Tremont High School - Echo Yearbook (Tremont, IL)

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Juegos |Sports] BASKETBALL As soon as the baseball bats were put away, Coach Wolf asked for a large group to come to basketball practice. The race for the “first ten” suits had begun. Here and there you could hear fellows talking about their knee burns, sprained ankles, and who were going to make the first ten. The varsity squad was composed of 6 seniors, 2 juniors, and 2 sophomores. Most of the games were nip and tuck all the way through, thus keeping the crowd on their feet a large share of the time. Our second team was strictly a Fresh- Soph Squad. They also scheduled games on their own account. We’re looking ahead to this squad in the coming years. The season wound up with 10 wins and 16 losses plus lots of memories. The Varsity Schedule (checked conference games) was as follows: Visitors Home Team Armington 25 28 Princeville 34 . 36 Green Valley 35 36 Minier 38 24 San Jose 61 ... 29 Spaulding 47 32 Deer Creek 23 ... 43 Hopedale 42 51 Delavan 34 44 Metamora 43 27 San Jose 60 43 Washington 39 29 Morton 28 27 Roanoke 38 39 Minier 47 33 Princeville 32 45 Mackinaw 42 . 22 Delavan 34 33 Minier 62 30 Green Valley 48 46 Armington 33 46 Hopedale 54 56 Delavan 37 36 Morton 41 .. 40 Deer Creek 52 46 Pekin 72 32 Front Row. left to right: Elwyn Stuber, Harold Strunk, Clinton Koch, James Strunk, Bill Garlish, Second Row: Jim Rapp, Mgr., Gale Bolliger, Bob Gibson, Kenny Ruth, Bob Huette, Bud Fey, Coach Wolf. • Page 22

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Juegos [Sports] THE CHEERLEADERS We had three new cheerleaders this year to help Dorothy Schwinn and Myra McMakin. They were Marilyn Getz, Phyllis Bolliger, and Mary Lou Fluegel. These girls did a very good job leading the fans in cheers to lead the boys on to victory. After some hard practice they were able to add stunts to the yells which always help. Since four of these girls were seniors, several junior girls practiced with them so that they might gain some helpful hints and ideas need- ed in cheerleading. TRACK AND WRESTLING Our coach introduced a brand new sport this winter. Wrestling was accept- ed very enthusiastically by the boys. We had an intramural wrestling match as well as meets with Pekin, Ke- wanee, and Peoria Manual. The matmen did very well considering the odds they were against. The coming years will find wrestling a major sport in this high school, Alvin Beutel, Ben Hodgson, and Floyd Stuber won a sufficient number of matches to quality for letters. No one hears much about the track team, but we have one and they’re real- ly burning up the cinders. We haven’t won a meet this year, but keep your eyes on this team. Ray Wells, Jim Pflederer, Bob Gibson, and Wilbur Giff- horn have done quite well in their first year of competition. Giffhorn finished second in the mile at the County Meet and Bob was fifth in the low hurdles. Left to right: Marilyn Getz, Phyllis Bolliger, Dorothy Schwinn, Myra McMakin, Mary L. Flugel Page 21 •

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Juegos [Sports] BASEBALL Tremont was again represented in the fall baseball league and went into the championship game with an undefeated record. Mackinaw defeated the Turks after trailing for six innings, Tremont, as runners-up, laid away their spikes until the balmy days of spring when spring baseball was an added feature of our expanding sports program. During the season games were sched- uled with all of the top high schools of Central Illinois. While this “big time” competition has cut sharply into our victory column, the benefits to be de- rived from playing the best the larger schools have to offer, are helping to build confidence and improve the play of our athletes. From now on they’ll all look alike to the Turks. At present Tre- mont has been beaten by all the Peoria schools but holds victories over East Peoria and University High of Normal. SCHEDULE The fall schedule was as follows: Armington 7; Tremont 9, Hopedale 5; Tremont 15. Delavan 2; Tremont 5. Minier 2; Tremont 7. Green Valley 8:. Tremont 21. Mackinaw 8; Tremont 7. Front Row, left to right: Elwyn Stuber, Clinton Koch, Dwayne Stuber, Jim Strunk, Gene McCoy, Ray Wells, Harold Strunk. Second Row: Jim Rapn, Emory Kelly, Managers; Bob Gibson, Bob Huette, Kenny Ruth, Gale Bolliger, Allen Oyer, Coach Wolf. Pa»e 23 •