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

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Glorious Gu of the Gridiron As the team streamed out of the locker room on the night of September l0th for the first game of the season, the crowd let out a roar which echoed over the field. The opponents were New Holstein, a strong but not a too powerful team. The Badgers were tense at the start, for their real strength was not known. After Kuhn made some wide sweeps around the ends, with Wolf pounding out the needed yardage for the first downs, the team knew they would be on the long end of the score. C39-61. After the game, as the team was relaxing, they thought of the forthcoming game with Columbus away from home. When the players ran onto the held from the bus, they knew they had plenty of support by the cheering which reached all corners of the field. Early in the first quarter Bob Reichert with an exhibition of expert pass-catching made a touchdown. This, com- bined with the splendid defense and offense of jack- lin, helped put West Bend on the long end of the score, C18-63. The next game was played with an old rival, Hartford. lnto this game went all the fighting spirit the boys could muster. But unfortunately the strength and speed of l-lartford's backfield and line was much too strong, and the Badgers found themselves on the short end of the score, C7-332. With the bitter defeat of the Hartford game still ringing in their ears, with revenge in their eyes, the Battling Badgers left for Mayville. With great team- work and plenty of fighting spirit the team rolled over Mayville by a score of 20-7. There was such alertness in the line that Rose soon intercepted a lateral and ran for a touchdown, The sharp downfield blocking on the part of quarterback jim Bell helped get the halfbacks in the clear. The next game at Port was an exciting, but a heartbreaking game. With the Badgers ahead by seven points lVlonohan of Port made a freak ninety-yard run. Port's other touchdown was earned by driving the length of the field. The Badgers, with fighting spirit, showed that even when the chips were down they woulcln't give up. The most talked about game for years to come was the l948 homecoming game with Berlin. Berlin outweighed the Battling Badgers eight pounds per Page ten Top --- Con ch Run k vl 4-nlmchffr. R. Schzicht, R Edgar, D. Grogan, .I Albrecht, J. Koehn. .I Hess, Coach Zarek. Third ---J. Cain, Manage-r C. Blnzel, R, Reichert J, Drew, C. Krueger, D LOD. Second --- D. Schaefer. C Stracka, VV. Wolf, VV Bradley, R. Klumb, L Jaeklin, J. Miller, J. Bell R. Ruhnke, J. Kuehn. Bottom --- VV. Boerger, J German, C. Cooley. K Herman. R. Dabringer J. Hziehig, D. Kuhn, B Zinke,J.Hoelz,G Schloerner. J. Hetland Manager. Fozich Caldwell, O. Aul- VVeber. H, Rose, J, Mil- ler, C. Richter, J. VVes- man, but with great fighting spirit and determination to win the Badgers again found themselves on the long end of the score, U2-OJ. Three outstanding players of this game were Krueger, whose rugged defensive playing on the two-yard line helped put back Berlin for a good lossy Haebig, whose pass catch- ing gave West Bend a needed touchdown, and Ger- man, who laid a downfield block so Haebig could get the needed touchdown. The next game was against our rival Oconomowoc. This was a tense, hard-fought contest for both sides. Hoelz, who caught a pass when the score was I3-7, Oconomowocg and Dabringer, whose alertness enabled him to recover a fumble behind Cooneyis goal line, helped put the Badgers on the winning side with a score of Zl-l3. The game with Waupun was a hard fought con- test. The expert defensive play of Albrecht and Herman, along with the rest of the team's determina- tion not to give up, helped keep the game to a tie score. Jim Haebig makes a flying tackle for West Bend