St Marys High School - Immaculata Yearbook (Michigan City, IN)

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.Sboonta qfaahaa COACH ELY PRESENTS AWARD TO BOB MALLON MOST-VALUABLE-PLAYER AWARD For the first time in the history of St. lVlary's a public presentation of a city award included the Blazer Team. The award, a golden football, was the gift of the News-Dispatch to the most valuable player on each of the two city teams. The honor for St. lVlary's team went to Bob Mallon, captain of the Blazers and was presented to him by Eugene Ely, St. lVlary's athletics coach at the Tivoli theater. St. lVlary's Loses Coach This is Coach Ely's final year with the Blazer teams. lVlr. Ely has been offered an advancement in his coaching career as Line Coach at Wichita Uni- versity, Kansas. His leaving is keenly regretted by the Faculty, students, and friends of St. lVlary'sg they realize their loss and congratulate Wichita on its gain. To the students Mr. Ely was more than coach and teacher-he was an example, a counselor and a friend. ln his new capacity as college coach St. lVlary's wishes him all the success and happiness the prayers of grateful friends can bring him. 37

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1 qootlvaff Sa-:awn Tho the small but scrappy Blue Blazers of l940 displayed a great deal of color and finesse in their brand of football, at the end of the season, they showed a record of three victories against five defeats. The Blazers opened their season against St. John of Benton Harbor. Aft- er a nip and tuck battle, the Blazers lost a heartbreaker I4 to 7. St. John was the winner by the score only. At Griffith the Blue and Gold played their first night game of the season. After handing the Panthers a touchdown in the opening minutes of the game, by virtue of a misunderstanding of a free-ball on the kick-off, the Marymen buckled down to the business at hand. The Blazers returned to display a pow- erful offense and down their foes by a score of I8 to IZ. Then came the inter-city clash which sent the Blazers against the strong Michigan City Red Devils. Despite the ceaseless efforts of the Elymen, they lost I3 to 0. The following week the highly touted St. Joe team invaded the Elymen encampment. A strong defense plus one sustained drive of 60 yards for a touchdown and conversion proved to be the margin lfor the Marymen's second victory as they won 7 to 0. St. Augustine, Kalamazoo, was host to the Blue and Gold as they tried for their third win of the season. After holding the fighting lrish scoreless in the first half, the Blazer defense loosened and they were defeated by a score of 20 to 6. The Elymen probably played their best defensive game of the season in the first half. Against the South Bend Catholic the following Sunday, the Nlarymen, hampered by injuries received in the St. Augustine clash, were unable to cope with the bone-crushing Lions as they went down in defeat I8 to 0. Returning in tip-top shape for their encounter with the St. Francis team of Chicago, the Blue and Gold played their heads-up ball and turned back the Chicagoans 25 to l3. Handicapped by a muddy playing field, the Blue Blazers lost their final game to the South Bend Central Catholic lndians. ln viewing prospects for the '4l season, we see that Coach Ely has ten lettermen returning which should cause him many happy dreams. Maybe your dream will come true, Coach. We, the parting seniors, sincerely hope so. The ten lettermen who should cause much worry among rival coaches are: William Robowski, jim Younkers, Bernard Kutch, Phil Doherty, George Scholl, Bill Novak, John Lewalski, Glen Kutch, Bill Swedenberg, and Paul Evans. 39