Whitehouse High School - Whitonian Yearbook (Whitehouse, OH)

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.....- WHITQNIAN ...... FOOTBALL TEAM Whitehouse High Eleven Encounters Strong Opposition With nine letter men, but with only six regulars, the Green and Gold Eleven of W. H. S. met a strong Delta team September 21 under their lights ibut in the rain? and suffered a 20-O setback. This battle with Delta brought out the fact that the team was inexperienced. Wilbert Thomas, new coach, worked the boys into shape and when they faced Scott Reserves at the Welfare Fanm the next Friday, they held the Toledoans to six points, but themselves failed to score, although the final whistle found the ball only a few feet from Scott's goal line. That noted Whitehouse punch of last year was sorely lacking. When, on Octo- ber 5, the local gridders met Perrysburg, to whom they handed out a 40-O defeat last season, the traditional worm turned and the Whitehouse lads pondered over their 15-O loss in the shower room. Coach Thomas drilled the eleven hard and they played their best game of the season against Maumee. Whitehouse threatened to score several times during the game but could not push the ball over the final chalk line. Maumee scored in the first period to win 6-O. Tradition was shattered the following week when the Green and G0ld's bitterest rivals, Swanton, faced them on the home field, and defeated the luckless locals 19-7. For the past two years Whitehouse had held Swanton scorless but the best they could do this year was to score once themselves. Sprink scored the lone touchdown and Walter Thomas made the point. On October 19, the local gridders journeyed to Scott for another light-weight game and were badly defeated 20-6. A pass from Sprink to Hall scored the touchdown. The final game of the disastrous 1954 gridiron season took place at North Baltimore. Although the boys fought hard and played one of their finest games, they fell before their strong rivals 18-O. Honorary Cap- tains for this game were Norman Bauman, who will be ineligible on ac- count of age next season, and James Ammon, only graduating gridder. In spite of the fact that this was one of the most disastrous foot- ball seasons in the history of Whitehouse, it developed a finer team for next year because it gave those men who lacked experience last year suf- ficient knowledge of the game to star next season. With only two var- sity men graduating, there remain not less than nine returning regulars who saw nearly full time on this year's team and who will be capable of doing much better next season. This was Coach Thomas's first year of coaching, also, and he has found out where he has erred and will profit by his mistakes. The 1934 line averaged nearly 165 pounds and the backs 154. Sever- al regulars, including Captain Thomas, were injured at various times, giving the substitutes a chance to develop. Coach Thomas hopes to form a lightweight team from the next year's athletic Freshmen. we hope that some of these boys will follow in their brother's footsteps or even outstep them! Let us look forward to a successful 1935 season. we can easily predict a fine season if we all give our whole-hearted support to the football team of '55 and to that efficient and patient coach, Mr. Wil- bert nBillU Thomas!! James Ammon .......,,, 71 .........