South Side High School - Totem Yearbook (Fort Wayne, IN)

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the Irish of Central Catholic 29 to 20. The Archer scoring was fairly well divided with Hines and Ellen- wood pacing their teammates with seven markers each. South Side's efforts in the Christmas invitational meet played on the southern hardwood went for noth- ing as they dropped both of their tilts. Playing a cautious style of ball, the Archers held their own against the Central Tigers for three quarters only to have the Blue and White basketeers score thirteen markers in a final period spurt to win by a 29-to-18 count. In the consolation game North Side's zone de- fense bothered the Green considerably, and the team fell before the Nulfmen by the score of 29 to 25. In the tilt with Central, Joe Close, Archer center, suffered a badly wrenched ankle, which kept him out of action for several weeks. Getting their January campaign under way, the Green engaged the North Side Redskins in what proved to be one of the most thrilling tilts of the season, the Redskins finally emerg- ing victorious by an 11-to-10 count. Two more defeats were marked up for the Green the following week as Kendallville and Decatur cap- tured N. E. I. C. tilts from the Green. Inability to stop Stamm, Shin- beckler, and Overdeer of the Co- lumbia City Eagles, as they went on a first-half scoring spree, cost the South Side netters another N. E. I. C. setback. Trailing Central by five points as the final period began, South Side's Archers staged as brilliant a rally as any in the preceding games be- tween South Side and the Tigers and won by a 29-to-25 score. Berne's Bears and Froebel of Gary nosed out close wins over the Green on the following weekend. The Friddlemen bounced back into the win column as they bested the Huntington Vikings 33 to 12. The Archers turned in two impressive exhibitions as they captured N. E. I. C. engagements from Hartford City by a 28-to-21 score and North Side by a 26-to-16 decision. Coach Mendenhall then led his basket toss- ers to a 32-to-21 victory over the Green in a tilt which gave the Tigers the N. E. I. C. crown and the city scholastic championship for the season. Goshen's Redskins measured the Friddlemen by a 30-to-26 counts. Central Catholic then suffered a 40- to-22 defeat at the hands of the Archers. The South Side netters concluded their regular schedule with a 22-to-8 win over Central of South Bend. Entering the sectional tourney, the Friddlemen ad- vanced to the finals. The Archers won over the Hoag- land Wildcats, champs of Allen county, and Wood- burn's entry 30 to 18 after a tight game. In the semi- Finals South Side's netters defeated Decatur 37 to 25. In the final game the Archers bowed to the Central Tigers after a hard-fought battle by the score of 50-23. Left to right: Jim Ellenwood, Don Reichert, Ray Speaker, Bud Lee, Carl Hall, john Hines, Joe Close, Burl Friddle, Coach.

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,EJ Putting All Their Shots In One Basket BY DICK HELM Cowboy', Friddle, as we have been told our new coach is called by his friends, certainly exhibited cowboy tactics during the basketball season here at South Side. Unacquainted with South Side and South Side students, he staged a real basketball rodeo on our floor and amazed everyone when he roped many of his toughest games in his hrst year. With only two members of last season's varsity ten available to serve as a nucleus around which to build a team, Coach Burl Friddle, former Franklin College star and member of the immortal Franklin VVonder Five. assumed his duties at South Side with very poor prospects for a good season before him. Since he used a stvle of play different from that employed by Coach McClure, former Archer mentor, Coach Friddle spent most of the season drilling his charges on funda- mentals. He demanded the perfect execution of details on the part of every player. He stressed the development of an air-tight defense just as he had at Washington High where he produced the state championship squad of netters in 1930. The 1935-36 Archer net season was really a successful one. The Green played twenty-six tilts during the season. including a Christmas invitational meet and the sectional tournament. ln its twenty-six games the Green net aggregation scored 701 points while holding their opponents to a total of 626 markers. A total of thirty or more points were rung up on the Green on only four occasions during the entire season. The South Side netters were forced to relinquish their share of the N. E. I. C. title and the city scholastic title which they had held jointly with the Central Tigers. ln their debut, the Friddlemen humbled Butler's Windmills by the score of 38 to 17. Hall and Speaker, diminutive forwards, led the Green attack. On the next evening the Green journeyed to Michigan City where they received a 27-to-22 setback at the hands of the Red Devils. Coach Friddle used nine men in this con- test as he experimented in an effort to find the best combination of players. On the following weekend the Green divided their pair of N. E. I. C. conflicts. With a veteran team of Bluffton Tigers as their opponents, the Green were unable to stop an avalanche of baskets in the nrst half of the contest, and they subsequently bowed to the Wells County tossers by a 28-to-16 count. On the next evening the Archers played a greatly improved brand of ball as their accurate shooting smoth- ered the Auburn Red Devils 44 to 25. After a week of intensive drill on shooting to improve their sniping ability, the Archers hung up two more victories. Pierceton's Cubs were first to fall before the South Siders, whose last-half rally earned them a 39-to-25 decision. In their next encounter the Green marked up their initial city series victory as they downed Left: Don Reichert. Below: Norman Budde, Bud Lee, -lim Ellenwood, Joe Close.

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P F Above- Ed Kruse pole vaults Above right-Ed Leitz in a shot put . Right - Stone. Feichter, Fra- zell, and Schoe- nefielcl at the starr. Making Time Tracking was one of the best known Indian sports. That game was not like our modern games of track, but in many ways ours may have been fostered by the older game. The Indian had to be fleet of foot and nimble before he could win his game. First Row: C. Elliot, T. Makey, Staley, R. Strawbridge, L. Procise, M. Nlakey, C, Geyer, C. Rinard, K. Miller, A. Schoenefeld, A. Hinton. Second Row: Phelps, G. Kempf. P. Boyer, P. Shoppman, J. Bell, P. Wendell, N. Alexander, B. Feichter, C. Hay, F. Sutter, M. Goddard, Lundy Xvelborn. So, maybe track is a real American sport after all. At any rate, be it American or Greek, our South Siders played the game like champions. South Side's track squad, although hampered by a lack of new material and weak in comparison to teams X of previous years, made a X fairly good record for the past season. Building the team around a small num- ber of veterans and a min- imum of new material, C o a c h Lundy Welborn rounded out a well-balanced track club. The boys who came from last vear's squad were Bud ' Feichter, Charles Stone, Bill Epmeier, John Suelzer, Jim Dern, Porky Schoenefeld, Ed Leitz, Ed Kruse, Luther Q Procise, Ab Hinton, Bill Kruse, Ned Alexander, and Nelson Nliller. Getting started a little late in the season, the team did not attend the South Bend Indoor Relays or the State Indoor meet. The boys, however, dug their spikes in hard ro capture the first dual meet of the season with Goshen, 6613 to 33l3. L 'QS :NTU -lash 14.9.1451 L GAB!! be T. Peipenbrink, R. Geiger, C. Brandt, B. Roberts. N. Miller. Armstrong, H. Taylor, G. Lahrman, J. Dern, J. Faux, T. Moorhead, Zehr. Third Row: H. Kitzmiller, F. Menze, C. Stone, F. Belot, B. Reichert, C. Hall, J. Beck, E. Pio, Fouith Row: D. Rendleman, A. Arnold, L. Squires, R. Speaker, R. Budde, B. Woodhull, H. Makey, J. Hines, P. Merkert, E. Leitz, B. Lee, Fifth Row: B. Kruse, D. Faux, H. Benz, D.