Speedway High School - Speedette Yearbook (Speedway, IN)

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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.

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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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437 Gang' 74066 - v Coach Ralph johnson turned out eighteen lettermen in the 1946 season. Of these, twelve were linemen and six were backfield men. jim Crumley took over Bob XVilson's left end position when S r the latter was injured in the Greenwood game. Crumley and ' Charles Sutphin performed capably at their end posts during the RAW N., season. The tackle positions were fortified by john Humphreys ' Lg and Wayne Arnold. XV hen Arnold was injured in the Plainfield game, his right tackle spot was taken care of by Dick Burton and , jack Fulton. Speedway's guards were Bob Kuykendall and Bob 5 1 J Y Logue. The center of the line was bolstered by Bob Cassaday, who, 575 ,U incidentally, was carried oifthe field four times during the season. Fa' . . I Bob Hanen and Russ Flock proved their worth for the Sparkplugs, scoring 31 points in the seven by gaining starting positions for the Lawrence Central game. Hanen suffered a shoulder injury in this game which forced him from the following two contests. Cassaday and Logue gained posi- tions on the Mid-State All-Conference team. Speedway's team was led by All-Conference quarterback jim Kelley. At the halfback positions were Dick Becher and Bob Harrah with Bob Oslos assisting at fullback. Gene Tsareff and Bill Roberts also alternated at the halfback posts. Dick Becher was the spark game season. Bob Harrah excelled in blocking for the Plugs while Bill Roberts was noted for his passing ability. Bob Oslos and Gene Tsareif spearheaded the Speedway running attack during the Beech Grove game with jim Kelley starring in the passing role. All of these boys worked hard and faithfully during the season to receive their football letters. Seven of these lettermen will return for the foot- ball season next year. ,'..