Tama High School - Iuka Yearbook (Tama, IA)

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Back row, left to right: Coach Rickert, Vernon Neumann, Iames Norton, Bill Robeson, Iunior Piotter, Keith Wilcox, Emory Wagoner, Eddie Hill, Ervin Hanus, Paul Maiden, Allen Hill, Merl Pagel, Robert Sadler, Raymond Lathrop, Bob Coleman. Second row: Herbert Youngbear, Vernon Paqel, 'Bob O'Connor, Rex Coleman, Ben Morgan, Merle Kensinger, George Luther, Richard Papake, Iohn Nelson, Dick Burnes, Tom Malin. First row: Clyde Wanatee, Darrell Rebik, Cliff Maiden, Julius Lauderdale, Jim Mochal, Bob Nelson, Bud Zhome, Alan Iones, Rex Weitzell. Qrwfball I aspired at an early age to be one of those fellows who wear those gold sweaters with a big black T on it-so I went out for football. At the beginning of the year there were only three of those gold sweaters and T's -there were more, however, at the end of the season. Me? Well, no-but then we couldn't have had the good team we did if they didn't have scrubs like me on whom to practice! In spite of the fact that he had only three lettermen and a squad of inexperienced players, Coach Paul Rickert gave Tama High a winning football team. Our first game was definitely only a warm-up, as we lost to Grundy Center 25-0-but we learned a great deal! Records clearly show this as we won second place in the South Half of the Iowa Cedar League. In the first Conference game Tama played Belle Plaine to a 6-to-6 tie and in the next game defeated Brooklyn 12 to 0. Then came Montezuma, the Conference Champions, who we held to a scoreless tie, in one of the best games of the season. We then rolled over Marengo and Traer 6 to 0 and 19 to 2, re- spectively. In the classic game of the season against our old rivals, Toledo, we defeated them 13 to 0 to win second place in the Conference. This year the squad loses the nucleus of the line. lime Mochal, captain and center: Iulius Lauderdale and Bob Spike Nelson, guards, who will be lost by graduation. FOOTBALL Tama U .....,. ........................ ........ G r undy Center 25 Tama 6 ....... ........., B elle Plaine 6 Tama 12 ...... .....,.., B rooklyn 0 Tama U ,..... ....... M ontezuma 0 Tama 6 ,.l... ......... M arengo 0 Tama 19 ...... ........ T raer 2 Tama 13 ...... ......... T oledo 0

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Paul Richert wash Last year when I heard that our Coach wasn't going to be back, I wondered if we were going to be able to get a new coach. Some time before school started I heard that a coach had been hired and immediately I began to wonder what he would be like. As you all know his name is Paul Rickert. His home is in Napierville, Illinois. He attended Dubuque University, from which he graduated in 1943 with a B. A. degree. He was captain and star of Dubuque's undefeated football team in 1942. We knew this was his first year as a coach, but after the first few weeks of the season we discovered that he showed the ability and understanding of a much more experienced coach. With a few boys of experience he molded a very good football team and had a much better team than was expected in basketball. We also found that he's a first rate teacher as well as an excellent coach.

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