St Maries High School - Lumberjack Yearbook (St Maries, ID)

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PIIISIIIII HI-IIIIHIS COACH FRAZIERIS SECOND YEAR OPENED THE GRID- IRON SEASON WITH TEN RETURNING LETTERMEN TO MAKE UP THE NUCLEUS OF THE IM9 SQUAD. CDNSIDERADLE CHANGING OF THE PLAYERS POSITIONS WERE MADE AND THE STARTING ELEVEN TOOK TO THE LOCAL FIELD AGAINST THE RED AND WHITE SANDPOINT BULLDOGS WITH YORK, JOHNSON, CROSON, ALDERMAN, WETZEL, EMERSON, MOE, TAISEY, AND CRANER AS LETTERMEN AND QUANE AND GIBSON AS THE TWO NDN-LETTERMEN. SANDPOINT WAS TOUGH AND TRICKEY AND THRIcE SCORED, ON THE INExPERIENcE OF THE NRIVER CITYN BOYS, TO WIN BY AN I3 TO O SCORE. ST. MARIES TOOK TO THE NIGHT LIGHTS AT POTLACH AND IN THE END HALF KNDTTED THE SCORE AT 6 ALL BUT COULDNIT EDNVERT FOR THE WINNING POINT. THIS wAS DON JOHNSONIS LAST GAME BECAUSE OF THE IDAHO AGE LAW. A HEAVY, HARD-GHARGING KELLOGG TEAM TOOK To THE nGREENIESn GRIDIRDN TO MAKE IT TWO IN A Row OVER THE HAPLESS IJACKS. JACOT WAS THE NEW MAN ON THE STARTING LINEUP FDR THIS GAME. OUT NEIGHED Mo POUNDS PER MAN THE LUMBERJACKS HAD TO MAKE UP FOR LOST WEIGHT IN TEAM FIGHT AND SPIRIT BUT COULDNIT CRASH THE GOAL LINE WHILE THE 'CATS SCORED U TIMES AND CONVERTED TWICE FOR A 26 TD O SEDRE. THE LAST HOME GAME wAS PLAYED WITH THE BONNER5 FERRY DADGERS FALLING VICTIMS TO THE FIGHTING 'JACKS 22 TO O. THE SECOND STRING OF PETE JOHN- SON, TOWNSEND, REIDHAAR, APPERSON, DIMICO, MAR- ZULLI, BONDS, SPOONER, SHIPPY, ANGELO, SEIBERT, AND FISH SAW ACTION AND LET THE BADGERS INSIDE THE 25 YARD LINE ONLY ONCE BUT WOULDNIT LET THEM SCORE. MCLEOD, SENIOR FULLBADK HAD BROKEN HIS LEG BEFORE THIS GAME AND WAS LAYED UP FOR THE REST OF THE SEASDN. COLFAX, WASH. WAS THE SECOND NDN-cDNFERENcE TILT AND THE DULLDDGS HAD ST. MARIES LIDKING THE DIRT, GOING OVER, UNDER, THRU AND AROUND THEM FDR 3 TOUCHDOWNS AND CDNSIDERADLE YARDAGE. AFTER THEIR 20 TO T DEFEAT BY COLFAX THE LUM- BERJACKS RECEIVED THE MYTHICAL I??I NMOST TAPED TEAM AWARD DF THE PANHANDLE FOR I9H9W. INVADING THE WALLACE FIELD THE GREEN AND WHITE WERE HIT HARD AND FAST ON THE RAIN SDAKED HPLAY- GROUNDN AND PROVIDED A HEARTLESS BALL GAME SINKING INTO MUD AND SOLITUDE WHILE WATCHING THE MINERS SCORE 6 TOUCHDOWNS AND A SAFETY FDR A STAUNGH NI TO O wIN. THE ARMISTICE DAY CLASSIC BETWEEN ST. MARIES AND COEUR DIALENE APPEARED ON FOREIGN MUDDY SOIL FDR THE LUMEERJAEKS WITH THE VIKINGS COMING OUT THE VICTORS 27 TO 6. THE 'JACKS SHOWED POWER IN THEIR FORWARD WALL, STOPPING THE BLUE AND WHITE COLD ON ALL LINE PLUNGES BUT THEIR DwN DRIVES WERE EDNSTANTLY STDPPED BY PENALITIES THAT SHOWED THE BOYS AS vERY AGGRESSIvE. ALTHOUGH THE GAME CAME OUT H TOUCHDOWNS TO I THE SENIOR IJACKS, TAISEY, MOE, JOHNSON, ANGELO, WETZEL, TOWNSEND, ALDERMAN, APPERSON, AND YORK WERE SATISFIED THAT THEIR LAST GAME wAS ONE OF FIGHT AND SPIRIT TO THE LAST. THE TEAM, ALTHOUGH PATRDNIZING THE LOSING COLUMN FIVE TIMES, SHDwED FIGHT AND SPIRIT AND THEY THEMSELvES SAY THAT ALTHOUGH HE LOVED RUNNINI AND JOGGIN' COACH FRAZIER WAS THE FINEST, BEST LIKED cDAcH THEY HAD EVER HAD OR SEEN. THE TEAM WAS PLAGUED WITH INJURIES ALL SEASON WHICH UN- DDUDTEDLY STOPPED SOME SCORING OPPORTUNITIES. I A ' jfggsxgi ff Cigisfgiq -3 '22 JIM EMERSON , RTM, DAVE SHI PPY i'fji'4a5I'12hY1B1 L ,EITVKMHW

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B SQUAD STANDING: LEFT TO Reel-1T: JAY GIBSON, PAUL SEIBERT, TOM El-SEN, SAI-1 JACOT, DON BOYCE, COACH DICK FRA- ZIER. KNEELINGQ LEFT TO R.OHTg GARY GIBSON, LARRY WEINMAN, DEWEY SPOONER, JAMES BONDS, RUSSELL lvgp- SCN, MANAGER, Bos MARZULLI A SQUAD STANDINGQ LEFT TO RIGHT: COACH DICK FRAZIER, JIM EMERSON, DON TAISFY, BOB MOE, HOWARD WETZEL, PAUL SEIBERT, MANAGER TEX YORK. KNEELING9 LEFT TO RIGHT: JAY GIBSON, JERRY QUANE, PETE JOHNSON, SAM JACOT, EDWARD MELLEN, MANAGER DICK TOWNSEND BHSHETBHLL Although the 1949-50 Lumberjacks lacked reserves, their team work and speed accounted for the fairly successful season. High scorer for St. Maries was Wetzel, star center with 163 points. The Lumberjacks played ZZ games this season and won 8. Conference Standings Tournament Standings Won Lost Pct. W L Coeur d'Alene 14 0 1.000 Coeur d'Alene 3 0 Wallace 10 4 714 Wallace Z l , Kellogg 9 5 643 Kellogg Z 1 Sandpoint 8 6 573 Sandpoint 1 Z St. Maries 5 9 357 St, Maries Z 1 fi Bonners Ferry 5 9 357 Bonners Ferry 1 Z Mullan 4 10 286 Mullan 1 2 f Priest River 1 13 O73 Priest River O 3 St. Maries had a successful trip to the tournament which was held at Wallace. Tournament jitters and being unfamiliar with the baskets, the Lumber-jacks dropped their first game to Wallace Z6-32. The next day they loafed and escaped with a lucky 30-Z4 win Ove 1- Prie st River. In the final game of the tournament they beat Bonners Ferry for the consolation trophy 35-33. Name Pos. Fg. Ft. Tp. Name L POS, Fg, pt, Wetzel f 53 57 163 Gibson g 9 14 Taisey f 49 49 147 Mellen g 8 1 2. Quane g 46 Z7 119 N106 f 6 3 Emerson f 35 41 111 Jacot f O 3 Johnson g Z2 Z0 64 Seibe rt f O 0 50 Total Points 582 Tp. A, 32 Z8 5 15 A. 3 0 41. .