York High School - Duke Yearbook (York, NE)

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1956 Gridders Finish Strongp Win 5, Lose 3 if T' ' maxi W HEAD COACH GEORGE BOSTWICK ASSISTANT COACH JOHN BOYER ASSISTANT COACH EARL GRAFF 1956 FOOTBALL TEAM FIRST ROW S Welch L Kupke N Gross worth B Moore D Wotson L Penney G Songster B Stinson Cooch EorI Graff Cooch Geo ge Bostwnck Couch John Boyer T G Hlett D Bo ett L Bouers FOURTH ROW L Wrght H Perl Wrtght D Schorfenbeg D Stoeh SECOND ROW D Klone J n J Stmson N rmon B Bovey R Moley J Bo ey O t D o c s Penne Frueso L Crawford Dobbersten J Moyer G Hohnboum THIRD ROWJ Shuttles YORK COLUMBUS YORK YORK YORK September I4 Home FAIRBURY September QI Avvoy SEWARD September 28 Home CRETE October 5 Home VARSITY SCHEDULE YORK YORK YORK YORK 70 AURORA October I2 Avvoy WAHOO October I9 Home SCHUYLER October 24 Awoy SIDNEY November 9 Awoy

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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.

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and Gam Wlcle Reputal Ted lf lon as Powerful Eleven. frigrT-Hallhaclc and Tri-capTaifi, was an fill- Conlerence selecTion Tor The second conseculive year, Ted was STar ol The V'!eel4 in rneTropoliTan news- f- nr - 1 iwpe Q l wr . l .solids s, s Tor his slasrifwg runs againsT The Sidney Maroons, lXla'e GVCSS'QUUfl6FlDCICk and Tri'capTain, made All- -fl, ,ES-,rg 4 Larry Penney-End and Tri-capTain, was narned To The Class B All-STaTe aggregahons of The Lincoln Jour- nal-Slar and The Omaha VVorld Herald. l.arry's ine all- aroand play also neTTed him All-Conference honors, flfl eyes C e on Tre ac C C in iri llio belcre lNahco :ch!esT STaTe Honorable iv'enTion in The Journal-STar selecTions. NaTe was also narned All-ConTe-rence and was STar ol The Weekf' Tor his ouTsTanding passing aQainsT Wa- l OOO. Tl