Wamego High School - Wa Kaw Yearbook (Wamego, KS)

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THIS IS WHERE those winning scores originate. In this case it's Coach Scoville, Tom McKowen and Coach Markham giving their attention to a play. FRESHMAN TEAM, FRONT ROW: Ray Beard, John Mertz, Paul Allenbrand, Bob Morgan, Jim Mertz, Fred Kaul. BACK ROW: Coach Scoville, Robert Yonning, Delbert Prockish, Del Straub, Carl Ebert, Herman Ackley. C f- 323. T 1 'J s 5 n , f N, THE RAIDERS SCORE again ca as Bussart loops one :Pm

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-4 BASKETBALL SQUAD FRONT ROW Manager Harold Dornbusch Bill Gieber, Ed Stone, Earl Young, Larry Larson, Bill Doll, Tom Mc Kowen Tom Shortr Don Ince Ray Wilson Val Bussart BACK ROW Coach Markham, Gaile Barnes, Jerry Ubel, Jerry Pitney, Tom Weixelman Don Bretz hm Morgan lworman Beach Kenneth Guilllams, Larry Eckart, Larry Hayes, Coach Scoville. Zcwdetfaii Spirit--both school and team--was the keynote of the '54-'55 basketball season at Wamego. All Jayhawk League honors went to Val Bus sart and Tom McKowen, first team and Bill Gieber, honorable mention. Bussart also rated first string on the Jayhawk Lea- gue tournament team, and highlighted his years performance by copping the league individual scoring championship, In March Wamego, sharing the Jay- hawk League Championship with Hayden, traveled to Clay Center to emerge as winner of the district tournament, then placed third in the regionals at Lindsborg to end an enthusiastic and successful sea- son. EVERYBODY UPI as Raiders and their opposition leap for a rebound. 31

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:try 4. wit my 7 bl Although this year marked the second season on our cinder track, it was in foreign compet- ition that Wamego succeeded in bringing home the honors. Finishing behind Haskell and Holton, the Raiders took third place in the Jayhawk League, but there were several out- standing individual and team performances during the season, including Bob Morgan's champ- Cl-IECKING its time is the medley relay team. Jack Lonsinger, Coach Scoville, Larry Larson, Bill Gieber ionship in the state indoor high jump, and the second place gained by Ray Wilson in the state in door broad jump. In the mile run Tom Beach placed third in the relays at both Ottawa and K U The K, U, relays saw a new school record set in the 880 relay, as Jack Lonsinger, Bill Gieber Larry Larson and Ray Wilson turned in the time of 1:36. 0 to break the old record of 1:37 3 THE TRACK TEAM, FRONT ROW: Dwight Burgess, Larry Larson, Ray Wilson, John Sable. SECOND ROW: Bill Doll, Norman Beach, Pat McGuire, Tom Beach, Jim Morgan, George Steinber- ger, George Pickering, Earl Young, Bob Morgan. THIRD ROW: Coach Markham, Jim Torrey, Tom McKowen, Larry Eckart, Jerry Pitney, Deane Burgess, Bill Gieber, Jack Lonsinger, Ken Mc- Guire, Tom Weixelman, llerh Bretz, Don Bretz, Tom Shortt, Coach Scoville, FOURTH ROW: Bob Hoffman, Elmore Ackley, Ray Beard, Del Straub, Fred Kaul, Galen Blume, Bob Shortt, Bob Wilson, Jim Mcrtz, Ross Miracle, David Nies, Ed M D. -8 fwfr A A i ' g.,-,353 Stone. , Q., . , ..- ' sm? fw.9'4.,. B- A. , . M' B' if GEORGE PICKERING dis plays the form which won him first place in the Inter-Class Track Meet TW