by Laurel | January 14th, 2014
From the Class of 1939
Holyoke High School, Football, 1939
Holyoke High School, Football, 1939
On September 8, the second day of school, Coach Sullivan issued his first call for football candidates. A squad of about seventy reported. This was an important year in the annals of Holyoke High School football for it was the first season of the newly formed Valley League. After about three weeks of preliminary drill and scrimmage the Purple and White opened its season in Westfield with a 13 to 0 win. With this imposing start a great season was hoped for but ill luck beset the team at every turn. Several key men were injured necessitating the use of inexperienced men by Coach Bill Sullivan. As a result the team did not fare so well as early expectations led its followers to hope but ended the season with a record of three games won and four lost.
| 1938-39 Football Squad |
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| William Lemiech, Captain |
Eugene Ducharme, Manager |
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| William Sullivan And Daniel Regan, Coaches |
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| Wallace Boy Joseph Butterfield Ernest Dufresne Stanley Golon Edwin Goss Rudolph Haczynski William Harbilas |
Raymond Kennedy Edgar Lacombe James Laliberte John Lally Frank Leary Walter Lemiech |
James Maloney James Morrison Arthur Murray Leonard Neumann Gerald O’Conner John Rondeau |
Ernest Scholl John Shea Daniel Szymonik Edward Theroux John Whalen Casmir Wojnar |
