Wheaton Academy - Compass Yearbook (Wheaton, IL)

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Wrestling Wheaton Academy's most successful wrestling season was climaxed by Larry Rexilius as he represented the team in the state meet. The team faced some of the toughest opposition in the state and came through with a 7 win, 5 loss record. The big four throughout the sea- son proved to be Larry Rexilius, Dave Lindberg, Dave Garber, and Beano Oury. Others who had good records were Maurice Deming, Bob Neff, Dick Gieser, Eugene Wright, and Winston Hurl- burt. The team opened the season by defeating McHenry and outstanding York, then, running into trouble, they dropped three in a row to LaGrange, Elgin, and Hinsdale. ln the next match, the Warriors slapped back to flatten Palatine by 40 points as pins were racked up by all but four men. The next two wins were Wrestling Team Row 1: Tarbutton, Beano Oury, Garber, Cording, Kama, Coach Will- son. Row 2: Lindberg, Smail, Bullock, 4 Gieser, John Oury, Rexilius, Deming. Row 3: McNicol, Neff, Hearn, Dasburg, Von Bergen, Edwards, Hurlburt, Kinsler, Wright, Nanfelt. 2' chalked up over McHenry and Oswego. In a return match with Oswego, who came back with a much stronger team, the Warriors really came through, as Oury and Bullock beat their men, and Garber, Deming, Lindberg, Rexilius, and Hurlburt won by pin. In the last match of the season, the grapplers again knocked Palatine for a loop by a score of 45-12. Besides Rexilius, in the state sectionals, Neff, Deming, Lindberg and Oury won their first matches and Neff and Deming took fourths. ln spite of the success of the team, the out- standing thing about the 1953 wrestling squad was its dependence on the Lord. Before and after each match there was a prayer meeting. The wrestlers prayed first to be a testimony, and secondly to wrestle their best. This was the reason for consistent triumph. Beano Oury 95 pounds Dave Garber 112 pounds Dick Gieser 120 pounds