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

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Senior David Chandler, puzzled by the jig saw. continues his work. photo by Sutphin ti Spewing forth his superior knowl- edge. Mr Laslie instructs his English class photo by Sutphin I J 28 — Academics Division r=

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Bowl and were defeated 27-22 by Tennessee. Atleast Michigan State gave the Big Ten a breath of life by winnig the Rose Bowl themselves. Another resurgent team from Indiana was the Fight- ing Irish from Notre Dame. Led by Heisman Trobhy win- ner Tim Brown the Irish re- turned to the glory days of not so long ago by posting a regular season record of 8- 3, against quite possibly the toughest schedule in the na- tion. Notre Dame's bowi trip was to the Cotton. This game will be forever re- membered by th brawl Brown started (well, finished) by attacking a Texas A M player who had swiped his towel. That wasn't all they took, as the Aggies collect- ed the rainbow, pot of gold, luck of the Irish, and the vic- tory by shredding Notre Dame 35-10. Baseball It's going, it's going, it's gone! Those words seemed to echo throughout the world of baseball in 1987, as hitters from all over the league pounded away at the plate. Overall, 1987 was deemed as the year of the hitter, and it showed. The Chicago Cub's Andore Dawson was tops in the Na- tional League with forty- nine home runs. The debate over whether the ball was actually more live raged on, and pitchers did their best to keep away from the long ball. Some, it seems, turned to dishonest methods, as in the Joe Neikro case. Neikro was questioned while pitching a game, and was found to have a nail file in his hip pocket. Whether he actual- ly used the file to alter the baseball was never officially determined though. Was this the only way to stop the incredible barrage of bat- ting talent being displayed? So it seemed, as the hitters raged on. The defending World Champion New York Mets had an average season, af- ter early expectations for them to repeat as the World Series winner. But a blazing season by the St. Louis Car- dinals, kept the Mets, and the rest of the National League East at bay. Early on in the season, the Milwua- kee Brewers looked as if they'd be the team to beat for 1987, starting out with a twelve-game winning streak. However, twelve consecutive losses, soon dashed their hopes for a dominating hand over the American League West. The Brewers had another streak, or rather a member of the Brewers did. Paul Moliter went on a thirty-nine-game hitting streak, stopping just a slight distance from the record fifty-six games. The surprise of the year, however, were the Minne- sota Twins. Picked to finish last in almost every pre-sea- son poll, the Twins came through with a potent, bal- anced offensive front lead by Kirby Puckett, and a bet- ter than average defense. On route to the World Se- ries, the Twins sent numerous home runs over the walls of the friendly confines of the Metrodome, nicknamed the homer dome for obvi- ous reasons. Home field advantage seemed to be the key for this year's World Series. The Twins jumped to a 2-0 ad- vantage over the Cardinals after capturing the first two games in the Metrodome. The Cardinals, in turn, took the next three games at their home field, Busch Stadi- um. With their collective backs to the wall, the Twins rallied back, winning the last two games, to capture their first ever World Champion- ship. In both games six and seven, the Cardinals held an early edge, but the Twins rallied back with superior slugging to eventually top- ple the Cards. Sailing Skipper Dennis Conner went to Australia to try and reclaim the America's Cup, yachting's most famous prize, which he had lost in 1983. Once down there, Conner and his crew in the Stars and Stripes succeeded in sweeping Australia's Kookaburra III in four con- secutive races in the final round. Tennis At Wimbeldon Pat Cash became Australia's first champion since 1°71, and Martina Navratilova won her eighth title overall and sixth straight to highlight the championships. Cash, the no. 11 seed, defeated Ivan Lendl in straight sets, 7-6 (7- 5), 6-2, 7-5. Navratilova snapped Steffi Graf's forty- five match, seven-month winning streak, 7-5, 6-3. Navratilova's eighth career victory tied the Wimbledon record, and her sixth straight broke the record she shared with Suzanne Lenglen. On July 24, Boris Becker and John McEnroe met in what turned out to be the longest — six hours, thirty- eight minutes — and cer- tainly one of the most dra- matic matches in American Davis Cup history. Becker, a two-time Wimbledon cham- pion and nine years younger than McEnroe, rallied from a 2-1 deficit in sets to win 4-6, 15-13, 8-10, 6-2, 6-2. The two started playing at 4:38 p.m. and didn't end until 11:16 that evening. Boxing Threatened with blindness and virtually inactive for five years, Sugar Ray Leonara provided boxing's biggest moment of 1987 when he beat Marvelous Marvin Hagler at Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas. The controversial twelve-round decision con- founded many boxing ex- perts. In claiming the WBC middle-weight title, Leonard sent Hagler his first defeat in eleven years and ended Hagler's seven-year reign as champion. Racing In the Indianapolis 500, Al Unser Sr. held off Robert Guerrero to win a record-ty- ing fourth time. Unser aver- aged 162.175 m.p.h. in be- coming the second four- time winner (the other is A.J. Foyt). For most of the race Mario Andretti dominated, but his engine failed sixty miles from the end. The Totem staff would like to thank Mii e Morissey, Brent Osborne, and Elbert Starks III for all their help and for all their stories and for a job well-done. Mini-mag — 27

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7£e C t£y ?Cfiteca . . . What We Know i From what seems like sun up to what seems like sun down our lives are filled with life, liberty, and the pursuit of knowledge, and South Side gives us the op- portunity to obtain one of the finest educa- tions in Fort Wayne. Our academic pur- suits are not limited to remedial second grade basic math, or under- water basket weaving, but rather we are of- fered courses such as: Advanced Placement English, Advanced Bi- ology, Physics, and a wide variety of other classes to fill each stu- dent's own individual needs. As Archers, we are fortunate to have a group of teachers as dedicated as those that teach here at South Side. No other school has the same number of teachers that have accumulated twenty-five years of teaching in the same school. Experience is one of the main ingre- dients of our superior education, if they only knew. — Andrea Muirragui Giving the computer a little en- couragement. Senior John Key concentrates on his studies photo by Sutphin Academics Division — 29