Stewartville High School - Tiger Spirit Yearbook (Stewartville, MN)

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FOOTBALL When the football season of 1952 rolled around it found the Stewartville Tigers looking eagerly forward to the coming games. Optimism was riding high inTiger- ville. Coach Ken Hanson, starting his first year as head coach, and assistant coach Jerry Otterness had 16 lettermen, 8 of them regulars, returning from the 1951 squad, plus 45 other boys out for their initial try at football. The outlook for a season had never been better in S.H.S. The first few weeks rolled quickly by in learning fundamentals and getting acquainted with the split T system of football. When it came time for the first game the Tigers were ready and anxious to start. Lake City, a traditional rival, was the first team to fall to the powerful Tigers. They put up a tough scrap, but went down to defeat 20-0. Next week Le Roy came to town. They played their hearts out, but simply couldn't match the Tigers power and were defeated 19-0. In their third game the Tigers journeyed to Wabasha for the first Whitewater Conference game. The Tigers continued on their winning way by whipping Wa- basha 25-0. Next week was Homecoming and the Tigers' chief rival, Plainview, was coming to town. It was in this game that the Tigers played their finest ball of the season and gave Plainview a 33-0 trowncing. Chatfield was the next victim of the Tigers. The Tigers turned what was supposed to be a tough game into a rout and won easily 32-0. St. Charles was next on the Tiger list. The Tigers won the game 26-6 but lost a moral victory as St. Charles crossed the Stewartville goal for the first time in the season. Lewiston was the last conference game of the year. The Tigers won 47-12 and this brought Stewartville its first Whitewater Conference Championship. The final game of the year found the Tigers facing Farmington. Once again the speed and power of the Tigers were too much and Stewartville won 19-0. The 1952 season was the most successful the Tigers have enjoyed in several years. It was a season that saw a team, which many called the best over-all team in S.H.S. history, march undefeated through eight straight games, lettered 31 boys, placed four boys on honorable mention for the All-State team, and had one player elected to the All-State team. Stewartville High School can truly be proud of its great team of 1952. 29

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 A” TEAM CHEERLEADERS Left to right—Mary Lou Jordan, Janice Root, Arnold Gathje, Carol Kukuzke, Germaine Mullenbach. COACHES Left to right—Ken Hanson, Per Jacobson, Harold Sloneker, James Bacon, Jerome Ot- terness. Burton Eppen. B TEAM CHEERLEADERS Left to right—Helen Dubbles, Patty Peters, Pamela Lenn. 28

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Joe Evjen, Don Cooper, Ray Thomp- Vic Bittner, Harold Brekke, John son, Dave Hoeft King, Ray Engle The bulwark of the Stewartville Tigers football season of 1952 was the sixteen boys pictured above who are closing their gridiron career at S. H. S. The entire starting team consisted of seniors. Not only did these boys play exceptional ball, but they were also the inspirational leaders of the team that rolled undefeated through its entire season. Stewartville High School will certainly miss these boys when football season comes around in 1953. John Byrne, Harold Mulhern, Dick Rollie Nelson, Glen Travis, Allen Swygman, Jack Bratrud Thompson, John Nickum