Wheaton Academy - Compass Yearbook (Wheaton, IL)

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On his famous shot Merold Westphal 6' forward Dave Thompson 5' 10 guard Jim Bosgraf 6' 1 forward from the side, Kraft pots one for Wheaton Hindered by a lock of height and in many cases, failure to make free throws, the Academy Varsity ended the season with a not too impressive win-lost record. However, one of the high- lights of the season was the new Holiday Tournament held at St. Procopius in Lisle. Our boys won one of their two games to finish with the second place trophy despite playing without some of the fellows who were home for the holidays. But the team didn't do so well against stiffer competition in the P.S.l.. tourna- ment. Luther North was picked to play against us and set us down in short order 34-71. The Warriors won only 9 of their 25 games. Mr. Benson once again coached the varsity basketball team this year giving the fellows rough workouts and many good ideas for defensive and offensive patterns. Each of the team members enioyed playing under his leadership and learned a lot about team spirit and basketball tactics. The two high scorers of the Academy five were Merold Westphal and George Kraft. Wes poured in a total of 317 points for a point per game average of 13.8. He also played an ex- cellent defensive game and had a lot of hustle on the court. George was only 2 points behind Merold as he accumulated 315 points in the 23 game schedule for a 13.7 mark. The bulk of the rebounding was also done by him.

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George Kraft Jim Carmean 6' T forward 6' l forward Kraft finally found his range and in the Luther South game poured in 8 field goals and 3 free throws to aid his team to a 61-46 conference victory. Luther missed the able playing of their star, Wendling, and seemed to be lost without him. Every player on the Wheaton bench saw action as Coach Benson sub- stituted freely in the one-sided affair. The story was just the opposite as we were beaten by Parker 46-65. But the score doesn't tell the story as we were down only Tl points going into the final quarter. The superior height of the Parker team was evident as they held down the board somewhat al- though Huff did more than his share for the home team. Westphal led in the scoring column with his T8 markers. The next weekend found the Wheatonites on the short end ofa 55-63 frassle with St Procopius. We held a comfortable TO point margin at the half but at the U High's Ebe and Fishman converge on Westphal but Merold nets two more points for the winners, 54 Luther North's center has the height advan- tage on Bosgraf and takes the lump, Kraft waits in vain. quarter it had dwindled to nothing as the score was deadlocked at 43 apiece. The last quarter told the story as St. Pokey went on to win, Kraft and Huffman scored T8 and T7 respectively. Not wishing the team to be idle over vacation, Coach Benson entered the team in a Holiday tourna- ment at St. Procopius. The first night they played Lisle and were able to down them 47-41 behind the 26 points of Bosgraf and Kraft. This was their first game without the help of big John Huffman and they could feel the loss. But they played a team that night that was their size and pulled through with the victory. They nearly upset I. C. the next night as they were only 3 points behind at one point in the fourth quarter, but they couldn't seem to get those extra couple of buckets to put them ahead as they lost 47-53. Kraft led the scoring both nights with a total of 35 counters. Thompson hits his iump shot as White helps by using body English.