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James L. (Jim) Beasley (1967)
More Senior musings . . . . . .
Regarding post #108, I believe the debt I owe is to Larry Ackerman.
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New musings . . . .
I don't know how it is now, but back in the day we had Summer baseball, so you could be a four sports patricipant, and you could earn as many as 12 letters. Of course, the key to that was to letter in baseball, and three other sports.
So, it was Football or Cross Country in the Fall, Basketball or Wrestling in the Winter, Track or Golf in the Spring, and Baseball in the summer. Most would opt for Track in the Spring, because Coach Burgett (Football and Wrestling) preferred that, but for those who made a fool of themselves at the first indoor track meet, Golf was their Spring sport.
Several lettered in four sports, but not many lettered in four sports all three years. Mike Connelly might have; I don't know if he got enough football playing time his Sophomore year because he was behind Jim Keane and Bob Wedemeyer, and I didn't follow Track that closely. Maybe Tom Hansen.
Four sports athletes: Mike Connelly, Eric Blockus, Gary Hintz, Mark Oppedal, Dave Halverson, Tom Hansen, myself, and ????? (anyone want to add names?)
Our Golf team was Conference Champions in the Spring of '67, playing in a freezing rain storm. We won by one stroke, decided by the last putt on the last hole. Class of '67 members of the team were Rich Custer #1, myself #2, Tom Marion, and Vance Cook (at least that's my memory of it). Class of '68, Don Cracraft, was on the team, and we ran around together a lot the Summer of '67.
I'm sure Rich Custer lettered three years in Football. I doubt that he ever weighed as much as 150#, but was the center on the Football team, and wrestled.
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