OCR Text |
Show Scribe Honors Star Athlete plugging holes in the line from one end to the other. Offensively Offen-sively Dick's heroic plunging through the forward wall gained gain-ed him the title "the human battering ram." Highlighting his gridiron career is the 80-yard 80-yard run for a touchdown, Dick The old adage "the last's the best of all the game" is certainly certain-ly true in the case of the presentation pre-sentation of athletes in this col-um. col-um. Undoubtedly there is no athlete at South that is more deserving of press notices than the robust, rugged youth we present to you in this issue. By now we feel that your curiosity cur-iosity has been sufficiently aroused so without waste of this valuable space we (the sports staff)' present to you our candidate for the athletic award, DICK WEGGELAND. (Surprised? we thought so. Our reasons for this choice are contained in the following resume of his athletic career at South. One look at that huge muscle-covered muscle-covered body of Dick reveals that Dick could lick twice his weight in wildcats. Among his fellow classmates, "Muscles" is credited with having the most perfectly - developed physiques in the school. The South high coaching staff unanimously agreed, in a recent conference, that in com-meration com-meration of Dick's vaunted athletic ath-letic achievements locker no. 132 would hencefourth remain unused. In the fall of his junior year, Bick donned a foitball suit not knowing that he was destined to become a school hero almost overnight. Defensively Dick was indispensible, constantly In the spring Dick again found himself flowered with tempting proposals from each of the coaches. Deciding to play no favorites, Dick played on all three teams. While on the diamond he batted .560 and fielded .999. As a track man he broke all state records in every event. As a net player Dick was never known to give his opponent op-ponent a point. These truly astounding as-tounding feats drew nationwide acclaim. Dick's senior activities have been limited (by Dick). It seems that being a ..amous athlete gave Dick little time for himself and so he thought it best to draw as little attention atten-tion to himself as possible. Dick staged a return performance of his 80-yard run of last year against West. Backing up the line Dick interceptetd an attempted at-tempted field goal in his own end zone and ran through the hapless West eleven for a touchdown. Space does not permit per-mit further comment on the already al-ready widely - known facts of Dick Weggeland's amazing feats. The real story of Dick's athletic ath-letic interests has not as yet been revealed. This is probably because Dick is Ihe silent type. At any rate few people would have guessed that when asked what games Dick preferred to play most he would reply, "ping - pong, pocker, billiards, and craps." made in the final seconds of the game with East, which gave the Cubs a 7-0 victory. When the casaba season rolled roll-ed around all three coaches made a bid for Dick's services. After a heated discussion it was finally decided that despite his ability, Dick should remain on the "B" squad. He wore the No. 1733 on the back of his shirt, (familiar isn't it). |