The Mail-Journal, Volume 6, Milford, Kosciusko County, 9 March 1969 — Page 23

Wrestling Is Fast Growing Sport

High school wrestling is one of the fastest growing sports. Once you have seen a high school wrestling match, you will want to go back again. High school wrestling should not be confused with the “put-up” professional wrestling shown on television. The two sports are completely different. From the high school boy’s pcint of view, high school wrestIfiig is just about the only way he could compete interscholastically. The small 90 pound boy can compete against other 95 pound or less boys for his team. In fact, with hard work (as in any sport) he can 'win individual and/or team recognition in the state wrestling sectional, regional, and state finals. What other sport provides competition for just this size boy? The weight classes for high school varsity wrestling competition are 95 pounds, 103 pounds, 112 pounds, 120 pounds, 127 pounds, 133 pounds, 138 pounds, 145 pounds, 154 pounds, 165 pounds, 175 pounds and heavyweights (177245). Combine these sizes of boys together into a team and you get an exciting varsity and B-team. TH. VMain Objective The main objective in wrestling is to wrestle your opponent until you pin his shoulders to the mat for a two-second count. Ob-

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viously, you must tangle with someone your own size, hence the 12 different weight categories. Violent holds, scratching, hitting, etc. are prohibited; therefore, speed, agility, knowledge of the principles of leverage and balance, and strength are the skills that comprise high school wrestling. Each boy in each weight class tries to win points for the team. Individual points are scored by making certain successful moves: Takedown (2 points), escape (1 point), reversal (2 points), predicament (2 points), pin (5 team points), near pin (3 points). At the conclusion of three two- minute periods, the wrestler with the most accumulated points, assuming no £ prior pin, wins the match. If he successfully “pins” his man, the team is awarded five points. If he cannot “pin” his man, he then can score three team points by accumulating more individual points than his opponent. The young Warriors, composed basically of underclassmen, have compiled a 2-8-1 record in their initial year of varsity competition. The spirited grapplers for the 1963-69 school year are as follows: Jay Anglin, Steve Bahn, Charlie Baumgartner, Dave Baumgartner, Dan Brady, Alan Butt. (Roger Butt, Steve Coburn, Jeff Corn, John Coy, Dale Custer, Jay DeSomer, Steve Fry, Phil Gunden, Les Hamell, Dan Jetmore, Greg Kaiser, Stan Kilmer, Wes Kilmer, Roger Korenstra, Jim Krasnansky, John Leemon, Jim Marlett, Dyle Martin, Mike Mato, Tom Miller, Brian Mikel, Terry Moser, Mark Mynhier, Clark Rassi, Bill Richardson, Rick Shipley, Ron Simpson, John Skrumelak, Steve Tatman, Mark Treesh, Steve Vanlaningham, Steve Wiggs, Kent Wilson, Dan Chamberlain and trainer Mike Mathews.

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LAB EXPERIMENT — Members of Robert Kitson’s chemistry class are shown above working with the chemistry laboratory equipment. From left are Bill Stuckman, Dona Hulley, Corkey Wong and .Dave Bushong.

Science Planned To Let Students Explore

The new Wawasee high school is the result of years of planning by the administration and staff of the three former high schools in the community. Hie science department is one of the areas that has been planned with the goal of giving every high school student an opportunity to explore some field interesting or useful to the student. A school the size of Wawasee high school enables the student to participate in a larger curriculum than the previous three schools could provide. At Wawasee the nineth grade has the choice of taking an applied general science course or a physical science course. Both are laboratory courses. These courses have about 200 students enrolled in them. The physical science cours-

es are designed especially for students who will probably take other advanced courses in science. The applied science courses should give a general background in science to a student whose interest is not particularly in the field of science. In the 10th grade the student may take earth science or biology. Earth science is receiving added importance today, due to our increasing problems of pollution and land use. There are about 44 students enrolled this year in this course. Biology is not offered this year due to its being moved from the nineth to the 10th grade. Most 10th grade students have had the course. Next year it will be offered in two courses. One will be a general biology and the other a complete laboratory investigation B. S.C.S. course. This latter is designed to attract those students interested in a biology major. Physiology is offered to the 11th grade and has 60 enrolled this year. Chemistry is also an 11th grade offering and 41 are taking it this year. Physics is the lone senior science this year, and 23 students are taking this course. It is planned to offer advanced chemistry and biology in future years if there is enough student interest in these subjects. The Wawasee science department has a staff of five teachers. Robert Kitson teaches classes of chemistry and physical science. William Kitson teaches chemistry, .applied general science and algebra 1. Harold Hall ■> teaches earth science, physiology and applied general science. Michael Neff heads the math department. He teaches advanced algebra, senior math and physics. Paul Royer heads the science department and teaches physiology and geometry. It is the goal of the science department to make some type of science available to every student. It is also desirable that students may choose from several fields and pursue one science for more than one year. The program is designed to help both college and non - college - bound students. The size and facilities of Wawasee make this possible. This year over 50 per cent of the students are enrolled in a science course. Next year it should

be even higher when biology is again offered. Ummel Releases Spring Sports Schedules Wawasee high school athletic director Eldon Ummel has released the following schedules for spring spcrts at Wawasee: Track April I—Middlebury home April 3—Fairfield and Larwill home April B—Concord and Manchester Concord April 9—West Noble there April 17—Elmhurst home April 19—Goshen Relays Goshen April 22—Warsaw and Bremen home April 24—Plymouth home • April 29—Rochester Relays Rochester May 2—NLC meet Concord May 6—Nappanee there May 9—Sectional Elkhart May 14—Land of Lakes Warsaw May 16—Regional May 24—State Tennis April I—Bremen there April B—Concord there April 15—Nappanee home April 17—Warsaw home April 22—Manchester home April 29—Rochester there May 6— Plymouth home May 8-10—NLC Manchester Golf April 2—Middlebury there April 7—Bremen home April City there April 14—Concord home April 16—Nappanee home April 21—Warsaw there April 23—West Noble and Manchester home April 26—Central Noble Invitational Crooked Lake April 28—Rochester home April 30—Northfield home May s—Plymouth there May 9—NLC Maxwelton May 13—Sectional May 17—Regional May 24—State All meets start at 4:00 p.m. With the exception of West Noble which starts at 4:15 and Rochester relays that begin at 5:00 p.m. Student Classes Started In Paris Jean Baptiste de la Salle, 17th century teacher who organized the Christian Brothers, was an innovator. One of his novelties was the first normal school. Another was the practice of calling students together in groups rather than tutoring them one at a time.