Yeatman High School - Yeatman Life Yearbook (St Louis, MO)

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THE STUDENT COUNCIL

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NEW SENIORS l t LILLIAN ESSLINGER-NTILTUX QULDENDORPII-SILIIIC, 1926 ERE New Seniors! Thrills! XNVe're one more step nearer the heights of our ambition. One more term and we shall be Seniors. You know, at First we thought that Mr. Huntington had forgotten us. The Seniors had a meeting but not VVe. Then on one memorable day, we were called together. That afternoon, we had a stormy election. but finally we de- cided on the following officers: ',....! Y ' 4 ERS eaijgge President ..,............,.....,.....,.....,.. Frank Hueser Secretary ...... ...... ....... F 1 orence Marty Treasurer ................... ,.... E ugene Betimer Student Council h Representative .... ' .....,............ Thelma WVeber - Lillian Esslinffer L f C ' l t ..... . 'D 1 C 01 respom en S Milton Oldendorph Mr. Hall is again at his post of sponsor to the New Senior class, and he is considered our Pep Committee, as he never lets things die down. You should have seen us on Senior Color Day. To the rest of the school, the Seniors were everything. But to us, we were the main show and the Seniors were the side- show. Our Get Together Party was very suc- cessful. NV e had dancing and then some more dancing, and we can tell you, we were only too sorry when the time came for the orchestra to play K'H'ome, Sweet Home. Friday, November 13th, was a day set apart for Teachers' Convention. VVe had no school: therefore the New Seniors went on a hike. VV e went to Chain of Rocks, and you can take the word of those who went that they surely had a good time. Some time in the near future, the Seniors are going to give a party for -the New Seniors. lsn't that kind of them? ' But soon after that we're going to give them a party. To think that when we were New juniors we thought that we would never reach our seventh term. Uh. we knew we would get there some time, but we also. knew that it would take three years. Three long years ahead of us! Wlhy, it seemed more like ten years. Now when we look back, our New Junior days seem to have been only yes- terday. So far, our term has been a very happy one. The class selected good officersg we have a peppy advisor, and a class that is second to none. Could one expect our term to be anything but successful? There's one thing more which is of great importance and which we would like to have you knowg we may be the first class to graduate from Beaumont, and we may form the first alumni of it. We therefore, con- sider ourselves individually honored, for we may help establish new ideals and new cus- toms in Beaumont. s-4+-4 ' ' - One Hundred Ten

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FOOTBALL PETER BRAROE OOTBALL! Capitalize, italicize 'its letters. Do anything to emphasize its importance to the scholastic life ' I of a nation. Minimize them in so far as that degree of consequence has ex- tended to Yeatman. Factors that made this state of affairs inevitable are as follows: To be a born football player is, in the main, a fallacious phrase. But that a community-or the youth of a community-can possess-a bred-in-the- bone spirit for the sport is undeniable. Is North St. Louis, of which Yeatman High School is the center, of course pervaded with thatintensity of thought? The an- swer, tersely and emphatically, No, em- bodies the chief reason why Yeatman has never won a gridiron championship. Not that the small groups that in the past have turned out have not held that attitude indi- vidually. They have been fighting, ener- getic teanis. But more is necessary-the entire school must support them, and think and talk football. The North Side boys have always turned with avidity to baseball and soccer, meeting with no little success in those games. Until very recent years football was almost un- known as a practical means of recreation in this section. Then, too, of the St. Louis high schools, Yeatman has always had the smallest student body from which to recruit players. and the average age at graduation has been the lowest by one or two years. Indeed, for its own protection it became necessary several years ago that it should urge a suitable age limit for athletics. Following is a general chronology of the teams that have fought under the Blue and Gold. In the fall of 1904, the infant Yeat- man first contested its elder rivals in foot- ball, under the direction of Peter Pease. It entered the Inter-scholastic League, which, One Hundred Twelve -January, 1928 besides Central, McKinley, Smith Academy, and other teams in St. Louis, included the VV'estern Military School at Alton, Illinois. Mr. Pease coached the team for another year. Then, for three seasons it was under the supervision of Mr. 'Wilbur N. Fuller. From the history of that period, it ap- pears that either the games were excessively brutal or that the Board of Education was particularly careful, for in 1908 a ban was placed on a high school league. Games were thereby rendered impossible, because the team could not be financed under that con- dition. In 1911 Wfestern left the league be- cause of its remote location, and the organi- zation was thereon called the St. Louis Inter-scholastic League . In 1912 Soldan kindly granted a game fthe first in three yearsj to a group of Yeatman boys who had been practicing without a coach. The act of courtesy proved disastrous-for Sol- dan. Score 35-O! The present High School League was formed in 1913, and in that 'year the Blue and Gold put forth an excellent team taught by John Mosley, who at the same time played quarterback for VVashington. 123-0! That tremendous score Cleveland piled up against us in 1914 while a teacher ,who knew little or nothing of football was coach. The effects of the bad football the team learned that year required the next season to wear off. The following year marked the inaugura- tion of Mr. Stanley Hill's long coachship. VV ith his advent the game received a really definite place in the school. Our best sea- sons under him were in 1917 and 1920. when we were runners-up. At his retirement in 1923, Mr. R. C. Lewis, who had been assist- ant coach in that year, took his place, and the fact that it has been ably filled needs no comment. '