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About The Grantonian (Portland, Ore.) 19??-???? | View Entire Issue (Oct. 3, 1969)
October 3, 1969 G-Men battle to scoreless tie; tonight's game starts season Last Friday the Generals couldn’t seem to put together any form of offense and the re sults turned into a 0-0 tie with Roosevelt on their home field. Trigsted’s varsity gridders managed to get two first downs the entire first half. It seemed that tvery time the offense would manage to start moving the ball, there would be a penalty to nullify the play or a fumble to give the Teddies the ball. One shining point about the game had to be the defense. They managed to keep Roosevelt scoreless throughout the entire four quarters of action. The only time Roosevelt managed to get Boys' swim team wins first meet; girls suffer loss Winning first place in every event, the boys’ Varsity Swim team easily took Madison by a score of 64-12. The meet was held at Grant on September 24. Seniors Mark Powell and Mike Phillips won two events each. Powell won the 200 yard freestyle and the 100 yard butterfly, Phillips took first in the 200 yard individual medley and in the 100 yard breast stroke. Darryl Pape captured a first place in the 100 yard backstroke. Jeff Pittman finished first in the 100 yard freestyle and Bill Wat ers .was the winner of the 50 yard freestyle event. Both relay teams were victorious, also. Despite two victories by senior Sue Gottsch, the Grant Girls' Swim team was defeated by the Madison girls’ team, 53-32. Sue won both the 100 yard butterfly and the 100 yard breastroke for the team’s only individual victories of the meet. Alsco turning in creditable in dividual performances were sen ior Christy Chiodo, junior Siri McCall, and freshman Debbie Wetherford. Thé swim team members were pleased to see many spectators turn out for the first swim meet ever held in the renovated Grant pool. Both the boys’ and girls’ teams will compete again next Tues day and Wednesday here at Grant against Roosevelt and Bensop, respectively. Tomahawk the Indians You Have Two Extra Holes In Your Head? close was in the final quarter of action, when they missed a field goal attempt by inches with about a minute left to play in the game. Now that the pre-season games are completed, asd the counting games about to begin, it is only fair to ana lyze the' Generals' first counting game. Tonight the varsity team faces a tough Cleveland team. The In dians have a good record to uphold including a 44-21 shelacking of Benson last week. In that game Cleve land quarterback Jim Pen dergrass threw for three touchdown passes. Their team is also blessed with a couple of fine receivers in Gary Daniels and Stan Pe terson. In last year’s game with Cleve land the Generals defeated them by a score of 20-7 to win the division title and put them in the city championship game. Even though we are playing them the first game this year, it is just as important to the team as last year’s game. Tonight’s gametime is sched uled for 8:00 at the Civic sta dium and this could prove to be one of the turning points for the varsity team. by Steve Johnson With Scott Jackson and Don Johnson leading the way, the Grant Varsity Cross Country squad edged the Wilson Trojans by a score of 27-28, in a dual meet held at Grant on Septem ber 24. The victory for the Generals revenged their first loss in over two years, as they had been beaten by the same Wilson team onl ya week earlier by a 41-42 count. Jackson, a junior, won easily to claim his second straight vic tory of the season. Johnson, who finished second to Jackson in the September 17 meet, captured second place honors easily. Greg Schukart showed con siderable improvement as he took fifth place. Scott Bailey also showed marked improve ment as he nipped fellow Grant ■ runner Jeff Klein for ninth po- I sition. Klein, displaying a good finishing kick, edged out a Wil son runner for tenth place, to give the Generals their one point victory margin. Marshall, Washington, and Jefferson also competed in the meet, but none of these teams was really a factor in the first or second place competition, as the first 12 finishers were either G-men or Trojans. The Generals will face Mar shall, Madison, and Lincoln next Wednesday in a dual meet at Marshall. SERGEANT DEFENDER hauls down Madison player for a loss during first big win for the team. Scene was typical as the junior varsity gridders beat Madison 20-0. the Sergeants were Scott Heller and Kevin McCune. “Scott Hell er did a great job for us at quar terback, and on defense McCune intercepted three passes,” said Coach Johnsrud about th two players. ONE OF THE highlights of the game was that the team didn’t have a penalty the entire first half. The Sergeants’ next game is this coming. Thursday against from $2.50 DUTCH VILLAGE 3501 N.E. BROADWAY Jewelers 288-5528 We Have 4047 N.E. Sandy 282-5801 VARSITY RUNNERS Scott Jackson and Don Johnson lead the way in Cross Country meet held at Grant last week. Both Scott and Don finished one and two in the 2.5 mile course. Lincoln is led by senior Dave Wienecke, who should give Jack- son a tough race. Scott Kelley has also run well for the Cardi nals. The Madison team is headed by senior Paul Wilkinson. The Junior Varsity Cross Country team bowed to Wilson in action on September 24, by a score- of 29-33. Marshall took third place in the meet with 73 joints. Sergeants Don Levine and Jeff Osborn finished in second and third place, respectively. Finishing the 1.75 mile course in seventh place, was Greg Boeh. Steve Twedt took tenth place, as he outlasted teammate Rick Ro senbloom, who placed seventh. The powerful Grant Privates flexed their muscles again, as they crushed their nearest oppo nent in the Frosh meet by 32 points. Chris Barrett won the race for the Privates. Corkey Elder and Paul Wolfe took third and fourth places, respectively. Steve O’Rourke finished in sixth place and was followed by team mate Gary Harris. The Sergeants and Privates are slated to run again nex| Wednesday at Marshall in ia four team meet. Sergeants defeat Madison gridders I : ----------------------------- INTEGRITY.. RELIABILITY g I ffabaMadtf Realty PIERCED EARRINGS 3 CC runners gain revenge JV runners beaten; frosh smother foes “We stuck it to them,” were Coach Johnsrud’s words after his junior varsity football team handed Madison a 20-0 loss last week at Madison’s home field. THIS YEAR’S junior varsity team seems to be one of the best that Grant has ever produced, according to the coaches. “They are a great bunch of kids,” com mented Coach Johnsrud. Drawing special praise for playing an outstanding game for THE GRANTONIAN J I Wilson here at Grant. Last year the team was unable to play Wilson because on the JV level the schedule calls for only six games and the Trojans weren’t on that schedule. But this year is a different season and the schedule has been changed. ACCORDING to Coach Johns rud, if the team is going to con tinue to win football games, then the offensive line is going to have to get tougher. On the jun ior varsity level there is a tra dition that should be upheld, and that is the tradition of winning. In the last three years of compe tition the JV have lost only one game. Wilson’s team this year is sup posed to a good one. They have talented backs and a strong line to go with it. The game starts at 4:00 and the team will be shoot ing for another big win. Codili Commentò by Gary Cogill Every year thousands of peo ple attend varsity athletic events and every year the number of fans increase. Grant high school has just about the best attend ance of any high school in the state of Oregon for their games. But, has anyone ever given any thought to the freshmen and jun ior varsity athletes to whether they deserve the crowds the var sity sporting events get. It is obviously apparent that they do deserve just as much in attendance at their games as the varsity, but do they ever get it? No, they don’t. Many people feel that the non-varsity athletes don’t offer the same kind of ex citement that the varsity does. But did you ever consider what it would be like if more than a thousand people showed up for a frosh or JV game? The excite ment would be the same and it would give the players one of their biggest thrills. One argument that could be pitted against going to frosh and JV events is the idea of no place to sit. Especially at Grant. The Grant Bowl offers no form of organized seating whatsoever, and all that is provided is a grassy slope formed into a quar ter mile circle. It would seem to be a pretty poor excuse not to attend a game, when a lot of people can go out there every day and eat their lunch. Also, what happens when it rains? Where do you sit? This question can be answered in the very common phrase, “What’s a foot ball game without a little mud.” It’s about time that people recognized the frosh and JV ath letes for what they are doing. Al lof them started somewhere and the freshman program is that somewhere. If a large crowd would show up for one of their games, they would benefit great ly. This would give them the ex perience of playing in front of a large crowd and could very well improve our varsity teams in the long run. That’s just about all that can be said about the Frosh and JV athletes and the next thing would be to attend their sport ing events and give them the support that they well deserve. Your UGN Pledge Works Many Wondèrs
