York High School - Duke Yearbook (York, NE)

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B. Burnham 1231 Y N. Gross I421 Y S. Hall 1231 Y to ci Successful Season of ci 9-5 Record YORK 51 COLUMBUS December 4, Home YHS High Scorer: Huegel, 13 YORK 79 AURORA December 16, Away YHS High Scorer: Moomey, 24 YORK 63 CENTRAL CITY December 17, Home YHS High Scorer: Moomey, 23 YORK 47 WAHOO December 21, Away YHS High Scorer: Penney, 12 YORK 58 GENEVA January 6, Away YHS High Scorer: Moomey, 18 YORK 61 CRETE January 7, Home YHS High Scorer: Weiser, 17 YORK 36 FAIRBURY January 20, Away YHS High Scorer: Moomey, 14 YORK 60 SCHUYLER January 21, Home YHS High Score: Moomey, 18 YORK 84 FULLERTON 51 January 27, Away YHS High Scorer Maley 20 YORK 61 YHS High Scorer YORK 50 YHS High Scorer: YORK 56 YHS High Scorer YORK 54 YHS High Scorer YORK 71 YHS High Scorer YORK 62 LEXINGTON February 4, Away Huegel, 19 SEWARD February 10, Away Moomey, 14 HASTINGS February 11, Away Moomey, 18 BEATRICE February 17, Away Maley, 16 BLAIR February 24, Home Huegel, 18 HOLDREGE February 28, District Tournament YHS High Scorer: Maley, 19 YORK 67 ORD March 1, District Tournament YHS High Scorer: Maley, 16 YORK 49 LEXINGTON March 2, District Tournament YHS High Scorer: Maley, 13 YORK 50 GERING March 9, State Tournament YHS High Scorer HuegeI 14

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T956 VARSITY BASKETBALL TEAM-FIRST ROWW Coach Earl Penney, D Huegel THIRD ROW--S. Hall R Ovrorn R Hillrner Graff. SECOND ROW --R Maley, G, Weiser, D. Moomey L, N Gross G Smidt B, Burnham Nucleus of Seniors Sparkecl the Duke Five Under the reins of new head coach Earl Graft the Dukes had a very successful season, lncluding regu- lar season play and tournament play, the team had C1 l2-5 record. York climaxed the I955-T956 season by clipping Lexington, A9-47, thus earning a berth in the State Tournament for the second consecutive year. ln semi- Hnal play Gering, Class A runner-up, stunned the Dukes by overcoming them in the tinal auarter to walk oft with a 54-50 victory. As a team, the Dukes racked up a total of l,OO7 points to their opponents' 869. ln doing so they set a new school scoring record of 84 points. This, against Fullerton, erased the old mark of 79, The District Champs kept up a torrid pace and averaged a 60- point per game out-put. Big center Don Moomey won high scoring honors with a 241-point total. The team was also ably as- sisted by Roger Maley QQTQT and Dick Huegel tl98l. Huegel won state laurels by being named tothe Class A All-Tournament team and receiving Class A Honorable Mention from the Omaha World- Herald. RESOURCEFULNESS-THE BY-WORD OF GOOD STUDENT MANAGERS'-Ralph Norman and Steve Pettygrove. XNQQL

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