Western High School - Friendship Yearbook (Parma, MI)

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VARSHY BASKETBALL The 1941 basketball season was one of ups and downs A non league game w1th Hamtramck ended 1n defeat by that same one oolnt Jlnx that has dogged Western Cosmos games for yeavs The regular s ason opened Wlth a sm shxng tuumph agalnst Mackenzle but was followed by a b1tte1 ly fought contest Wlth Qouthwe tern w1th the Cowboys on the short end of th score The Cenral and W1lbur Wr1ght games were h1 hhght v1c tor1es for our boys led by Ph1l Anglofsky and Zlg Urbansk1 Cap t Anglofsky led the West Slde 1n scor 1ng whlle Urbanskl was also a dependable hot and a f1ne defensne player Several regulars vull be lost ln June and more next January but the nucleus of a good squad wrll remam Western Western Western Western Hamtramck Mackenz1e Southwester n Central Redford Cooley W1lbur Wr1ght Northwestel n Chadsey Western Western Western Western Western Western 27 RESERVE BASKETBALL Wmnwng vars1ty teams are the result of hard work pat1ent co chln and experlence The reserve teams furmsh the latter factor 1n th1s program that of exper1 ence Composed of nlnth and tenth grade boys the basketball reserve team plays before every vars1ty game and here the future stars of Westerns cagers are dex eloped Under the guldance of Mr Nelson Russell who has coached the reserve teams for many years the 1940 41 team comp1led an envlable record of SIX WIDS as aga1nst three losses 1mpress1ve v1ctor1es over Chadsey U of D and W1lbur W1 1ght were h1ghl1ghts of the schedulc Captam C Mxsko J1m Neumacher Paul Fortuna James OGrady and Marshall Mosher wele standout performers whxle John Ewamak Jerome Edwards Jack Young Robert lngraham Edmund L6SZli16XV1CZ and Ronald Ba1n rounded out the squad These boys showed nnprovement ID every game and should provlde excellent mater1al for next years var s1ty squad rage fzjty .six Front F Francls P Anglofsky B Hall B Foley F Curnow Z Urbanskx A M1ller Back S Perachlo D McCabe B Strxho J Laub coach E Black J Stroyan F Nunez Front J Young, C M1SkO, M Ingraham J Ewamak, M Mosher, J Edwards Back J Neubacker,P Rortuna N Russell coach, E LESBCZGWICZ, J OGrady, R Bam - srsssssssss 41 ' ssssssssss, sss,,, 1 9 , ' ' ' 4 ' as .ssssssssssss 23 A sssss,.,..,. 29 g u ' U. of D. , , v A ....s...,...36 -

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FOOTBALL The 1940 grld season prov1ded many hlghllghts for Western partlclpants Our Cowboy grldders led by Robert Punk Peterson and Ph1l Anglofsky all c1ty stars comp1led a lecord of three v1ctor1es two defeats and a t1e A hard struggle agalnst the champlonshlp Cooley team w1th Western on the short end of an 18 0 score and a moral vlctory agalnst Northwestern ln be mg the flrst to scole on them were examples of the courage and aggresslveness of th1s years squad Although hard h1t by graduatlon a promlslng squad under the dlrectlon of Mr K Matheson and Mr G Babcock w1ll return next fall Our flrst game next year IS a non league affalr at Cooley stadxum See you therell RECORDS Westel n Cooley Western Central Western MHCKQHZIG Northwestern Redford W1lbur Wr1ght Western Western Western SWIM TEAM Westerns swlm team was one of the most balanced squads 1n many years possessmg capable performers 1n each event Confronted w1th th1s s1tuat1on Coach Gun nerson was able to 1nst1ll a flghtlng sp1r1t 1n h1S boys whlch led to the West S1de Champ1onsh1p Dlck Ba chorelt was agaln Western s stand out performer tak mg f1rst place honors among the c1ty s d1v1ng competl tors Th1s year was the thlrd t1me w1th1n n1ne years that Western has won the West S1de Champlonshlp and the 11th stra1ght year our Western Cowboys have beat en our arch rlvals the Southwestern Prospectors Graduat1ng are Capta1n Ed Chess Bob Steege Dlck Cra1n Leo Edwards Ed Lazur Harry Steeves Don Lytle and Jordan N1Ch0lS Western Western Western Western Western Western Western Western RECORD Northwestern Cass Tech Central Chadsey Cooley Redford Southwestern Mackenz1e Front A Trundle E Bonarek R Peter son P Anglofsky Capt S WOJCIK K Karchefske M Montes A Mlller 'Wzddle N Thomas J Sulhvan G Chr1s ty C MISKO W Foley J Scott J Ma laney L ZaJac K J Matheson Coach Back H Dav1s H Smlth E Krystan J Slwak G Lerchen D McCabe M Mosher J Ewamak A Balze Front J Krygosk1, P Butler, E Walsh, F Meloche, D Bachorek, H Coates, E Frost Mzddle J Todt, R Pushman, H Steeves, J Roberts, W L Gunnerson, Coach, J Merosz, W Melton, J N1chols, G Astourlan Back A Morden, E Lazur, D Cram, L Edwards, E Chess, P Megenlty, D Lytle, B Steege l Page fzfty fwe - --'-----'-'-Y Y, 0 -Y,,V,,'----A-A,--,,,,VVV, ,..Y..,.,.,,.... ..,......,,..,.... J 6 Western,c,,,,L,,,,Y...49 Fordson , ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,.. 7 .,,,,,,,,,,, 14 aeeeeeeeees-'4'- 53 ------ee---e----A--eaeee 22 7 7 J f ..

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TRACK Thls years track team was off at the gun 1n a flght to reta1n the Indoor Clty Champ1onsh1p Wh1Ch was won last year by our boys Although faced w1th many vacanc1es because of graduatlon Coach K Math sons boys made a credltable showlng They won two and lost four 1n dual and tr1angular compet1t1on f1n1sh1ng slxth on the West Slde In the c1ty meet Western boys who quallfled for fxnals were James L1SkH pole vault Don Curtls mller and James Fredr1cks half mller Western s outdoor track stars got off to a flylng start when they came 1n f1rst 1n the m1le medley at the Wayne Relays and won a baton for the school In the flrst lnterscholastlc meet Western defeated Southwest ern 61 to 43 prlmarlly because of our team balance Western and Southwestern each took 6 flrsts but West ern had more seconds and thlrds Graduatmg from th1s years track teams are James L1SkH James Fredr1cks N1Ck Thomas Mel Hengen and Ed Black but prom1s1ng newcomers and remalnlng vet erans from th1S years squads w1l1 be back next year The results for the Indoor Track are as follows Alumnl 32 112 Western 53 3A Redford 6712 Western 181 2 Western Western Western Southwestern MHCKGHZIQ Cooley Western F1n1shed 6th F1H1Shed 13th Chadsey West League Clty Fmals Fzrst Row B Pletcher J Carroll B Jack son E Black A Georsheff R Moore J Fredencks J LISKB B Schheman Second Row J Mereno U Pollock T Nagy J Tmnmg L DHPUIS F Schefsky H Kroll R Re1nhart H Pollock Thvrd Row M P na R Garcla A Vaughn J Dupu1s D Wrubel V Garcla G Neu man A Welhnger H W91Sb9Tg H Plata Fourth Row J Campbell L Mahnowskl L ZaJac J Young H Patrlck St Mgr N Kemp J SIWBK W Glover R So lano K Matheson coach Front P Baetz H Pollock D Curt1ss W Ellsworth capta1n H Se1ferd man ager J Frederlcks L Stevens M Hen gen B Jackson Back C Merrlll H MHTKOWSKI L Try bus L Dupu1s J Laub coach A Georsheff A WYSUCKI R Burgy M Pena V Pollock CROSS COUNTRY The Cross Country team was agam under the able dlrectlon ot Mr J Laub C C IS a fall runmng event 1n whlch the boys run 2 m1les over an outdoor course The C1ty meets take place at RIVBF Rouge Park after the boys have had plenty of 1nterscholast1c compet1t1on Our Cowboys repeated thelr feat of a year before by placmg second 1n the west Slde meet and thlrd 1n the c1ty meet behmd Southeastern and Cooley Plenty of good materlal IS assured for next year al though we are 1os1ng Capt Warren Ellesworth Paul Baetz and Al WySOCk1 . , I . . . - . . . D , . . ' 1 - , . H Q a . . , . I . ,U . . . , . ' 3 1 Q a Q - - 7 ' ' 7 ' a , . . , . , . . . , w . , .. Q 7 . 7 , , - . , . ' - f ' ..,,,.,,..11...,,, 58 ,t..,,t...,.,., ,28 Central ,,,1,1,......,,,,,,.f... 50 Western ................ 36 ' : . , . , . - Y ' . 7 ' . 7 : 7 . , . , . . c: l. , ' . , . r - -1 - v - M v .. , . , .l . I: . e , . , ' . , . , . I , . ', . - , . , . , . ' : . , .' ' ', . , . . , . , . .5 . , . , . , . - , . , . : . , . I , I . ' , . , U s - , - g . , . , . - , . . : . ,. . , . - , . , . , . , . . v--af fa.-., -