West Bend High School - Bend Yearbook (West Bend, WI)

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on the Gridiron Tl-lE FOOTBALL RECORD OE I938 LITTLE TEN FOOTBALL STANDINGS Team Won LosT PercenTage Mayville ,,,, 6 O LOOO T-loricon 5 l -333 WesT Bend, ,, ,, .4 2 -667 Oconomowoc 4 2 -657 Columbus 3 3 -500 l'larTTord .2 3 -4 Berlin ,, ..., W2 3 -4 Beaver Dam, , , l 3 -250 Waupun i 5 .I67 Ripon, , , ,, , ,O 6 .OOO WesT Bend 0, PorT WashingTon 20 ln a game which was much closer Than The score indicaTes, PorT WashingTon reTained The TradiTional Bulldog Trophy by deTeaTing The Red and WhiTe Team beTore a large homecoming crowd. WiTh The TirsT half ToughT on even Terms, wiTh The edge, if any, going To WesT Bend, The game gave The appearance oT a very hard ToughT baTTleg however, The Team had a breakdown in The second halT and PorT rang up 20 poinTs To give Them a hard-earned vicTory. WesT Bend 7, Berlin 0 The Red and WhiTe Team won iTs second conTerence game aT Berlin in a biTTer, hard-ToughT baTTle which Tound Berlin's TiTle hopes smashed when Goeden scored on a I2 yard Touch- down run. l-le also spliT The crossbar Tor The exTra poinT. ATTer This, WesT Bend ThreaTened several Times, buT each Time Berlin Threw up a sTouT defense and Took The ball on downs. In The Tinal quarTer The air was filled wiTh TooTballs as Berlin aTTempTed To score a Touchdown on passes. The game ended wiTh only one Touchdown being Tallied. Eddie AlTendorT grabs a pass. Goeden passing Tor a 254yard g Breaking up a pass. Time ouT beTween guarTers. Page Twenly nine

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The Homecoming BcnTire. Capfa ns of Foofballz Johnny KuehlThau, Tom Merriam, l-la ley Wachs, Lesfer Mein- T and Bill Marfh. Courage Wins ,. F - an a J .1 59 -V' , 1 . X I AT The conclusion of The I938 fooTball season. The l.iTTle Ten Conference sTandings found Wesf Bend in a Tie wiTh Oconomowoc for Third place, and Mayville again aT The Top of The heap, afTer They had smashed down T-loricon for The cham- pionship. WesT Bend played 6 conference games, and 2 non-conference baTTles. The losses challced up were adminisTraTed by The Two nonfconference foes, Porf WashingTon and Pio Nono, while The conference losses were crediTed To Mayville and l-loricon. However, on The sunny side of The ledger were vicTories over Beaver Dam, Berlin, Ripon, and Oconomowoc. Wesf Bend 6, Pio Nono 33 The firsT game oT The season found Wesf Bend up againsT a very formidable foe in Pio Nono. Lining up againsT a much larger school and Team, WesT Bend gave a good showing and played The besT game of The enTire season. ln The firsT half, Pio Nono had Things quife Page Twenfy-eighf Their own way, and scored mosT of Their poinfsg however, in The second half The Red and Whife came To life when aTTer a 60 yard march down The field, Wiskirchen crossed The goal for The lone Wesf Bend Touchdown. WesT Bend 0, Horicon 8 Meefing Horicon as Their firsT conference hurdle, Wesf Bend suTfered a severe leTdown. ln- iuries from The Pio None game slowed down many oT The players and gave Horicon The advanTage. A safeTy in The firsT half, when Schaefer was Taclcled behind his own goal and a smash oT 8 yards for a Touchdown in The second gave l-loricon The margin of vicTory. WesT Bend 7, Beaver Dam 0 WiTh The Red and WhiTe Team playing Their firsT home game of The season, The homecoming game, MaTT Goeden Thrilled The crowd wiTh a dazzling 45 yard run followed by his kicking The exTra poinT. This gave WesT Bend iTs firsT confer- ence vicTory and paved The way for more vicfories.

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GAMES an RESULTS Coarl M Page ThlrTy WesT Bend 7 Ripon 0 A dreary d y Tound WesT Bend baTTIIng Rlpon beTore a large homecoming crowd The TlrsT halT was ToughT wITh nelTher Team havnng The edge The only TnreaT was an advance To The Three yard llne by Ripon buT The Red and WhuTe Threw up a sTonewall deTense and Took The ball on downs AT The end oT The Th rd period wlTh The score O To O :T seemed The game would end an a scoreless Tue when suddenly Kusssnger Tossed a pass To Wachs who Took The ball To The I I yard lnne On a serxes oT plunges and reverses Goeden crossed The goal To glve The Benders a vncTory WesT Bend 6 Mayvalle 28 Qnce more The Mayville 'mx popped up beTore WesT Bend and leTT Them vlcTorlous over The Tnghhng Red and WhuTe Team Mayvulle opened The scornng column IH The TlrsT halT a lnne plunge Touchdown Then Wach unTercepTed a pass and raced 60 yards To The 2 yard llne and Three plays laTer DunsT aT The half WnTh Thus close score as an unsplrahon WesT Bend sTarTed Tne econd nalT weTh Things pracTncally Thenr own way I-Towever a SO yard punT reTurned Tor a Touchdown by a May vnlle back changed Thc Tsde ATTer Thu Mayville Took command and scored Theur remaunnng Touchdowns by sheer power WesT Bend I2 Oconomowoc 0 WnTh advance warnlngs by Cooney Tans ThaT They would give WesT Bend a real TnghT The Benders knuckled down and drnlleo hard when The Tume came They were In Tune shape The T1rsT Touchdown was scored by Goeden on an oTT Tackle smash In The Tnnal guarTer on a long pass Trom Goeden Kenny ran 30 yards To give WesT Bend :Ts Tnnal Touchdown The Tunal score was I2 To O In Tavor oT WesT Bend 6 . . . , . . I . 1 . I . . . . on crossed The goal To hlke The score To 7 To 6 in Tavor oT Mayville , F . . . . . ' I A ' . . 's ' ' . , b . . . ,T ichula