Southwest High School - Sachem Yearbook (Kansas City, MO)

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Public interest in football was beginning to xvane when suddenly it came upon Southwest students that they had a second team seemingly second to none. Vtlhile the first team had been fighting in the field goaded on by uproarious cheers from well-filled bleachers, the Bravelets had been play- ing to a few spectators who happened, by some odd quirk of fate, to arrive on the field while a game was in progress. Strange to say, though, the secondfteam had been winning all of the games they had been playingg not by a few points, but by wide mar- gins. They were gaining a prestige that no team seemed to be able to put down. The great news about the second team had been spread in a manner such as this: Say, we really have a second team there. They look as if they will be able to do a lot toward a championship next year. I don't see Why they don't exchange with the first team. At least, they win their games. Public opinion was turning their Way. the Indian Braves had tasted lniut though defeat, and loss of prestige, their spirits were not Page 26 FOOTBALL Greenwood Daniels Moore Brady Talbot Ritz Sparks Aiikins O'Hara Miller Spalding Thompson Jackson LETTERMEN Dawson Kanaga Reese

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dulledg and they went into their next game, with Westpiort, to win-and win they did, by a com- fortable margin, at that. And with that victory came back to them the confidence oftheir fellows. Then for a second time they went out to vic- toryg and in a game full of action and over- flowing with the thrills of football, they fairly mopped up the field with the Paseo Bears. The team now had the hope of further vic- tories in their minds. Thus they went out on the following Saturday to defeat Central. But Cen- tral must not have recognized the fact that we were supposed to win, because they won by some margin of points, causing Southwest to chalk up another defeat upon the record for the year. These victors wrecked the hopes of those steadfast rooters who had been hoping and pray- ing for Southwest to get a second or third place in the interscholastic league. But, then, there were those who consoled themselves with the argument that not everybody can beat Westport and Paseo, and Southwest had done that. W'hat of our conquering second team at this time? They had continued on their steamroller advance towards victory until Central's mighty second team blasted their chances of achieving first place. They came up in the end, however, with a second place. Although Southwest did not achieve two Page 28 CHEERLEADERS Standing: Mulhern. Kneeling: Slattery, Huttig, McCarty