Wheaton Academy - Compass Yearbook (Wheaton, IL)

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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.

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Playing their first game after Christmas, Wheaton was completely outclassed at Christian. Althought we were only behind by 3 points at the half, we lost 56-73. Merold took scoring honors with 6 field goals and 7 free throws. In the lowest scoring game of the season, the Warriors couldn't find the bucket and dropped this encounter to North Park 28-46. Half of North Park's points were scored by Norberg. We scored a meager 8 points in the first half and added only 20 in the final periods. The next week our team played one of their best games all season as they tripped up league-leader Univrsity High 56-51. The Bensonmen wanted this one bad and with much team spirit and unity they got it. They trailed during the whole game until the final period. Then they suddenly caught fire and went on to win. Dave Thompson led the pack with 15 points. Wheaton nearly pulled another upset against Mooseheart as they fought to within 5 points of the big fellows 70-75. Once again dominating height hurt them but also their foolish mistakes cost them a lot. Westphal and Kraft went wild and scored all but 15 points of the total as Merold got 34 himself. Coming back to beat a team that had beaten them twice previously, the Bensonmen downed a mighty good I. C. club 61-48. Balanced scoring is what did the trick for the winners as three fellows went into double figures and two dumped in 8 points apiece. llliana proved to be an easy foe as the Academy cleared the bench once again in their 68-45 victory. But things were quite different the next week as they suffered a 35-76 trouncing at hands of a tall, fast, accurate Harvard five. No Wheaton man could get over 9 points as we were outplayed throughout the game. The next night Wheaton lost another tough non- conference game to a scrappy team from Fenton. We whole game up until the final min- quarter when we fell behind and 48-53. were ahead the utes of the last ended up losing Elgin was no contest for the fighting little men and were trounced 70-27. Every Wheaton man saw action in this fracas. Kraft, Westphal and Thompson went into double figures in the scoring column to keep their team out in front most of the Luther North game. A repeat of 8 JUNIORS BACK FOR NEXT YEAR some of our other games, we lost in the final quarter 53-61. These are the disappointing ones. This year Latin was much tougher and gave us a good game. But we edged the north side boys 59-53 despite the excellent play of all-conference Grossman who potted 23 points. The Alumni game was played under high tension but proved to be a good time for the participants. The youngsters managed to drop their older opponents 56-42 as Kraft hit for 23. Stretching their winning streak to 3, Wheaton outplayed the Glenwood boys to a tune of 76-57. Kraft hit his high for the year as he netted 16 field goals and 7 free throws for a total of 39 points. Next was Westphal with 20. Once again the team from Prince Crossing let up in the final stages of the game after leading previous- ly. North Shore outscored the Academy 2-1 in the last quarter and finished out in front 60-65. Kraft kept his average high as he got 28. The last game of the season was the fracas with Luther North in the P.S.L. tournament. We didn't have what it took that night and suffered a 34-71 defeat. Luther North went on to take fourth in the tourney. Guard Ed Robinson on a iump shot