Topeka High School - Sunflower Yearbook (Topeka, KS)

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Autumn-a time of laughter and color. The Armistice, Thanksgiv- ing, teachers' convention-each holiday the signal for students to momentarily cast off their cares and come out to play. Crisp, sunlit afternoons-chill, starlit nights, the settings in rohich a cheering cromd of Trojan boosters roatch their heroes do valiant battle on the gridiron. Football-the king of sports!

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Full... - v -Q v'-W1 rf' 3 W I .N If A - Lxi' xt! girl , f xx' S 1 EE '? 5.73, -lig- The time is come for the best sport of attg A game for real courage-beloved football! A game that takes stamina, strength, and mil, The testing of team mark, of pep and grit. Great sport of real morth, King of them atl- me come lou c- zeerinf. tome in mith the all. H I , I gf C HELEN W ELLS. Three

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Topeka High School Sunflower 1955 PUBLISHED BY THE SENIOR CLASS OF THE TOPEKA HIGH SCHOOL ITI-IDRAXVIXG from the old Northeast league early in the 1932 football season, Topeka, to- gether with Emporia, Manhattan, Lawrence, and Ottawa, formed the Eastern Kansas conference. NVy- andotte was invited to join but de- clined because of the distance to Emporia and Manhattan. Coach E. B. Xlfeaver faced the job of building an entire new for- ward wall and filling two backlield places. Landes, fullback, and Schwartz, halfback, were the only two returning lettermen. Practice Begins Early Practice started the first of Sep- tember with a large number of junior high p l a y e r s reporting. Troians Enter New League Topeka Joins Four Others to Form New Conference Light drills were held for a week. Then suits were issued and work began. First squad members were chosen and put under the tutelage of Coach VVeaver, Lin e Coach Powers, and A s s i s t a n t Coach Hadley. All others were taken over by the intramural coaches, Carl P. Snyder and H. D. Shotwell. Four teams were chosen and a Round- Robin tourney played. The Blues, captained by Pollock, won the title with four wins and one defeat. Twenty f'All-Stars were picked from the Lawrence second team. The game, held November 19 at Chandler field, ended with a score of 123 to O in favor of the All Stars. four teams to play the Scene at Night Football Game f f 'Vi' c ' Wi t-21 :21 Ta iilfkifs Lloyd Schwartz, Football Captain New Organizations Appear During the football season, To- peka Higlfs new organization, the Trojanettes, made their appearance on the field. During the half of each home game, the fifty girls ap- peared, clad in gold and black skirts with corduroy jackets, new this season, under the direction of M i s s Milicent Hosmer, adviser. The group presented a new drill at each game. At the first Thanks- giving game of several years for the Trojans, the newly organized Trojan-Knights appeared with the girls for the first time in Moore Bowl. Five