Tremont High School - Echo Yearbook (Tremont, IL)

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 Athletic Department • • • Tremont’s baseball record for 1942 ended in three wins and four losses. Seven games in all were played. The team did their training this season under a new coach, Mr. Schoenfeld. In the opening game, Tremont began the base- ball season by beating Hopedale with a 6-5 score. The game was played on our diamond. Our next two games, with Delavan and Minier, were both defeats. Delavan beat with a 4-2 score and the score in the Minier game was 12-4. In the game with Armington on our diamond, we were once again victors, this time with a score of 3-2. We next played Morton on their diamond. We were defeated. Mackinaw also beat us with a score of 9-2. This game was an out of town game. Tremont staged a comeback in their last game of the season by defeating Green Valley in an exciting game that ended with a score of 8-7. Green Valley was one of the strongest teams in the county. The scores for the baseball season for 1942-43 are as follows: SEASON RECORD Hopedale............5 Tremont.............6 Delavan............ 4 Tremont.............2 Minier.............12 Tremont............I Armington...........2 Tremont.............3 Morton.............14 Tremont.............6 Mackinaw............9 Tremont.............2 Green Valley .... 7 Tremont..................S Season's Record Won 3, I ost 4. Percentage of Games Won — .4288 The basketball team of Tremont Community High School this year not only won eighteen games out of twenty-seven, but also succeeded in pulling some spectacular stunts such as defeating Minier, who was beaten only four times in the Tazma League and two times in the Mackinaw Valley League. The team was well backed this year by its fans, as gas rationing turned out to be less a drawback than had been expected. At our return game with Minier, here in Tremont. a larger crowd pressed into our old gym than has ever before been seen. Roth teams fairly shook the rafters with their yells. Coach Schoenfeld put Hellemann, Capt. Jim Benson, McMakin, Cal Benson, and Stuber on the first team and they were ably supported by Rog- ers, Gardner, Hendershott, Koch, and Huette. These boys turned out a record we can be justly proud of. Tremont won fourth place in the County Tournament and would have probably gone farth- er had they not been handicapped by the loss of Cal Benson, who couldn’t play because of a bad knee. He was unable to play the rest of the season. In the Regional Tournament, we played in the semi-finals against Peoria Spalding because of our win over Mackinaw in the first night of the tournament. The high point in our 1942-43 season was when we were proud possessors of the cowbell and hatchet. We won it from Minier in one of the surprise games of the year for little did we know that we were to be the first to deal defeat to a strong Minier team. After winning the cowbell and hatchet, we beat Hopedale in a game on our own floor. Morton was our next opponent and they w ere defeated by a score of 25-19. We played Morton again during the Christ- mas holidays and once again beat them, this time with a score of 34-28. We then thoroughly wal- loped Green Valley in payment for the defeat they handed us at the beginning of the season. The score was 46-27. We came out victors in our next game, which was with Deer Creek, 42-25. It was the next game that gave the cowbell and hatchet back to Minier and left the whole county wondering if the game should have been an overtime or not. Minier won, however, with a score of 34-32. We sadly watched them carry off the much-prized cowbell and hatchet. In the Regional Tournament we played Mack- inaw and Spalding on the Pekin floor. In the first game with Mackinaw, we won with a score of 38-31. When Spalding beat us in the semi-finals the season was ended for the 1942-43 basketball squad. SEASON RECORD Waynesvllle . . . Tremont . . ... 57 •Green Valley . . . . 20 Tremont . . ... 15 Pekin . . 19 Tremont . . ... 23 •Mackinaw .... Tremont . . ... 17 •Delavan . . . . , Tremont . . ... 40 •Minier . . 2S Tremont . . . . . 29 •Hopedale .... . . 20 Tremont . . •Morton . . 19 Tremont . . . . . 25 Morton . . 28 Tremont . . ... 34 •Green Valley . . Tremont . . ... 46 •Deer Creek . . . . . 25 Tremont . . ... 42 •Minier Tremont . . •Hopedale .... Tremont . . Danvers . . . . . . 34 Tremont . . ... 47 •Armington . . . . . . 28 Tremont . . G las ford . . 23 Tremont . . ... 47 •Morton . . 37 Tremont . . Deer Creek . . . Tremont . . Washington . . . . 40 Tremont . . . . . 26 Green Valley . . . . 33 Tremont . . . . . 30 •Deer Creek . . . . . 27 Tremont . . •Mackinaw .... . . 14 Tremont . . . . . 34 •Delavan , . 34 Tremont . . •Armington . . . . . 17 Tremont . . ... 61 Atlanta Tremont . . Mackinaw ... . . 31 Tremont . . Peoria Spalding . . 44 'Demont . . 750 936 •Conference Games Average Points per Game......................34.67 Opponents' Average Points per Game . . 27.73 Percentage of Games Won — .667 Season Record — Won 18. Ix st 9. Tremont’s fans were led in their cheers this year by five girls. The team included three sen- iors. Virginia Schwinn, Lorraine Unsicker and Norma Fluegel; and two sophomores, Evelyn Schwinn and Frances Fluegel. Four of the girls wore maroon jumpers and white blouses. The center girl wore a white jumper and a maroon blouse. They were one of the only teams in Taze- well county to include acrobatics in their routine. When Norma Fluegel was unable to continue as a part of the team, Gladys Lockhart, a junior, took her place for the rest of the season. Twenty-four

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Obstacle Course • • • By way of keeping in step with the wartime Physical Fitness Program an “obstacle course’’ has been constructed on the Tremont athletic field. It was fashioned after the one devised by the Office of Civilian Defense for the Minnesota area, and was endorsed for high schools by the National Federation. T. C. H. S. was the first high school in this part of the state to construct and make use of an obstacle course. The Physical Education program at Tremont underwent revisions in order to fit in with the wartime needs and this addition to the department is putting new emphasis on real physical fitness. Our course was laid out around the track and consists of the following twelve obstacles: 1. Fence vault (four feet high) ; 2. Under-over-under (in this obstacle the boys go under a chain, over a hurdle, and under another chain) ; 3. The low hurdles; 4. Wall scale (the boys must scale a 7-ft. wall without help) ; 5. Dodging run; 6. Balance beam; 7. Broad jump (1 foot rope instead of take-off board) ; 8. Tunnel; 9, Hedgehop; 10. Suspension hang and travel hand over hand; 11. Six-foot ladder climb and jump; 12. Maze run. All of the above obstacles were made by the manual training classes under the direction of C. J. Foli, Ind. Arts instructor, and Wally Schoen- feld, Coach. Records are being kept to measure each boy in his improvement and endurance. The course accommodates any number of students. It can be used for: Self-testing; pursuit race with handicaps for slower contestants; relay races; telegraphic meets, and novelty races. The course is such that it could be used in a regular track meet. There are only two rules: First, no spikes or cleated shoes can be used; second, when a contestant knocks over an obstacle, he must replace it and repeat his trial. Under Mr. Schoenfeld’s direction the boys are attaining a new high level of physical accomplishment and endurance. The pictures on the opposite page are prints of pictures which appeared in the Bloomington Pantagraph together with a write-up of the Tremont Obstacle Course. One of the striking photographs is of the fence vault. Billy Carius and Eddie Naffziger are about to go over the top. Bill Helle- mann and Emanuel Baer are attempting (and apparently doing an all- right job of it) to cross the balance beam. The three boys in the boxes are Roger Johnson, George Pumphrey, and Paul Koch, in the process of hedge- hopping. Emerging from the kennel is Dan Koch. This obstacle is known as the tunnel. Norvin Bright is about to enter at the far end. Twenty-six