St Stanislaus High School - Stan Em Yearbook (Detroit, MI)

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if -riffl' ' , . . . W, ,Q VARSITY' SQQAD Fora i945 me jluzy, Hmm, Q ,7h1uZL Pagv 60 BASKETBALL C BaskeTball, more Than any oTher sporT, runs in cycles. One year The Team is show- ered wiTh The fruiTs of vicTory, while The nexT year, The Team sTruggles desperaTely To up- hold The presTige of Their predecessors. Wifh The loss of four regulars, The Broncos faced a Tough schedule. Their lack of heighT and experience added a greaTer barrier To be overcome by sheer resourcefulness and The will To win. The Broncos, forTunaTely, had an abundance of These qualifies. Al- Though facing sTrong opposiTion, The Broncos losT Three games by The mere margin of Two To five poinTs. ST. Joseph, a sTrong conTender for The EasT Side Championship, barely squeezed a 26-24 vicTory over The Broncos. The De La Salle quinTeT lefT The floor aT The half Time, wiTh worried frowns on Their faces, as The Broncos held Them To an T8-l8 Tie. The Broncos always displayed greaT sporTsman- ship while bowing To opposing Teams. IT is easy To win, buf, Oh! so hard To lose. YeT, losing a Tough game, brings ouT cerTain qualiTies in an aThleTe. These qualiTies prepare him for laTer life. We all cannof win, someone has To lose. Winning or losing is noT governed by mere morTals. God alone is The iudge of who will be The conqueror and who The conquered. The Broncos realized This fact. They have noT only gained physically buT also spiriTually. The ST, Sfanislaus quinTeT is looking forward To a successful T947 season. For They now know how To lose and win gloriously.

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After that initiation, the Bronco eleven met St. Catherine on a somewhat drier field and bowed to a superior and smoothly working team, 20-O. The Broncos drew first blood in an encounter with the St. Martin squad, only to have them bounce back in the second half to tie the final result. A visibly superior St. Anthony's team waded into our Broncos but managed to get only one touchdown during the first half, and two during the second half, after our first team had been battered and two first stringers removed from the field with maior iniuries. The final score was Qi-O. Tre St, Mary of Orchard Lake team did not prove to be as potent as publicized, but were made a gift of twelve points, which was enough to win T2-7. St. Ladislaus opened up an attack in the first five minutes of our game with them to post twelve points. The Broncos then pro- ceded to fight an uphill battle and with minutes to go tied the game, making the final score T2-12. Thus far the St. Stanislaus Broncos could boast no victory. The nearest they could get to the won column was three ties. The last game of the season came. lt was now or never. The St. Bernard team had defeated a stubborn opponent in grand fashion the week before, but disintegrated in the face of the most powerful display of football the Broncos had ever shown. All that they had learned in tackling, blocking and running was vigor- ously aoolied in this game and the reiuvenated Broncos tramped the St. Bernard team rather decisively with 43 points, holding the opponents scoreless. Despite the record, the Broncos made a good start and a good start makes the rest easier. We have no doubt that in the future the St. Stanislaus football teams will bring home trophies iust as Mgsf Valuable Player other teams had won trophies in other sports. Good Luck! of the Year . . . W. Maksimczyk BOTTOM ROW. D. Winiecki, N. Wassin, J. Sobczak, F. St. John, H. Smith, R. Jablonski, H. Hyaduck, R. Meleski, F. Weiss, T. Kowalski, Z. Malofy, A. Madaiczylc. SECOND ROW: Coach Henry Sobczak, G. Cyrowski, prop. manager, C. Dreher, prop. manager, R. Beyer, R. Maiewski, S. Nokielski, E. Wolo- wiec, F. Tadrzynski, Capt. W. Maksimczyk, J. Minkiewicz, E. Dzienisowicz, M. Kaput, J. Chrustowski, prop. manager, Rev. W. Jasionowicz, director. THIRD ROW: L. Woicik, J. Gornicz, G. Bartnik, E. Bankey, H. Tanana, R. Miekosz, L. Chiodo, G. Gondek, C. Grzeskowiak, J. Szynkowski. TOP ROW: B. Wierzbicki, C. Wojciechowski, W. Teper, A. Nawrocki, Lipinski, C. Cieslak, L. Zazula. Page 59

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Jn I Certainly, everyThing did not end so drastically for The Broncos of '46. They did bring To dear old ST. STani- slaus a trophy. ThaT contribution To the Trophy case will stand as a symbol of resourcefulness of The Team of '46, The Broncos drew as Their first tournament opponent, Annunciation. The Broncos galloped To a decisive vicTory over The Taller Team by a score of 36-30. AfTer This victory they were scheduled To meet ST. Catherine. The victor of This game was To be proclaimed Distriqt Champs. The ST. Catherine Team was complete- ly dominaTed by The Broncos. The Broncos dis- played remarkable basketball TalenT and came out on Top by The score of 43-36. This broughT The Broncos To Their lasT game of The season of '46. IT will be remembered as one of The most Thrilling games in Bronco his- Tory. The opposing Team, Ec'orse High, was rated as one of The besT quintets in This section. They came inTo The game highly favored over The Broncos. The Broncos, unwilling To accept de- feat, fought sTubbornly ThroughouT The game. The score was 30-30 as The whistle blew ending The game. This meant playing a Three-minuTe if-1-1'iunf,n.w , an overTime period. The overtime period began wiTh Ecorse sinking Two quick baskeTs. The Broncos reTaliaTed by sinking a field goal afTer about Two minufes of play. WiTh about Ten seconds To go, Walter Mak- simczyk, The Bronco CapTain, grabbed a re- bound and headed for The opponents' basket. Taking a one-handed push shoT, he succeeded in hiTTing The net for Two points. An uproar of cheers and groans left The Crowd. BUT lo! The Time keeper called The referee. They Talked for a momenT. Then The referee, raising his hands, silenced The crowd and announced The basket void, claiming That The ball was shoT after The final whistle was blown. ' Thus, ended The Basketball Season of '-46. Top Row: H. Zaglaniczny, R. Miekosz, F. Tadrzynski, Rev. Vincent Borkowicz, C. Grzeskowiok, J. Gomula, W. Teper, Coach Frank WatTc. Bottom Row: E. Formanczyk, M. Kaput, A. Pomaranski, C. Maj, Capt. W, Maksimczyk, S. Nokielski, G. Gondek, R. Szydlowski, V. Konstantynowicz. Page 61