Washington High School - Hatchet Yearbook (Kansas City, KS)

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Above Demonstrating an exercise for some soccer players who attend WHS is a Kansas City Comet. Center Right Going for the goal is the Kansas City Chiefs' symbolg the arrowhead. Far Right Keeping time around the Kemper arena is full time job. Left Banners for the Comets were popular at all home games. Top Left: Royals Fever t-shirts were popular, even though, there was a baseball strike during the season.

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Far Bottom: 1981 graduates are led into the KCKCC fgymi for graduation ceremonies by Doug Spangler and Kelly Coulter. Below: At the Kansas City Zoo, this monkey is just as amazed at the visitors as they are of him. Top Right Support of the Kansas City Chiefs goes farther than just playing on the team. Bottom Right ln honor of those men from Wyandotte County, who fought and died in World War ll, the Women's Chamber of Commerce has remembered them in a memorial. Washington High School 7340 Leavenworth Hoad Kansas City, Kansas 66109 Volume 50 1080 IIC I OPENING ,,, SPORTS ACADEMICS CLASSES STUDENT LIFE STUDENT INDEX ADVERTISING I 9 8 I TABLE OF CONTENTS I I 81 1-7 8-53 54-69 70-143 144-179 180-197 198-229

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O? Q RAN ff 2 4' KC welcomes soccer lndoor soccer is relatively new, but not for long, since the Kansas City Comets have began to make their stan here. The team was formally the San Francisco Fog and before that, The Detroit Lightening, but that's considering the Major Indoor Soccer League has been around for only four short years. The game is played indoors, of course, on a carpeted hockey rink, within the plexiglass. There are no penalties fOr kicking the ball off the sides of the walls or the plexiglass. lfthe ball flies into the stands, there is no penalty, unless, it was deliberate. KCMO will have shown eight of the firstgames ontelevision. All,earlyinthe season. Other games were broadcasted on KCMOam. The game was created with the idea of television in mind, this way, there won't be any problems when it comes to reworking the game for tevelivision viewers. While working on the advertisement for the new club in Kansas City, they wanted something that would practicallygrabtheviewers at home. So, they first chose the color of the carpet, bright green was chosen. Then they needed something to keep the viewers eyes on the ball, no matter how fast it wastraveling. Abrightorangeorfire red made a spalsh on the screen when taped, so it was chosen. Now, ifyou wantto see another soccer game, you don't have to watch Soccer Made in Germany , you can go down to Kemper Arena and get yourself a ticket for a game sometime. To get the people acquainted with the idea of indoor soccer, players went out to the community and held clinics. Several players came to the Kansas City Kansas Community College and helped kids of every age improve their abilities in soccer. Some even came to practices and gave some pointers in exercises to improve skills. This sport has not yet caught on completely in outschool district, but this has not stopped students from finding a place thev could participate in the dame. faxaxam 3