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HIGH SCHOOL
WITH
JAMES HIRSCHY
• Thirteen seniors on the football
squad will be playing their last
high school football game Friday
night. Fighting for the third conference win of the season will be
seniors Robert Souders, Richard
Mace, Fred McCoy, Robert Crist,
Kent Thomas, John Walton, Robert
Pritchett, Lowell Ensinger, Jack
McKeel, William Settles, James
Stonebraker, William Payne, and
John Hunter.
• A former football star at Crispus
Attucks, James Lee, who dropped
out of school to sing with "The
Counts," a nationally known singing group, has returned to Attucks
to earn his diploma.
• IT'S A FACT
Instead of coming right out and
asking a new player his age, tennis
coach and math teacher Rowland
Leverenz might use the following
procedure:
Take the shoe size, double this
number, add 39, multiply by 5, take
the last number on the right and
repeat it on the right end as a
fourth digit. Subtract the birth
year from this number. With this
done the number on the left will be
one's shoe size and the one on the
right is one's age. Try it and see!
• Now that the wrestling team has
started working out, Coach William
Treichler has been scouting the
campus for some tough grapplers.
Have any of you boys ever seen
a Tech letterman who was too
small to play either basketball or
football and didn't look like a
track star? You might have asked
yourself what in the world could
he do to earn a Block T? Most
likely he was one of the lightweights on the wrestling squad.
Wrestling is one sport in which
small boys are put on an equal
footing with everyone else. The
weight classes start with everyone
under 95 pounds and run into the
heavyweight class, everyone over
175 pounds. As most upperclass-
men weigh over 95 pounds, Mr.
Treichler goes to the freshmen in
search of a future state champion.
Boys, here is your chance to earn
a Block T; take advantage of it!
But remember, wrestling is by no
means the easiest sport in school;
in fact it's one of the roughest.
• Varsity football coaches Howard
Longshore, Wallace Potter, and
George Mihal have done much to
give Tech's young team, three-
fourths of whom are underclassmen,
a winning record. Bad breaks have
been numerous this season. Injuries
hampered the backfield during the
early part of the fall.
One way in which students can
show their appreciation to the
coaches and team members is by
attending the annual fall Sports
banquet.
• This year the freshman team
looks almost as good as last year's
squad which lost only one game but
won by considerably larger margins. Thirteen of the frosh boys,
coached by Ernest Medcalfe last
year, are now on the varsity. The so
far undefeated team of 1955 looks
as if it might have just as many
boys on next year's varsity.
• In last week's issue it was mentioned that Oscar Robertson was
named to an All-American basketball team. Attucks has nothing on
Tech! In the same magazine, Basketball '56 Tech graduate Joe Sex-
son was named on the All-Midwest
team where he plays guard.
