St Marys High School - Mariette Yearbook (Woodstock, IL)

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..,-----,.,,.,. -- ,, W, . FIG H TIN G IRI s H ! ! Vw. t Gorski Full Nihan, Half W' so Freund, Half Dunham Quarter Zoia Gund Groden Guard Freund. Center fm X F '50 FOOTBALL SCHEDULE-SCORE K ' We They '- Menzel Tackle sept, 15th McHenry ------ Q 5 LH10' Tackle ' Sept. 24th Elmhurst - - - - 12 Sept. 30th Moosehart - - - - LQ Oct. Sth Lyle ---- Q Oct. 15th Des Plaines ------ lg Burg End Oct. 22nd St. Eds. - - - -Q3 Oct. 28th St. Thomas ----- Q P Q Pokorny 2.9 .Q STARTING LINEUP Left to Right: 1stRow, Joe Burg. Dick Menzel. Chuck Zoia, Dick Freund, Tom Groden, Tom Lalor, Frank Pokorny, 2nd Row, John Dunham. 3rd Row, Don Freund, Ken Gorski, Bob Nihan 9 at

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Wen. COACH MEL STUESSY Coach Stuessy, a graduate of St, Edward's College, Austin, T e x as , began his coaching career at Saint Mary's in the fall of 1926. At this time he organized the school's first football and basketball teams. The 'Fighting Irish, under his guid- ance, won first place in the North- e as t Catholic Football Conference in 1945, 1949, and tied for the title in 1950. This year Coach Stuess is cele- brating his silver jubilee of coach - ing at Saint Mary's.Congratulations Stuess. W e a t St. Mary's sa lute you. FOOTBALL AT SAINT MARY'S When football was inaugurated at St. Mary's in 1926, fifteen boys reported for prac- tice. That first year the boys lost six games and tied one.' The first victory for St. Mary's was over Aquin of Freeport, and Father Conway allowed the student body to celebrate by declaring a holiday.. Football at St, Mary's has gone a long way since those early days. In 1936 and 1937 St. Mary's enjoyed two undefeated seasons, and in the two following years they lost only two games. Since the Northeast Catholic Conference w as formed in 1945, St. Mary's, the small- est school in the conference, has won the title twice and at the present time is shar- ing it with I. C, of Elmhurst. This is an enviable record. Much praise goes to Coach Stuessy who at times has achieved the seemingly impossi- ble. He has instilled in the boys a desire to win, and he has always managed to put on the field a squad determined to play its best regardless of the odds.

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1950 SQUAD First row, left to right: Joseph Burg, Dick Menzel, Chuck Zoia, Dick Freund, Tom Groden, Tom Lalor, Frank Pokorny, Second row: Don Freund, John Dunham, Ken ' Gorski, Bob Nihan, Dan Sheahan, Eugene Salzman, Jim Lalor, Third row: Jim Thomp- son, Jim Freund, Eugene McGuire, Frank Page, George Thompson, Jim Barrett, Ron- ald Hendrick, Tom Brink. AL L STAR HONOR WINNERS in the North East Catholic conference were: Don Freund, right half on the second team Bob Nihan, left half, Dick Menzel, tackle, and Dick Freund, center, on the first team. Dick F r e u n d was also named out- standing lineman for the conference and Bob N i h a n outstanding b a c k. C o ac h 'S tu ess' and Co-Captains Bob Nihan and Don Freund talking over plans for the Homecoming game with St, Edward's of Elgin on October 22.