Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-12-10
GERMANTOWN'S
ATHLETIC TEAMS
ARE SUCCESSFUL
II i G h School Football,
Cross-country and Soccer
Squads Make Good
HAVE BRIGHT PROSPECTS

Germantown High School is making
rapid strides in athletics, and will in
time take its place with Central High,
Northeast, Southern and West Philadel-
phia High Schools in interschool compe-
titions. In the season of football Soc
Ger and cross-country, the Germantown
athletes made a very commendable show
ing.
Charles Rockey who took charge of
the cross-country runners. turned out
n very strong team considering the ma
terial available at the school. The work
Of Walter c. White and Harold G.
Black featured Germantown's activity in
the hill-and-hale runs, and the white
and Black pair, as they were called
frequently led the field In first and sec
ond place. Hedges. Randall, Hewitt, Cal
houn and Trautwcin were members or
the team.
Coach Philip G.. Lewis, physical direc-
tor of the school. had charge of the
football team, and tho Green and White
squad made an excellent showing. The
team was light. and the players much
younger than their opponents In all the
games played. yet they played brill
liantly and finished very successful sea-
son. West Philadelphia second lost to
tho Mannheim team, % to 0, and SOUTH
ern High second team lost by score OF
21 to g.
on the Germantown squad were Nc
Dewitt, Hausser. Busby. McKarahar,
Young. Henshaw, Cowdrick, Butler, Cap
tain Namely, Wooley, Gonover. Craig.
Meehan. Young and Longstreet. Will
lam McKarahar was elected captain or
the 1916 team. He Is n Junior at the
school and played centre as well as In
,i. I,, ,g,lJ ,,,tN Iifrh
played n prominent part in the Fresh
men League championship series. as It
held West Philadelphia High School.
winners of the title. to scorelcss tie,
0 to
In soccer the Germantown High School
players have experienced most success
full season. They did not participate In
the first team Intcrscholastic League
games, but remained In the second team
league. In this league they won the
title with n perfect record West Ihila-
dclphia High School was defeated In two
games and Northeast and Central High
also lost games.
No faculty coach was available for the
soccer players, and Burnett, former
Northeast High star, now sophomore
Mt Germantown, took up these duties.
He was hurt In one of the early games,
receiving a bad bruise on the hip, but
ing the players, and 1t was due to his
persistent efforts that winning aggre-
cation was turned out.
Germantown expects to be in the big
league next year, and as the men this
season were as large and strong physi-
cally as any in the Interscholastic League.
they should make strong bid for the
title in 1916. On the soccer team were
Yogel, Wanamaker. Driscoll, keegan.
Bean, Fisher. ID. Savage, Curran, Brum-
back and Rhoades.
Scholastic football teams in and around
this city have furnished many college
captains, not only at Pennsylvania. but at
Cornell, Harvard and Princeton. Ihe
report that Paul II. Taylor, former
Camden High school football and basket
ball star, had been elected captain OF
the Lafayette College football team Tor
next season was not overlooked by the
local scholastic partisans. Taylor. It VIII
he remembered. was an al-scholastic
star at Camden High.