South Lebanon High School - Ionian Yearbook (Iona, PA)

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football and come back in tip-top shape. How- ever, when the team reached camp, it started to raing and rained every day the team was in camp. The end came on Saturday, when the Swatara Creek rose to the floors of the cabins and the team was swamped! After rolling in the mud at camp for a whole week, to set foot on the firm turf of the new stadium made the team feel a good bit better, and the boys settled down to prac- tice in earnest. The Cedars opened the season on Septem- ber I4 with Thomas Patton Trade, a rather weak team, and the Thrushmen ran through them almost at will and finally beat them 31 to 7. Came September 21, the Cedars took on Dunmore, powerful team from the coal re- gions. This game was hard fought and a thriller all the way, with the Red and Blue taking their heavier opponents into camp I9 to 7. The Thrushmen then traveled to Harris- burg to take on a highly favored Iohn Harris crew. Iohn Harris had a good many letter- men back, and a big, heavy team as a whole. With their eyes on a Big Fifteen Cham- pionship, they took on Lebanon as the first stepping stone. However, the gallant Cedars almost proved themselves a stumbling block and were subdued only after a real battle and a moral victory. But as a matter of record, the Cedars were defeated 6 to o. The following Saturday the Lancaster Red Roses came to town. Lancaster did not have a widely heralded teamg but it was a good one, nevertheless. The Cedars suffered a let- down and were conquered 20 to 6. York Catholic High came to Lebanon on the next Saturday. This team proved to be a breather for the Cedars. Football was a new sport for the York Parochials, this-being their first year at the game. The Thrushmen ran over them, under them, and through themg and even when the scrubs were in action, they 340 ollganvn gdlfell could not be stopped. When the dust cleared, the Red and Blue had a 45 to o victory. The following Saturday, the Iuggemaut, that was the Williamsport f'Millionaires, came to town. These having been undefeated came to Lebanon with a chip on their shoul- ders and came near having it knocked off. The Cedars put up a gallant fight against supermen which was featured by some spec- tacular goal-line stands by the Red and Blue, but the overwhelming manpower Finally won out by the close score of I4 to 7. Harrisburg Catholic High saluted Lebanon with a better than average team and an un- usually heavy line, featuring some virtual giants, hardly any men being less than six feet tall or scaling less than two hundred pounds. These monsters blasted their way to a 6 to 0 victory against a fighting team of Cedars. For the next game, the Thrushmen jour- neyed to Reading on a cool, clear Saturday in early November. The Cedars started out like the Fighters they were and held a good Red Knight team to a lone touchdown in each of the first two periods, but they seemed to go to pieces in the last half and were given a 34 to o beating. Yorkis White Roses next presented them- selves to do battle with the Cedars. York, having had a good team, thought they would take the Cedars in stride. But the Thrushmen put up a good fight, which at times carried them to the very heights, and York was rather lucky to eke out a I4 to 7 win. The next Saturday the Cedars journeyed to Steelton to take on the powerful Steam Rollers. The boys seemed to try hard, but to no avail. When the last whistle blew to end the game, the Steam Rollers' had flattened the Cedars 50 to 0. On Thanksgiving day the Cedars rang down the curtain when they stepped up to Pottsville to play against the miners, who

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Elliott Fields Lloyd Lilly Stephen Karapcik Thomas Shuey Robert Hess ' . 'tu 4 i l P l B d l M Giles, Coach. Mr. Thrush, Coach, Mr. Feeser, Coach, Lloyd Top Row: George Emrich, au or e may, r. 1 Wood, Russell Wolfe. Fourth Row: Paul Albert. Bernard Neely. Robert Sando, Richard Fields. Richard Ebling, Walter Kleinfelter, John Sholley. Third Row: Ralph Light, Luther Hutchinson, Kenneth Thompson, Thomas Shuey, Benjamin Dohner, Gordon Lewis, Lloyd Lilly. Second Row: Stephen Karapcik. Elliott Fields, john Wagner, Richard Hershberger, Kenneth Carpenter, George Bowman, Frank Haak, Raymond Becker. First Row: Robert Hess, Allen Yocum, Arthur Zellers. Ammon Belleman, Captain, William Viall, Griffith Weik, Edwin Stuart, William Peiffer. jlze 43126071011 Allen ' The 1940 season for the Cedars of Leba- non Was not uniformly bright, for the team showed rather poorly in spots, although sev- eral times it Hashed real football. So, although the 1940 season will not go down in Cedar history as one of the best, it is not the worst. After the 1939 season ended, Coach Thrush held a football class the second period in the morning for the remainder of the school year, where the boys who hoped to make the 1940 football team were drilled in fundamentals and new plays. When Coach Thrush issued a call for can- didates for the 1940 football team during the week of August 25, a more or less trained group of boys responded. The boys reported to the high school for physical examination. On the payment of five dollars, the boys were given the right to go to camp, an altogether new experience for a Cedar football squad. The team embarked for Camp Greble on Sunday evening, August 26. Everyone had enthusiasm for the camp, because it was thought the boys would learn much about

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proved a bit too much for the Cedars and starred 30 to 7. Some boys who really played superior foot' ball for Lebanon in the past season may be summed up as follows: Tom Shuey could al- ways be counted on at his favorite end posi- tion, cutting down plays before they had a chance to get started. He was given honorable mention on the All-Conference Team of the Big Fifteen. Buck Fields and Lloyd Wood played some of the best football that the Leba- non fans have seen any Red and Blue tackles play. In the backfield were Bob Hess, a watch- charm halfback who often made the opposi- tion look a bit foolish, Weik and Becker, who displayed some fine blocking, and, last but not the least, big Lloyd Lilly and Paul Bordle- may, who could usually be counted on for that extra yard. Schedule VARSITY FOOTBALL September L.H.S. Opp. 14-Thomas Patron .....,..,......,.....,..,... 31 7 21-Dunmore ..,.,.. .....,. 1 9 7 28-John Han-is . 0 6 October 6 20 5 -Lancaster .,...........,. 12-York Catholic ,..... . 1 9-Wil liamsport .......,. November 2-Harrisburg Cutho 9-Readin g . ....... , ..,..,.... . . 1 6-York ..........,....,...,. 23--Steelton ,., ..... . 28-Pottsville .... ,.. 45 0 7 14 0 6 0 34 7 14 0 50 7 30 122 188