{"id":6645,"date":"2014-01-14T04:20:54","date_gmt":"2014-01-14T11:20:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/?p=6645"},"modified":"2014-01-14T04:25:29","modified_gmt":"2014-01-14T11:25:29","slug":"holyoke-high-school-football-1939","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/2014\/01\/14\/holyoke-high-school-football-1939\/","title":{"rendered":"Holyoke High School, Football, 1939"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>From the Class of 1939<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_6650\" style=\"width: 431px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/2014\/01\/14\/holyoke-high-school-football-1939\/football_1939\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6650\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6650\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6650\" alt=\"Holyoke High School, Football, 1939\" src=\"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/football_1939.jpg\" width=\"421\" height=\"242\" srcset=\"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/football_1939.jpg 720w, http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/football_1939-300x173.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 421px) 100vw, 421px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-6650\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Holyoke High School, Football, 1939<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Holyoke High School, Football, 1939<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<table style=\"height: 161px;\" width=\"455\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"3\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"4\" align=\"center\" valign=\"middle\"><strong>1938-39 Football Squad<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"2\" align=\"center\" valign=\"middle\"><strong>William Lemiech, Captain<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/td>\n<td colspan=\"2\" align=\"center\" valign=\"middle\"><strong>Eugene Ducharme, Manager<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"4\" align=\"center\" valign=\"middle\"><strong>William Sullivan And Daniel Regan, Coaches<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\" valign=\"top\">Wallace Boy<br \/>\nJoseph Butterfield<br \/>\nErnest Dufresne<br \/>\nStanley Golon<br \/>\nEdwin Goss<br \/>\nRudolph Haczynski<br \/>\nWilliam Harbilas<\/td>\n<td align=\"left\" valign=\"top\">Raymond Kennedy<br \/>\nEdgar Lacombe<br \/>\nJames Laliberte<br \/>\nJohn Lally<br \/>\nFrank Leary<br \/>\nWalter Lemiech<\/td>\n<td align=\"left\" valign=\"top\">James Maloney<br \/>\nJames Morrison<br \/>\nArthur Murray<br \/>\nLeonard Neumann<br \/>\nGerald O&#8217;Conner<br \/>\nJohn Rondeau<\/td>\n<td align=\"left\" valign=\"top\">Ernest Scholl<br \/>\nJohn Shea<br \/>\nDaniel Szymonik<br \/>\nEdward Theroux<br \/>\nJohn Whalen<br \/>\nCasmir Wojnar<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Class of 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[297,21,494],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6645"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6645"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8199,"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6645\/revisions\/8199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}