West Philadelphia High School - Record Yearbook (Philadelphia, PA)

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BA lllll UP ffl. Ml. HRSHNEH Coach Back Row: Gregory. Colbern, Iohnlon. Dellkor, Raluocxy, Iallo- man, Rubin, Sobel. Hummel. Saraydarian. Middle Row: Crossmore. I-einer, Kolsnonol, Sadlaon, Graham, Novak. Breslin, Goldstein. Sonlin. Rubin. Icrcobl Burnl, Manager: Kirshner. Coach. Front Row: Fox, Spitz, Goldberg. Souiilul. Tiltl. Fuller. Human. The Speedboys' baseball season was not a fail- ure, but neither did it come up to expectation. Many positions on the team were weak at the beginning of the season but grew stronger as the season progressed. Western, rated by sports writers as one of the strongest teams in the league, lived up to the writers' opinion by defeating Dobbins 4-3 and St. Thomas More 7-4 in early non-league games. Bill Decker, a tall, lanky letterman from last season, fanned 15 batters in the Dobbins game. But his arm gave way in the middle ol the season, and thus the team lost a great pitcher. However, the team had another pitcher in Hook Novak who was rated as one of the best pitchers in the Public League. Holding down the infield positions were Iohn Kokonos, Mark Spitz, Cleo Soufflas, and Ralph Hummel. Dick Rubin showed such slugging powers that he was inserted in the clean-up position in batting. Coach Kirschner revised his line-ups several times during the league competition in order to find where Western's power lay. Western looks forward to next spring and a better team.

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Our basketball squad: from lelt to right. bottom row: King, Werther, Zartarian, Waxler, and Seitz. Standing are: Grekin. Daroll, Coach Hackman. Asst. Coach Cantor and Iurman. Iltltllt In a mad scramble lor the ball. No. 7, Waxler has both hands in the melee. Werther, No. 24. is coming in last to aid. With the return ol several letternien, Coach Hackman looks forward toa championship team. Western wound up in second place last year in the Public High playoffs and hopes this year to go all the Way and take the championship. With several Weeks ot extensive practice, Western opened its season by downing a strong Haverford quintet 3528. In this game Ed, Seitz scored l4 points and as a Whole the team showed great ability. ln their second game Western d-eteated St, Thomas More, 3U-19, With such a good start, Western hopes to keep on the go and put West Philadelphia back in the ranks of the champions. So good luck to Wes Hackman -and his speedboys. Underneath the backboard are Werther. No. 24, and Zartarian, No. 25.

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HllllWOItK SOCCER Top Row: Kyle. Rowland. Sagherian, Iarisian. Shatter. Hummol.Koon. Konderaiian. Aniston! Manager. Middle Row: Wilson. Nor- conian. Hastings. Front Row: A. Kazaniian. Lovson. Loiur. llud- Iian. S. Kazaniiun. MR IONES Coach With the return of ten lettermen from last years soccer team, Coach Iones built a team which he hoped would take the championship. However, to everyone's disappointment, the team finished last in league stand- ing. lt seems that the final standing of the team does not truly reflect the worth of its players. All season long, Shatter, the goal tender, blocked many a ball that seemed destined for a score. The team played its best game against Northeast, only to lose a heart-breaker by the score of l to O. Such players as Harris, Capt. Hastings, Nercesian, Kazanjian, Hummel, and larjisian, kept the score down, although Western could not score. ln non-league games the team tied a greatly favored Haverford College I. V, team and defeated Bartram High by the score of 2 to O. Coach Iones and his boys look forward to a great season next year.