Sweet Home Union High School - Timber Echo Yearbook (Sweet Home, OR)

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Nov. 5 the Husky eleven journeyed to Port- land to have a shot at the big city boys, and they came back with Columbia Prep's scalp. This however wasn't an easy iob. The Huskies scored a fourth down pass from Wilkening to Stevenson. Wilkening ran the extra point over. Sweet Home made only one other scoring at- tempt during the game. It come near the end of the first quarter, but the time ran out before Sweet Home could score. The rest of the game the Sweet Home players were kept plenty busy beating the Columbia Prep boys back off the goal line. The top spot of the game came when Columbia Prep made a first down on Sweet Home's 2 yd. line. This was the place where the Huskie's line showed its stuff by holding for four downs and even setting the Preppers back to the 12 yd. line. The final score was Sweet Home 7, Columbia Prep O. Sweet Home traveled to Junction City on Nov. 12 to put a beautiful 33-6 ending on to their football season. The first Sweet Home score came on a run made by Wilkening to climax a beautiful 41 yard touchdown march made by the Huskies. The second score was made by Noah a little later when he skirted left end. The score at the half stood at 12-O. Rice made the third Huskie tally on a line play from the 17 yard line. Norquist dropkicked the extra point. Wilkening intercepted a Tiger pass and carried it back to the Junction City 11. Don Rice took it over on the next play. Tex Stevenson kicked the extra point. Huey and Jim McKay took turns carrying the ball for Junction City. Finally Huey smashed over for Junction City's only score. McKay tried ot kick the extra point, but it was swamped by Sweet Home's line. Sweet Home's final tally was air mailed 25 yds. from Wilkening to Stevenson. Norquist dropkicked the extra point. This 33-6 win wrote a perfect ending to the Huskies' season. Even though the Huskies did not have a completely successful season, it can by no means be called unsuccessful. The total stands at 7 wins against 2 losses. This is the best football season Sweet Home has seen since 1940, but we are hoping they will have an even better season next year. Sweet Home's winning team gave Mr. Frost to total of two winning teams for two years, a very good average. Mr. Frost successfully changed the Huskies offense from a double wing to the T formation. This took a great deal of patient work with the backfield, and the line had to be completely re-schooled. They were taught to hit harder and faster, and it paid off in wins.

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ftjofitlnall of 748 Football practice for Sweet Home's Huskies started at 8 a.m. Sept. 1, 1948, and two prac- tices a day were held from the first until the 13th when school opened. The squad consisted of only about 30 play- ers on the lst, but by the 13th the number had almost doubled. Out of these there were only seven returning lettermen. They were Ken Noah, Leo Bennett, Don Rice, Wilbur Montgom- ery, Tex Stevenson, Gail Wilkening and Gordon Wright. - Sweet Home's first game was scheduled for Sept. 17. The Huskies started the season right by winning the first game of the season 13-O, on our home field. Don Rice scored all of Sweet Home's points on line plays. He spark- ed the team throughout the game with long ground gains and one pass interception. Sept. 28, Sweet Home's Huskies played their second home game, but this time the competition was much better. Cottage Grove took a 28-6 victory back home with them as they went. Sweet Home's only score came on a pass from Wilkening to Stevenson. October 1 found the Huskies playing their third straight home game, and at the same time found them trying to get back on the win- ning side. The Huskies did iust that by edging out Rainier's team 7-O. Leo Bennett made the Husky tally, and a pass from Norquist to Stev- enson added the extra point. On October 8, the Huskies took their first real trip to Taft where they managed to bundle Lp a 20-O victory on a muddy field. Norquist scored once on a quarterback sneak. Steven- son scored two more TD's on passes, one from Wilkening and one from Norquist. Theron Haley and Fred Smith added the other two points by tackling a Taft runner behind his own goal. On October 15, Sweet Home lost the game that they wanted most. lt was the game that decided who the league champions should be. Lebanon took the championship along with a 28-6 victory. All of Lebanon's scores came by way of hard hitting line plays. Sweet Home's lone touchdown was made on a pass from Wilkening to Stevenson in the opening minutes of the game. Sweet Home's other two points were made by Fred Smith and Theron Haley who broke through to tackle Lebanon's ball carrier behind the goal. The Huskies traveled to the coast on Oct. 22 to play Toledo on Newport's field. The Huskies tucked a 12-6 win under their belt Sweet Home's first six points were made by Noah around left end, and the final six came by way of a running-pass from Wilkening to Stevenson. On Oct. 29, the Huskies had to come from behind to win 13-7. The Huskies were trailing 7-6 at the end of the first half, but they came back and showed Newport they wouIdn't be beaten on their home field. Wilkening made both of Sweet Home's tallies and Don Rice add- ed the lone extra point on a line buck.

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