West Lafayette High School - Scarlet and Gray Yearbook (West Lafayette, IN)

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WHY WE NEVER KNEW THE SCORE Many and unforgettable are the cold, clear nights we sat huddled on the bleachers cheering our team to victory. Between touchdowns we ate hotdogs, arranged cur neighbor's blanket to keep the wind off our feet, and Ioyally followed the leadership of our yell leaders. Their urgent faces, scarlet with cold, encouraged us to rah, rah, choo, choo as never before. Head Cheer Leader Don Cooley, Elizabeth Girvin, and Bob johnson were honored at the football and basketball banquets. The whole student body is pleased with its five young and glamorous majorettes. lt is all very technical to know that they won first in the state contest, but we have all spent pleasant hours watching them lead the band, and perform on the basketball floor. Helen Wileman, Marilyn Miller, Mary- rose Kellar, Mary Lou Morlan, and Catherine Comingore all have several more years of twirling for W.L.H.S. ahead of them.

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FOR THE GLORY OF OLD W. L. 6.A.A. Come out and have fun. That's what the 58 members of the Girls' Athletic Association do on Wednesdays and Fri- days from 3:00-5200. Under the di- rection of Miss Fites, the sponsor, the girls play soccer, basketball, volley ball, baseball, and participate in other sports. Girls also have fun in earning points for their activities. Besides Cleonice De Kay, who received her award last year, proud possessors of engraved plaques, the highest award, are Betty Wilson, jean Burnham, Barbara San- ders, Betty King, Frances Allen, and Elizabeth Young, the president of the club. The club sent Dorothy Mather and Bernice Heath to the State Con- vention at Muncie, Indiana, and eight girls to the State Play Day at Craw- fordsville. W. l. ClUB The W. L. Club is composed of all the boys who have won major letters in football, basketball, baseball, or golf. The club is headed by Gordon Straley. The main object of the club is to uphold the fine characteristics that were practiced by former athletes of this school. The members also encour- age and promote clean speech and high morals throughout the school. During the past year the club was rather inactive. At various times dur- ing the year, the club met to discuss problems concerning the athletic de- partment and problems concerning the future of athletics. The final club ac- tivity-was a dance, that was given in the spring.

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The season's result is as follows: West West West West West West West West West Side Side Side Side Side Side Side Side Side 7 ....,s. ..,,,.... L aporte I 3 ..Logansport I3 ......Hoopeston 6 ..............Peru 7 .......Broad Ripple 6 ....,...Frankfort O ,....,..........jeff O Crawfordsville O ....,.MonticelIo O YEA SCARIETI Do you remember a fleet-footed halfback who twisted and squirmed his way through a determined red and black eleven, and a tackle who continually broke up and stopped every play the night of October 27? If you do, you remember Harold Swank, Paul jackson, and a 25-O score over the not so broncin' jefferson Broncos which helped to make the l94I Red Devil season one of the best in the school's history and one that will be long remembered. Opening the season September I2 at Laporte the Red Devils, playing for a win instead of a tie, met their lone defeat of the schedule at the hands of the strong La- porte Slicers. Hampered somewhat by the loss of Harold Swank, the Devils were turned back I3-7 in spite of the performances of Paul jackson and Keith Steckel. The Devils, however, bounced into a winning streak -a streak which counted eight straight victories-the following Friday at the expense of Logansport, I8-I3. Hoopeston of Illinois proved to be the next stepping stone of the Devils, being trounced by the score of 33-6 as the Scarlets made their first appearance of the season at Meridian Field. The Peru Indians were next to feel the sting of the Red Devils' horns, Co-Captain Frank Lebart personally accounting for I3 of the Devils' points in an I8-7 vic- tory. The Scarlets then turned back successively Broad- ripple of Indianapolis 3I-6 and Frankfort 7-O, the lat- ter a bitterly fought contest in which Keith Steckel re- turned a second half kick-off 92 yards for the only score, Then came the annual battle with jeff in which West Side in a scarlet night showed her supremacy on the field by a 25-O score. A soggy, muddy field provided the setting for the final two games of the season, but the boys showed that all the elements could not stop them, turning back Crawfordsville Athenians 6-O and ending the season in a blaze of glory with a 38-O triumph over Monticello. RED DEVILS WIN HONURS After completing one of the most successful seasons in West Lafayette history, the Scarlets were honored with the selection of four members on the All State Foot- ball Squad. Co-Captain Paul jumbo jackson received a tackle position on the first team all state, an honor that is en- vied by every high school performer in the state of In- diana. Honorable mentions went to Co-Captain Frank Ernie LeBart, halfback Harold Swank, and quarter- back Keith Steckel. At the annual banquet honoring the team, Keith Steckel was presented the most valuable player award, and joe Collings and Rodney Steinmetz were selected as Co-Captains of the I942 Devil Squad. Much credit for the Red Devils' successful season goes to Coach Gordon Straley and Assistant Coach Dave March. Outstanding also, was the play of underclassmen, notably ends, joe Collings and Rod Steinmetz, guards, jerry Yeager and john Guthrie, backs, Bill Leslie, Dick Bushnell, and Bill Canfield.