St Josephs Academy - Twin Towers Yearbook (Collegeville, IN)

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First Row (left to right): Mgr. D. Clemens, M. Cody, R. Imhoff, C. Steffes, R. Vincent, J. Carlos, R. Hermann, A. Serewicz, Capt. J. Wunderlich, Asst. Mgr. E. Redden. Second Row: Coach R. Scharf, R. Richert, R. Gildehaus, E. McElroy, H. Spresser, P. Beltamacchi, R. Eder, R. McNamara, J. McHugh. FOOTBALL The first six-man football team in the history of St. Joseph’s, after losing its first game, was given no other chance to prove itself. And we must, therefore, look toward next year’s prospects for a real test. Al¬ though there will be only three returning lettermen—Gildehaus, Spresser and Cody—the team will be strengthened by present ineligibles, Mullins, Welly, and by returning players, Steffes, Imhoff, Hermann, Eder, and Carlos. All these men should (prophetically speaking) combine to form a highly promising aggregation, one that will make history for the Academy gridiron.

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First Row (left to right): E. McElroy, J. Mallock, J. Wunderlich, J. Dobe, R. Vincent. Second Row: Mgr. R. Meiners, J. Richare, H. Spresser, A. Ruschau, J. Joseph, G. Leahy, R. McNamara, Coach R. Scharf. BASEBALL Students desiring to try out for the varsity baseball team report to the fieldhouse this afternoon.” With this notice from Coach Scharf, one of the best teams in St. Joseph’s Academy history started its season. The 1942 Cub nine compiled an enviable record with seven victories and only one defeat. Their victories were over Oxford and Reynolds twice, and Remington, Goodland, and St. John of Ottawa, Ohio, each once. The Cubs lone defeat came in the final game of the season when they made an over-night trip to Lima, Ohio, to play St. Rose. It was a hard-fought extra-inning contest, and was decided by two fortunate breaks for St. Rose. The highlight of the year was a triple play that the Cubs executed on a ground ball against Reynolds. The play went from Wunderlich-Mallock-Dobe to McElroy. At the conclusion of the season twelve players were awarded mono¬ grams for their stellar play. Among those stalwarts were: Ray Camp, hard hitting centerfielder, whose 410 batting average led the Cub batters; Bob Hall and Gearald Leahy, leftfielder and rightfielder, respectively, both with batting averages above 300 and invaluable on defense; John Wunderlich, who batted 313 and played a bang-up game at shortstop all season; Dobe, McElroy, and Mallock, all did much for the team’s offense and defense. The pitching staff of Ruschau, Joseph, and Capt. Gavin allowed but 34 hits between them in eight games, for an average of only 4.25 hits per game. The team owes much to Coach Scharf for its successful season. His hard work and the many sacrifices made during the baseball season should be highly commended.

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BASKETBALL First Row (left to right): C. Steffes, J. Thieme, J. McGuan, W. Stolle, C. Fecher, F. Ritter, R. Eder, J. Hummel. Second Row: F. Hunnefeld, M. Cody, R. Meiners, J. Wunderlich, Capt. R. Richert. Third Row: Mgr. J. McHugh, H. Spresser, E. Kalmanek, J. Dobe, H. Hinders, R. Vincent, 0. Comandella, J. Quinlivan, J. Richart, E. McElroy, Asst. Mgr. C. Teaney. St. Joseph’s Puma Cub cage aggregation finished the 1942-’43 season with a rather fine record of nine victories and the same number of defeats. With the excellent coaching of Mr. Scharf the Cubs were able to outsmart” many of the teams that were expected to beat them. The team was composed mostly of seniors who cooperated splendidly with one another. Dick managed to teach the players a few tricks which they frequently executed to great advantage. The Cubs opened their season with a 27-19 setback at the hands of Goodland. Bob Meiners was high scorer of the game with 7 points to his credit. Paced by Jim Dobe’s 12 points, the Cubs next took an easy victory from Brook, 23-14. St. Joseph made a trip to near-by Rensselaer and received their second defeat at the hands of the Rensselaer Bombers 3 1-24. The Cubs led during the first half, but succumbed under a Bomber second-half rally. Again the Cubs played Brook and beat them, this time 42-40. The final game before the holidays saw the Irish at Fort Wayne triumph over the Cubs 43-31. Capt. Bob Richert again led the Cub scoring as he did in the Brook and Rensselaer games. After the Christmas vacation the Cubs got revenge for their earlier setback at the hands of Goodland by defeating them in their second encounter 22-20. Bob Meiners’ seven points was high for the Cubs. The Sectional Champs, Remington, took a heartbreaking game away from the Cubs 20-19. It was an overtime contest with Goad of Reming¬ ton sinking a free-throw with but seven seconds remaining to be played in the overtime period. Mt. Ayr handed the Cubs their fifth defeat two