York High School - Duke Yearbook (York, NE)

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Football Highlights Duke Autumn Activities. idx l-lend C the sidelires during a crucial game oach Gecrge Bostrfck looks ecficcslf dew Yerk's alwoysebusy student managers, Bennie Lovell and Gary Smidt, come to the rescue in Schuyler contest York l-ligh's T956 football team plowed through a rugged eight game schedule and when the dust cleared the Dukes had won tive and lost three. The 5-3 record is not outstanding in itself, but is fairly impressive con- sidering the schedule played. Among the Eve victories was a pleasant win over archrival Seward and a surprise triumph over a highly- touted Sidney eleven, In the season opener the Dukes toppled Columbus in a thriller and later registered deci- sive victories over Aurora and Wahoo. In the loss column Fairbury and Crete won rel- atively easy conquests over York, while Schuyler was hard pressed to down the Dukes, Metropolitan newspapers saw Ht to rank the Dukes high in their statewide Class B rating. Both Lincoln papers, Star and Journal, placed York fourth in the hnol ratings and the Omaha World Herald ranked the York aggregation fifth. Since two of the three losses were against conference foes, York's showing in the Central-9 was not so con- vincing. The Dukes inished fourth in the final stand- ings with a 3-2 conference record, York players showed well in post season honors, with Nate Gross, Roger Maley, Ralph Norman, Larry Penf ney and Ted Wriglit named to the Central-9 East Dennie Scharfenberg '46 and Coach George Bostwick talk things over as Coach Earl Graff and Gary Smidt peer at action against Schuyler 6 -J Division Honor Team. Penney was also named Class B All-State, while Gross and ivlaley received honorable mention.