Wilmot Union High School - Panther Yearbook (Wilmot, WI)

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FCOTB LL The Wilmot Panthers came up with a 1957 football record of two wins and four losses with two tie scores thrown in. This is a somewhat le.ss impressive record than the one made by the Panthers of 1956, but the graduation of seven outstanding boys had left Coaches Bucci and Handke with an inexperienced team and this inexperience played a big role in the 1957 outcome as mistakes were the determining factor in a big share of the games lost. In our first game the team left the An- tioch jinx', to be dealt with by some future Panther team as they were defeated by a margin of six to nothing. While making a block in this game, senior tackle, Wendell Schenning, suffered a back injury which hurt our line as he was able to play but very little during the rest of the season. One week later the team lifted the spirits and hopes of its members, the fans, and the students here as they tied the pre-season favorite, Mukwonago, six to six. Mukwon- ago went on to win the conference title. A freshman, Greg Bush, tossed to LaMeer for the score in this game. East Troy was our next opponent and this game also ended in a stalemate seven to seven. Here again the lack of experience showed itself. Num- erous offside penalties near the East Troy goal stopped Wilmot scores which could have given us the Victory. Baumann went over for our score. The remainder of the games during the whole season was a group of hard-fought encounters, but not until the final game of the season against Burlington did the team really get to moving. We beat the Demons twenty-seven to nothing. We finished the year in fifth place in the conference stand- ings. Coach Handke's B team or hamburg- ers had a five - win - one - loss record and should combine with this year's A squad holdovers to build a good team next year. Junior end, 'Wally Partenheimer, re- ceived all-conference honors and junior guard, Jim Elwood, tied for all-conference at his position, but since he was a junior and the other boy a senior he was placed on the second team. Jim was also named as player of the year for this area by the Burlington Standard-Press. Captain Jack LaMeer, fifth highest scorer in the league, and senior center, Wally Rosentreter, were given honorable mention by the sports writers. THE RECORD VVILMOT 0 7 6 0 14 13 27 7 Antioch 6 East Troy 7 Mukwonago 6 Whitewater 12 Elkhorn 32 Lake Geneva 0 Burlington 0 Delavan 12 Page Sixty-nine

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KETB LL When the buzzer had announced the end of the final game of the sub-district tourna- ment here, the general rejoicing on the part of the local fans evidenced the fact that the boys on our basketball team and their coach, Bob Handke, had paid their debt in full for having lost all conference games this year. With only one win to their credit, the team had gone into the tournament as just another looser, but they emerged with a perfect tournament record to the de- light of all of us. Sharon, William.s Bay, and Walworth were beaten in successive games as the record below shows. Had the tournament turned out differ- ently, the team and their coach need not have felt too badly about their record. They started the season with only two senior regularzs. Gil Amborn was not in the line-up for several games because of an injured foot, and Jim Baumann was lost to the squad early in the season because of a LINE-UP Forward - Tom Gaynor Lee Jeffers Gary Held Center - Wally Partenheimer Bob Kramer Guards - Gil Amborn Don Amborn Jim Baumann Ccaptainj Subs - Charles Kist Fred Cornell Herman Harmon Terry Avery Qmanagerj shoulder injury. They also started with a squad of only about eight members and these were supplemented by the addition of two more seniors, Charles Kist and big Bob Kramer. Probably no player in the history of our school began his basketball career in the middle of his senior year and made a greater contribution to the team's success than did Bob Kramer. As the sea- son closed Bob was doing a tremendous job under the boards on both defense and of- fense. Charles Kist played in only a few games, but was a real work-horse in practice sessions. The spirit of these two boys even in defeat is emblematic of the spirit of all the squad members as they re- fused to admit their losses and came on the floor for each game determined to give the very best that they had for Wilmot High. We are proud to salute this spirit of de- termination and to include the team rec- ord here. RECORD WILMOT 42 Mukwonago 52 33 Central 46 42 Alumni 52 35 Lake Geneva 75 48 Delavan 68 42 Burlington 67 56 Mukwonago 61 East Troy 42 VValworth 46 Whitewater 62 83 45 58 43 Elkhorn 52 24 Burlington 40 28 Lake Geneva 54 48 Delavan 54 62 Central 47 44 Mukwonago 68 46 East Troy 63 49 VVhitewater 52 45 Elkhorn 60 Sub-district Tournament WILMOT 96 Sharon 34 52 Williams Bay 44 58 Walworth 41 District Tournament WILMOT 58 Lake Mills 77 46 Slinger 49 Page Seventy-one