Speedway High School - Speedette Yearbook (Speedway, IN)

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I For the first time in our school history, boys other than the squad participated in basketball. Of course it was not in competition with other schools. This was called Intramural Basketball. The league consisted of five teams, four of which played every Monday night. The fans took to this rather well, although the crowds were not as large as was wanted. VVagner's jPC's, consisting of seven boys, took the championship for the '45-'46 season. XVagner was high point man for his team with Burton as rnnnerup. Ont of six games the JPC's lost only one. This gave them an average of 833. The team was made up of three seniors and four freshmen. The Iron Five, captained by Bob Hanen, was a little rusty when it came to dropping the ball through the hoop. .-'X pretty drastic season was experienced by these seven boys with one win out of six games, although most of their games were dropped by very close margins. Running a close second to VVagner's jPC's, was lNarren's Spartans Gene, one of the two seniors on the team, led in the score building, and was helped by tive other teammatesg one junior, two sophomores, and two freslnnen. The Spar- tans had a fairly good season with two losses out of six. Five losses and no wins was the record of Oslos' Panthers. l3ob's team did not get to play in the finals because of their cellar position in the league. Humphreys was high point man for the Panthers. Une Junior, one senior, and five fresh- nwen made up this unlucky team. Tied for second place with the Spartans was Carter's liilrov Kids. His team also lost two out of six games. One defeat was handed to him by the Spartans: and the other by the IPCS. The eight boys who made up the Kilroy Kids' power and steam were six sophomores, one freshman. and one junior. .X 'Lia fs. fl' s

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step in learning. ' ,flaw It seems as though Speedway is certain to have good up and coming hardwood squads in the future. The second team of the Junior Hi basket- ball teams lost two out of three games by close margins this year. These were lost only by lack of experience. The first team won two out of five starts this season. The toughest opposition of the season was from Decatur Central. Harold Kuykendall was high point man for the ,Junior Hi group, His playing ability and leader-- ship was much needed in some of the tight spots of the games. Harold will no doubt be the leader -of the Junior Sparkplugs during next year's sea- :SOIL This year was the first time many of the boys ever had a basketball in their hands, but under the able direction of Coach Sallee. many of these boys will turn out to be future Speedway varsity players. junior High basketball is the stepping stone to success in turning out good high school teams. Our school is fortunate to be one of the few Marion County schools to sponsor Junior High basketball. Junior High boys who participated in basket- ball this year were: Etter, DeMoss, Guion, D. Kaufman, B, Ellis, G. Gibson, F. VVingert, D. Crawford, D. Bledsoe, K. Vincent, D. Mason, G. Iindres. G. Seymour, R. Leeke, H. Kuyken- dall, R. Stewart, G. Vance, J. Scott, R. Hughes. D. Thomas, J. Nadolny, T. Sutherland, B. Bene- Hel. and R. Bland. In future years, many of these boys will credit Junior High basketball as the first step in their success in the hardwood sport. Attention-the first

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l3o.tom Row: Thorpe lmgrj, Tsareff, Cassaday, lifcher, Burton, Arnold, B. VVils0n, Kelley. Hanen, 5 ock. Second Row: Coach johnson. ,l. Crumley, Farley, Oslos, Hartley, Anderson, Long, Love. Logue, Boyer. Humphreys, Harrah. Top Row: Fulton, Roberts. Pritchard, Finnerty, Kuykendall, Mayhugh, D. Crumley. 4005600 Speedway ended its 1946 football season with four wins and three losses. The first game was won from Greenwood, 15-0. This game cost us two casualties. Bob Harrah lost two teeth on the first play of the game and Bob VN'ilson was hauled off the gridiron with a broken ankle in the second quarter. Our winning luck held good in the Decatur Central game as the final quarter ended 14-12, Speedway. Dick Becher starred in this contest by scoring both of the Sparkplug's touchdowns. Charles Sutphin and -lim Crumley scored the extra points. The journey to Lawrence proved fatal as the Bears trounced us, 20-7. This game was the first of three consecutive defeats. The next in line to run over us was the Deaf School. .-Xlthough Richard Becher scored on a long pass from Jim Kelley early in the game, the Silent Hoosiers came back to score a decisive 20-6 victory over the Sparkplugs. A The Plainfield game was the last defeat of the season for Speedway. Our team was battered into a 16-7 defeat by the plunging Quakers. Seven seemed to be our unlucky number as we invaded Beech Grove. All superstition was cleared away as we left with a 7-6 victory on our shoul- ders. This didn't make the Orange and Black followers feel any too good for they had us tagged for easy picking. Many students considered the Beech Grove game as the best contest of the sea- son. VVe evened a little grudge with Pike Twp. for a defeat we gathered from them in 1945. Our victory of 26-0 was excellent revenge for the 1946 Sparkplugs and a fitting way in which to end the season. Speedway's Reserves played two games during the year. Their foes were the XVarren Central and Franklin Twp. reserves. Vllarren Central thumpecl the future Sparkplugs 13-O. liill Roberts and Dave Boyer provided the spark as our reserves beat Franklin Twp. 13-6 in the last encounter of the season. l Y 1.