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

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,il-1-,42 B21SliCtb3ll - - Fast Passing and Straight Shooting A Squad WB 10 Port Washington . 20 WB Horicon ..... WB Berlin . . . . . WB 15 Oconomowoc . . . 32 WB Port Washington WB Beaver Dam . . WB 23 Ripon . . . . 22 WB Hartford . . . WB Mayville . . . . WB 18 Waupun . . 19 WB Columbus . . WB Hartford . . . B Squad WB 16 Port Washington . 19 WB Horicon ..... WB WB Boys City Team WB 15 Oconomowoc . . . 27 WB Port Washington WB Beaver Dam . . . WB 12 Ripon . . . . 14 WB Hartford . . , WB Mayville . . . . WB 9 Waupun . . 22 WB 16 Columbus . . 12 WB 17 Hartford . . . 13 The l94l-42 hardwood season found the Benders not quite up to par in order to place in the upper brackets of the conference. Under the very efhcient coaching of Bob Caldwell the team was soon groomed into a fighting machine. ln the first two games of the season, with Port Washington and Oconomowoc, the local cagers couldnlt seem to get going, dropping both games. However, the tables were turned in the next game with Ripon when Caspari sank a free throw for the winning point just before the final horn blew. The next four tilts with Waupun, Horicon, Port, and Hartford, proved to he nip-and-tuck affairs. Despite the high-scoring of Schroeder, Hancock, and Prechtel, the Red and White lost each game by a very slight margin. Th HAH S d Rough-house in the Out to win, in the next game the Red and White nosed out the Columbus Cardinals in the last I0 seconds of play on a free shot by George Altendorf. The following Friday the team rolled over Berlin to the tune of 33 to 20. Fresh from victory, the Red and White ran up against the Beaver Dam, Mayville and Hartford quintets. Failing to balance the scoring power of these three teams, the locals dropped all the tilts, ending the season with three defeats. A fast and snappy B squad, coached by Karl Kuss, turned in a fair record this season. It gained 3 conference wins and 2 non-conference wins out of a total of I2 games played. The outstanding players were Kenny Veit, Ralph Klein, and Cy Kluever. e qua Faculty-Varsity Game The HBH Squad Passing, free-shots, and buckets. Put them together, and we come out on the long end of the score. Page Twenty-four X

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A Glance at the Sports Year R ig .jf:.-. - Top Left: Cooking up a little pep! A. Wolf, B. Barens, M, Gonne1'ing. Center: The squad does a little kibitzing. Bottom: Over th e fence and Bonney scor es again. Top Right: 1941 P' k T IC rophy Winners. Top Row: Mr. Pick, N. Ottmer, CG. A. AJ, R. Becker' lTrackJ, A. Hancock tAl1-roundl, R. Rolfs fGo1fJ, D. Rounseville iBaseballb Mr, Grignon. Bottom: L. Weinand, fTen nisj, F. Re ' gnei CFootbal1J, G. Altendorf fBasketba11b. Bottom: Captain Gumm boots one While Gerner holds. Page Twenty-three 'T

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FOOtI321ll - - Power and Drive on the Gridiron l94l Scores West Bend . . 0 Plymouth ...... 0 West Bend 0 Beaver Dam .... I3 West Bend 6 Port Washington . . 6 West Bend I 3 Berlin ........ 26 West Bend 6 Ripon . ..... . 6 West Bend 7 Horicon . . . . . I 3 West Bend . . I 2 Oconomowoc .... I 3 The I94I gridders played hard, ripping football under the very capable coaching of Robert Caldwell. Coach Caldwell instilled much drive and will to play, but the season turned out to be a tough luck campaign for the Benders. They did, however, set some of the better teams back on their heels and tied three games. The loss column was a little high- er with four chalked up against the Benders. After only a few weeks of practice the Benders went to Plymouth and held their opponents to a scoreless tie. Skinny Altendorf was the chief reason why the highly touted Beaver Dam team didnlt run all over West Bend. The Benders followed this defeat with an- other tie against Port, Jerry Kies getting back into the game and smashing through for a touchdown. The Berlin lndians played iiwahooi' and rompecl over the Benders to the tune of 26 to I3. Schalles ripped off 35 yards, and Kies made a line plunge to account for the two West Bend scores. The Benders, smarting from defeat, then tore up the turf at Ripon to tie the champions of the conference. The line played rough foot- ball with Jerry ul-linklen Kies and Pippen Heid carrying the leather with plenty of drive. Horicon tripped the Benders, but it took everything they had to do it. Kies blocked three punts in this thriller and fell on the last one in the end zone for the score. The final game of the season against Cooney was perhaps the hardest fought game of the year. Hank Gumm was the stalwart in the line while Petri and Heid shone at left half and quarterback, respectively. Don Schroeder did some very effective punting to carry the enemy back to their own goal many times. Otten, Hron, Pete, Sonnen- berg, Kratzer, Marth, and Rolfs played hard, good football throughout the season. But the '41 season dealt many injuries to star players, such as Don C-lander and Hose Hancock, who were laid up for the football term. Coach Caldwellis chief assistant was lVlr. Runkel. Between the two they set up one of the finest coaching staffs in the conference. Petri snares one. t Coach Caldwell gives 'em the once-over One-two, one-two! as Altendorf passes, Hard, driving scrimmage. The 1941 Squad. Page Twenty-Hve