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

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The Athletic Department is presented a history of South Side sports on bronze tablets Whoopie! The Archers swamp the Redskins 37 to 31 Orator Bob Young gives a talk at the pep meeting Ping-pong champ Jimmy McClure serves it up Smith, Kilpatrick, Weaver, and Sebolcl line up outside the stadium Presenting South Side's villains de luxe, McMyler, Weber, McClure, and Collins Those basketball-minded Hines boys and their mentor Jake McClure hands over track equipment to Martin Gernand Those boosters of our teams-the yell leaders The athletically inclined Gilberts.

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ur grickron fam 'lr -k ir Front Row: Bill Siebold, Russ Dixon, Chuck Underwood, Byron Gingher, Bob Birkenbeul, Ralph Vetter, Jim XVorman. Back Row: Jim Straley, Dick Steury, Chuck Close, and Ralph Shimer. Bob Englehart was absent. South Side's gridiron destinies were washed by a revitalizing football wave last fall, for Wayne Gift had been chosen to tend the Archer grid helm. The Kelly punters not only presented a rebirth in spirit under the likable ex-Boilermaker, but the Gifted cleaters also employed their newly instilled pepper to chalk up a season record of five wins and but two defeats. Wayne Gift came to South Side to fill the shoes of Bill Moss, who departed from the Southern shores to find better sailing at Shurtleff College, in Alton, Illinois. On August 10, Wayne arrived in the city to be greeted by a sports public which had previously followed his many exciting days at Pur- due and at Cleveland when he played with the Cleve- land Rams. After meeting with George Collyer, his assistant. Mr. Gift issued his first call for a practice on August 13. On this day, the 1940 edition of the South Side 108 football squad reported for physical examinations and equipment assignments. South Side's grid ship had been sinking deep into the murky waters of carelessness before Gift charted the course. Mr. Gift not only righted the hull, but also gave our boys the spirit and drive to write an- other successful page in the South Side football log. BluH:ton's Tigers were the first victims of the re- juvenated Giftmen. On one of the hottest Satur- days ever recorded in September, the Archers turned back the Wells County cleaters by a 7-toa0 count. Again playing at home on the following week-end, our boys had easy sailing over a veteran band of Polar Bears from Woodward of Toledo, Ohio, 16 to 0. Hard-driving Chick Shimer accounted for the two Green touchdowns that day. After resting for two weeks, Coach Gift's mates engineered a 32-to-0 drubbing of a mediocre Gar- rett eleven at the B. 86 O. town. Chuck Close, with W -- . -, ----r-1-.,...,. Y..