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

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nights later 30-13. DeMotte was victim number four for the clawing Cubs 42-20. Capt. Richert scored 19 points. At Hammond, the Cubs lost to Central Catholic in a free-scoring game 63-44. John Wunderlich led the Cub offensive attack with 12 points. The Mt. Ayr quintet again defeated the Cub, but this time by only five points, 39-34. In an overtime contest Kentland fell before the rush of St. Joseph’s, 30-28. St. Joseph’s Ca rdinal and Purple next made an over-night trip to Rockford, Illinois, where they downed St. Thomas, 37-30. Capt. Bob Richert took individual scoring honors with 19 points. Hammond vis¬ ited the St. Joseph fieldhouse for their second meeting with the Cubs. This game was a bit different from their first encounter, with Hammond barely eking out a 36-30 victory over an inspired and fighting Cub five. C. C. of South Bend invaded Collegeville with an impressive record of 10 victories and only 2 defeats. But the snarling Cubs dealt them a third defeat, 3 8-28. Wunderlich hit for 12 points to lead the Cub attack. The Cubs next avenged the defeat Rensselaer handed them earlier in the season, winning 32-18, with Capt Richert piling up 18 points. Nine days later the Cubs met DeMotter in the Sectional Tourney and beat them 39-32. Wunderlich and Richert led the Cub scoring. The next da y Teft High surprised everyone by upsetting the favored Cub squad 3 3-30. This eliminated the Cubs from the tourney and proved to be their final game. The Cubs were led by Capt. Richert, who did a very good job and led the Cub scorers with 188 points. John Wunderlich came next with 96 points. Johnny was one of the valuable assets to the team and did much toward helping the squad obtain a five hundred average. Bob Meiners made a surprising improvement over last year and proved him¬ self valuable to the team. Hunnefeld, Quinlivan, Dobe, and Spresser were players who filled their positions well. McElroy, Cody, and Hinders didn’t see much action this season, but helped keep up the fighting spirit of the team. Reserve Team The B” team was inaugurated this year as a separate division from the cage varsity. The answer to the call for candidates was greeted by the younger students with all enthusiasm. The youngsters experienced a none-too-successful campaign. However, the fact that they were able to win only one contest does not show the whole picture. Their spirit and great will to win must not be excluded. The players obtained much benefit from the games by way of training and experience. As a whole the team will prove a welcome addition to the varsity next year. Intramurals The Academy’s Intramural basketball program was met with much success this year. Those students who were unable to make” the cage varsity and those that could not play on the varsity due to the eligibility rule comprised most of the I-M teams. Many of the games played were interesting and thrilling. Those players that were outstanding and who will have a good chance of making next year’s varsity team are: Mullins, Welly, Smith, Serewicz, McCullough, McGuan, and Redden.

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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

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First Row (left to right): R. Hummel, E Redden, J. Carlos. Second Row: A. Serewicz Capt. R. Latendresse, J. Mallock. First Row (left to right): Capt. E. Joseph G. Smith, E. Pfister. Second Row: R. Gilde- haus, A. Schultheis, R. Eder. CHAMPIONS Below: First Row (left to right): P. Hansen, J. Thieme, J. McGuan. Second Row: R. Lill, G. McCullough, A. King. Absent from picture: Capt. R. McNamara. First Row (left to right): C. Fecher, P. Walsh, R. Vincent Second Row: D. Schloemer, Capt. E. Mullins, D. Clemens. Below First Row (left to right): A. LaHood, W. Stolle. Second Row: R. Kremp, Capt. G. Leahy, R. Hermann.