunity to see varsity competition this year which will prove to be a valuable asset to our future success on the gridiron. Most important of all, our team showed to everyone that they could come fighting from defeat, being good losers as well as winners. We shall always be proud of our teams, win-lose-draw. Axemen plaster a Pirate Co-Captain John Buffington IOHN BUFFINGTON - John, one of the co-captains of the team, has played some rough positions as a tackle and guard. In the last two years, John has had many thrills and through his great efforts of participa- tion won the Player of the Evening Award at the Let- terman's banquet this year. IACK CALVIN - Jack has filled quite a variety of positions during his two years of varsity play. This year, Jack was one of the co-captains of the team and had a back-breaking year playing halfback and fullback. His greatest moment in his high school career was the game we downed Marshfield in 1957. 106

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in a non-league contest. It was the running of jack Calvin and Nick Carter that provided the Axemen with the material to make the touchdowns. Carter picked up two of the tallies with Calvin throwing the extra one in for good measure. The Axemen were nice enough to wait until the second quarter before start- ing our onslaught into Eagle paydirt. Taking over after the Eagles had driven to the Eugene 3l, the Axemen went 69 yards in 16 tries. Carter then plunged over from the one to chalk up our first touch- down. He then added the frosting to the cake by running the extra point. Later in the same period, Eugene again decided to score, going 80 yards this time in 11 plays, Calvin set up the second tally by running 40 yards to the Eagles three-yard line. Calvin did the honors this time with a three-yard dash. Adding insult to injury, he ran over for the extra point. Carter said that it was his turn next, so in the third quarter, he capped a 67-yard drive by sneaking over from the one. He was nice enough to let Bruce Daggett snag a Muhr pass for the conversion. The Eagles scored both of their touchdowns in the last half. Like I say, uWin a few, lose a few? Well, we lost this one. As you might have guessed, Marshheld did the dirty work. Everything was tried, but to no avail, as the Pirates ground out a convincing 34-0 victory. The valiant Axemen managed to close the fiood gates for a spell in the third quarter which was long VARSITY FOOTBALL SQUAD -4, N fi if r- c-if lpn- gan 1-. 1 -1--fi enough for us to mount our biggest drive of the even- ing. Jim Muhr intercepted a Pirate pass and returned it 37 yards to the Marshfield 40. Three plays later Muhr tossed from punt formation to end Dave Wet- zell for 20 yards, putting the ball on the visitors l5- yard line. However, this was as far as we got. Bitter after going down in defeat at the hands of Marshfield, the Axemen had blood in their eyes as they met the North Bend Bulldogs on the Bulldogs battlefield. Dumbfounding the oddsmakers completely, the Axemen upset favored North Bend to the tune of 14-6. An interesting note is that all of South Eugene's 252 yards were gained on the ground. Half- back Dave Hazlitt turned out to be the man of the hour as he scored both of our touchdowns and added one extra point. Nick Carter racked up the remaining conversion. After the Axemen had driven to the Bull- dog l8, we were stopped on downs. But the Bulldogs fumbled on the Hrst play resulting in an Axeman falling on the loose oval to put us in control again. It was then only a matter of time until we scored with Hazlitt sneaking over from the one-foot line. North Bend was finally allowed to score in the third period, but were denied their extra point by Kit Mil- ler, who did a fine job of blocking the kick. The Axe- men line held the Bulldogs from making a first down on a fourth and two situation, thus making possible a 50-yard touchdown drive. Again it was Hazlitt who scampered over from the two for the final tally. Late Stuart, Bob Nelson. ROW I: John Buflington, Ken Tut tle, Bruce Daggett, Fred Von Appen Bob Reed, Merle Bruce, Steve Wil hite, Kit Miller, John Read, Daw Wetzell. ROW 2: Bob Ferguson Phi Newman, Art Bish, lylelvin 'via thews, Marvin Mathews, Bo Blair Mark McCulloch, Dave Hazlitt J Muhr, Wally Larsen. ROW 3. How ard Egan, Dave Fluke, Nick Carter Barry Rubenstein, Bill Rhoda Gan Stocks, Dave Tobey, Jim White Bot 1

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Jim Muhr Wally Larsen Ken Tuttle VARSITY LETTERIVIEN IIM MUHR - In the last two years, Jim has played two very important positions as a halfback and quarter- back. He began this year's season as a halfback and then later switched to quarter. Jim had a good eye for passing but the one pass that seemed to be his most successful was one that he hurled to Wetzell for six needed points in the Springfield game, MERLE BRUCE - Big Merle finished his second year as a varsity center this year. A center does not get much recognition for any great runs or anything like that, but where would a team be if they didnit have anyone to hike the ball. WALLY LARSEN - Wally CDiggerj had an excep- tionally good season this year as a halfback, until the Albany game. Wally was doing great work with about 100 yards of rushing stacked up in the first quarter when someone tripped him up. This fall was ufatalu as it resulted in a dislocated arm, but Wally and many other people will not forget his efforts this year. DAVE HAZLITT - Dave has played the major part of the last two years in varsity football as a halfback and fullback. While playing in these slots, he has had many thrilling experiences. The one that will be remem- bered the longest is when he scored against North Bend. KEN TUTTLE - Ken, a hard fighting senior, filled the quarterback position at the beginning of the sea- son and later switched to halfback. This is the second year of varsity for Ken. He received the most excitement by just plain winning a game, especially the game against Albany. STEVE WILHITE - During Steveis two years of var- sity football, he has played guard and some tackle. One of his biggest moments in football this year was when he recovered a fumble which led to our roaring touch- down against Springfield. JOHN READ - Little John has played varsity foot- ball for two years. As a tackle, John has had many crushing experiences but the one that appears to be his most outstanding is when we scrambled over North Bend for a 14-6 victory. Through Johnis magnificent efforts this year, he was awarded the Simmons Cup. DAVE WETZELL - During Dave's two years of play- ing football at SEHS, he seemed to like the end posi- tion and stuck to it. In the Springfield and Albany games, Dave made two spectacular catches that were thrown him. He just seems to have the 'fhandsu for it. Merle Bruce Dave Hazlitt Steve Wilhite John Read 107 Dave Wetzell