Washington High School - Panther Yearbook (Oconto Falls, WI)

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gum FUD FIRST ROW J Wusferbarth R Gauthier J Nogmn B Wolford T Kussow B Valley J Red man D Nelson SECOND ROW A Kopczynskn D Senn D Desreumaux T Grelner J Bum R Fetterly K Bohl J McDermld B Schroeder K Geal FOURTH ROW J Johnston M West cot B Angus N Bigelow R Ostrenga reil l'l'lCllfl goof d The Freshmen and Coach Norm Messman had a faxrly successful season They won all but two of thelr games One loss was to Oconto by a score of l9 6 and the other to the Sophomores 12 0 The prospects for next year s B team are fairly good Rlchard Gauthler should make a good lmeman Jerry Redman Danny Desreumaux John Wuester barth and Wlllard Allen all should be able to gxve any returmng players a flght for thelr posltlons 56 CC 0 77 -H., 5' D. Young, T. Allen, P. DeKeuster, L. DeKeyser. THIRD ROW: C. Yost, H. Suchan, J. Martens,

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BONDUEL 18 FALLS 7 The Falls opened the 1949 season w1th an 18 to 7 loss to Bonduel There was no score m the f1rst half as the play was hard and rough ln the second half the Falls de fense relaxed and Bonduel scored three touchdowns to take an 18 to 0 lead The Falls score came on the last play of the game Fonders passed to Kamke for the touchdown and Peterson k1cked the extra pomt DEPERE 12 FALLS ze Conference play for the Falls was opened agamnst Depere The score at the end of the fxrst half was 13 to 12 ln the favor of the Falls In the second half the Panthers held the upper hand and scored twlce more and held Depere scoreless Buzz Kamke and Jerry Bramschrelber each scored twmce Swede Peterson k1cked two extra pomts KEWAUNEE 13 FALLS O The Panthers met defeat at the hands of Kewaunee at Kewaunee The defense was unable to hold and the offense was unable to move Kewaunee scored ln the second and fourth quarters After the second score the Falls started a drwe but were unable to score ALGOMA 6 FALLS 13 The Panthers made 1t v1ctory number two when we defeated Algoma at Algorna Al goma scored the1r touchdown after a long dr1ve The half ended w1th the score 6 to O ln favor of Algoma The th1rd quarter the Falls had the upper hand but was unable to score The power of the Panthers proved to be to much for Algoma 1n the fourth quarter as we pushed across two touchdowns .Terry Bramschre1ber scored both touchdowns and Swede Peterson krcked the extra pomt PULASKI 14 FALLS 6 The Panthers fell before a hard dr1v1ng Pulaskl team by a score of 14 to 6 The game was played on even terms all the way through except for two costly defensxve lapses One IH the flrst quarter and one 1n the second quarter Pulask1 caprtallzed on the game the Panthers drove down to Pulask1 s ten ya rd lme but were unable to score The game ended wmth Pulaskl IH Possess1on of the ball OCONTO 6 FALLS 6 The Panthers and the Blue Devxls battled to a 6 to 6 txe 1n a hard fought game played at Oconto Throughout the game the Panthers held the upper hand but were unable to push across a touchdown unt1l thxrd quarter lt came by way of a pass Fonders to Bramschrmeber The extra pomt attempt was no good and the Falls led 6 to 0 Oconto scored ln the last two m1nutes of playmg t1me They were unable to push across the ex tra pomt and the score stood at 6 to 6 The game endmg w1th the Falls m possess1on of the ball STURGEON BAY 7 FALLS 7 The Panthers and Sturgeon Bay battled to a 7 to 7 t1e ln a hard fought homecommg game The Panthers drove down 1ns1de Strugeon Bay s twenty yard l1ne tw1ce 1n both the fxrst and second quarters but were able to score only once Jerry Bramschr1eber scored on a quarterback sneak and Swede Peterson klcked the extra pomt Sturgeon Bay t1ed up the game w1th only three mxnutes rema1n1ng The game ended wlth the Panthers ln possessmon of the ball on Sturgeon Bay s exght ya rd l1ne 55 both of these lapses and scored both times.The Falls score stood at 14 to 6. Later in

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G 0l9U'l fo 0 y FIRST ROW J Peck R Bramschrelber R Peferson J Bromschrelber L Kamke SECOND Hlffflfy KCMLQKACL K After gettlng off to a poor start wlth only one wm ln the flrst half of the season the Falls Panthers showed thelr true color on the eve of January 14 They edged past the Oconto Blue Devxls Z7 26 lt was the Falls flrst vlctory overOconto m ten years After thls spark of encouragement the Fallsbounced back Lnto the wmmng column and made lt a successful 49 50 basketball season for the Oconto Falls Hlgh School 57 CC 0 77 g r ROW: Mr. Sfeffin fffocchj, R. Rorter, L. Unverrich, D. Greene, C. Rhode, N. Tisch, B. Rickel. O