Washington Park High School - Kipikawi Yearbook (Racine, WI)

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in...-. - .-..-i K . ,la ...N ..:, v . F 'Vs- Varsity Football 'HIFI 'fl A sensation this year at converting extra points was Joe Bobeck with the magic toe. Manager Furrenes holds the ball and Manager Highman looks on as Joe warms up his toe in practice. The following week in its first home confer- ence game, Park trounced Madison East 13 to 2. Dick Miller led the scoring for Park and Joe Bobeck kicked the extra point. Undisputed first place was at stake when Madison Central moved into Racine. Madison's high hopes were centered around Ted Scalissi, a small, fast, hard-hitting, shifty back whom Park managed to hold to little gain on his re- peated tries. Venturing into Madison West territory, Park came through one of its closest games of the season. Joe Bobeck was the hero in this game. On an inside tackle play, Dick Miller is gaining ground. On the next play Park scores a touchdown against East. The regulars line up against the second team. Visible in the foreground are Neider and Brusko. Bahnson awaits the charge of the forward line of the opposition as do the rest of varsity squad. ' ima When Park's offense worked, many long gains were made on runs. At the end of one of these runs Dick Miller 4513 is coming in to block and Jack Finch is on his back, a Janesville man diving over him. 1939 BIG EIGHT STANDINGS W. L. T. Pct Washington Park . . . . . . 5 0 2 1.000 William Horlick . . . , . . 4 2 1 .667 Madison Central .... . . . 4 3 0 .571 Madison East ..... . . . 4 3 0 .571 Beloit ......... . . . 3 3 1 .500 Kenosha ........, . . . 3 3 1 .500 Madison West .... . . . 2 4 1 .333 Janesville ...... . . . 0 7 0 ,000 A worm's eye view of the huddle of a championship team. Starting at the top in the striped sweater is Roger Nelson and clockwise around the circle are Arnie Christiano, Toby Olson, Chuck Koehler, Frank Kurhajec, Dick Miller, Walter Neider, Jack Finch, Ken Bahnson, Bob Belden and Al Zupek.

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Varsity Football Co-captains Walter Neider and Kenneth Bahnson take pride in holding the Big Eight Trophy won by the team which they led so successfully during the past football. season. 'E UNDEFEAT-BD CHAMPS 'Park . . 12 N. Division fMil.J . . .12. .Here Sept. 15 Park . . 0 Kenosha ........... 0. .There Sept. 23 Park . . 13 Madison East .,..... 2. .Here Sept. 30 Park.. 7 Madison Central .... 0. .Here Oct. 7 Park . . 14 Madison West ...... 12. .There Oct. 13 Park . . 28 Janesville ....,. . . . 0, .Here Oct. 21 Park . . 19 Beloit ....... . . . 0. .There Nov. 1 Park . . 0 Horlick ......,. , . . 0. .Here Nov. 10 'Non-conference game Back Row: Mgr. Stroschine, D. Aiello, D. Haumersen, Akgulian, Konz, S. Yoghourtjian, L. Martin, S. Henkes, Sucharda, H. Moody, Wojcik, Bobeck, Mgr. Mananian. Serum! lim:-: F. Kurhajec, Komistra, Hunn, Brusko, Muir, Bahnson, Neider, C. Koehler, R. Henkes, Finch. First lfmr: Glen M. Johnson, Schrader, R. Miller, R. Belden, Kristan, Roger Nelson, Christiano, Olson, Al Zupek. 4 Mt Planning the 1940 football campaign was Park's able coaching staff consisting of Clark Van Galder, head coachg George Walter, B team coachg Richard Hallisy, line coachg and Leigh Steinman, junior team coach. Undefeated Champions of the Big Eight' is the title of Park High's football team this year. A strong North Division eleven came to Racine for Park's first game. An early second quarter drive from their own 35 gave Park the first touchdown. Harvey Schrader, center, then intercepted a pass and ran 40 yards to another touchdown. Again the point after failed. North came back to run up two touchdowns against Park. In a biting cold wind of hurricane proportions that interfered with both passing and punting, Park played to a scoreless tie against Kenosha in its first conference game. The edge in sta- tistics went to Park, but the Red Devils would not let the Orange and Blue advance beyond their 20 yard marker. Fumbles at critical mo- ments prevented possible touchdown drives. S. l K ,B no 1 vc, -of i ni ya-: in iv 1' , ..,.: f. if I I ,fmt-5 -1 Daiwa- ' - Q.-,. ,.-1 9-in ad. Ll! if-me-1 :. 'X C ld. S' I rdf'

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Rasmussen, Stemmer. Junior Reserves HBH Squad WF? ME Q 3 ' 99 5 as R Q, 1 i ' , 1 ' lest Hansen, G Cavallo, Mgr. Highman. Sf'I'U71d J. Becker F. Harris, Ralph Smith, Rose, R. First limi-: Bulgrin, Newman, Kotis, Stauss, Jansen. Nut I'ichm'd: W. Du'Bois, Francis, Oliver, Persinske, Bob irucha, J. Hegeman, rove, B. Buhler, A. After each of the two touchdowns by Park's scoring ace, Dick Miller, he sent a perfect kick from placement over the bars, giving Park its margin of victory as West managed to push over two touchdowns but failed on tries for extra points. Against Janesville here, the ball was well in enemy territory most of the afternoon. The varsity crossed the goal on three occasions, the Park second string scored a touchdown when Dick Aiello plunged over the line, and Joe Bobeck kicked the extra points. At Beloit, Park handed the Purple its first defeat on its home field in many years. When things looked bad for Park in the first period, Dick Miller intercepted a pass and ran 100 yards to a touchdown. Park scored two more touch- downs with the honors going to Aiello and Zupek. Bobeck's extra point kicks were blocked. A pass to Koehler provided the only point after touchdown. Before the largest crowd ever to watch a foot- ball game in Racine, Park played Horlick to an exciting scoreless tie in their annual intra-city game. Statistics gave the edge to Horlick, but Park came closest to scoring when a pass drib- bled off the fingertips of the intended receiver inside the 10 yard stripe. Another pass deep into Horlick territory missed two waiting receiv- ers by inches. Q ' f .rf i A Bark Rm:-: gr. Grno, Jack Nielsen, Stauss, Ray Johnson, Henkes, Rondon, Radwill, Lampark, Peterson, Earl Andersen. Third Rau-: Belland, Grabher, Bruce Larson, Rost, Tenzy, Aiken, Csipkes, B. Miller, Dugas, Seaholm, J. Sabatino. Second Hou-: Kempel, Maynard Andersen, L. Sittig, B. Jones, H. Moody, R. Cape, C. Olson, R. Bayer, Vaillancourt, H. Leslie, Haluska, C. Johnson. Firsf ROIPI N. Larsen, Alfano, A. Dillonaire, Curcio, Lloyd Andersen, A Komistra, D. Shelstad, S. Jurkowski. Mascari, Wacht, J. Salerno. The 1939 B football squad, under the lead- ership of Coach George Walter, completed a successful season by winning five and losing three games. The primary purpose of the B team was to teach the fundamentals of the game and to develop future varsity candidates to defend the title brought to Park this year. The team played in a league that is known as the Lake Shore Conference, a new member of which was Kenosha. Larger schools used only freshmen and sophomores. The junior reserves also will be relied upon to help defend the title. Coach Leigh Steinman directed this group through a very successful four game season. B SQUAD GAMES Park ........ 20 Milwaukee West ..... 19 Park .... . . . 0 Kenosha .......... .14 Park ........ 20 Horlick ............ 7 Park .... . . . 7 Cudahy ........... .13 Park ........ 7 South ' Milwaukee .... 6 Park ........ 19 South Milwaukee .... 0 Park .... . . 0 Kenosha ........... 7 Park .... . . 6 Horlick .... ....... 0 20